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Summary: AWESOME BOOK!
Review: i love this book! its soo good! the characters are interesting and as engrossing as the plot. ive read lots of king's novels and this is one of his best. all these people are talking about how long it is and all that, but i think they must be pretty stupid. dont they realize that its UNCUT and UNEDITED! this was meant to be a descriptive novel. if they didnt want a long one, they should have read the edited one. im so glad i read this one though 'cuz i got to meet 'The Kid'. haha he was so funny. all in all this book is awesome and u HAVE to read it!
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Summary: "Apocalyptic"
Review: This was the third S.K. book I've read, the first being Black House. I was disappointed with Black House. Hearts in Atlantis interested me so I grovelled through it, and felt that I'd wasted a lot of time. I read The Stand with mild reservations. I'd seen the movie several years ago, so I knew the basic story. In my opinion, the movie doesn't scratch the surface. This book is so full of twisted wisdom that it's hard to put into words. The story of each of the main characters lives is told, as well as the underlying tales, with exquisite detail. There is a great deal of philosopy as well as psycology tucked between these covers. Since I'd seen the movie, it was easy to picture the characters. The movie character, "Randall Flagg" was perfect, and I pictured him each time he was mentioned. This book will stick in my mind for a long time. I own several other S.K. books, and will read them someday--probably not for awhile though. I'm still trying to digest The Stand. My life will never be quite the same--yet, that's a good thing.
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Summary: Still gives me shivers!
Review: I read The Stand back when I'd just started high school...and it scared the begeesus out of me. But I just couldn't resist picking up the uncut version, sure that now that I'm an adult I'd be okay. I was wrong. Stephen King can still scare me, but as an adult I have an even bigger appreciation for the craft of what he does. His beautiful sense of language, his ability to see into people's souls, his ability to structure and layer the story...and yes, even his ability to scare me. It makes for a great read!
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Summary: One of the very best!
Review: This is one of King's very best, although I'm not sure the extra padding of the unedited version actually improves the book. If the reader lets go and enjoys the ride (enormous suspension of disbelief is required, especially towards the middle) this is a classic. Harry Shannon's edgy first novel "Night of the Beast" is the only book I know of to employ as many horror tropes in such an original and entertaining manner, and although "The Stand" lacks NOTB's wry humor it belongs on every afficianados "booshelf." King's 'Desperation' and 'It' are almost as good, but not quite.
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Summary: Stephen King's "Andromeda Strain"
Review: Michael Crichton's "Andromeda Strain" has nothing on this book. While Crichton isolates a few scientists and infects a town, King shows us views of a man-made appocalypse. The scope of this story is incredible and has tie-ins with other stories, such as the "Dark Tower" series. The only real problem I had with this book is that we wait for hundreds of pages only to find that everything is wrapped up too quickly, and there is the final eternal denouement, at which point I wanted to drop the book. (I had the ending, why read so much more after?) While the ending held less interest for me than the first half, I feel this is one of Stephen King's best writings.
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Summary: outstanding despite some awkward writing
Review: There's some sappy narration here and King's annoying penchant for dropping pop culture references into his train of thought, but his imagination has never been more vivid than in this near- exhausting adventure. Perhaps the best end of the world story in 20th popular fiction, it's filled with a boat load of memorable characters. (Tom Cullen the mentally challenged man with the mind of a child remains my favorite). Stick with the longer 1000 plus page rewrite for more depth and insight into the cast's motives. You won't easily forget this entertaining and often overly wicked epic. For a large book, the story moves quite fast, tho' you may want to savour the experience over a satisfying two week stretch, to really let it sink into you. An amazing piece of work in what should be just a mindless genre...
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Summary: Definately Stephen King's Best Ever!
Review: Before reading this book, you should read Earth Abides. That book is similar in that it deals with a band of survivors after a world holocaust. That book had great characters and interesting plot. This book goes way beyond and has a long laundry list of interesting and memorable characters (laws yes!). Don't be intimidated by the sheer size of the book. The book wastes no page and even people that get wiped out at the beginning of the book from the super virus, are interesting. I never zipped through of book this large so fast. This book has the ultimate showdown between good and evil that had me cheering out loud even though I was reading the book on a crowded subway train and getting strange stares!
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Summary: Unbelievable
Review: I'm not much of a writer but I just have to put in my 2 cents. This is by far the best book I have ever read. If your into King then you've probably already read this, if not make it your next read. And if your not a big King fan I would still say make it your next read.
I guarantee you will not regret it
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Summary: It's all for you
Review: This is a great novel. Do not be afraid of it because of its size. The Stand and It rank even with my all time favorite reads. This book is a classic struggle between good and evil and it shows so many sides of gray in between. King takes a possible future and a stranger from another dimension, puts them together and gives you one wild ride.
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Summary: Great Start + Unsatisfying Finish=Mostly Fun Ride
Review: In "the Stand", my favorite King novel, the master of modern day horror has fun going apocalyptic on the United States and slowly (and semi-successfully) rebuilds it into two camps: a good one in Colorado and an evil one in Vegas. For a 1,000+ page book, its really a page-turner and I found it gripping throughout most of the book. It does, however, lose a little of its magic towards the end. King gets off to a great start before seeming to lose the thread of where to go. It leads to an unsatisfying ending (I didn't appreciate the cliched horror-movie device of having the villian killed but not really die a la Freddie Krueger/Mike Myers/Jason Vorhees). Still, "The Stand" is a mostly engaging read that is worth the ride.
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