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This was such a mixed experience for me hence the middle of the road rating. There were parts that I loved but other parts that fell flat. The things I loved were specific scenes so I won't go into detail here. The things I didn't love were more general so for example: I thought it was unnecessarily long and drawn out, some of the storytelling didn't work for me, overall the novel felt very scattered and disjointed. By the end I felt quite underwhelmed. I'm glad I read it but it's more in the se
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I’ve owned this book forever. But I had always skipped reading it for whatever reason. I’m not sure what I was expecting The Stand to be, but it wasn’t at all what I imagined. It’s kind of a religious (God and the devil) good versus evil story with the usual Stephen King character work, which is always excellent. This book doesn’t throw political crap at you left and right like he does now, so that was great. I ended up listening to the audio book rather than reading it, because I often have hou
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