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Summary: outSTANDing
Review: The Stand (uncut) is perhaps the best King book I've read, to date. I don't know where the 400 pages which didn't make it into the original were culled from as the entire storyline was necessary. My only complaint is that I do think this book should have been even longer.... we seemed to rush to the conclusion after the nuclear apocalypse, when clearly, there was more social commentary which could have been done. Like Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" I will read this book several more times to fully grok it.
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Summary: It "Stands" The Test of Time
Review: I first read this book when it was published approximately 22 years ago. Prior to picking up the un-cut version and [after all of this time], I would recall scenes from the story as if I had read it just yesterday. This is a mark of an exceptional story (let alone author).While in the process of re-reading the new un-cut version, I find that I am again captured by the same intense emotion that I experienced 22 years ago. Personally, if you have not read any version of this story, I would highly recommend it. It's definitely a good read! I hope the following comments will help: 1. Be patient while Mr. King introduces and establishes the characters (for there are many). You'll be thankful he took the time. 2. The reader must accept and believe in the [ongoing] spiritual war between good and evil (and understand what that means). The Walking Man is more than a commercialized, prepackaged "devil". 3. Reflection is key. The complete horror is not handed to the reader on a silver platter. It's when you are able to make the connections to what is familiar that it becomes truly scary. 4. Don't become overly analytical. That can spoil any book (or anything else in life for that matter)!
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Summary: A Worthy Recommendation!
Review: This book is excellent. It started out slow, so that you can understand where things started, and then the juicy parts progressed! For anyone who calls this boring, you must not have an imagination! I couldn't put it down, it kept me on the edge and wanting more. I had chills when the characters began to take a stand against evil! This book was not only imaginative, but very spiritual. It made me think about how the world would be if a plague came over us. I got so into it and became really emotional and sympathetic towards the characters. This book is highly recommended by me!
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Summary: Definately read this book!
Review: I thought that this book was really well written. It is the first Stephen King book I have read, so I couldn't say it was the best one he wrote. I thought that Mother Abigal was a good character to put as the ultimate "good" because she has out-lived everyone she has ever know, been around long enough to know how people feel on the inside (like Harold), and just feels like she is someone that you could trust with anything. Like I said, it is the first Stephen King book I have read, but I plan to read a lot more!
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Summary: A voyage in the chill of King's imagination
Review: When I first opened the book,and read the first 30 pages,I didnt think much of it..But then,a drape lifted slowly,and I began to see Kings genious looming ..This book begins with the simplest of plots,and then starts twisting and turning until you cant give it up.The characters are real in every detail,the plot winds up perfectly and the reader after more or less of 12 hours of realises that he is REALLY scared.(Especially if he has a cold ..hahaha)..I strongly recommend this book to everyone.It is a tale of supernatural...realism! If you havent read it yet,do yourself a favor and read it!
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Summary: A great Read
Review: Wow...this is the type of Epic story you will read over and over again. I know i loved the characters, I needed to spend more time with every one of them. This is a masterpiece. Every two or three years pull this book out and enjoy it again. What we have is plague that will end the world. A small percentage of the population is immune to it and survive. Needless to say soem are good some are bad. So we have the old fashioned Good vs. Evil except in this case Stephen King adds a hell of a twist. Please read it, don't be worried about the size of the book, it's not as bad as you think and you will want more, I promise you will!
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Summary: Epic story, brilliantly told.
Review: Sure, this book is long, but there's very little wasted space. The final hundred pages or so might have been shortened just a little, but basically, everything King has put into this massive work belongs there; to cut it would be a crime. This is a different sort of horror story; the horror is a man-made one. Here we have King exploring the extent to which the human race can be its own worst enemy, as well as its own best friend. Normally I don't much care for the "Hand of God" sort of ending, but this is fantasy; anything can happen. You bleed for these people as they suffer through the grim sequence of events; watching their friends, neighbors, and loved ones die by the millions; feeling alone and devastated; gradually finding each other and trying to regain some reason for hope. By the way, this made a pretty darn good miniseries; I was quite surprised how faithfully the book was adapted to television. I don't know if I would call this King's masterpiece - he really is at his very best with out-and-out horror stories - but this is certainly a rich, powerful, and very moving human story, very much worth reading (and please, read the complete version).
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Summary: Stephen King: The Greatest
Review: I'll only take few words for this thing. This book have been part of my life in 1997 happy new year's party. I was celebrating the new year coming and just twenty minutes after the fireworks, I was back to the book. I think this book is the greatest one I could ever read. I would like to know Stephen King. I'm already in Venezuela and I'm expecting to get New York at the summer time. If this meeting is not possible, I'll be glad to receive a mail from him.
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Summary: Stand (by what you believe)
Review: There are two ways to read this book: 1) As a great, epic story with rich characters, a catchy plotline and a brilliant basic idea. 2) As just another dull, unimaginative preaching about how we must make sacrifices for the good to win. Now that I've read The Stand twice, I'm almost ready to agree with the latter opinion. Almost. The problem is, even if the philosophical side of the book is pure nonsense, I can't deny the strength of the plot, the writing, the ideas. This is a real magnum opus, something that many authors want to write but only few ever will. King had the guts to do it, and he did it well. That's worth a little respect. Still, the end, the last few hundred pages... Like King had decided to re-write Lord Of The Rings - badly. The stupid concept of those four guys _having_ to go out to Las Vegas and get themselves killed, because THAT IS WHAT GOD WANTS THEM TO DO. My rational mind says that for the author, this is just an easy way out. King couldn't solve the problem in any less awkward way. Or if he didn't want to, that would make it all the worse. The end could spoil the whole book, if King hadn't saved a last little cynical surprise for the very last pages. After the apocalypse, the Good People of America start doing it all over again, building the same society that basically led to that apocalypse. I think that's quite refreshing. Call me a cynic, because that's what I am. The Stand isn't maybe the book for a cynic, but it _is_ a significant piece of literature. Maybe not in terms of style or technique, but in terms of sociological and political vision, certainly.
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Summary: King outdoes himself with The Stand!
Review: Stephen King is masterful and this is his best novel ever. It is the ultimate novel of horror and terror because it could really happen in the end times of Armageddon! Superbly written!
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