On Wednesday, April 10, 2019 at 11:43:19 AM UTC-4, Gary wrote:
> Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> >
> > I started reading The Stand when I was home sick with a cold.
> > Big mistake!
>
> I did read that many years ago. Just from memory, wasn't that a
> story about after end-of-the-world and pitting east coast nice
> people against the evil west coast? That's what I remember. I did
> read it all. Not too bad of a story, if I remember so far back.
> Hope they didn't attempt a movie of that one. That would really
> be a movie screw-up version of a book.

It started with a flu-like plague.

They've made couple of film/television treatment of the novel.

Cindy Hamilton