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11/22/63: Stephen King and JJ Abrams Lay an Egg
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I really like King's work up until the late eighties, when I kind of stopped reading him. But he has obviously embraced our mainstream political history, and hasn't the time or inclination to look beyond it. It works well enough for him in exploring America's dark underbelly.

In The Stand, the anti-Christ character Randall Flagg has hung out with various notorious characters in America's past, including Oswald. It recalls the Stones' "Sympathy for the Devil."

http://www.academia.edu/1415513/The_Walk..._The_Stand

Having had dealings with the likes of Charles Starkweather, Donald DeFreeze, and Lee Harvey Oswald, Flagg is framed as having shaped some of the darker moments in the nation's past.
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11/22/63: Stephen King and JJ Abrams Lay an Egg - by Tracy Riddle - 25-05-2016, 08:35 PM

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