The Stand: Expanded Edition: For the First Time Complete and Uncut (Signet)
by Stephen King
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Author: Stephen KingEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Published: 1991-05-07
ISBN: 0451169530
Number of pages: 1141
Publisher: Signet
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Book Review: Introduced to Stephen King with this book
Summary: 5 Stars
I picked this book up after enjoying the genre from Robert McCammon in Swan Song. I thought The Stand started off slow, but kept reading. Glad I did. Turned into my all time favorite book. I read the original version 6 times over the years. This version, I read 4 times. The movie version of The Stand was long, but worth it, and have watched it numerous times. Gary Sinise was great. King turned me into a fan with The Stand and I am a Constant Reader.
Summary of The Stand: Expanded Edition: For the First Time Complete and Uncut (Signet)
In 1978, science fiction writer Spider Robinson wrote a scathing review of The Stand in which he exhorted his readers to grab strangers in bookstores and beg them not to buy it.The Stand is like that. You either love it or hate it, but you can't ignore it. Stephen King's most popular book, according to polls of his fans, is an end-of-the-world scenario: a rapidly mutating flu virus is accidentally released from a U.S. military facility and wipes out 99 and 44/100 percent of the world's population, thus setting the stage for an apocalyptic confrontation between Good and Evil.
"I love to burn things up," King says. "It's the werewolf in me, I guess.... The Stand was particularly fulfilling, because there I got a chance to scrub the whole human race, and man, it was fun! ... Much of the compulsive, driven feeling I had while I worked on The Stand came from the vicarious thrill of imagining an entire entrenched social order destroyed in one stroke."
There is much to admire in The Stand: the vivid thumbnail sketches with which King populates a whole landscape with dozens of believable characters; the deep sense of nostalgia for things left behind; the way it subverts our sense of reality by showing us a world we find familiar, then flipping it over to reveal the darkness underneath. Anyone who wants to know, or claims to know, the heart of the American experience needs to read this book. --Fiona Webster
It's the end of the world...
as only Stephen king could imagine it.
Humanity has been all but wiped out by a lethal virus. But the survivors are divided by light and darkness, and must face a final battle that will decide the fate of more than their lives: their very souls...
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