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Publication Date: 12 May 2011
First came the days of the plague. Then came the dreams.
Dark dreams that warned of the coming of the dark man. The apostate of death, his worn-down boot heels tramping the night roads. The warlord of the charnel house and Prince of Evil.
His time is at hand. His empire grows in the west and the Apocalypse looms.

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  • Paperback: 1344 pages
  • Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton (12 May 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1444720732
  • ISBN-13: 978-1444720730
  • Product Dimensions: 13.2 x 19.7 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (229 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,615 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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In 1978, science fiction writer Spider Robinson wrote a scathing review of The Stand in which he exhorted his readers to grab strangers in bookshops and beg them not to buy it.

The Stand is like that. You either love it or hate it, but you can't ignore it. Stephen King's most popular book, according to polls of his fans, is an end-of-the-world scenario: a rapidly mutating flu virus is accidentally released 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 Good and Evil.

"I love 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 destroyed in one stroke."

There is much to admire in The Stand: the vivid 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 underneath. Anyone who wants to know, or claims to know, the heart of the American experience needs to read this book. --Fiona Webster --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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'His work plumbs with unnerving accuracy, the hopes and fears of an entire nation' (Observer)

'As a storyteller, he is up there in the Dickens class.' (The Times)

'A writer of excellence . . . King is one of the most fertile storytellers of the modern novel' (The Sunday Times)

'Taught me the power of telling a story in which the pages literally seem to turn themselves.' (Nicholas Sparks, internationally bestselling author of The Notebook)
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44 of 45 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding 4 April 2009
By R. Griffiths
Format:Paperback
First I must state that I am not someone who would describe themselves as a Stephen King fan. I've read a fair few of his books, some of which I've quite enjoyed and some of which I struggle to remember, but "The Stand" is one of my all time favourite books. I bought the unexpurgated version recently to re-read, after a gap of about ten years, and was as lost in it this time as I was the first time I read it.

Yes, as a couple of reviewers have pointed out, of course you could tell the story in a book half, or even a quarter, of the size but I for one would have felt very cheated. The story is not complicated. It begins with a plague and moves towards a final showdown between, effectively, good and evil and perhaps that could be seen as overly simplistic. The characters, however, are so well drawn that you feel you know who they are and want to know, in detail, how the whole thing plays out. The pace is good, even for such a large book, and the more meditative sequences do not detract from this at all.

Some of the characters are exceptionally good: Nick Andros, the deaf mute, and Tom Cullen for example and Harold Lauder is very finely drawn as a man who finds himself thwarted by life and love and tempted to the darker side. Despite it's somewhat exalted overtones at points, there is a sense of reality to the book which manages to keep it grounded. At times King's writing almost seems poetical, something I never thought I would write in the same sentence as "Stephen King" because I frequently find his real-life character conversations to be rather stilted and pedestrian, unlike his more dreamy sequences.

I imagine for a great many SK fans this could well be their favourite of his.... Read more ›
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74 of 77 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Powerful, tragic, haunting, romantic, terrifying... 26 Nov 2000
By thestranger18@hotmail.com
Format:Paperback
This book has it all. Never have I read something that has captured me to the extent of The Stand. It tells of a scenerio we can all vividly picture. A lonely world where mankind is close to extinct, while the cities and machines are left to gather dust and remind survivors of a world lost through the mistakes of man.

This truly is the epic of all epics, and I assure those who are intimidated by the length to not be. You'll be captured by the story before you know it. The characters are so diverse and unique that it's impossible not to relate to them. My personal favourite had to be Larry Underwood, the drugged up rock-star whose life undergoes some extreme changes as the story progresses.

There are moments in the book that will bring a tear to your eye, there are moment that will leave you terrified. However, in my opinion this isn't a horror story, but instead a tragedy that tells of courage, hope and faith.

This is definitely the greatest book by Stephen King, and really makes me want to forget I read it so I can experience it all for the first time again.

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32 of 34 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A Stephen King novel to read and re-read 11 Feb 2007
By Mr. S. W. Steel VINE™ VOICE
Format:Paperback
This is a great book in my opinion and shows Stephen King at the peak of his powers.

I remember trying to read this book when i was quite young and i never really enjoyed it.It sat in my collection until a couple of years ago and then i read it at a rate of knots!

The basic plot, is that a super-virus is accidentally unleashed on the public.Nearly all of the population is wiped out, and the few remaining survivors are drawn to two people they dream about.Flagg is one.Mother Abigail is the other.The story shows how people survived the outbreak, then begin to reform society and then decide how to fight against the evil Flagg.

That is it in a nutshell - without spoiling anything too much.

There are characters in here aplenty.Ones that you identify with, ones you dislike; but all of them grip you.The way King writes about these characters is excellent - you HAVE to know what is going to happen to them.And they are so well developed that you almost know what they are going to do before they do it! My own personal favourite character is Larry.He changes throughout the book and is the one who you really feel has an internal struggle about what he is doing - he constantly questions his own worth and morality and it is really insightful of Stephen King to do this.

The plot is excellent, and moves well.It does lull in the middle a bit, but this is the is the quiet before the storm, as the final section of the book moves on at a rip-roaring pace.Considering ths book is so long it is amazing how it holds your attention all the way to the last page.

This book is about good and evil and mixes the morality up well, by not making every decision so black and white.... Read more ›
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars An amazing work of fiction 12 Jan 2006
By Cyrus Emerson
Format:Hardcover
The length of this book can be intimidating, yet I assure you that Stephen King will keep you going through the long build ups, and rough rides, he always keeps you reading.

There are moments of pleasure when King's prose describes the waste lands of corpses and empty cities. The imagination runs wild with "what if's" as you see yourself getting into a new Ferrari and maybe crashing it into a light post just for kicks.

King's imagination is there too. He is pulling every trick out of the bag, all the dirty little secrets that people might only admit in their heart of hearts.

There are also a lot of things in this book that are related to the "Dark Tower Series" and vice-versus.

I have always been impressed with King's use of a Jim Morrison sighting in the beginning of this book. It would have been so easy to have another Elvis sighting. I think the picture of that moment, in my mind's eye, inspired my own gas station scene in "Lost Angel."

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5.0 out of 5 stars Fabulous
where does Stephen King find his muse . This is totally gripping and so true to life Shame the TV series was so poor
Published 5 days ago by Mr. S. I. Black
5.0 out of 5 stars Another King classic
Just another in a long list of edge of your seat, can't put it down, that could happen to me classics.
Published 7 days ago by Charlie
5.0 out of 5 stars superb, stephen king at his storytelling best.
I read this book when it was first issued, I was totally immersed in the plot and the characters, 10 years on I decided to read again, have noticed that there is a lot I missed the... Read more
Published 10 days ago by paul
5.0 out of 5 stars The best!
This was one of the first Stephen King books that I read and 30 years on it is still my favorite.
Published 16 days ago by Grammax
5.0 out of 5 stars Best ever
From beginning to end this grips you. The possibility always at the back of your mind. A delicious dive into the blackness that is Stephen King.
Published 1 month ago by ginny@mouska.freeserve.co.uk
1.0 out of 5 stars Deluded
King's best? That's not saying a great deal, is it? All of them, juvenile drivel. Oh you poor deluded souls...
Published 1 month ago by Mr. M. Young
3.0 out of 5 stars Chore
Laborious read, purely character driven...the whole book in fact.
I can see why i dont read Stephen King, not for me.
Published 1 month ago by IanD
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic
A very long book but great, king is the best there is , read so much of his work ,
Published 1 month ago by mark maslen-leese
5.0 out of 5 stars GREAT BOOK!
Loved it. I read it at a fast rate as i could'nt wait to find out what was going to happen next, Well done Steven King....
Published 2 months ago by Ian H
5.0 out of 5 stars Incredible
I was gripped from start to finish. This book is at times nothing short of sick - but what else would you expect from ole Stephen King!? Read more
Published 2 months ago by Piers Lemoine
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