This and SWAN SONG by Robert R. McCammon are, I think, required reading for anyone interested in post-Apocalyptic fiction. Both deal with extreme end-of-the-world scenarios, both deal with bands of survivors coming together to find a way to deal with the harsh realities of a life beyond the one the...
On a gathering storm comesa tall handsome manIn a dusty black coat witha red right handHe'll wrap you in his arms,tell you that you've been a good boyHe'll rekindle all the dreamsit took you a lifetime to destroyHe'll reach deep into the hole,heal your shrinking soulHey buddy, you know you'renever e...
Upon finishing The Stand, I asked myself: what is the point? I was not asking myself this question in the existential way King likely intended; I was not asking, “what is the point of living if society always goes bad at some point?” No, I was asking: what is the point of these 1300 pages? What was ...
One of the reasons why I would never club Stephen King together with any of the other best-selling writers of his generation (Grisham, Archer, Patterson, Sheldon and so on) is this :-None of them match King's calibre as a story-teller. They don't even come close.If somebody spins an intriguing tale,...
As the one star rating says: I didn't like it. Having said that it did pick up a little for me around p.1100, perhaps because I could finally see the end.Quasi-religious crap about as deep as, as, as.... something shallow. I'm so glad I read the extended version in which the characters have been ...
This rating game on Goodreads is an odd thing because of course if your fifteen year old cousin gave you a manuscript of Stand and told you he wrote it, you'd be blown away. With the immense, immense fan-base of Stephen King and the sheer number of people who have told you how amazing this book is, ...
I tried, I tried to read this one, but just couldn't do it. Could be I picked up the expanded restored edition, that drove me away. This book is so long, the writing so long winded to seem stream of consciousness, and not in a good way.There are 50 page digressions where Stephen King digs into a cha...
Stephen King is so good. I've read many authors that are good at writing stories. They can write about events and put them in an order and the result is a story. The more successful authors are able to take that story, and by combining just the right words into sentences and paragraphs, create im...
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