"If we don't have each other, we go crazy with loneliness. When we do, we go crazy with togetherness."

A strain of a highly contagious super-flu is let into the wild, kills most of the world's population, and the surviv...

Oh.

When I finished The Stand over a year ago, I didn't think we would be in this current situation when I'd finally have the motivation to write down my thoughts. The uncut version is about 300 pages longer (altogether over 1300 pages in my Hodder edition), but I never felt like it was too much. The civilization is torn up, shuffled, and re-arranged. There are people who thrive on chaos, people who try to do the right thing despite feeling doubt, and people who let their weaknesses eat them alive. In the midst of all that is one of the most fascinating and eerie villains ever created: the God-like Dark Man:

"[H]is was the face you could never quite see, his the hands which dealt all spades from a dead deck, his the eyes beyond the flames, his the grin from beyond the grave of the world."

As I suspected, although the novel got the honor to be selected into the elusive five star team, the miniseries was not as successful. I appreciate the use of Blue Öyster Cult and the Americana feel, but the casting is just bizarre. If the new adaptation ever gets off the ground beyond the failed pilot and is worse than the 1994 one, I'm going to revolt.

The Dark Tower Project
"Night Surf" from Night Shift (1978)
The Stand: Complete and Uncut Edition (1990)
The Eyes of the Dragon (1987)
The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger (2003 Revised Edition)
The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three (1987)
The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands (1991)
The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass (1997)
"Little Sisters of Eluria" from Everything's Eventual (2002)
"Jerusalem's Lot" from Night Shift (1978)
Salem's Lot (1975)
"One for the Road" from Night Shift (1978)
The Dark Tower: The Wind Through the Keyhole (2012)
The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla (2003)
The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah (2004)
Insomnia (1994)
Black House (2001) (sequel to The Talisman)
"Low Men in Yellow Coats" from Hearts in Atlantis (1999)
"Everything's Eventual" from Everything's Eventual (2002)
The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower (2004)