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The Stand Paperback – August 7, 2012

by Stephen King (Author)

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Stephen King’s apocalyptic vision of a world blasted by plague and tangled in an elemental struggle between good and evil remains as riveting and eerily plausible as when it was first published.

A patient escapes from a biological testing facility, unknowingly carrying a deadly weapon: a mutated strain of super-flu that will wipe out 99 percent of the world’s population within a few weeks. Those who remain are scared, bewildered, and in need of a leader. Two emerge—Mother Abagail, the benevolent 108-year-old woman who urges them to build a peaceful community in Boulder, Colorado; and Randall Flagg, the nefarious “Dark Man,” who delights in chaos and violence. As the dark man and the peaceful woman gather power, the survivors will have to choose between them—and ultimately decide the fate of all humanity.

(This edition includes all of the new and restored material first published in The Stand: The Complete And Uncut Edition.)

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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 --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Survivors of a chemical weapon called superflu confront pure evil in this updated and even more massive version of King's 1978 saga. "The extra 400 or so pages . . . make King's best novel better still," said PW. " A new beginning adds verisimilitude to an already frighteningly believable story, while a new ending opens up possibilities for a sequel . "
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Paperback: 1200 pages
Publisher: Anchor; Reprint edition (August 7, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0307947300
ISBN-13: 978-0307947307
Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 2 x 8 inches
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After reading King for 40 years, The Stand is still one of my top 10 fiction reads!

ByP. E. Hallon December 22, 2016

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Ive been a Stephen King fan for 40 years. The Stand is and will remain my favorite of his books. I like all of them but I love a select few and The Stand is at the top of the list. If you are already a King fan and you haven't read The Stand, you'll love this book. The overall theme is Biblically related and he sticks close to details in well known Biblical stories. But, don't get me wrong, this is not "Christian Fiction". This is the best of Sci-Fi/Horror you'll find in King's books. The characters are fully developed and totally interesting. The dystopian story is compelling and believable. If you are a fan, since this is one of his earlier works, you'll see familiar types of characters, ie..Randy Flagg and Tom Collin. If you're a new King reader, you will get to know the characters and you'll care about them. This isn't a read in one sitting book. Rather, it is a day after day reading that you'll enjoy and hate to put down. Though some may say King is extremely verbose, I think his detailed telling of the story connects the reader to the characters like very few authors are able to do. This is my sixth reading of the book and the first time I listened to the audio book. It was just as good this time as the last. With a hour long ride to work and back, my time in the car seemed shorter because of the quality of the reader and the quality of the story.
I won't give away anything, I'll only say take your time and enjoy the ride with King's epic. I loved every word.

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Abridged Can Be Better

ByGail M. Epperson November 1, 2015

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I know the general consensus is that The Stand is King's masterpiece. But that would be the originally released, abridged version. As much as I love King's work, the extended length of this unabridged version, in parts, screams for editing. Some of it is, IMHO, blatant padding. I followed the reading by watching the TV miniseries again and despite my assessment of the book, I still found the film, even at 4 hours, too short. It's a balancing act, and neither form quite does the story full justice. The unabridged book spends too much time on the post-A-Bomb journey bringing Stu back to Boulder and beyond, and the film gives short shrift to the pre-apocalypse lives of the ultimate survivors, for example. In the book, the young boy Joe serves as a catalyst bringing Larry and his love interest together, but Joe is given so little screen time in the film that he seems to have no purpose at all. It's still a worthwhile read, even at this length, but it takes a lot of patience and you have to be prepared to wade through some potatoes to get to the meat.

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Good Overall Story

ByAmazon Customeron March 31, 2016

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The rating is based on the quality of the writing and the overall story, which is about an apocalypse, followed by the survivors choosing between good and bad and the societies they create. This weaves the overall framework for the book and keeps your attention. The ending is not the best, but, the story moves along so well, that you keep with it. As for the plot holes or story lines that ultimately go nowhere, the book is so long you have to think about it to remember such things. Still, it's a letdown to realize later that not everything was tied up.

Oh... and apparently King re-wrote the book - which originally came out in '78 - in the early nineties with updated references and like 300 pages that had been edited out. First of all, a lot of references don't fit and stick out like a sore thumbs. And second, I've never seen a "Director's Cut" that was better than the originally edited book or movie. Usually the expanded version is just extra fluff. The rating for this book might be better if I was reading the original... which I'd love to read if I could find it.

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Highly Recommended

ByAmazon Customeron December 28, 2016

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Its a long ride but well worth it. Clocking in at some 1,200 pages this book can be very intimidating. Stephen King paints a picture of a plague infested world and the events that conspire after the survivors are left. In it you get to know a couple handfuls of people, their lives, their passions, how they survived Captain Trips and how they grow and change throughout the book. There are times when Stephen Kings backstory for every character can be a bit drawn out, but I find in the end you're glad you knew those things about that character. You truly get to know the people in this book you appreciate that looking back some 500 pages ago. Look at where they are now. Look how they've change. Its one of the best books I've read in terms of character development. The story is just as good as well, hooking you in with a vision of what would happen if a super virus hit, the fallout from said super virus, how savage people can become, how we try to rebuild and how theres a dark wizard lurking about in people dreams, gathering people together, building an army, planning a war.

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A great post-apocalyptic tale

ByKarmalilyon March 1, 2015

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I'm a huge fan of the post-apocalyptic genre, and as a result I've read hundreds of books. Out of all of them, The Stand is one of the best. I was so hooked that I found myself hiding in dark corners at work so I could read a little more; I just had to know what would happen next.

At first the book follows the stories of individuals, the few people who have survived the superflu. It follows them as they try to figure out what to do in this new world. They are also discovering a new type of mysticism that has started to approach them in dreams.

As the stories go on, they begin to intertwine. Friendships are made, and people have to decide to take sides.

I can't praise King's character development enough. I felt as though I actually knew and understood each character. One of the reasons I couldn't stop reading is that I had to see where each character ended up.

I know this book is long, but I definitely recommend reading it. I have a feeling that I will be reading it again and again.

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