The Stand - Stephen King Reviews

For me, The Stand represents Stephen King at the height of his storytelling powers. Simple as that. The narrative concerning the eternal struggle between good and evil, darkness and light, is as old as time itself. Almost. The Stand brings the ongoing saga firmly into the twentieth century, with a modern fairytale that casts a host of ...  Read the complete review

When the recent news broke about a potential Swine Flu pandemic I was perhaps more hysterical about it than most other people. Why? Well, I was reading Stephen King's novel 'The Stand', a fantasy horror story in which 99% of the world's population die from a flu like virus. The spread of the killer flu, or 'Captain Trips ' as the ...  Read the complete review

This is widely considered to be his best work. But strangely not in the eyes of the author. It is another huge book. And, as is typical of his longer novels this means there are lots of side stories, all of which relate to and improve the book. The story is based around something that many people fear, a plague. A virus is created by the ...  Read the complete review

Stephen King's 'The Stand' is perhaps his greatest, and, weighing in at a thunderous 1200 pages, definitely his longest work to date. It concerns the accidental release of a genetically engineered 'superflu' virus from an American medical research laboratory. The virus has a very high mortality rate, and is extremely infectious. After a few ...  Read the complete review

"The Stand" is, without a doubt, the best book Stephen King has ever written. It is a sprawling epic, dealing with an airborne plague that kills over 99% of the population of the planet and the aftermath - a massive battle of good versus evil between the survivors. Basically, the people who don't die from the plague - known through the ...  Read the complete review

I just reviewed The Cell by Stephen King & it reminded me how much I loved his book 'The Stand'. The stand was published in 1978, by the horror writer Stephen King & is hailed by fans as one of his very best works of fiction. However, in 1990, the complete and uncut edition was published, which is longer & the setting is changed from ...  Read the complete review

Are you ready to be scared? Scared of the future, and for the future? If the answer is yes then you’re ready to read The Stand, a book that is, in my opinion, a masterpiece of the modern horror genre. And now I’m going to share with you my reasoning behind this statement. My particular version of The Stand is a hardback copy of the ...  Read the complete review

Stephen king is renowned for his great horror novels, this must be one of the greats of all time!. This book gripped me from beginning to end, the characters and general story line are very compelling. Be warned there are spoilers here! The stand is set in the Usa during the year of 1990. The US government ...  Read the complete review

If he never wrote another word, Stephen King deserves to be remembered for this, his contribution to the "Disaster Novel" genre. It begins innocuously enough, with an army officer running away from his base. But he has left it too late, and he carries a new disease into the world. Over the next months people begin to die, in ...  Read the complete review

The premise for this offering from King is that a superflu has supposedly been developed by the US Government - or has it? and is wiping out the population. Our story begins when a military officer and his family escape from a compound which is about to be locked down - and end their journey crashing through the forecourt pumps of a small ...  Read the complete review

Personally I have read 'The Stand 'around four times already, and it never ceases to amaze me – both in it’s plot structure and in it’s originality – quite definitely a classic and one that will be remembered as one of King’s greatest, maybe his all-time greatest, but I think The Dark Tower series is peaking ...  Read the complete review

I have read through a couple of ops on The Stand and must say that it is quite a daunting thing to do, this book is such a huge one (about 1600 pages!) that, to summarise it and allow people to get an impression of the book's good and bad points, is a very difficult thing to do. But here goes: I recently re-read this book in ...  Read the complete review

The Stand is my favourite novel by Stephen King; I waited for the complete and uncut edition to come out before I bought the hardback version and I'm glad I did and not just because I hate to think I'm missing out on anything! The characters are excellent and despite its large size, 1007 pages, it's a real page-turner. I found ...  Read the complete review

I do not usually read horror novels but I thoroughly enjoyed The Stand it is an excellent book. In 1978, before the "complete and uncut" edition, before the miniseries, before the author became known as the "King of Horror!!!" (emphasis on triple exclamation), Stephen King's The Stand hit bookstores. It was a ...  Read the complete review

This is the best book King has ever written. It is very long, but worth the time invested in reading it. This novel leads readers to think "What if this really happened?" That's because it REALLY COULD! That's what makes it so scary and a good read. King's character Flagg, who I assume is carried over from Eyes of the Dragon, ...  Read the complete review

I'm not much of a reader, especially of horror books. I borrowed this book off my daughter, whilst I was ill, because there was nothing else to do. The book is about 1400 pages long, however I didn't have a problem with the length because the story was so good, and it is never dull. The book plunges straight into the ...  Read the complete review

Stephen King is a legend. For years, he has written some of the very best horror books ever. And he will hopefully continue to for many many years. For years I thought that The Bachman Books were the best he had even written, and then a friend of mine introduced me to The Stand (the complete and uncut edition). By page 3 I was hooked and ...  Read the complete review

In a small town, a car crashes into a building, with the driver dead at the wheel. Little do the people know that this incident is the begining of the end for them. In a military base with chemical experiments, something has gone wrong and with the panic that ensued as the personnel realise that they have released a deadly bacteria and they are ...  Read the complete review

Before I became devoted to books in the fantasy genre, I was hooked on horror fiction, with Stephen King being the master in this field. In fact it was due to Stephen King that I took up reading fantasy fiction in the first place, when I read Eyes of the Dragon, a fairy story that he wrote for his children. I have read all of King's novels ...  Read the complete review

In one of his most important books, Stephen King describes how the main characters struggle to find a new way to live after 99%+ of the world's population is decimated by an artificially engineered plague. As compelling are the stories of The Stand's villains, characters who each reject an equal place in the new society for Lucifer's ...  Read the complete review