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Summary: started as one of Kings best but it couldent keep up.
Review: this book started as one of kings best. When I say started you must understand i mean the first 200 pages,this book is over 1000 pages long.to make this quick all i got to say is this was a good solid book but it easily could of been better.four stars is good (in fact very good) but certain things stoped this from being five stars. great characters, good story, but the best feature was that flagg is the ageless stranger from the dark tower.
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Summary: I loved The Stand.
Review: The Stand was one of the best books the Master of Horror has ever written. There are only two books I have read by him that top it: Pet Semetary and `Salem's Lot.
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Summary: The King Makes a Stand (and What a Big Stand It Is!)
Review: Man, I would have given this book 10 stars but I was only allowed to 5! I remember my brother reading this book when I was in the fourth grade. It was the only thing I had ever seen him read and he read it with such intensity. 5 years later I picked it up at one o'clock in the morning. In bed, I read the prologue and had to close the book. The prologue freaked me out. It freaked me out so much that I didn't touch the book for a year. I didn't touch the book because it was bad, gosh no! I couldn't touch the book because just the prologue scared me! A year later I picked it up again. I started it saying to myself, "My God! This book is long! Will I ever finish it?" To make a very long story short, I did finish it. And when I finished it, I just wanted more. His description is like none I have ever seen. His character detail is awesome. No novel in the wold can compare to this novel. Good Vs. Evil have been pushed into a fanatastic novel for all. This was my first King novel and it made me read about 9 others. This is my favorite book ever!
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Summary: This is King at his greatest!!
Review: The Stand is an excellent book, and I recommend it to anyone who enjoys Stephen King. This book is different from most of his others therefore it makes it even more interesting. So anybody who is contemplating whether or not to purchase this book I recommend that you do!!
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Summary: By Far The Best Stephen King Novel!
Review: This is by far the best Stephen King novel in my opinion. Definitely one that all King fans should read, and even non King Fans!
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Summary: This book is a wonderful modern-day myth
Review: The stand is a wonderful modern end of the world myth. It entraps one in the story and will not let one go. One begin to care about the characters with the many subplots, drawing one in ever closer to the events within the leaves of the book. With each passing page one's intrest grows exponentialy, so that by the end of the 1000 + pages one is still not ready for it to end. The many pages of the book fly by with unbelievable speed so do not be discouraged by the length. I would throughly recommend this book.
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Summary: I love it!!!
Review: This is classic King all the way. The kind of book that grabs from the beginning and keeps drawing you in. Very well written. If you like King you'll love this one.
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Summary: Overrated
Review: The enthusiastic response of a number of King fans on-line persuaded me to give it a chance, but I have to say I don't get it. To start with the most obvious problem, it's far too long. Maybe it would have been better had King started AFTER the plague, since the point of the book surely isn't the disease but the reorganization of society afterward. A really detailed look at that scenario might have been interesting, but a lot of central points are either ignored or glossed over. In contrast to the pre-plague U.S., for example, race seems to be a non-issue; there seems to be only one black here, the Ratman, and he's a freak, and I recall only one Jew. Then there are the characters, which are never really King's strong point. I think a few in The Stand work (Tom Cullen, Trashcan Man, Lloyd Henreid). Overall, though, King relies far too heavily on regional generalizations and stock character types here instead of specifics that would breathe some life into them. A symptom of that is that the dialogue is so often stilted -- only in a King novel would "good riddance to bad rubbish" qualify for a prolonged belly laugh. Other points: There are strands of plot that go nowhere (in the end, the Free Zone learns nothing from the spies who go west); too much space is devoted to blow-by-blow accounts of committee meetings and too little describing Flagg's society, and when we meet some of those people, most turn out to be pretty much the same as the people in the Free Zone. Not a very satisfying confrontation after such a lengthy buildup. Bottom line: Too much verbiage, not enough craft. (Can a guy who turns out such a sheer volume of words every year really have time for substantial rewrites?)
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Summary: Does it get any better than this?
Review: This has to be one of my favorite books of all time (with King's 'The Wastelands' as a close second). The characters were fabulously described and very realistic. The plot was just as incredible. But the best thing about this book, I'd have to say, is Glen Bateman's comment to Flagg... "Why don't you go find yourself a nice big sandpile, a hammer..." M-O-O-N, that spells Captain Trips! (You'll have to read the book to really get what I mean.)
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Summary: Read it
Review: This is the first book I ever read that caused me to have dreams about the subject. This book is a must for everyone.
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