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A review by paganhill
The Stand by Stephen King
adventurous
dark
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.5
Such a great Stephen King book. It has all the things: music references that balance on the edge of feeling extremely dated, descriptions that linger but are so lovely, mundane acts or objects made frightening, wonderful characters, and not that great of an ending.
This book is great and humongous. Sometimes it feels the driving forces in the story could be defeated by simply ignoring them but that would lead to a very different story. The story devices all work well while reading but upon some reflection seem a little too the-plot-needs something-to-drive-it.
I don’t mean to be hard on the book it is a great novel. Many of the characters are top tier King people, Tom Cullen being my favorite. It’s great. If you like King you’ll love The Stand.
This book is great and humongous. Sometimes it feels the driving forces in the story could be defeated by simply ignoring them but that would lead to a very different story. The story devices all work well while reading but upon some reflection seem a little too the-plot-needs something-to-drive-it.
I don’t mean to be hard on the book it is a great novel. Many of the characters are top tier King people, Tom Cullen being my favorite. It’s great. If you like King you’ll love The Stand.