Last night RT and I watched “Delores Claiborne” on TV. It’s a Stephen King novel turned into a movie. It was good. It took awhile to get into it, but it ended up being riveting.

While Delores Claiborne was good, the BEST Stephen King book of all time is The Stand.

Gary Sinese was the main character in the The Stand movie. Well, it’s not technically a movie. It’s a four-part miniseries which just happens to be on the Science Fiction channel this weekend. Molly Ringwald was also one of the main characters.

Absolutely fascinating movie! However, as is often the case, the book was much better than the movie. Basically, in a top secret military laboratory, the virulent super flu bug gets lose. They try to contain it, but it spreads - and the Gary Sinese character is one of only a small percentage of people who is immune to the bug. So, after like 99 per cent of the people in the world are dead, it is up to the folks who are left to have the classic “good versus evil” battle.

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