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The Stand : Expanded Edition: For the First Time Complete and Uncut (Signet)
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The Stand : Expanded Edition: For the First Time Complete and Uncut (Signet)
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Stephen King
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In 1978, science fiction writer Spider Robinson wrote a scathing review of The Stand in which he exhorted his readers to grab strangers in bookstores and beg them not to buy it.
The Stand is like that. You either love it or hate it, but you can't ignore it. Stephen King's most popular book, according to polls of his fans, is an end-of-the-world scenario: a rapidly mutating flu virus is accidentally released from a U.S. military facility and wipes out 99 and 44/100 percent of the world's population, thus setting the stage for an apocalyptic confrontation between Good and Evil.
"I love to burn things up," King says. "It's the werewolf in me, I guess.... The Stand was particularly fulfilling, because there I got a chance to scrub the whole human race, and man, it was fun! ... Much of the compulsive, driven feeling I had while I worked on The Stand came from the vicarious thrill of imagining an entire entrenched social order destroyed in one stroke."
There is much to admire in The Stand: the vivid thumbnail sketches with which King populates a whole landscape with dozens of believable characters; the deep sense of nostalgia for things left behind; the way it subverts our sense of reality by showing us a world we find familiar, then flipping it over to reveal the darkness underneath. Anyone who wants to know, or claims to know, the heart of the American experience needs to read this book. --Fiona Webster
In 1978, science fiction writer Spider Robinson wrote a scathing review of The Stand in which he exhorted his readers to grab strangers in bookstores and beg them not to buy it.
The Stand is like that. You either love it or hate it, but you can't ignore it. Stephen King's most popular book, according to polls of his fans, is an end-of-the-world scenario: a rapidly mutating flu virus is accidentally released from a U.S. military facility and wipes out 99 and 44/100 percent of the world's population, thus setting the stage for an apocalyptic confrontation between Good and Evil.
"I love to burn things up," King says. "It's the werewolf in me, I guess.... The Stand was particularly fulfilling, because there I got a chance to scrub the whole human race, and man, it was fun! ... Much of the compulsive, driven feeling I had while I worked on The Stand came from the vicarious thrill of imagining an entire entrenched social order destroyed in one stroke."
There is much to admire in The Stand: the vivid thumbnail sketches with which King populates a whole landscape with dozens of believable characters; the deep sense of nostalgia for things left behind; the way it subverts our sense of reality by showing us a world we find familiar, then flipping it over to reveal the darkness underneath. Anyone who wants to know, or claims to know, the heart of the American experience needs to read this book.
Average Customer Rating:
Sweet book
The Stand, which is an extremely long book, is also an extremely worthwhile read! It's amazing that there are so many characters and yet the author somehow manages to help you get to know each one very thoroughly. Enough so, that you can even hate the bad guys of the story, while understanding why they do what they do, and cry when something devastating happens to the characters you like. Also, King has a way with words that keeps your nose an inch away from the page a lot of the time and your breath uneven in your suspense.
Set in the year 1990 and 1991, The Stand tells the tale of what happens when a sort of "superflu" got loose from a military base and killed almost the whole world. No one really knows why some people were immune, but they did all seem to share the same odd dreams, of one old lady who seems to represent God and goodness, and a devil-like man who represents evil. The main characters range from the likes of Fran Goldsmith, a young good-hearted woman, to Harold Lauder, a well-meaning teenager who's anger and resentment gradually makes him slightly crazy,to Glen Bateman, an old sociology professor, to Lloyd Henreid, one of the devil man's cohorts. This diversity makes the story very exciting, as it tells all of their tales as each of them eventually find their way to the Free Zone, where the woman who represents goodness takes up residence...or to Vegas, where the devil man lies in wait. The story then continues to include the good side's struggle to get some form of organization together...and finally, to defeat the devil's helper. Because the story is so long, it's impossible to fit all the wonderful details that make it such a good read into this review, but I would definitely recommend it to everyone, even those who never read Stephen King before, like me. This is top notch stuff.
The Stand: One Of The Greatest Novels Ever Written? You Bet Your Ass!
There are two specific Stephen Kings novels that stand out to me because of two reasons, their sheer size and their brilliance. One is It, my favorite Stephen King novel of all time, the other is The Stand (the complete and uncut edition, no doubt). Talk about a lot of book for your buck, The Stand is huge. And here, size does matter. The Stand is a rambling, rollicking thrill ride through the nightmare landscape of a late 20th century America all but destroyed by a killer flu virus known affectionately as Captain Tripps. 99.4% of the population is laid to waste and what's left is the meat of King's sprawling opus. It's good versus evil. Mother Abagail Freemantle versus Randall Flagg. Heaven versus Hell. All or nothing as the forces of good head to Hemmingford Home, Nebraska and all the forces of evil nest like maggots in good old Las Vegas, Nevada.
Deep and moving. Here are King's greatest characters, including one of his most enthralling boogeymen, The Dark Man, The Walkin' Dude, Randall Flagg. One of the all-time baddies. Stephen King doesn't get any better than this unless you're reading IT or The Shining or perhaps 'Salam's Lot, otherwise The Stand is the shizzit!
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Better than Cell
You can't beat the atmosphere created by this book and I am devoted to reviewing it after reading 'Cell' and feeling it tried to follow this very tough act...
The people at the controls have let something slip by, a virus, it is 99% communicable and 100% lethal.
A handful of people are left alive after millions upon millions have died and now it seems a war between good and evil is to take place, so aside from surviving the superflu the remaining people have to pick a team after graphic dreams drive people to chose, the walking dude or the old lady, bad or good respectively.
The characters are alive in your mind from almost the very start - you find yourself rooting for them in different ways.
I have enjoyed reading the tale many times - it never gets old and never dates.
Remember - the end of the world could be tomorrow.
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