The End of the Whole Mess.

[Denise Marsden]

I rediscovered this little gem just recently and was quite amazed at the relevance to the present state of humanity.The state of our planet and the conciousness which seems to have such a firm grip on our thinking.Bobby's intentions were quite' Messiah like 'but in the guise of the scientist it had to lead to disaster.At least he saved the planet.Take care of the water. D

[Damaris]

I love this story. It's sad but one of my favorites from this collection. :smile2:

[Adrian]

Great story indeed.

[wally wonder]

and this story, like running man, has an instance of eery premonition--'bout 5-6 pages into the story, 'that was 2003, the year a PLO splinter group called the Sons of the Jihad (a name that always sounded to me hideously like a Catholic community service group somewhere in western Pennsylvania [woo-woo-woo!]) set off a Squirt Bomb in London....'

[brandon]

REALLY liked this story... I know SK is a fan of HP lovecraft and this story is taken right out of Lovecrafts playbook. Lovecraft loved to write from the view of a person that had witnessed or done something awful and was on the verge or madness, suicide, or both.

[doowopgirl]

I rediscovered this little gem just recently and was quite amazed at the relevance to the present state of humanity.The state of our planet and the conciousness which seems to have such a firm grip on our thinking.Bobby's intentions were quite' Messiah like 'but in the guise of the scientist it had to lead to disaster.At least he saved the planet.Take care of the water. D

I have to agree. A sleeper of a gem of a story. Sad, poignant, but beautiful in its own way. It made me think, were humans really ever meant to live in Eden?

[DancingCorpse]

I didn't really get into this story too much, i wasn't compelled like i am usually by King's work. There's nothing wrong with the story, not alot happening for me though! Plus it had a pretty difficult act to follow with Dolan's Cadillac!

[dwalters]

Easily one of my favorites in this collection. The small screen adaptation was also masterfully done.

[Pucker]

I rediscovered this little gem just recently and was quite amazed at the relevance to the present state of humanity.The state of our planet and the conciousness which seems to have such a firm grip on our thinking.Bobby's intentions were quite' Messiah like 'but in the guise of the scientist it had to lead to disaster.At least he saved the planet.Take care of the water. D

I've recently been skipping around in Nightmares and Dreamscapes and this particular story kind of made me chuckle, when I think about all the people running around talking about "saving the planet" when what they really mean is "saving the species." You may rest assured, the planet is going to be fine right up until our Sun goes red giant. We, on the other hand . . .

[motocop]

Not sure I could deal with all the "niceness" that would result from something like this. Everywhere you went would be like going to Chick-Fil-A, for those of you who have been there you know what I mean. Pretty sure we would run out of things after a while too. We think our planet is over populated now.