Reviews tagging 'Pandemic/Epidemic'

The Stand by Stephen King

37 reviews

voicenextdoor's review against another edition

adventurous tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Racial slurs, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Racism, Pandemic/Epidemic, Violence, Murder, Gore, Fire/Fire injury, Body horror, and Ableism

Minor: Rape, Domestic abuse, Suicide, Trafficking, Pregnancy, Drug use, and Misogyny

ellbutler's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Racism, Gore, Sexual violence, Murder, Racial slurs, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Pregnancy

briar_nettleroot's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Child death, Murder, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Violence, Racial slurs, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Drug use

matthewosborne's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I really enjoyed this book. While it was long, I think that just gave me more time to enjoy the wonderful characters that Stephen King wrote. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, and Pandemic/Epidemic

knenigans's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

Great story, great cast of characters. A lot of food for thought.
Would've been 5 stars if it weren't for the two rape scenes and the aggressive fatphobia. One of the rape scenes was directly plot related and was relatively vague, the other was explicit and did not contribute to the plot. While not shown, there is one section of dialog graphically describing other rapes.

Also about 0.05 of that missing 0.25 stars is because it seems like EVERY character in this book pisses themselves at least once. I'm quite sure there was more pants-pissing in this one book than all the others I've ever read in my entire life. I really hope one of the survivors turned out to be a pelvic floor therapist so they can help all these poor people control their bladders....

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Sexual violence, Body horror, Pandemic/Epidemic, Death of parent, Fatphobia, Pregnancy, Rape, Gun violence, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Racial slurs, Torture, and Suicide

kyoe983's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark funny mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

This is King's magnum opus. Over one thousand pages create and put together one of the most vivid and complex worlds you can find in fiction. The constant dilemma of the flue and the depth which every important character in the series has are the main reasons why I find the story so compelling. It's worth reading, regardless of the page number.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Pandemic/Epidemic, Alcohol, Death, Gun violence, Racial slurs, and Vomit

ufoparty's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pandemic/Epidemic, Gore, Sexual violence, Violence, Ableism, Death, and Rape

Moderate: Fatphobia, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Suicide, War, Body shaming, and Drug use

Minor: Vomit

Use of antiblack slurs especially near the beginning. Descriptions of dead bodies and varying states of decay all throughout. Major themes of Christianity but it's of the folksy Americana flavor rather than institutional. A character overdoses on drugs, quite possibly on purpose. As is what seems to be a common trope in King's stories, a fat character is described as unhygienic, petty to the point of childishness, and obsessed with sex, then later becomes a major antagonist out of jealousy. Oddly repetitive, almost dehumanizing descriptions of the eyes of the only Asian character, who is Chinese. A character uses a gun to

forcibly penetrate another man against his will.