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silverstone
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posted April 21, 2008 06:26 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for silverstone     Edit/Delete Message
Anyone read this horror novella?
It's a great read... I also enjoyed the movie.


The morning after a violent thunderstorm, a thick unnatural mist rapidly spreads across the small town of Bridgton, Maine, reducing visibility to near-zero and concealing numerous species of bizarre creatures which viciously attack any human who ventures out into the open. The source of the fog and its inhabitants is never revealed, but strong allusions are made to an inter-dimensional rift caused by something known second-hand to the townsfolk as "The Arrowhead Project," long rumored to be conducted at a nearby top-secret military facility.

The bulk of the story details the plight of a large group of people who become trapped while shopping in the town supermarket, among them a commercial artist named David Drayton (the story's narrator), Drayton's young son Billy, and their estranged neighbor Brenton Norton, who accompanied them into town after his car was smashed by a tree. Also trapped in the market are a young woman named Amanda Dumfries and three soldiers from The Arrowhead Project; the soldiers' eventual joint suicide lends some credence to the theory of the Project being the source of the disaster.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mist

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Lei_Kuei
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posted April 21, 2008 06:52 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Lei_Kuei     Edit/Delete Message
Ive seen the movie, the ending is abit of a kick in the nuts

But its pretty good all round

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silverstone
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posted April 21, 2008 07:04 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for silverstone     Edit/Delete Message
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Ive seen the movie, the ending is abit of a kick in the nuts

I agree, Lei_Kuei, I couldn't believe the ending

In the novella, the ending is different... but I think that the movie was better in the end

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posted April 22, 2008 11:28 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for BrightStar     Edit/Delete Message
Hi there. I saw it too. My friend let me borrow it. He like to scare me to heck. I tell him no he says yes.

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Charlotte
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posted April 22, 2008 11:43 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Charlotte     Edit/Delete Message
Hi! Silver,
I've seen the movie and read the book.
I enjoyed the book more, I hate bad endings... I'm a softy at heart and am always wishing for a happy ending. I will admit that it took guts to have the movie end that way.

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posted April 23, 2008 12:17 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for augentier     Edit/Delete Message
hated the movie

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posted April 25, 2008 05:13 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for SunnyRains     Edit/Delete Message
I love Stephen King! I've read a lot of his books but not his most recent...including The Mist. I loved Pet Cemetary!
And btw.. the books are always better then the movies. Haven't seen a book live up to the movie version yet.

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posted May 01, 2008 02:50 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for silverstone     Edit/Delete Message
One of the best scenes:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=7xxW6kjuDIw

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posted May 01, 2008 03:05 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for silverstone     Edit/Delete Message
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Dq-YB8qD4LQ&feature=related

Rev 9:3 And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.
Rev 9:4 And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.

Rev 9:5 And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.

Rev 9:6 And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.

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posted September 23, 2008 01:55 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for silverstone     Edit/Delete Message
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CrimsonChyld
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posted October 05, 2008 09:15 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for CrimsonChyld     Edit/Delete Message
One of my fav Steven King books was Tommyknockers. Big a$$ book, but worth the read!

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posted October 06, 2008 10:37 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for LEXX     Edit/Delete Message
Yes! Very good/scary/believable!
Reminds me in some ways of the Philadelphia experiments.

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posted October 06, 2008 07:10 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for silverstone     Edit/Delete Message
which one, Lexx, The Mist or Tommy Nockers?

They were both good, but I liked The mist better!

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posted October 06, 2008 10:29 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for LEXX     Edit/Delete Message
Defintely The Mist!
I like the H. P. Lovecraft “Cthulhu" style giant creature!

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posted October 06, 2008 10:34 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for LEXX     Edit/Delete Message
silverstone
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I agree, Lei_Kuei, I couldn't believe the ending

In the novella, the ending is different... but I think that the movie was better in the end


I usually like the books better than the movie versions, but some I prefer the movie!
The Hunger
Bicentennial Man
I Robot
Moll Flanders
Great Expectations, old version and modern version.

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posted October 07, 2008 02:57 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Fluke     Edit/Delete Message
I've read alot of King, but not The Mist.
Saw the movie though, and I enjoyed it, I even surprised myself by constantly wanting to punch that %&##¤%% lady, or wring her neck, heheh.. Rarely does a movie character engage me so.
The ending was AWFUL, not in a "badly made movie" sense, just emotionally awful.. I felt suckerpunched and could vividly imagine what he must have felt. Good movie...

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posted October 07, 2008 07:59 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for LEXX     Edit/Delete Message
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The ending was AWFUL, not in a "badly made movie" sense, just emotionally awful.. I felt suckerpunched and could vividly imagine what he must have felt. Good movie...
The ending reminded me of the move "The Illustrated Man". The people of the society were convinced that a terrible prophecy was true, that they would be going extinct. So to protect the children from the horror of some terrible catastrophe they killed all the children, only to discover the prophecy was not as they thought...no catastrophe came...except from the non fertile adults...THEY brought about their extinction because THEY destroyed ALL their fertile offspring.
BIG terrible tragic OOOPS!

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