![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
At long last, after a shameful number of stops and starts, I have read The Stand by Stephen King.
Because the number of things that could be discussed about this book is a very long list, I find it an exceptionally difficult novel to summate my feelings about. I finished it a few days ago and had some issues with it but my opinion of it has significantly warmed up with reflection. God, I hope somebody out there gives a crap because I've got a few loads to say about this novel and it only somewhat pares it down that I'm leaving out all the spoilery stuff I could say.
( He can call the wolves and live in the crows. He's the king of nowhere. )
I have watched most of the miniseries, and it's...okay. It didn't actually condense things as much as I expected but Nadine Cross is totally bastardized and oversimplified (not to mention treated as interchangeable with a character that they cut out completely), and (LOL) I couldn't help being seriously disappointed that "Baby, Can You Dig Your Man?" was a pretty lame song. What's funny is that different editions have changed the genre of Larry's music in an attempt to not seem dated, so maybe there is no solid canon on what the song should sound like; I kind of imagined the events happening in the late 70s because then nothing could seem dated (not to mention the slightly sexist and very racist tropes bothered me less if I wasn't trying to pretend the book came out in the 90s) and since Larry picks out some bluesy stuff when he finds that guitar, the idea of him as sort of an Eric Clapton appealed to me (King thinks of him as very Bruce Springsteen).
And I have to say, it had never occurred to me whether or not Rob Lowe is attractive, but putting him in a serious role kind of works and he makes a seriously crushable Nick Andros, if not the one that I imagined.
Also, there is a comics adaptation, but after running across a Tumblr post lamenting how a lot of Larry's story is twisted (in a way that would break my heart in regards to a certain pairing) I don't know if it would be worth checking out.
Because the number of things that could be discussed about this book is a very long list, I find it an exceptionally difficult novel to summate my feelings about. I finished it a few days ago and had some issues with it but my opinion of it has significantly warmed up with reflection. God, I hope somebody out there gives a crap because I've got a few loads to say about this novel and it only somewhat pares it down that I'm leaving out all the spoilery stuff I could say.
( He can call the wolves and live in the crows. He's the king of nowhere. )
I have watched most of the miniseries, and it's...okay. It didn't actually condense things as much as I expected but Nadine Cross is totally bastardized and oversimplified (not to mention treated as interchangeable with a character that they cut out completely), and (LOL) I couldn't help being seriously disappointed that "Baby, Can You Dig Your Man?" was a pretty lame song. What's funny is that different editions have changed the genre of Larry's music in an attempt to not seem dated, so maybe there is no solid canon on what the song should sound like; I kind of imagined the events happening in the late 70s because then nothing could seem dated (not to mention the slightly sexist and very racist tropes bothered me less if I wasn't trying to pretend the book came out in the 90s) and since Larry picks out some bluesy stuff when he finds that guitar, the idea of him as sort of an Eric Clapton appealed to me (King thinks of him as very Bruce Springsteen).
And I have to say, it had never occurred to me whether or not Rob Lowe is attractive, but putting him in a serious role kind of works and he makes a seriously crushable Nick Andros, if not the one that I imagined.
Also, there is a comics adaptation, but after running across a Tumblr post lamenting how a lot of Larry's story is twisted (in a way that would break my heart in regards to a certain pairing) I don't know if it would be worth checking out.
