The Stand - Stephen King BOOK REVIEW
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I DEVOURED this book at a 15 year old and loved it. That was 10 years ago and I haven't read it since. My favorite part was the random chapter about people who survived captain trips but then almost immediately died accidentally.
Holy shit this is the most negative review I've ever seen from Cliff. Very refreshing to hear him tear into something for once, like REALLY disembowel a book. Had me ctfu
The way I like to think about it is, the world was not saved by God, it was saved by Trash Can Man, who was my favorite character. He was the element of Chaos, which can go either way.
Pet Semetary is my favourite King novel. And whilst King does go on tangents with his writing, I feel like people don't give him enough credit for all the fantastic stories he's created. There are seldom few authors that can boast a bibliography as strong and as consistent as King!
Loved the book up until the ending. I know King is kinda known for having shitty endings, but jeez. A literal Deus Ex Machina saves the day really quick and kinda jarringly out of knowhere, and then it is over. Took a lot of the wind out of the sails of the stories progression and focus on the efforts of the characters up until that point just to have God come down real quick and finish the evil off. So anticlimatic.
My favorite parts of the book were the committee meetings where they're just trying to figure out how to rebuild and get back to some sense of normalcy whilst also dealing with this guy who wants them dead for reasons unknown to them
I thought that the TV series used "Don't Fear the Reaper" for the initial mass dying montage but my memory might be wrong. Anyway, that was MY soundtrack.
King thought of The Stand as sort of his American version of Lord of The Rings when it wrote it and has said that it's one of the most asked about books. If I recall he said in an Interview that people ask about the characters like Stu and Fran as if he was still in contact with them. That all said I remember reading this in my early teens and it was pretty amazing. I remember the plague spreading and people slowly dying, I remember Fran taken care of her dad as he died and having to dig his grave. I don't really remember the riots and stuff so much but I remember in the middle of the book he wrote about random people dying from some injury or another after he tells you their life story. I could never read it because that first have feels so depressing. He really makes you feel about characters and force you to watch them slowly die.
This one might be one of your most entertaining reviews so far
Have you read 11/22/63? It's probably one of King's best books in my opinion. Actually has a great ending too, which sadly, is pretty rare for King.
I know that life is too short to read bad books, but I'm glad you did in this case, and I genuinely want to thank you for reading this just because of how entertaining the review was. In all seriousness, I think you've done a lot to make lots of people's 2020 just a little bit brighter and I hope you never stop doing what you do.
I read The Complete and Uncut Edition when I was in high school. It took
thanks for being an adult.
Nobody gonna mention the awesome Elvis Presley impression.
The song at the beginning of the original miniseries was Blue Oyster Cult's Don't Fear The Reaper.
As many people have reflected, it’s fascinating to see you do a negative review. After watched your show for a few years, I had come to believe you focused on the books that deeply impacted you. You are clearly searching for something with every book you read. It’s impressive. And that made this review of particular note. You really gave people who are learning how to read seriously a way to understand why some books are vital and others stand in the way of growth and the expansiveness of the universe. Cheers.
I really love this book, until King blew up my favorite character, and goes 'fuck it' for what turns out to be a massive chunk of novel. I feel like he did this with the entire Dark Tower series too, but I don't want to argue with people who love it. Stephen King writes bad endings in my opinion, but that's just me.
Stephen is much better on set ups than endings
My biggest complaint with the book was there seemed to be this huge build up a grand showdown. Yet, that showdown never happened.... anticlimactic in my opinion