Hello everyone and welcome to the Stephen King cast, One Man's Musings on the Works of Stephen King.

Once I reviewed each of his works in the chronological order of publication, but Ka is a wheel,

it all goes round again, and here I am once more back at the beginning on a new phase of the journey

to examine each of the endings of the works of Stephen King, to determine whether

or not King deserves his reputation for having an inability to successfully land his endings.

So what we've been doing lately is that as I move forward, the focus of this podcast is going

to be to examine the climax, the falling action, and the resolution of each of Stephen King's

endings of his novels and break it down by character, themes, action, and the resolution of each of Stephen King's endings of his novels

and break it down by character, themes, conflict, and plot to determine whether or not it meets

the criteria of being an objectively good ending.

And also I'm going to weigh in on whether or not.

I personally like the ending.

This week we will be examining the conclusion to the dead zone.

I know I should be really reviewing the stand because the original publication of the stand came out after the Shining, which I reviewed last week.

But I'm going to hold off on all of my thoughts on the stand came out after the Shining, which I reviewed last week.

But I'm going to hold off on all of my thoughts on the stand for the complete edition that came out in 1990, I believe. So we're going to have to wait. And besides, to be perfectly honest,

as I record this, there is a lot of talk of the coronavirus,

and there are cancellations that are occurring left and right.

Tours are being canceled.

Big events are being canceled.

Parades are being canceled. Countries are being canceled, parades are being canceled, countries are

shutting down, the tourism industry. So there's just a, there's a lot going on right now in the

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