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The Stand

post #1 of 6
3/15/09 at 10:28pm
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I seem to remember there being a King thread, but I can't find it. I was looking for some input on The Stand. I just bought the uncut version from a used bookstore, and was wondering what the prefered version was, which do you recomomend reading? etc
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post #2 of 6
3/15/09 at 10:42pm
Interesting premise. Pity it descends into a shaggy god story. Bloated, too.

Always read uncut.
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post #3 of 6
3/16/09 at 12:53am
I don't know which I read(it's been a while), but the chapter where the spreading of the plague is explained is amazing. Rad book, but yeah, let down a bit where things end up.
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post #4 of 6
3/16/09 at 12:57am
Time to share my shame:

I've been about two hundred pages away from the end of this book for about a year now.

The group had left for Las Vegas, I ran into a long stretch where I couldn't read for about two weeks and I haven't picked it up again.

Time to do so.

EDIT: I was reading the uncut version.
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post #5 of 6
3/16/09 at 7:44am
I read the uncut, i hadn't read the original beforehand so i don't know if the added content is essential or not. King does mention in the introduction why this cut exists and i think most of it is just small character moments that he wanted to include.

I thought it was a good read but not great, like with most of King's books its the characters that kept me turning the page instead of the circumstances, however having read quite a few King's books now you do find that he endears most of his characters with the same traits and boy, does he love a good retard.

I enjoyed the epilogue to this one concerning Flagg.
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post #6 of 6
3/16/09 at 8:50am
Yeah the Uncut is all character stuff. The whole 'Trashcan man' and 'The Kid' was excised from the original.
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