The Stand
A Fantasy, Dystopia, Classics book. Life was such a wheel that no man could stand upon it for long. And it always, at the end,...
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- Pages: 1,327 pages
- ISBN: 9780340951446 / 340951443
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And when there are enough outsiders together in one place, a mystic osmosis takes place and you're inside. Stephen King, The Stand Superstition, like true love, needs time to grow and reflect upon itself. Stephen King, The Stand Life was such a wheel that no man could stand upon it for long. And it always, at the end, came round to the same place again. Stephen King, The Stand
One of the reasons why I would never club Stephen King together with any of the other best-selling writers of his generation (Grisham, Archer, Patterson, Sheldon and so on) is this :-None of them match King's calibre as a story-teller. They don't even come close.If somebody spins an intriguing tale, his characters get in the way of... Originally written in the late 1970s with a lot of pessimism in the air, the revised and rather massive 'original' version published in 1990 might meet the mood of the late naughties just as well.This book is why King will never be 'great' but will always be read - like Conan Doyle. This has all the King themes except for the clowns,... Sorry, but I can't, in good conscience, hand out anything less than 5 stars. Even though there were a few parts that aggravated me (mostly in book 3), the good far exceeded the bad. It took me nearly three weeks to read this 1153 page monster, and amazingly I was never bored with it. Such an epic tale, biblical in scope, with some truly...