<![CDATA[The Stand (Expanded Edition)]]>

false <![CDATA[The Stand (Expanded Edition)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1213131305m/149267.jpg 149267 57 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 99.4% 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 [This is a different, expanded version of the 1978 novel.] 1742269 book 1978 The Stand (Expanded Edition) total:31456|5:15768|4:9811|3:4585|2:1000|1:292| 31456 134131 37357 2522 3 21 false false Sun Oct 21 23:16:35 -0700 2007 Sun Oct 21 23:42:22 -0700 2007
It's about almost everyone in the world basically catching a bad case of the Plague and dropping dead. This premise doesn't seem very far-fetched, which could make it either m...more...]]> 4 10 false false Fri Apr 25 08:33:33 -0700 2008 Fri Apr 25 08:36:38 -0700 2008
This book is why King will never be 'great' but will always be read - like Conan Doyle. Thi...more...]]> 5 11 false false Mon Jun 09 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jan 31 06:40:12 -0800 2008 Mon Jun 09 08:03:48 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 5 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Fri Mar 30 13:59:30 -0700 2007 Fri Mar 30 14:27:46 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 3 false false Thu May 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jan 31 14:28:15 -0800 2009 Sat May 16 00:42:54 -0700 2009 2 more...]]> 1 7 false true Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1992 Sun Nov 30 23:16:57 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 30 23:36:25 -0800 2008 This book is a classic re...more...]]> 5 3 false true Sat Sep 27 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 28 09:47:18 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 27 04:31:16 -0700 2008
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Sure, there are moments when the plot teeters on the edge of the campy horror flick chasm, but it never goes there. Instead, it falls into something much more human, with all its am...more...]]> 1 1 false false Wed Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Fri Jul 24 01:42:27 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 10 19:45:27 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 24 08:05:52 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 19 10:53:17 -0800 2009 I finally made it! I'm actually very grateful that I stuck with this one. It isn't a monumental work of great literature by any means, but I do think it's an example of very good storytelling. At first there were far too many characters to keep track of, and this threw me off quite ...more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Oct 15 00:45:52 -0700 2008 Thu Jan 08 22:22:37 -0800 2009 4-5 more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Jan 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Aug 20 06:25:33 -0700 2008 Wed Jan 07 09:37:18 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon May 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 09 10:57:53 -0700 2008 Wed May 20 12:34:50 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false true Tue Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 1978 Mon Mar 17 09:01:50 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 17 09:03:02 -0700 2008 It begins innocuously enough, with an army officer run...more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 04 11:52:51 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 09 13:08:07 -0700 2007 In the beginning of the book you were introduced to so many characters and it was a little hard to keep track, especially when he didn't paint any of them in a good light. B...more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Aug 31 12:40:42 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 31 13:28:44 -0700 2007 Good to know I'm not the only one.

This book was... most amazing, to say the least. The characters [as they are in all of King's stories] are very in-depth, and I becam...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=149267