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

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 months ago (2 children)

If you think that’s prescient, try King’s “The Dead Zone”. It’s about a president who makes insane campaign promises (“put pollution in garbage bags and send it to space”), has rallies with mixture of party vibes and violent populism, and who has a signature hat.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Let’s hope “The Stand” isn’t next.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months 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)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months 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?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Mother Abigail

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

God damn. Definitely reading that next.