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Did Stephen King predict the future in "the running man" (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by penquin@lemm.ee to c/books@lemmy.world

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Did he? Or was it like that even back then? I'm reading this book, and it's like a carbon copy of our world in the US nowadays. I keep yelling "oh my god, this is basically happening right now!!!" Not as blatant and (I don't know the word) as in the book, but essentially the same. The book is like now, but on steroids (to explain the word I'm missing). The divide/polarization, the police brutality, the pollution, corporations and exploitation, the government's overreach..... Etc, it's all here now.

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[–] atomicorange@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Let’s hope “The Stand” isn’t next.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Convinced husband to read that during covid. Boy was he piiiiiissed

[–] penquin@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That one is in my digital library literally staring at me everyday. I don't know why I keep putting it off. I think I'll read it after I read the deadzone then.

[–] superkret@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's the best King novel in my opinion.
(But I may be biased cause I watched the movies first as a teen and had a crush on one of the characters)

[–] penquin@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

That makes me want to read it now. Lol. Damit. I need to finish this one first.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

(But I may be biased cause I watched the movies first as a teen and had a crush on one of the characters)

Let me guess: Tom Cullen?

[–] superkret@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago

Mother Abigail

[–] macarthur_park@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I highly recommend it. The stand is one of those novels I reread every few years.

[–] penquin@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Which one do you think is better deadzone of the stand?

[–] macarthur_park@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The stand, just because it’s a much bigger scale novel with lots of interesting characters, world building, and a lot of story.

The dead zone is one I probably won’t reread. But it’s definitely worth it once, like most of King’s work. And the fact that it has uncomfortable parallels to Trump and the MAGA movement adds another element.

[–] penquin@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

Damn. I'll put it on the list for next