The Stand: Expanded Edition: For the First Time Complete and Uncut (Signet)

The Stand: Expanded Edition: For the First Time Complete and Uncut (Signet) | Stephen King | Made me a King fan forever

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	The Stand: Expanded Edition: For the First Time Complete and Uncut (Signet) Stephen King Signet, 1991 - 1141 pages average customer review:based on 930 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Arguably best piece of fiction ever written!!

This book makes me wanna belive in God and be a better man. It has been 3 months since I read this book but the characters are still vivid in my mind. Nick Andros , Stu Rudeman, Frannie Goldsmith I think I know them better than I know some of my friends. I still miss them. It is a huge book and I am sure some people will feel a little intimidated by it. But trust me when I say that once you start reading it, you won't want it to ever end.

In my opinion this is not a typical King book. There are no blood oozing monsters chasing people, and no talking heads without a torso. This book is about good and evil and human nature. This book will make you think about a life without all the most basic things we have taken for granted. This book made me cry and made me laugh but most importantly this book made me think and thinking is what makes us Human.

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Made me a King fan forever

I read this book in the original pulp paperback form as a kid. I liked it so much I read it again a few years later while waiting for King's latest book. Then the unabridged version was released and I had to read it again. Definitely my favorite book of all time. I would so love to see someone like Peter Jackson do a serial big screen production of The Stand that would match the quality of the book.

The best Stephen King Novel

This, hands down, is the most eclectic work of horror ever written. The characters are deep, the story lines intertwined, and the situation is described to realistically. A must read of all!!

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King's Best Novel

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A very short review is not necessarily a bad review. You don't want to re-tell the whole story. I try for the hook that will make a person want to read this book. In my opinion, you should read long reviews after you read the novel. Read a short review first.

It's hard to say which of King's novels is the best, but for a long novel, this has got to be it. Don't start reading this end-of-civilization story if you want some free time in the next little while.

Why is it that most people love to read about the total destruction of civilization (in this case by disease)? We can't help following the few survivors on a great quest to solve a mystery--breaking into banks, taking jewelry, etc. All rules gone! The appeal of easy wealth? But it's all worthless without civilization.

Anyway, read this story. I loved it. You'll never look at Las Vegas the same way again.

Also, along the same lines is "Swan's Song," by Robert McCammon. Swan Song

Another highly recommended end-of-world novel is Walter Miller's "Canticle for Leibowitz."
A Canticle for Leibowitz (Bantam Spectra Book)

Still another is "Lucifer's Hammer," by Larry Nivin & Jerry Pournelle Lucifer's Hammer

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start over

I would imagine that The Stand is a novel that I have reread more than any other. It's a bit surprising because King's work in general does not particularly appeal to me. I find his liberal and politically correct characterisations a bit off-putting. I think that the main reason this story attracts certain readers so much is the same as why most apocalyptic tales appeal: there is dissatisfaction with how our world is evolving and, either a conscious or an unconscious desire to sweep the slate clean and start over. King has the skill to create such a scenario and make it very believable. Considering the kind of monsters who rule the US now it is not hard to imagine that there is a 'Project Blue' out there somewhere. I don't ascribe to belief in the physical manifestation of representatives of the forces of 'Good' and 'Evil' so that aspect of the story does not appeal as much. There are all sorts of ways that humanity could be brought to the brink of extinction, but King's is very plausible, which makes it so absorbing.

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