The Stand
Jun 2008 · Anchor
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#1 BESTSELLER • NOW A PARAMOUNT+ LIMITED SERIES • 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.
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years! This edition includes all of the new and restored material first published in The Stand: The Complete and Uncut Edition.
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.
"A master storyteller."—Los Angeles Times
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years! This edition includes all of the new and restored material first published in The Stand: The Complete and Uncut Edition.
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.
"A master storyteller."—Los Angeles Times
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4.7
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Joshua Clark
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August 10, 2016
A long winded and unoriginal trudge through a dying nineties US. Uninspired yet classic good vs evil storyline. A few good characters with interesting stories that unfortunately get pushed to the side for mundane average joe main characters. Also, the payoff was just terrible. May as well have done the "and then i woke up and it was all a dream".
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Bradley Gilmore
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April 28, 2016
"Star Wars is the greatest film series of all time." "Stephen King is the greatest author alive." These were things in my childhood that were just a matter of course. I wasn't much of a reader as a kid. But picked it up in my early twenties. For a long time 'The Stand' was always that one proportedly great book that I never got around to reading. Well I finally finished it and, it's magnificent. It absolutely belongs on the mantle with LoTR and ASoIaF. Just a near perfect masterpiece.
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Andre Michael Pietroschek
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June 23, 2018
The cliche good against evil story is a nigh ancient supposed masterpiece
by now. I think it is a clear warning that people who scored their only
real bestsellers in a bygone age should not be allowed to block the path
for the newer & deserving (and no, that does not include me)... Stephen
King was a big name, but that was more than twenty years ago, not one
success thereafter really made people rush through the area and discuss any
of it (Yeah, IT was a spooky clown back then).
7 people found this review helpful
About the author
STEPHEN KING is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes If It Bleeds, The Institute, Elevation, The Outsider, Sleeping Beauties (cowritten with his son Owen King), and the Bill Hodges trilogy: End of Watch, Finders Keepers, and Mr. Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and an AT&T Audience Network original television series). His novel 11/22/63 was named a top ten book of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. His epic works The Dark Tower, It, Pet Sematary, and Doctor Sleep are the basis for major motion pictures, with It now the highest grossing horror film of all time. He is the recipient of the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.
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