The Stand Complete and Uncut
by:
Stephen King (author)
This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death. And here is the bleak new world of the day after: a world stripped of its institutions and emptied of 99 percent of...
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This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death.
And here is the bleak new world of the day after: a world stripped of its institutions and emptied of 99 percent of its people. A world in which a handful of panicky survivors choose sides -- or are chosen.
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Format: Paperback
ASIN: B00BHP75VY
Publish date: 1990
Publisher: Doubleday
Pages no: 1153
Edition language: English
Audience: Adult Format: Audiobook/Owned Another re-read (first time listen) of a Stephen King book. I figured this was as good a time as any to re-experience The Stand. My goal this year is to listen to all the Stephen King books I have previously read. This year seems like it is being written...
Highest stars I could give a book. So far I have read this three times which for a 1000 page book is no mean feat. I am due another re read. My husband wouldnt let me call our kitten Trashcan Man which made me sad. The only other character in literature which I have read which compares to ol' Trashy...
One of my favourite SF books was Stephen King's 1979 "The Stand", which I read in the full unadulterated double-doorstop version released in 1990, which was considered far to voluminous to release in 1979. This is the second time I'm re-reading it. How did it fare? This is the sort of SF that is a...
Są książki, które szybko nam umykają. Są książki, przy których się nudzimy. Są książki, o których najlepiej szybko zapomnieć. Ale są też książki takie jak "Bastion". Po lekturze pozostają na długo w pamięci. Sprawiają, że zmienia się nasz światopogląd. Mogą być świetnym rozpoczęciem ciekawego tema...
Thanks to Orion Publishing Group Gollancz and to Net Galley for providing me a free copy of this book in exchange for an unbiased review. I have read three books by Joe Hill before, enjoyed them and I was excited when I saw his new novel on offer at Net Galley. In short, the book offers a post-apoca...
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