The Stand: Complete and Uncut

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Summary: Absolutely, positively the BEST book I've ever read.
Review: What can I say that hasn't already been said about "The Stand?" I read a lot of books, it is my favorite hobby! I read this book for the first time many years ago, the cut version, and have read it again and again, cut and uncut! After 1,135 pages, I wanted more!! The ultimate "book review", if you ask me! I keep a well worn version by my bed, if I don't have a new book, I pick it up, let it fall open to whatever page it will, and I am instantly engrossed. I also take it with me whenever I travel, so maybe (hopefully) my seatmate and I can have a great conversation! (Try it, it works!) Please do yourself a favor and read this one

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Summary: A story so believable, that it COULD happen!
Review: For a book written twenty years ago, and republished uncut seven years ago, it is perhaps one of the most imaginable novels ever written. A great story that has compelling characters (Stu, Larry, Randall Flagg, et al), a flawless plotline that is King's version of the Book of Revelations, and just when the situation is at its bleakest, good overcomes. Never have I read a book that constantly makes me find out more each time I read it...something new sticks out. Many of the characters actually became my friends as I read---Mother Abigail, Larry, Stu,Harold, Glen, Ralph, and many many others---and I CARED about what happened to them. For Harold, I felt pity for a boy who is mislead, for Mother Abigail, I felt love..When Larry, Glenn, Ralph, and Stu begin their walk---knowing that one of them won't make Vegas, I was concerned. For Mr. King to evoke emotions as vivid as these from me throughout the reading is a God given gift...not many authors can do such a thing

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Summary: King's Best Work Ever, Without a Doubt!
Review: I first read this book 5 years ago and have read it at least 15 times since. It gets better every time. THE STAND is clearly King's best work to date

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Summary: My favorite by SK
Review: and I've read them all. I've read The Stand several times and it never fails to mesmerize. The best of all his books.

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Summary: King's best!!
Review: I had to read this book for a school book report... I thought I would hate it, but then I found myself up way past curfew, on a school night, unable to stop. I haven't read the uncut edition, but I am currently looking for it. I am a huge fan of Stephen King's and I found all his other books to be tame compared to "The Stand"... Keep up the good work, Mr. King!! I can't wait to read "Desperation" and its companion book

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Summary: Without a doubt one of the best books ever written.
Review: J.R.R. Tolkien, Edgar Allen Poe, Clive Barker and any other writer of horror and fantasy pale in comparison to Stephen King's masterpiece The Stand. Not only is it a great book, with a chilling plot and characters so real you can almost feel what they're going through, but The Stand is so scary because the events are so realistic that you can't help but wonder "Could this really happen?" The apocalyptic battle of good versus evil has never been so clearly dis- played as Stephen King has done so with The Stand. If you've never read a Stephen King book in your life, I highly recommend you read this one. I can guarantee that once you read this book you will be hooked on Stephen King for life.

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Summary: kings best book yet
Review: 1100 pages of nonstop reading once you start reading this book you wont be able to put it down. a classic epic style book that will keep you turning the pages night after nigh

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Summary: The Odyessy? The Illiad? No, The Stand! Classic fantasy!
Review: When the pages of my paperback are so worn, and the title practically unreadable due to being handled so many times by so many people, I know the book is a major hit! My family and friends have all read "my copy" of "The Stand" and have returned it to me promptly after reading because they know I could never part with this book! It's frayed; it's yellow and it's mine! I want, no, I need, Mr. King to sign this book! I have never read a book prior to "The Stand" or since, that has kept me so involved with the the characters, the plot and the outcome. I've read it only five times now and I'm about to start again. Can't wait! I hope this book will be placed on the "required reading" list in schools throughout the US. It's as much a classic as the Odyessy and the Illiad!

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Summary: Have a cold? -- Put it down, if you can....
Review: If you are not a Stephen King fan, you will be after you finish this one! I have been a fan for years, starting with Carrrie, and did not think that The Shinning, or Salem's Lot would ever be topped, but I was so involved in the story line of The Stand, that when I took a break to check on my baby, I was almost panicked when I could hear no sounds from outside the house. We lived in the country but there were no lawnmowers, tractors or even cars sounding outside, and to make matters worse, I had a cold. Was I living a nightmare? Had Captain Tripps really made his way across the world? I have read both versions of The Stand and though I have never again felt that same sense of living what I just read, I have enjoyed the caracters and still can't accept the death of some of them. The sleeping baby that I went to check on is now 19 years old, but I can still remember my relief that he still had a world to grow up in, and I wonder what kind of world was there for babies of the survivors in The Stand

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Summary: Captivating...spellbinder.....couldn't put it down!!!
Review: As usual Stephen King finds a way to keep me glued to the pages. His use of good vs evil, while not a new topic, is masterfully twisted and one can't help but be pulled along with the characters on their journey. I just wonder where Flagg will next appear! ;-