What are you reading?

[MR. Macabre 666]

After watching Paramount's absurd hatchet job of an adaptation of "The Stand" by Stephen King, I needed some brain bleach and am currently reading the vastly superior book. I do wish I had paid attention when copying the audio book to my tablet and grabbed the revised edition instead of the original. How sad is it, that the original hack job mini-series adaptation was, as bad as it was, still an overall better one than this?!?

They did make some brilliant casting choices. Getting Ezra Miller to play The Trashcan Man was fucking inspired despite Trashy being relegated to a bit character. Whoopie as Mother Abigail was dead nuts, and Owen Teague as Harold Lauder was a perfect fit for the character, even if they got the character wrong. Brad William Henke as Tom Cullen was probably the the best casting choice of all and was certainly the most faithful characterization in the whole damned thing

But, those few casting choices are the only highlights. If you've read the book and haven't yet inflicted this travesty upon yourself, don't. If you've never read the book, you may find it enjoyable. I can't tell. I spent too much of the show rolling my eyes at the mis-characterization of damn near every character and the cheapening of nearly every scene, especially the closing scenes in New Vegas, particularly the final scene. I think I strained the muscles in my eyes rolling them so hard!

I did finish "In the Shadow of Lightning" before starting my re-read of "The Stand." Very compelling start to a the fantasy series and I am very much looking forward to continuing it soon.

The mini series was terrible, I agree. I'd tried reading the book a few years before it came out, and I couldn't/didn't finish it. It was too long winded and boring. I put it down at the point when the old woman in the cornfield had died.