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Summary: Best ever
Review: I have only read 6 King books but I don't see how anything can be this good. I like these Dark Tower books a bunch too. He needs to hurry up with those. Anyway, a must read book and a must see movie.
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Summary: Go Out and Buy This Book!!!
Review: Go out and buy this book. In all honesty, I would have read 2000 pages! I couldn't put it down! Make time to read The Stand and you'll gain all sorts of insights into the human soul and the power of faith (whether or not that faith is misplaced). I was blown away by the honesty, truth and humanity of the characters. Nobody's perfect; but anyone can change (if they want to, if they believe...). Pay special attention to the characters of Tom Cullen and Mother Abagail. On the surface of the story, they are both represented as weak and feeble. Tom because he's retarded, Mother because she's old. As the story expands and deepens from individual situations to the human situation, we see Tom and Mother Abagail's power!! Neither can be shaken from their path. They are the true heros of this story!!! Stephen King is a excellent and descriptive writer. I really FELT this book...
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Summary: Still King's best long work
Review: Although one of his earlier works, The Stand continues to be one of Stephen King's best. King masterfully fuses two great themes: the elemental struggle between good and evil and the fear of rampant technology so prevalent in science fiction. As a technologically engineered plague kills millions of Americans, the survivors answer the call of the evil Dark Man or of God's chosen, Mother Abigale. King chronicles both groups' efforts to survive, and thrive, in a world of corpses, dormant machines, and uncertainty. Interestingly, King chooses not to end The Stand with the clash between good and evil, but with the possibility of the human race's redemption in the form of a plague-immune baby, and with the continuance of evil in a new(?) Dark Man. The one drawback to The Stand is that it is long, and thus it is easy to forget important character elements that surface several hundred pages later. My solution to that problem has been to read The Stand 4 times in the last 5 years. It continues to amaze me.
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Summary: Lame
Review: I agree with another reviewer. The beginning was good. Then it just gets lost in an extremely unoriginal "good vs. evil" storyline. Boring characters gather on each side, and then a lot of them die for no clear reason. And of course, good triumphs in one of the lamest endings I have ever read.
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Summary: This is THE Stephen King Novel
Review: If I had to stranded on a desert island, this is the one book I'd take with me. It is the possibly the best work Stephen King has ever done. Truly a masterpiece of modern writing!
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Summary: Long, weak, but philosophical
Review: Many readers don't like the ending. Many say the story is weak. But at the end, you have to admit it leaves you pondering. I have not read too many Stephen King books, parts of "Christine", and parts of "Misery". This one I read in its entirety. It has a very philosophical angle. The message is very subtle but very definite.
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Summary: M-O-O-N, that spells "Great Read!"
Review: The Stand...so many different feelings arise from within me when I even think about this book. This was probably the first book that made me sit down and seriously decide I wanted to become a writer. Stephen King is an awesome author and fills this book chock-full of some of the most memorable characters ever imagined. Trash Can Man, Stuart Redman, Larry Underwood...can you get any deeper than these characters? King spins a tale in which the reader is not just one character, but gets a chance to become all of them...he allows one to become engrossed within them. Anyone I've ever encountered who read the book has loved it, and has always wanted more. Anyone who has thought otherwise just didn't get it, didn't want to get it, or hasn't grown out of Hardy Boys mysteries.
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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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