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Summary: A comment about the "conflict"...
Review: I've actually written a review for this book before, but I felt compelled to get something else off my chest.After reading some other reviews I noticed some were talking about the conflict that never really came. The back of the book describes the coming battle as "The last titanic struggle between good and evil for the mastery of the world." Well, maybe there is a point there. I've lent the book to a couple of other people and they both thought it ended too abuptly. There is a huge buildup to...something. I have to admit, the outcome was different to the titanic struggle I was expecting. I think the book might have been better if events had turned out the way Trashcan Man dreamed they would when he was travelling West: a dark army on its way to Boulder, killing, enslaving and burning, before seizing the rest of the world. Now THAT sounds like the conflict. But then, the book would have been twice as long. If King really wanted to indulge, he could have made this book into a series that went for years. Remember, the above-mentioned conflict was Trashcan's dream. You may also remember Harold Lauder had a prophetic dream about his own fate. A dream about a ravine(p708). Did King make the wrong dream come true? It's all academic anyway. "The Stand" is still my favourite Stephen King novel.
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Summary: A masterpiece.
Review: This was one of the first Stephen King books I read. I remember looking at the thick book and thinking, "I'll never get through this". As it turned out, I read it in two days. The story was spellbinding and extremely entertaining. I've read it 3 times now and each time, I see something I missed the first time around. I fully recommend this book to everyone.
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Summary: a little long
Review: could have better if it just wouldn't have drug on and on, but in all a pretty good book
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Summary: The Cut Version Was Better
Review: I'd give the original (judiciously edited) version 5 stars, this one four. The uncut version drags -- a few times I found myself wanting to give up on the rest of the book. I don't remember feeling that way at all when I read the edited version, about 15 years ago. King spends way too much, for instance, on Franny's inner thoughts and on the old Granny's character development. It's not thoughtful writing, either -- you feel like King's just on autopilot in these parts.
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Summary: My Favorite King Tale!
Review: What can we say about Stephen King... He is out there, and so am I, because I just love him. This book takes a very possible situation, "biological warfare", and weaves a nerve wracking tale. It's a great book. (The TV adaptation was pretty good too.)
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Summary: My all time favorite book
Review: Don't let the length of this book stop you from reading it. This book is amazing. The stand is a novel about a plague that wipes out over 99 % of the worldd population. The survivors then regroup and then fight an ultimate battle between good and evil. In the stand, Stephen King shows how he can create characters that seem real. It may take you a while, but read this book. You will be glad that you did!
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Summary: Should be a modern classic; King's best book
Review: I'm actually surprised that it made it so far up on my list, but this book ranks #3 on my list of favorite books, and it's well deserved. This is one of the greatest novels ever written and I think that were it not written by Stephen King, more people would think so. It's a battle between good and evil, heaven and hell (literally.) The devil, in the form of Randall Flagg is trying to destroy what remains of humanity after a superflu took care of 99.9% of them. There is so much humanity in this book and such a riveting story.
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Summary: The best book in the whole wide world!
Review: This book is amazing! It's like a very long adventure you can't bear to put down. There were a few paragraphs here and there that I had to skim out of boredom, I will admit, but it was only so I could get on to the rest of it. The characters are so alive and so easy to identify with, you can almost see your neighbors in their places. It's such an intricate book, it draws you in to its world. The ending deflates the rest of the book, and in this case, the means justifies the end but it sure is worth it. The movie wasn't too bad, but the book is much better!
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Summary: Even if you read the original, read this
Review: The Stand was always my favorite Stephen King book. There is so much more in the unabridged version, so I certainly don't regret buying another copy. If you didn't read the original, this is one of those complex stories in which the lives of many people come together and you just can't wait to see what happens on the next page! You can't guess what is going to happen next, but it all fits in so very well. Don't watch the mini-series! Read the book.
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Summary: Very Good
Review: I liked this book I lot, although I was skeptical at first. It seemed a little too long to hold my attention, but I ended up loving it. Also, I just wanted to comment that the person claiming to be Stephen King didn't even spell the name right, he wrote Steven. And it was right on the page too.
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