To be disturbed by the "Prepping" board.

[TheoriginalLEM]

Is this a thing now?

Is there really a need to be stockpiling food, medicines and creating a bolt hole?

Am i missing something? Seriously (this is not a light-hearted thread), i suffer from anxiety and this is really disturbing me.

Hopefully people have just been watching too much walking dead.

LEM was that to me? Well, I'd die. But I can't spend my entire life worrying about it, I'd stop living and just hide under the bed.

The mist is one of his shorter shorties I haven't read (well I did, but I was too young to take it in, IFSWIM) and I must be honest, I enjoyed the film- although at the back of my head there was a 'this is such contrived bullshit' feeling, and I'll lay money on the book lacking that.

(My dad re-told the mist to me when I was little and wouldn't sleep in the car. Didn't they just keep driving in the original version- and the lack of end to the mist was the real horror? Much better than the film)

In general anything tv-wise that comes up with 'Stephen King's the.....' I dodge like a fucking poison bullet. No. I can do without your studios idea of what Stephen King should be, ta very much.

'Thinner' was my fave from his early work. I loved Cujo but read it as a young teen and just felt really sorry for the sick dog left out in the heat

The mist properly upset me.. It was
One of my favourite books and they went and did that!

The 2 should stay seperate I think.

BorderTerrier I wish I had a spare £15...

I've got 4 tins of soup, 4 bottles of gin and 2 litres of water. All sorted

The ending of the mist (film) was actually horrific wasn't it? I'd forgotten! I watch these things then blank out the bad bits. (Good life skill to have )

No, not to you Bathsheba

Don't all Stephen King apocalyptical novels end in a show down with a giant spider alien type thing?

The Mist was much much worse than that LEM. I was quite distraught, it was one of those if only he'd waited another 30 seconds it would have all been all right.... (the film that is). I hope we're all talking about the same Mist, and I'm not waffling on about a completely different film

Where is the preppers thread?
I don't want a helpful link; I want to be able to find it in topics.
Otherwise I only see it in active

Bathsheba sorry, the £15 I mentioned was what I had after rent and bills had gone out for a 6 week period. It wasn't spare, it was my food budget (and laundry budget, since I need a bus to the nearest town to wash bedding and towels, but I just did without in this instance and stank instead!). Obviously your situation will be completely different to mine, but you shouldn't sit back and feel helpless. You do yourself a disservice.

I'm feeling the need to get the mist reserved at the nearest library this weekend now! It's part of a collection rather than a stand alone novel right? Like the really sick one that included the Shawshank Redemption (one of the other novellas featured a kid who became obsessed with WWII Nazi torture, eurgh) I think it was called 4 seasons or something?.

Siwi it's in 'other stuff'.

I hate all this nihilistic rubbish, so depressing.

I think nihilists would be more along the lines of "Whats the point?" and simply not prep because why bother?

I have four seasons here, havent read it for ages. Will have a look in the morning.

I enjoyed the mist the film i love naff films though, that look like they belong on the sci fi channel! And lots of twd actors in it too

The Mist is in Skeleton Crew, not Different Seasons.

I hate the film's ending. (KIND OF SPOILER.) Manipulative shite. I think the "dead kids as dramatic motif," used just for emotional impact/shock value, is lazy and shitty.

The story's ending is subtler.

Actually I quite like the film ending... You've "done the right thing" but not enough bullets for you... And then 30 seconds later... Walking dead fans will be pleased to head Andrea, dale and Carole are in the mist!

The story is much better. It shows the dynamics of family, community and loss in a brilliant way. Plus the monsters are scarier.

Ah cheers Iris think my dad has a copy of Skeleton Crew, will have to nab it next time I'm down that way.

I didn't realise Dale and Andrea were in film version as well as Carol!

Ah, ta iris :) thought i would have noticed if i owned it and hadnt read it!
Skeleton crew is £2.69 on ebay...

On subject of related films etc I remember reading High rise by J G ballard which I saw is now being made into a film. Its about a secluded highrise which has people housed by their economic class low incomes at bottom I think and high incomes at top, with a middle mezanine level which becomes a boiling point between the two.