The Stand: Expanded Edition: For the First Time Complete and Uncut (Signet) Review
I had a friend tell me I needed to read "Carry" when I was about 13 or 14. I did so riding back and forth on the the bus to school. It was a cool story and appealed to the teenager in me. It made me interested in Mr. King.
"The Stand" came out when I was about 16. I checked it out at the public library and I took it home, and paid the late fees. Which said alot coming from a poor family like mine was. TRUST ME, I had to finish this book. It was a lengthy novel and the characters ended up being like someone you knew personally and you had to know what thier fate was. In fact I missed a couple of days of school because I stayed up all night reading and faked it off the next morning.
This book still rates as the best Novel I've ever read, and it's been 30 years. I now have a grown Son in the Military who states that "The Stand" is only 1 of 2 books that ever made him cry.
I loved it so much I wrote Mr. King and asked him to sign a copy of the book for me when I was 16, I still have his written response to do just that and hope to follow up on that now that I'm 46 years old, as I search for a 1st edition of the book in antique stores and such.
This novel is worth your time. You will probebley cry also, because some stories surpass a time line. This is one of them.
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The Stand: Expanded Edition: For the First Time Complete and Uncut (Signet) Overview
The ultimate battle between good and evil
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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
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Perfect - North -
We had the black pest/the Bomb/9-11/Anthrax/H1N1..
What if a superbug would wipe out most of humanity ? What should become of us ?
Would we choose survival over what makes us good and decent ?
How could we survive ?
Does God has a plan for each and everyone of us ?
Does Evil walk on Earth ? In what form ?
Powerful questions. Powerful book.
The story and its characters are mesmerezing. An unforgettable tale.
The Stand - Brandon -
This is an amazing book. Downloaded it to my Kindle app on my Droid. Stephen King is great.
My Favorite Stephen King Novel - John M. Strubhart - Austin, TX
Much has been written about this novel. I only want to add that the characters are so memorable that even 20 years after reading the uncut edition in dead tree format, I want to shout joyful greetings at them. I also think that when Stephen King stuck to writing stories of the forces of good versus the forces of evil, he was at his best. I love this journey. The Kindle versiom is so much lighter a load to bear as I travel this long highway.
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