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A review by whitneeaboo
The Stand by Stephen King
5.0
I gobbled The Stand up, uncut edition and all, and even though I sometimes complained about being stranded in the middle of 1400 pages of Stephen King, it was never actually work. I enjoyed every second of it -- the tonal shift from disaster porn to post-apocalyptic survival, how viscerally angry Harold Lauder's existence made me, M-O-O-N that spells reading, laws yes. I've not read a ton of Stephen King's mainstream canon (none of the other Big Ones, except unless you count the first three books of the Dark Tower or On Writing), so I'm not a King superfan, but this book had always been kind of haunting me. So I picked it up at a library book sale and here I am a month later.
In a post-millennium world where our pop culture is flooded with and burdened by post-Apocalyptic narratives -- zombie or not, mostly survivalists, mostly with less forced religious allegory -- something about The Stand still felt fresh and kind of timeless.
In a post-millennium world where our pop culture is flooded with and burdened by post-Apocalyptic narratives -- zombie or not, mostly survivalists, mostly with less forced religious allegory -- something about The Stand still felt fresh and kind of timeless.