Stephen King: The Stand, the Dark Half (Complete and Uncut, the Dark Half/Boxed Set)

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Summary: SCARY, EXCITING, AND INTRIGUING
Review: I'd like to say that I agree with the reader from Pittsburg "What's going on in this man's head". His appearance is enough to make one wonder about him. He looks extremely strange. I've studied his picture on the back of the covers of a few of his books and he always looks the same, SCARY! I didn't read Carrie as did the other reader, but I did see the movie as a child. It was televised so there were probably some things cut out, anyway that was pretty scary for a little kid to be watching and even today I can't get her face out of my head and the ending when the whole house was swallowed up into the ground. I assumed growing up in Christian environment that it had descended into Hell. If I'm not wrong I think Sissy Spacek played the part of Carrie. I thoroughly enjoyed The Stand and The Dark Half. I was so scared while reading The Stand that everytime someone sneezed or coughed I looked at them funny and I couldn't read it once it got dark because I was afraid of the guy who would turn into the black bird and I wouldn't close my eyes in the shower. Through all this you'd think I would put this book down, but I couldn't, I just had to know what happened on the next page. The same thing with The Dark Half except I don't remember being afraid to read it at night, probably because I was living with a boyfriend at the time. When the movie came out I could hardly wait to get to the theather only to be very, disappointed. They left so many things out, and believe me I knew everything that was supposed to happen and when it didn't I was upset! Almost through the whole movie, I kept saying Hey, that's not the way it's supposed to be and Hey What about!...The Stand was better on screen, maybe because it was two video tapes. But I hated that I now had a face to put on that guy!! Needful Things was also a disappointment for me at the movies. It seems that all the Steven King novels that I've read, then watched was a disappointment to me. So I figure if I read it I won't watch or watch it don't read it.

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Summary: King reaches new levels of imagination with The Stand
Review: The Stand is a book that will take its place in your heart as a timeless favorite to be read and reread,never ceasing to thrill and excite you.Such work is never to be recreated by an author as yet.This book is Stephen King's unnatainable imagination at its fullest example.The charcters will make you smile,cringe,and pray(with or against them is your decision).You love them,you hate them,but they are so incredibly real and vivid I would not be surprised to meet any one of them on the street.You can identify with each and every one of them, even if the content which they endure is unfamiliar to you.What is different about King's work here is,though his imagination has gone wild once again,this time it has created an elaborate scheme that is so extreme,impossible,yet plausible,the fear lies not in strange beings from another planet or creatures with unusual powers,but in the very existence of the classic battle between good and evil.Throughout the entire book,you find yourself joining the characters in their struggle for the survival of existence.You turn each of the 1,128 pages in excitment,anxiety and fear,unable to look away.This book is the reason Stephen King will forever be remembered as the master of horror,and one of the most brilliantly insane and imaginative authors of all time.

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Summary: The Stand Uncut is the best novel of its kind.
Review: The Stand Uncut is really good for it has pages never before read and well worth the read. Trust me!!!! Dark Half is an awesome book with psychological twists and turns in every page of the novel. It deals witht the reality that there could possibly be a dark half for all of us. It also deals with the possible concept of abnormal behaviour