A review by erintowner
The Stand by Stephen King

2.0

I am struggling to decide how I felt about this one. There is some lazy writing here--lots of repeats of the same metaphors, plot devices that were clearly lifted from the Lord of the Rings--and yet I read all 1400 some pages of this book (although I will say the first quarter of it needs editing). There was a lot of casual racism and misogyny, a good amount of which can't be explained away by the 1970s publication date of this book. I think Stephen King adds in gratuitous disturbing things for shock value. It took me a long time to care about any of the characters, but in the end I did. In the end this was an entertaining book for me but I think there are other authors who do horror/dystopia books better.