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Summary: BEST BOOK EVER WRITTEN
Review: I thought this book was incredible. The characters are so real, and the whole plot seems very believable. In fact, I wuldn't be surprised if the government actually has a Superflu-esque virus just waiting for someone to release it. Lets just hope that if and when it happens Randall Flagg doesn't show up.(Because he is the most real of all
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Summary: Captain Trips Rules
Review: The best book I have ever read...21 times so far.
Isn't this the oldest story ever told? But what a new way to illustrate the struggle between good and evil, what a warning of what might happen if one does not choose the right side to be on when all is said and done. King's characters literally live and breathe on the pages, and are so real, that when friends and I discuss them, others think we are talking about friends whom we have in common. And doesn't King cleverly weave thse characters into our emotions so well that they do indeed become friends and heros and enemies to us?
But that is what Stephen king does, steps right into our living rooms (or wherever we read our treasures) and engages us for a time, pulling us into his incredible worlds adn then releases us changed; we have different ideas, new people in our lives, and maybe, in the case of The Stand, new warnings to heed.
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Summary: I will try not to reiterate what has been said...
Review: Many people have commented on the immense length
of Stephen King's book, while that may be true The Stand has much going on, so much that it could
not be described in a smaller space. Though I was
disapointed with the oddly anti-climatic ending.
It is an excellent book but I felt it could have gone more into the civilization that develops and the evolution of politics and government after the incident. If you are going to read The Stand, don't cheat yourself, read the uncut version.
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Summary: Re-read The Stand
Review: This is one of my favorite stories of all time
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Summary: I LOVE THE STAND!!!!!!
Review: This book is a masterpiece and should be next to the mona lisa! Stephen King has out done himself. I'm thirteen and read this book in less than a month. because I could not put it down. It may be long but it will be the best book you ever read in your life. It has the classic struggle between good and evil tied in with an awsome group of well written charecters and plot. if you want to read a book that you can't put down till you finish read the stand cause once you start you wouldn't stop till you finish or drop.
-H
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Summary: The book that history will judge Stephen King's work by.
Review: The book is a little deceiving at first, because it is esentially divided into two completely different stories, with two different themes, and two different outcomes. The first part of the book is about death, and the second is about life.
The first half of the book is possibly the best piece of work by Stephen King, and one of the greatest piece of horror writing ever. Put aside the vampires, telekenetic teens and possessed cars...this story is scarier because the monster is the most realistic of all and we created it. Mankind is helpless in the face of the most terrible horror imaginable, and the reader is left with nothing but despair.
The second half of the book is different in that the old monster disapears and a new monster arises, but this time a more Biblical one. While the first half of The Stand dealt with mankind's helplessness against impossible odds, the second half is more uplifting, telling the story of how mankind comes together, fights back, and makes their Stand.
I've always been disapointed by the ending, which I felt to be anti-climatic and a little contrived. But the entire work is brilliant and contains all of King's narrative styles and character descripitions. As in most King stories, the story is not about evil, but how we react when we face evil. In the midst of the most horrifying evil that mankind is most likely to actually face, King gives an uplifting tale of the strength, and weakness, of the human spirit.
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Summary: An Epic tale of good and evil struggle for the new order
Review: The final showdown between who will ultimatley rule the earth. It seems to parallell Lord of the Flies, in mankinds struggle to reform its norms and maxims. Most people do not support evil if it is defined as such. So the real struggle is to form the new new world order according to compassion and justice, not by giving in to our animal hedonism. In both the stand and Lord of the Flies, is it evil that will prevail or just that side of us that we try to suppress? The side of us that is not to far removed from our friends in the animal kingdom. Is the darkman evil, or is he simply Jack telling us it is OK to feel the animal side. The struggle of civilization vs nature? Or just another good verses evil? Read and decide. Great book
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Summary: AWESOME
Review: THIS BOOK WAS SPELLBOUNDING. I COULD NOT PUT IT DOWN. FROM THE
FIRST WORDS UNTIL THE LAST PAGE I FELT LIKE I WAS THERE. STEPHEN KING HAS A WAY WITH WORDS TO HOLD
YOU MESMERIZED IN HIS STORY. THE
IDEA OF GOOD VS. EVIL IS A FASCINATING
ARRAY OF HUMAN EXPERIENCES AND MAKES FOR GREAT READING. THIS BOOK
IS AWESOME. ONE I WON'T FORGET ANY
TIME SOON
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Summary: The best book I have ever read; a little bit of everything
Review: This book by Stephen King is one of the best in modern history. It starts off with a nanosecond of error in a government biochemical lab, and leads the reader through the hell of apocolypse as only Stephen King could tell it. After the few survivors gather together, they face a very real evil that threatens to consume them all. Told fromt the viewpoint of the few survivors, The Stand conveys very realistically the despair of thinking you are the only one left, and the joy of discovering you're not
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Summary: King at his best
Review: The book was intimidating at first with the length
being over 1000 pages. I figured it would take an
eternity. But I finished it in two weeks and loved
almost every minute. This is probably the best book I ever read (even though I am only 13)and one of the best books ever written. The chacters were better developed than any others. And King delivers
his own mix of suprises as usual.
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