The Stand
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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A monumentally devastating plague leaves only a few survivors who, in a desert world, experience dreams of excellent and evil in confrontation and, through their choices, go toward an actual confrontation.Amazon.com Review
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 like it or despise it, but you can’t snub it. Stephen King’s most well loved book, according to polls of his fans, is an end-of-the-world scenario: a rapidly mutating flu virus is accidentally unrestricted 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 Excellent and Evil.
“I like 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 ruined in one stroke.”
There is much to admire in The Stand: the plain 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 bottom. Anyone who wants to know, or claims to know, the heart of the American experience needs to read this book. –Fiona Webster
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Excellent GOD! This book is stupid. It’s long, drawn out, dull and really contrived. Like the majority of his work it’s populated by the predictable Stephen King stock(blue collar village idiot’s) character’s and a cheesy redneck devil like villian. Stupid and predictable…tedious and incondite!!!! and a total waste of my time.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I would rather eat my own mouldy and gangrenous leg and die slowly and miserably of superflu before reading any more of this descriptive drivel (I have stopped at page 372). This is my first foray into the best selling novels of the late 20th century and I am disappointed, although not surprised at how trite and unentertaining it is. Stephen certainly has a way with words as well as a plain imagination, and he also has a lot of money, but he has nothing of interest for me. Nevertheless, many people obviously delight in his novels enormously, which only proves that we all have different tastes, and that nothing is objectively excellent or terrible. It all depends upon what you like, and what interests you, and unless we know the interests and tastes of the reviewer, the review is not particularly useful. So let me say this: I have loved Proust and Celine, but not Shakespeare. As a young man I owned Sex Pistols records, but now prefer Jobim. I like the books of Jim Corbett and Peter Freuchen, but also watch plenty of dull crap on TV, and I suspect that even though I have told you all of this, you probably still have no thought of whether or not this book of Stephen Kings will interest you at all. So let me question this, if you dreamed of a gorgeous girl called Nadine, would that dream be satisfying to you? And if it was, do you reflect a book by Stephen King would interest you?
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
The book came from the seller in deplorable condition. It was supposed to be a used book but in excellent condition. It was anything but that! Take in very creased and wrinkled, pages loose and falling out, and looked as if it had been dipped in water and then dried. I am very disappointed with this transaction.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Everyone fell for this book. Place Stephen Kings name on 1200 pages of garbage and you have yourself an instant classic. How can Stephen King write so much and say so small? I mean, the book had a seemingly fantastic plot: 99% of the population of the world is massacred by a disease. All the survivors see visions that determine whether they are “excellent” or “evil”. The book is named for the essential battle between excellent and evil (or should I say excellent americans and terrible americans. it seems mexico, canada, an all of the additional hundred and some-odd countries are ignored by Mr. King.) I have to admit, king had a fantastic thought for a fantastic epic. his only problem is that he doesn’t know how to write a excellent book. all his characters are the same. they talk in the same way. he goes off on tangents telling how his characters were abused when they were young. So much bark in this book and no bite. So much leading up to something, but after a thousand pages, the! re was still no “something” He chose to erect up a huge tale and place in a stupid ending. he took the simple way out. bring shame on on you Mr. King for wasting my time
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
Geraldine Brooks’ Year of Marvel was an brilliant read. For this reason I bought March.While it was also perfectly written the main character, Mr. March was a total dissapointment. After reading all the adoring and eloquent letters written to his wife and daughters while he was at war, I was very disappointed when he had an affair with Grace. I lost my patience and considered him an idiot when he suggested the sheep should be allowed to keep their wool, the cows should be allowed to keep their milk for their calves and I can’t remember what the chickens were supposed to do with their eggs. I went to the last page to see if he got shot during the war but allas, he made it home to his loving family tree. Pity.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5