The Stand complete and uncut edition may be a behemoth of a book but it is a very masterful and immersive story if I say so myself. 🙂❤📚

@KnotyerbizKut

9 ай бұрын

I concur 200000%

@wtfsamusidk7574

9 ай бұрын

That's the one I have

@Kite562reviews

9 ай бұрын

@@wtfsamusidk7574 good to hear :)

@KnotyerbizKut

9 ай бұрын

@@wtfsamusidk7574 it’s a good one to have for sure.

@glenonwright1807

8 ай бұрын

Nope

Peter Goldsmith - I see what you did there; the 30+ year old son of Francis Goldsmith and her pre-pandemic “emo” boyfriend. He would have been raised by Stuart Redman and his mother Francis “Franny” Goldsmith. He grew up on Mother Abigail’s old home place and moved to Colorado to teach. Well played, sir; WELL PLAYED!!!!!!!!! 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🤣🤣🤣🤣

@stephenkingbookclub1054

10 ай бұрын

Thanks so much -- That's exactly what I hoped Constant Readers like you would notice!

@benjamintriplett3

10 ай бұрын

Peter would be 32 IRL since we're going off the 1990-91 version. We're the same age.

@jyotirvakyananda

10 ай бұрын

@@benjamintriplett3 RESPECT!!!!!! Thank you for that. 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

@BabyKitty000

3 ай бұрын

This is absolutely excellent. Very well done

@TheDopekitty

2 ай бұрын

A very creative way of approaching this material

This story was so well done. If we all were wiped out and someone found this film a thousand years from now. They would think this was a true event that wiped us all out.

This is one of my favorite King novels. I read the original, and later read the extended version which was over 1000 pages. It was so completely immersive that if it had been 10,000 pages, I would have happily read every one.

@funtimefoxy6699

2 ай бұрын

This was the first King novel I ever read - the year it came out. I was 10 years old and, despite being precocious, I didn't understand many thing. Like, for example: what is a condom?

@elizabethjames7710

10 күн бұрын

I was unaware that there was an extended version. I shall have to look for it.

I think the mini series missed how it spread where as the book says the police officer stopped 50 people and 1 was a salesman visiting 4 cities, that one bit explains why they lost control before they even started

@MissDebbieSue123

Ай бұрын

I think we were supposed to read between the lines, like seeing the Sheriff driving around, Campion escaping, etc combined with the communicability of the virus communicated that pretty well. One thing I didn't understand was how Campion caught it, and how the scientists died, although this video touched on it. Brilliant. Brilliant. Bravo.

@steveaustin4118

Ай бұрын

@@MissDebbieSue123 tbh if you really think about how quick the scientist died you'd question how he drove so far away

@MissDebbieSue123

Ай бұрын

@steveaustin4118 I see what you mean. That would be the common sense follow-up question, right? When I was reading the book I was so into it that I put those questions to the side and thought " I'm just not getting it". But now, having reread it so many times I think maybe it wasn't explained. And now, I have questions with the questions. It's my favorite book and I never wanted to find fault with it. But because of getting older and knowing that a few unanswered questions doesn't destroy the book, I am on a quest for answers.

@steveaustin4118

Ай бұрын

@@MissDebbieSue123 well here's a theory I came up with, the lab was full of the virus so the scientist got a bigger more purer dose of it, the salesman took internal flights which is why it spread so quick. though that still leaves a big hole in why it didn't go world wide considering there would of been people in airports traveling to other countries

@MissDebbieSue123

Ай бұрын

@steveaustin4118 Starkey had given flu virus to people overseas who thought they contained something for the satellites, particles or whatnot. Once they opened them, the virus became international.

I'd also like to suggest Professor Goldsmith cover the time period immediately following the end of this lecture, the "culling of the survivors" so to speak. Truly this is fantastic stuff you've put out thus far! Very well done!

@JoshSweetvale

Ай бұрын

Ah yes, the 'bad luck plague'

I was just talking to a coworker about this video. It is very well done, so much so that it triggered my PTSD from working in a nursing home at the height of Covid. We were talking about the comparison between The Stand and Covid early on, especially watching the news footage of bodies being stacked up like cordwood and thinking “OMG this is it. This is Captain Tripps. Are we living in the stand?” And the fear when it spread to our state, and then into our very facility. We watched so many people die. So many. We lost 55 of our 150 patients. More than a full third. Going to work every day wondering if today is the day I take this home to my small child. Sorry to be a bummer here, I think this is some weird form of self therapy. It’s terrifying to think that any day we could find ourselves living out a Stephen King novel. Much love and keep up the good work.

@13fyrefli

3 ай бұрын

I was actually in chat at the premiere of this but had to dip out about halfway through because of feelings.

@clydenolet736

3 ай бұрын

The panic was real for sure. The rest .. well it depends on where you lived. In Alaska I saw Dr. Robert Malaone speak during that time and took my kids sledding with the neighbors. When I visited Massachusetts to see family there were arrows in the grocery store 😂

@stephenkingbookclub1054

3 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for sharing this... And you are not a bummer at all... Stephen King books bring out all sorts of emotions :)

@johnrafferty4364

3 ай бұрын

I didn't have it as bad as working in a nursing home but at the time I was working in retail in a new big shop that opened and had just had two twins born in 2020 so every day was a worry about if I was gonna catch it didn't help that a woman spat in my supervisors face once

@Jack115.

2 ай бұрын

my stepdad’s lungs began to fill with fluid and he was able to purchase ivermectin from india and take it. the doctors tried to put him on a ventilator but if the lungs were filling with fluid, he wouldve choked to death, the mortality rate was craaazy. 24 hours, his lungs cleared up.

The Stand is not only my favorite King novel, but my favorite novel of all time, and I’ve read it many times. At times I’ve read it continuously as in read it all the way through, finished it and went right back to page 1 and kept going. Cannot get “sick” of this novel 😂 read on fellow Constant Readers!

Terrifying . The quality and depth of immersion of this video is why people think you are Stephen King . You add an extra touch of realism to his novels and build tension so well . Every video is a slice of the King-dom , can't wait for the next one .

This is a very clever way to drop all that juicy lore. Well done. Subbed.

@stephenkingbookclub1054

9 ай бұрын

Thank you, Walking Dude, sir!

Way back in the early 80s a young lady i was dating and worked with in the north Denver metro area told me about the book The Stand. I read it and thoroughly enjoyed it and looked forward to seeing the movie when it came out around 94. I havent seen the new one yet but the first Stand was great. Thanks, Vivian....you got me motivated to start reading again and have kept doing it since. ❤

Kareem Abdul Jabbar's mesmerizing performance as the Monster Shouter was robbed of an Emmy.. 😅😅

@pagalmasala

Ай бұрын

"Bring out your dead!"

@norman6492

Ай бұрын

"He's coming for you, Larry! The man with no face!"

@jimmym3352

Ай бұрын

He did get a lot of experience doing the Airplane movie. He's no amateur.

@VaderPopsVicodin10

9 күн бұрын

@@jimmym3352 Kareem's one of the greatest basketball players ever.. and he was certainly better in Airplane than here. I love the characterization of his in Airplane. How it's like, he's NOT Kareem Abdul Jabbar, but yeah.. he is Kareem Abdul Jabbar. 😄

I loved this. Would be fascinating to see how they apply the events involving Randall Flagg and Mother Abagail to the syllabus. I would imagine that there would be a less secular society in the immediate wake of those events.

I've loved The Stand since I was 13 years old, read both versions dozens of times, and I never get sick of entering this universe. Approaching it from this angle is inspired. Love all the little extras that only constant readers will get. I'm subscribed and looking forward to the next entry.

Fantastic! The dread was palpable. The government response was predictable and frightening.

Absolutely brilliant work! I sincerely hope you will continue covering "The Stand", in particular your take on the character "The Trashcan Man". He's undoubtedly a pivotal character in the story. Keep up the good work sir!

@stephenkingbookclub1054

10 ай бұрын

Yes -- I'm cooking up some ideas for the ol' Trashcan Man!

@bruggeman672

10 ай бұрын

@@stephenkingbookclub1054 wonderful! Thanks for all your hard work!

@HuntersDad.

6 ай бұрын

Ah good old Trashy!

@JoshSweetvale

Ай бұрын

The modern Ephaeltes!

My favorite King novel of all time. Great job

@mandird7952

10 ай бұрын

Me too. Hands down.

@jtsawis7078

6 ай бұрын

yes and the full version of it, not the cut one, read both and there is no reason you shouldn't read the full version.

Trashcan Man was my favorite character. He gets bored burning down cities and torching oil refineries and eventually gets his very own nuclear weapon and brings it right to Randall Flagg's doorstep.

@commandingjudgedredd1841

3 ай бұрын

"The biiiiig fire!"

@Johndoe-co3pw

2 ай бұрын

The hidden anti hero of the stand

@inkyjill

2 ай бұрын

My life for you!

@edwarddore7617

29 күн бұрын

Bumpity bumpity

Thank you. Your videos are hilarious and amazing. My mom introduced me to Stephen King and i think about her with every horror movie I watch. I saw the popes exorcist and cried! Mourning is weird😂 This years marathon is dedicated to her. I miss her.

@mtaylor7307

10 ай бұрын

What a cool mom! ❤

@stephenkingbookclub1054

10 ай бұрын

Mourning is weird... and different for everyone... But I'm so glad you have these ways of remembering your mom! :)

@thing_under_the_stairs

Ай бұрын

Mourning and grief are indeed weird. I can't watch House of the Dragon because my mum and I used to watch everything George R.R. Martin related together. (She tried Stephen King, but that's where our tastes diverged.) It might sound strange, but I cry when I see people riding dragons now.

The part of the Stand that has always stuck with me is the image of thousands of city people scrambling to leave New Yor city, while tens of thousands of country/town folk were fleeing the country side trying to get into New York city. Dying by the thousands in their vehicles. The tunnels were pitch black and took hours to walk thru. And took days to leave the city, cause of miles and miles of traffic jams. Or the part where there were survivors of the plaque but they died of horrendous accidents. No one coming to save them. Even Trashcan Man being left to starve in a jail cell...was the cruelest.

@man_mojack

5 ай бұрын

You mean Lloyd Henreid being stuck in the jail cell. Trashcan Man was free to blow up the Cheery Oil tanks!

@dionlarman7489

3 ай бұрын

Nah the lone surviving 5 year who falls down an old well behind his house while scavenging berries is the worst by far.

@landofthelivingskies3318

3 ай бұрын

@@dionlarman7489 ....omg, yes.

@crs290

2 ай бұрын

@@dionlarman7489His last thought was of ice cream.

@nelsonhill4625

Ай бұрын

Lloyd Henreid.

Still my favorite novel of all time. Think you have time to do the entire book this way?🙂

@BeautifulEarthJa

9 ай бұрын

ha

I love your channel, instead of just talking about the books you make it your own and refreshing.

I love the fact that you're trying to do something different with your content. I'm all in. This is a good take that could go in so many interesting directions. Seriously, you could drag this out into a 10 part series, this is one of Kings most beloved books. Great start. Keep up the good work. 👍

@stephenkingbookclub1054

9 ай бұрын

Thanks, I appreciate that! King's work (especially The Stand) is so richly detailed, it's fun to look at it from different perspectives (and throw in a bit of my own fan-fiction with the summary).

King's best work. Prophetic actually, and the book is way better. Secondly, the first film is better than the last one. In my opinion. Great video 👍

@evelynzlon9492

6 ай бұрын

I agree that Stephen King must be psychic. In the Stand, the Devil's name is Randall Flagg. An alternative symbol which is synonymous with the swastika is a circle with a central dot. It represents the swastika spinning on its "axis" like a pinwheel. Randall is the masculine name which sounds the most like 'rondelle', a circular pierced bead. Plus Adolf Hitler is one head of the Biblical beast from the sea. As such he's still alive. He was previously known as Otto von Bismarck and Leonardo da Vinci who painted the Mona Lisa, the image of the beast. He's also professional singer/songwriter these days. But he's so much MORE than that. He's a mythical siren whose irresistible songs lure helpless people to their deaths, exactly as described in Revelations. Some of his artistic works refer to his immortality and vampirism. Et cetera. I don't want to divulge too much identifying information because I absolutely love him. He's my great-great-great grandpa from one of his alter egos. I just want to jump into his lap like a kitty cat and cuddle ALL up to him. There's one passage from the Stand which describes the slow, agonizing death of a child whose whole family died as "no great loss". This seems rather callous until you consider that Stephen King's father suddenly abandoned his family, leaving his mother to fend for her children. They could've ended up homeless. His dad didn't care. And he just had to accept it. Just because other people in Hollywood eat babies doesn't mean HE does. It was really unfair to paint them all with the same paintbrush.

@evelynzlon9492

6 ай бұрын

No matter if you're a good person or an evil one, there's somebody in the world who is YOUR little kitty cat, and nobody else's. Bismarck/Hitler's redeeming quality is that he would never buy, sell, or trade HIS little kitty cats. AND he thinks it's okay to punish that degree of depravity and associated practices with genocide.

@evelynzlon9492

6 ай бұрын

Speaking of the preceding comment, Bismarck/Hitler directed my attention towards a dubious clause in the Civil Rights Movement, which was overshadowed by the media spotlight on its crusade for "freedom and equality". In one of his speeches, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr decreed that blacks' love for our oppressors should be primarily impersonal and "spiritual" in nature, as opposed to emotional or erotic. This stipulation is particularly troublesome for unassimilable biracial people, such as those America typically enslaved prior to the Civil War. I see. So these rednecks obscured their moral shortcomings by assigning Dr. King to pass them off as ours. By the same token they revived the antebellum practice of deciding who their "slaves" should mate with, this time more emphatically geared towards torture. Moreover I have a B.A. in Economics. I have thoroughly evaluated the financial impact of civil rights policies, including those not explicitly detailed in the policies themselves. Long story short, the wealth disparity between the races hasn't narrowed since 1964. It has instead widened exponentially. Maybe Bismarck/Hitler is a spiritual double agent: part-demon and part-demigod. Or maybe he's a good parent/grandparent who is otherwise a very bad man. In any event he's far more important and complex than the cartoon villain version of him I was taught about in grade school.

@evelynzlon9492

6 ай бұрын

King's description of Randall Flagg's "impossibly handsome face" is also accurate of Hitler/Bismarck. He's a master of disguise, which comes in handy because every last one of his identities is a public figure. But in his natural state he does indeed outshine most male celebrity heartthrobs.

The Stad has one of my favorite character of every book I read so far : Harold Lauder Starting as a fat teen nobody likes, he shows the blur between good and evil. Starting good-ish, he loses his mind when Fran and Stu got together and intend to destroy the free zone. But once in the Free Zone, he pretended to be someone caring and coureagous ... and was pretending so well he gained the respect of a lot of people, and was maybe the only one in the whole book to be able to freely choose which side he wanted to be. He tried to convince himself those people weren't worth it and failed, I remember the passage when he thought : "What would those people react if they learnt I was a big fat teen with acne that cried because his dad said I was a big dispointment ... Well ... I guess they won't give a crap, because what counts for them is not what I was but what I am now. My father is dead, and his words has no value for them. They don't see Harold 'Fatso' Lauder, they see Harold 'Hawk' Lauder. I could be someone in the free zone. I could make the difference." But in the end he was a teen and was lured to make the bad choice. Despite what he did I feel sad evertime I read when he dies ... And each time Nadine comes to his door, I hope somehow the book will change and that he will send her away.

@terenceflanagan1225

Ай бұрын

Someone can read well and without prior prejudice. Ie you aren't looking for something you made an astute ( I think) observation regarding a characters moral arc

@KatieLHall-fy1hw

Ай бұрын

I agree, Harold was the most tragic that way, and really shows how much control we CAN have over our lives

I read this so many moons ago, it stuck with me forever, during the pandemic I was honestly thinking about this novel. The way science and religion got bled into one the way the government handled or mishandled the slow spread and response to the fall of mankind and acceptance of the fall the recovery and new normal.

M-O-O-N. That spells pandemic.

Ridiculously dark satire. Great lecture format. Where is my book of W.B.Yeats? Wait, did I just sneezed?😂

Outstanding! I'm currently on yet another re-read of this, my favorite of King's books, and just WOW! This was so well done!!!

@stephenkingbookclub1054

Ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@heathermillsphantomlimb9314

Ай бұрын

It really is a great book. Part of what made it so immersive, for me, were the people who were immune to the virus, but ended up dying from either stupid accidents, or malicious/scared people. I’ve now been around for 2 decently large natural disasters (a flood that destroyed my home and everything I owned, and a chemical spill that poisoned our water for weeks on end). Although they weren’t world ending events, I saw enough people acting like fools to know that King hit the nail on the head. It’s also why I decided to move out to the middle of nowhere, lol.

When Covid started The Stand was the first thing to come to mind I actually live close to the location that was used for The Lincoln Tunnel in the 1994 mini-series

@Watcher4111

21 күн бұрын

Im clairvoyant better than king. I predict there will be new viruses and wars in future

This video is such a unique way to explore this. 10/10

You did a KILLER job on this, Hoss! I'm sure that a LOT of CRs greatly appreciate all your hard work on this! Well done...

I listened to the audiobook on audible and it was my very first stephen king book. Absolutely blew me away with how incredible it was, and yes I was listening at work and the Christmas scene had me bawling while trying to stay busy lol. Since then I've finally been exploring King's other works and loved everything I've read so far.

This was really interesting. I read The Stand at least three times, and it's been a while since the last time. Thirty years after the flu, society has rebuilt. Wonder what daily life is like?

The screen adaptions have been such a let down. The 90s miniseries was ok for the time, but the CBS production from a few years ago was a total abomination.

This was the coolest thing I’ve ever watched! Amazing!!! My favorite Stephen King novel!

Absolutely loved it! Definitely the perfect format for this story. Would love if you made this an in-depth series! 😊

I can't tell you how many panic attacks I had rereading this novel, during an ongoing pandemic. Very well done video.

@Donathon-qx8kq

9 ай бұрын

Not as deadly (thankfully) but eerily familiar.... it almost killed me btw

@Thaelyn1312

9 ай бұрын

@@Donathon-qx8kq I have Long Covid, so same!

@Donathon-qx8kq

9 ай бұрын

@@Thaelyn1312 sucks, doesn't it

@Thaelyn1312

9 ай бұрын

@@Donathon-qx8kqThe. Worst 🙃 🌸

@StLProgressive

8 ай бұрын

I re-read it at the start of the pandemic also. It was surreal, to be sure. I’m so glad ours didn’t end up like Captain Tripps. Both my son and I are sick with it right now, thankfully very mild symptoms. I was still pretty terrified when that test came up positive. I’d been very careful, being a cancer survivor just diagnosed with a second one. Hopefully it will stay mild. 🙏🏻

Just stunning. Please make more.

This video feels like a documentary as if it came from their world and I like it. Plus I like it when media from other worlds come into our world.

The scene from Broadcast News when he is sweating profusely...fantastic! Excellent video! 👏👏👏

@stephenkingbookclub1054

10 ай бұрын

LOL, I'm glad you noticed... When I was re-reading The Stand to prep for this video, King mentioned the nervous/sickly broadcasters, and I couldn't help but think of Albert Brooks from Broadcast news!

@lesliepowell-mccarty7067

10 ай бұрын

@@stephenkingbookclub1054 It's one of my all time favorites!!

I found The Stand such a weird book when I first read it. I was fairly young (like 12 or so) but a long time avid reader and I had previously enjoyed other works of King, so I thought I'd give this one a try. I found myself tearing through the book's first few chapters that described the spread of the flu and the fall of society, but then once that was over and I wasn't even halfway through the book yet and it shifted gears to telling the story about the survivors and the new world that came post-flu, I struggled to care. The sudden shift was too jarring for me and I put the book down and didn't pick it back up again until I was well into my adult years, where I still struggled with that same issue but managed to power through it. No other book has ever made feel THAT divided. You'd think the part about the survivors trying to figure shit out and deal with the evil that was still rooting among them would be interesting and I would root for them and hope they make it, but frankly, I could give two shits about any of them. I didn't really feel connected to any of them, so I didn't really care if they lived or died. But that first part had me hooked, lol. It was like getting sucked in and then suddenly slamming into a brick wall at high speed.

What a great channel I stumbled onto. I love The Stand and have read it so many times. Maybe I'm a weirdo, but this part of the story is my favorite... The spread, the chaos, the collapse. I love the way you frame your videos, it's so much more interesting than just seeing someone talk into a camera about it. I even like the generated images and audio. Usually AI art squicks me out but here the slightly recognizable and creepy faces enhance the content rather than distract from it. I'd love to hear something about the people who survived the disease but died in the aftermath (the jogging guy, the heroin addict, the lady whose gun blew up, etc). I'm looking forward to more of your ideas!

@stephenkingbookclub1054

9 ай бұрын

Thanks so much! It just so happens I've been tinkering with that exact part of The Stand -- the "second epidemic" as King calls it. I have another Stand video that's from the point of view of an elementary school teacher in Las Vegas, working for a certain Walkin' Dude... and the upcoming video will be in the same vein.... Glad you found our Book Club!

@jagc1969

8 ай бұрын

@@stephenkingbookclub1054 I strongly agree with @ds5436. A video on the "second epidemic" is mandatory!

Between Dead Zone and The Stand, Stephen King was rather prescient about the 2020s. These things always come in threes, so what's next? Personally, I'm hoping for Tommyknockers.

@stephenkingbookclub1054

6 ай бұрын

LOL!

@StabEDealin

28 күн бұрын

Perhaps 11/22/63……😢

It criminal how many subs this channel has! Let’s get those numbers up! Great channel!

Viral concentration is probably why Campion didn’t die as quickly. The concentration of virus particles in the labs would have been incredibly dense. If Campion, on the surface, only received a relatively low viral dose, it would have taken much longer to amplify in his system.

@stephenkingbookclub1054

2 ай бұрын

Thank you for this -- it makes a lot of sense :)

This is a very cool & creative approach to this! Nice work! Its almost believable with Bush in the Whitehouse 😂

love this. being with fellow fans

This novel, The Stand, was soo good that I had read it 3 different times, the last one being during the Pandemic. I was pissed that bookstores were closed, then I remembered that I could just order it from Amazon, 😅😅😅. I know, right 😮. I read it after work and my days off as I was an essential worker delivering the U.S. Mail. That itself was a separate Horror story 😢😢😢.

Is it ironic that the man who got out of the lab initials are C.D.C. Probably just a coincidence but having not slept in over 24 hours my tired brain spotted it immediately 😅

@stephenkingbookclub1054

Ай бұрын

Oh my god, I've never noticed that!

Great video. Each time I get the flu, like right now, I remember "The Stand"...

I just bought the new Barnes and Noble Limited Edition version

They should have quarantined for 2 weeks, in order to flatten the curve.

I am blown away that the same person who wrote this could be such a gigantic colostomy bag when it comes to people not trusting the gov about covid or any other topic.

These are so clever how you come up with different context to tell the stories. I love your content

@stephenkingbookclub1054

Ай бұрын

Thanks! I have a lot of fun making these videos!

@Commentcomment321

Ай бұрын

@@stephenkingbookclub1054 really amazing work, Stu Redman is the reason why this book has been one of my favourites for so many years -a stand up guy out of a long list of stand up leading men as King likes to write them. thank you so much from all us honourary Derryers.

Nice to see this before teaching tomorrow. Very well done. Excuse me. I think I have a cold... Be right back. ;)

@stephenkingbookclub1054

10 ай бұрын

ACHOO!

If you loved The Stand as I have. I believe it was sometime in the mid 80’s when I read it. About the same time I stumbled upon a book or it may have been recommended to me from someone at a bookstore. It called Swan Song by Robert MacGammon. Not sure of the last name spelling.

@johntheg9376

23 күн бұрын

robert mcCammon (also good book), who wrote one of favorite fiction books, Boy's Life (if you look for, lots of titles like this get his book)

@fixedit8689

23 күн бұрын

@@johntheg9376 I read it, along with his others but Swan Song was his best.

Read this during summer vacation in the aughts. Need to go screen free for summer again so I can get more reading done.

This is an excellently done video, definitely feels like a real college lecture. I love the fact that the lecturer is Peter Goldsmith. One thing that jumped out at me was the name of Campion's wife. It's listed as "Sally" in the book and while it's true that Sally is a nickname for Sarah, it doesn't have to be. I'll have to go back and re-listen again. Not a big thing, just jumped out at me (being a Sarah and all that).

Dude the work you put in on these....thank you. I love how you manage to expand on the universe without it being like fan fiction. Its genius

@stephenkingbookclub1054

6 ай бұрын

Thanks! Technically I guess it is fan-fiction... But what I'm really trying to do is process the events / themes in a creative way.

@FrithonaHrududu02127

6 ай бұрын

@@stephenkingbookclub1054 that's what I mean. You managed to expand the universe without cheapening it which is a very very fine line to walk and I commend you

@FrithonaHrududu02127

6 ай бұрын

@@stephenkingbookclub1054 it's funny I've had a pretty tough life in a lot of ways did about 15 years in prison. My wife died a few years ago at 42. But love of reading got me through a lot of things being able to just put myself in another place has helped me a lot in life through a lot of tough times and I owe that primarily to Stephen King he was the hook that got me really into a love of reading it was either Salem's lot of Pet sematary I can't remember what the first one that I read was I borrowed my mother's copy of both books and those set me on the path, so I feel like I owe Stephen King a debt. Plus I love Maine.

@13fyrefli

3 ай бұрын

@@stephenkingbookclub1054it’s fanfiction but it’s QUALITY fanfiction. Not written in a notebook by a thirteen year old girl lol.

Never, red the book and I'm not really a Stephen King person...my wife absolutely loves his stuff though. I remember watching The Stand mini-series in the mid-ish 90's and while I enjoyed it overall what really stood out to me was the bug escaping and to the tune of Don't Fear the Reaper. Every so often...like now...I still watch that scene. Hmmm...wonder if that had any effect on me becoming a scientist?

Please do a cartographical study of the Territories from the Talisman..or, alternatively a welcome video for the Sunlight Home and/or a puff peice about its founder Sunlight Gardner...

@stephenkingbookclub1054

10 ай бұрын

I love all of these :)

Thank you for doing this

This is really good. I love the touch of not coming out and saying who Peter Goldsmith is/was. But of course everyone who has read the book knows exactly who he is. 😉

@StLProgressive

8 ай бұрын

I thought that was a great detail most readers would miss.

@ianramsey101

2 күн бұрын

First patient of A Prime to survive.

This is such a fascinating and unique way of looking at the stand! Great work!

@stephenkingbookclub1054

9 ай бұрын

Thanks so much! Hopefully there will be more "lectures" soon!

Wow , I am glad that I came upon this video, hope the there are more in the works. Great job. Thank you.

@stephenkingbookclub1054

22 күн бұрын

We're glad you found our little book club!

What an absolutely ingenious idea. Thank you for this video.

So well done! Thank you so much for these "extras" pertaining to Steven King's films/stories. Love your hard work and great imagination!

@stephenkingbookclub1054

10 ай бұрын

Wow, thank you!

@maryhoyt2609

10 ай бұрын

You are very welcome, you deserve it!~!!!@@stephenkingbookclub1054

This is one of the best videos I’ve seen in a long time on KZread. You’ve brought the brilliance and genius of King into this video and this shows why the Stand really is one of the greatest works of fiction of the twentieth century, up there with Steinbeck and Hemingway.

@stephenkingbookclub1054

2 ай бұрын

Thank you so much. I had a lot of fun working on this one... The Stand is one of my favorite epics!

This is, arguably, his best,most thought out book. It is my favorite. I have read it over and over.

@paulasmith7803

Ай бұрын

Well, this and Salem's Lot

THANKEE - SAI

When Covid first started to spread throughout the world; the first thing I thought about the stand. Especially when I saw people in haxmat suits spraying off various areas of downtown Pittsburgh and it was terrifying because at the time no one knew what we were dealing with.😮

What a cool idea, I LOVED this!!! Well done!!!

During the Cuban Missile Crisis my father was US Air Force Air Police and attached to the Defense Atomic Support Agency and was with the top military command and he knew how close we were to complete nuclear war and obviously he and others wanted to tell their wives and families but they didn't and my father said no one even thought about telling people. They knew it would cause panic. My father never even said how close we were to war until a few years ago. The public was never really informed and even now the public doesn't know everything.

@WG-tt6hk

2 ай бұрын

It didn't take a rocket scientist to figure it out. I watched my father & mother giving themselves a farewell toast. I said to my dad (a World War II vet) "Dad the Russians in Moscow don't want to punch the button. " He sad to me "The guys in Moscow are not the ones holding the trigger. All it take is one mistake & it's all over.." AS it turns out, we were closer than Kennedy even knew. The rocket commander in Cuba had full control over missiles that were already primed for launch & the Russians had short range missiles that would have taken out the invasion force before it could land on the beach.

Do you think Night Surf could be considered an episode happening within The Stand?

@user-rw2uh5bv3o

Ай бұрын

It took place in same universe also the dark tower wizard and glass took small detour to this universe

@user-rw2uh5bv3o

Ай бұрын

Loved night surf by the way

@JoshSweetvale

Ай бұрын

​@@user-rw2uh5bv3oNot quite. They passed through a variant universe where a superflu outbreak happened in the late 80s, not 1990, and the brand names were dramatically different from mainline Earths.

That was absolutely outstanding. The stand is one of my favorite books, but I like the way they did this in the future, talking about it in the past from a college professors point of view very well done

@stephenkingbookclub1054

23 күн бұрын

Thank you... hopefully there will be more "lectures" about the Stand :)

I always assumed that everyone in the facility died so quick because maybe a nerve agent got deployed as part of the facilities lockdown systems, not the virus itself

@stephenkingbookclub1054

8 ай бұрын

That's an excellent point... and makes more sense than my previous theory. I'll have to go back and read this section of the novel...

@davidpickens8800

6 күн бұрын

Not even died quickly. Some people were well enough to have sex. One even wrote a sign to project to the cameras, with the message Now You Know It Works

I just LOVE your format!!!

@stephenkingbookclub1054

10 ай бұрын

Thanks so much!

Oh man can't wait!

Amazing work , keep up the great , inspiring, wonderful work and Happy Thanksgiving ( Canada 🇨🇦 style )

I wouldn’t put it past the psychopaths who run human societies to behave this way

@JoshSweetvale

Ай бұрын

And the morons who serve them to have zero discipline and drop the ball.

This was excellent. I really felt like I was listening to a real history lecture. The little details you included, along with the footage from the 1994 mini-series gave it that extra dose of realism. I don’t think it’ll be long before this channel blows up, in a good way, lol. Bravo. 🖤

Absolutely masterful. Really, really flows like a genuine in-universe history lecture and not a try-hard fan fic that just regurgitates snippets of the book, like how most other content creators probably would've done. Peter Goldsmith was a great touch btw Cheers

Stephen King’s best novel until the last few pages, which are unfortunate

Amazing vid. Just stumbled across this channel and I’ve subbed immediately. Great stuff. ❤

@stephenkingbookclub1054

16 күн бұрын

Awesome, thank you!

I had to pause when I got 15:09. This is awesome. I'm binging on your channel right now. Thanks!

This was epic! A great video that leaves us wanting more! Thank you for the post!

@stephenkingbookclub1054

10 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

The creepiest part of listening to this for me, since I haven't read the book yet, is that my birthday is June 12th. I would've been born the day before the virus was unleashed had this been reality.

Watching this while I have a cold gave me some severe anxiety, let me tell you that

@michelleleclerc5713

16 күн бұрын

I was reading the Stand, and I got the flu. Worst 2 weeks ever. I hear you.

Whenever I need something to weigh something down I use my Author Edited version of the Stand. It's about 14 pounds and is the size of a toddler.

@stephenkingbookclub1054

10 ай бұрын

LOL :)

I love your different take on these stories. Very well done; I was enthralled.

@stephenkingbookclub1054

10 ай бұрын

Thank you very much!

Good one

Hope you have fun creating these videos, because they are very enjoyable. Love your creativity!

This would be a very interesting series! The verisimilitude of this format really sells it.

Omg Frannie's Son!

@stephenkingbookclub1054

10 ай бұрын

Yes! I'm so glad you noticed! :)

@benjamintriplett3

10 ай бұрын

@@stephenkingbookclub1054 will we get a peak at Frannie and Stu next?

The Stand is my all time favourite Stephen King novel. Professor Goldman is absolutely on point when he said the deadliest weapons come from test tubes - not bombs. Just look at Covid, which was nothing more than a warm up to the main event

My favorite book. I have read the unabridged version several times. I like to tell people that the characters are so well developed that I sometimes would find myself thinking about some of them as if they were friends of mine.

@MissDebbieSue123

Ай бұрын

@cmr7854 Me too. I loved these characters, or love-hated them. I thought the 1994 miniseries was exact in the actors that played the characters. In my mind they looked just like that. Except Molly Ringwald. But she grew on me. I'm glad to know somebody else loves the characters, and yes, they did become friends. M-O-O-N, that spells " Baby Can You Dig Yo Man?" lol

The Stand actually came from a true incident that occurred in Utah in the mid 70s: so that means it either happened at the Tooele army depot or the Dugway proving grounds. it was an incident that obviously made national news, as Stephen King heard of it, and came out to Utah to speak to some of the scientists about it. Apparently, they were very keen on talking to him, and next thing we know about Six or seven later out comes the Stand. And interesting side note most of the 1994 television miniseries was shot in Salt Lake or around Salt Lake. Apparently Utahns make really good dead people.

A very fresh way to talk about The Stand, very well done. Have the uncut version of the novel via Audible.

Let's rock!