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Originally Posted by desertgrandma
The story you are thinking of is called "The Raft", and is included in the short story collection, "Skeleton Crew" First Published in 1982, in "Gallery" magazine.
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YEAH, that was it...loved that story! I would have bet money it was a Playboy story though. Shows how much the rest of the mag mattered to to me that I always remembered it as from Playboy not Gallery. THANKS for passing on the origin. I will try and find a copy of that short story collection for sure.
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The Complete and Uncut The Stand" is much better, than the orginal book, in my opinion.
King came out with it because when he first published "The Stand" they made him cut out so much.........when he was more established, he was able to re-insert the missing pages, and publish it the way he orignially intended.
Watching the mini series and reading the books are not comparable
Reading the books lets you know somuch more about what the characters are thinking, and why they do what they do.
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Glad to read it was better. I as I mention I am not a King evangelist so I read his works infrequently. But The Stand was really nicely done as the mini-series I always thought about reading the novel, something I never like doing with any author after the fact or even the other way 'round. That was likely the only real reason I never bought a copy of the novel, I had watched the mini-series and liked it as is. To me reading the novel after can polarize me as a reader to not allow the story as written happen as the author intended. Given my choice I will always read the novel and fore-go the movie. I, Robot was actually a nice exception as it was a totally different story yet Starship Troopers was a dismal adaptation of a wonderful novel where the movie vastly missed the point of the novel. Still SsT was a fun movie as a DVD rental, just not what I had been anticipating by a fair margin.