The Eastern world, it is exploding, violence flaring, bullets loading.

You're old enough to kill, but not for voting.

You don't believe in war, but what's that gun you're toting?

And even the Jordan River has bodies floating, but you tell me over and over and over again, my friend.

Hello everyone, and welcome to the Stephen King cast, one man's musings on the works of Stephen King.

Each week, I'll review one entry in the bibliography of Stephen King in the chronological order of publication,

which brings us to 1990s re-release of Stephen King's The Stamp.

If you're just tuning in to this week, welcome, everybody.

Just so you know, if you haven't listened to any other episode before, if you

haven't listened to last week's episode, this particular episode is the second of a multi-part

review that analyzes the thousand-plus page, great American novel. Now, last week,

in the first part of my stand review, I talked about the importance of

this novel in context of King's other works and focused heavily on the fact that it introduced

the world to King's most enduring villain, Randall Flagg. I finished by providing a running

commentary for the first book of the stand, Captain Trips.

Now, this week, I'll examine Book 2 on the border.

But first, I'd like to share some listener emails.

There's been a bunch of emails that I just, I have not gotten to read.

And they've kind of been building up in my mailbox.

So I just want to take the opportunity

to read a couple emails and share the thoughts and feedback of some of our listeners.

If you haven't done so, honestly, feel free to write into Stephen Kingcast at Yahoo.com to share

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