The Stand

, Stephen King

digital audio

English hizkuntza

2012ko ots. 14a(e)an Books on Tape(e)n argitaratua.

ISBN:: 978-0-307-98758-7
OCLC zenbakia:: 1056983047

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This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death.

And here is the bleak new world of the day after: a world stripped of its institutions and emptied of 99 percent of its people. A world in which a handful of panicky survivors choose sides--or are chosen. A world in which good rides on the frail shoulders of the 108-year-old Mother Abagail--and the worst nightmares of evil are embodied in a man with a lethal smile and unspeakable powers: Randall Flagg, the dark man.

In 1978 Stephen King published The Stand, the novel that is now considered to be one of his finest works. But as it was first published, The Stand was incomplete, since more than 150,000 words had been cut from the original manuscript. …

This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death.

Now Stephen King's apocalyptic vision of a world blasted by plague and embroiled in an elemental struggle between good and evil has been restored to its entirety. The Stand : The Complete And Uncut Edition includes more than five hundred pages of material previously deleted, along with new material that King added as he reworked the manuscript for a new generation. It gives us new characters and endows familiar ones with new depths. It has a new beginning and a new ending. What emerges is a gripping work with the scope and moral complexity of a true epic.

For hundreds of thousands of fans who read The Stand in its original version and wanted more, this new edition is Stephen King's gift. And those who are reading The Stand for the first time will discover a triumphant and eerily plausible work of the imagination that takes on the issues that will determine our survival. source: www.booksontape.com/book/92992/the-stand/

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I'll be honest, I didn't love it

2 izar

This is my second attempt to get through a Stephen King book. I tried Christie and couldn't finish it--I was too bored. But I powered through and finished the entirety of The Stand (yes, the extended edition).

Maybe it's ultimately due to some deficiency in myself, but I didn't really enjoy or care much about any of the characters in this book. The "good" characters were really just nice in a pretty average, anodyne way, for the most part. The "evil" characters were occasionally shown to commit random acts of violence, but nonetheless had to show at least some initiative, courage, and care for their fellows in order to function as a team. That might be the point, actually. Maybe King is trying to point out that the line between good and evil in our fellow man is much thinner than we'd like to believe. I actually think he's right, …

It sometimes feels like the real horror King is trying to evoke is the terror of a changing culture, of a changing America. Flagg's followers are good at technology because technology is scary. Mother Abagail is a relic of the past, and through her triumph over adversity and discrimination, she redeems the past. Her followers are generally humanities people. The constant, schmaltzy patriotism, especially as expressed by the military in the first third of the book and Mother Abagail's adherents in the second half, was a bit on-the-nose. The plague itself spreads more rapidly because modern transportation methods are at its disposal. But maybe I'm reading too much into it.

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Ein gewaltiges Epos, das einen in den Bann zieht, hervorragend gesprochen von David Nathan

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Review of 'The Stand' on 'Storygraph'

3 izar

Been interesting reading this a few years after the COVID-19 pandemic first began in 2020.

All in all I felt this book was twice as long as it really needed to be. I stayed up all night plowing through the final 1/3 of the book because I wanted to get to the resolution and I found myself skipping entire chapters of meaningless exposition. As a fan of Stephen King I suppose I shouldn’t be too surprised. Maybe I’m just anxious to get through this Man In Black character development so I can continue on my Dark Tower Extended Reading journey. I miss the gunslingers.