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Summary: My all-time favorite book
Review: I absolutely love this book. It is my favorite by far. If you have never read this book, I recommend it highly. I am sure most of you know the plotline since there was a movie but there is so much more to it then what was in the movie. By all means get this book!
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Summary: Kingly...
Review: A miracle of a book. For one thing, the story itself is a blast. You get pulled in right from the start. What a fun idea! The masterful device in this book is the creation of the Walkin' Dude. Any novelist who can make us believe so completely in evil embodied is a brilliant writer. He also does it in Salem's Lot,The Shining and It, but the Walkin' Dude is definitely his outstanding villain. You know what's really fun about Stephen King? He never ends. You can go back and re-read every story, and be enthralled all over again.
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Summary: Terrific suspense
Review: The Stand is a book for everyone. Fans of intense epics like The Triumph and the Glory or The Testament will like this book. People who liked The Devil's Teardrop will like this book. People who liked The Last Day or The Fist of God will like this book. The Stand has everything one could ask of a book. A vast range and scope of human emotion and experience is encapsulated into King's fiction, in a very eloquent manner. Don't miss this one, it is unforgettable.
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Summary: M-O-O-N, that spells "Not Recommended"
Review: I read The Stand (cut version) many years ago and liked it. I have just reread it again (uncut version) and can't see what it was I liked about it! First off this uncut version is nothing but pointless, useless detailed characterization. These 300+ pages didn't add a single positive to the overall story. And in fact in my opinion degraded it (if that is possible) A "bug" get loose and kills off 99% of world pop. The US survivors slowly find their calling either with the good guys in Boulder, Colo. or with the bad guys in Las Vegas. The whole story came off as inane and childish. The characters acted like a bunch of lame silly morons. Tacky. I know I personally would find watching everyone around me die horrible deaths and finding myself spared, quite humbling. I also would be extremely scared and dead serious. And why oh why would they(or God) choose Boulder, Colo.?, where you are snowed in half the year? Why not setup base in the SF Bay Area where there is mild weather, silicon valley, 3 airports, military bases, Berkeley U, Stanford U, Lawrence Livermore Lab., the Pacific ocean, shipping, San Joaquin Valley I mean come on get real! It started out fantastic but quickly deteriorated into a kiddy story. It should of been done in a more serious manner. I've never seen the movie but I can just imagine how hokey that is. I concur with all the other 1 & 2 star reviews. Hey, even Mr. King didn't care for it.
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Summary: If you have an imagination read on my friend, read on.
Review: You have heard of a book "...you just can't put down..."? Well, I'm going to tell you. I HAD to put this book down only so that I could check on the other people in the house. I was sucked into the story. The words flowed so well, it melded into my mind. It turned me into a not-entirely-invisible character in the story. Almost like writing yourself into the story in your mind as you read.
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Summary: Taking the Stand
Review: "The Stand," Stephen King's most ambitious work (Two, count 'em, two versions!) is also his very best. This novel defies categorizing. It is science fiction, it has mystical overtones, it is a "road" book. It is a commentary of the mother of sociological experiments. The subject of chemical warfare, paired with the all-too-real scenario of a plague being released as an accidental occurence, is horror at its most chilling. The mysticism of the evil Randall Flagg, that shape-changing purveyor of doom, will have you looking at crows differently forever. The fortitude of Mother Abigail is religious fervor-lite. The journeys, both literal and figurative, that the characters take are truly unforgettable. And the events that unfold which lead to the climax are both thought-provoking and riveting. While I am aware that this novel causes strong feelings in both the pro and con columns, to me it is one of the great works of this century.
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Summary: This is King's Best
Review: The survivors of a plague akin to the bubonic plague and the flu outbreak gather together in two locations. Boulder and Las Vegas. They were gathered by a dream. Thus starts Stephen King's The Stand. The Stand is like the most wonderful feast you could have. A little bit of everything all rolled up into one big wonderful meal. The Stand is a feast for your eyes, but mainly your mind. Its characters are unforgettable and the plot is frighteningly real.The New York Times sums it up quite nicely. "The Stand...has everything. "Adventure, romance, prophecy, allegory, satire, fantasy, realism, apocalypse. Great!"
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Summary: King can make the unbelievable, VERY believable!
Review: I'm sure you read it all before, plague wipes out 99.5% of the worlds population, leaving about 3,000,000 or so people on the earth. Eventually, those people are going to (get together.) In the story they wind up in Boulder, (all the good people) or Vegas, (all the damned people.) BUT, the only reason why this happened was because people were led to where they went by a higher power. Lets take away that higher power, and think what might actually happen when the dust clears! This is where this book captured my heart as the greatest work of fiction ever written. There is a conversation between a former college professor, (Glen Bateman, BA, MBA, MFA) and one of the lead charectors in the book, Stuart Redman. They meet on the road in New Hampshire, Glen is painting, Stu was walking from Vermont. MIND YOU, these two are meeting for the first time. Well, Bateman begins to tell a story, his theory on how certain (post-plague) communities will succeed and certain ones will fail in the post appocolypse. His theories were grounded with thought, and research. He described how two (hypothetical) communities, one in Boston, on (Beacon Hill,) and one in Utica, (living out of cans,) and how they interact with each other because one has technology and one doesn't. How anyone can look at the future, and predict PROBLEMS that do not exist right now, the way King can do, in his stories is amazing. There are no words the describe the depth that was added to this book to suspend your dis-belief! I (me personally) felt like I was reading a story IN a story. Even if you remove all of the (Dark-Christianity) from the story, the realism added to the book places you, (the reader,) as one of the post-plague survivers. Never before did I ever read such a log book, that I hoped would have been twice as long. Not a single loose end remained untied, not a single plot unexplained, everything came together in the end.
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Summary: Awesome!
Review: This book is amazing and everyone should get it. I just wanted to "stand" up to those people who say that it was slow-moving and the ones that say that the flu only wiped out the US. This book is great and the approach by seeing how people react and where or who they travel to, that is what makes it great (in my opinion). First of all the government "accidentally" releases the virus in other countries and the countries that are small have little if no survivors and i doubt that the few say Russians left would survive the winter because it is so cold in russia and such a big country. P.S. um and remember what happened at the end
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Summary: King at his Best
Review: I have read just about every Stephen King book written. This is my absolute favorite although the Gunslinger Series comes a very close second. I can't remember how many times I've read The Stand but each and every reading I find something new, something I didn't 'get' before. The plot twists and turns but not enough to confuse. Even tho the premise of the story in The Stand is not altogether original, only King can give characters such personality and memorability such as the slightly dim but totally loveable Tom (M-O-O-N that spells Tom), the absolutely terrifying Randall Flagg and The Trashcan Man (whom is almost as terrifying as Flagg but very very sad at the same time). The good guys are just as wonderful with a few love stories thrown in. The reader feels the end of the world, rides the King Wave of anxiety and fear about will everyone survive, will good win out over evil? King fans will shiver when they realize that Mr. Flagg appears in other books such as Needful Things and The Gunsliger Series. I cannot recommend this book enough and five stars is NOT enough - don't be afraid of the size of this book! You'll wish it would never end when you get to page 1000.
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