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Originally Posted by The Villain
Finally finished The Stand. Wow, i've heard a lot of things about this book but no one ever told me how boring it is.
The first part with the plague was so vivid and engrossing that i actually felt like i was getting sick but the second part which was just a lot of walking was so boring, i barely got through it.
I thought that it couldn't get any worse until i got to the third part. When i decided to read an apocalyptic tale of good vs. evil i wasn't expecting to have to read about committee meetings and census reports and social reform. I get that showing how a society would rebuild itself after an apocalypse might be interesting to some but given what this book is about, what it was building towards, it just seemed like a lot of filler bullshit.
The last part though where the battle actually happens was pretty good and i liked the ending.
Overall, this was not what i was expecting at all and it was way over hyped and overrated. It's not a bad book but not a great one either and i wouldn't call it King's best work either.
Anyway now i'm reading Guardian by John Saul.
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I know there are two different editions out there of The Stand. I can't remember exactly, but when it first came out they edited out about... 400 or so pages (just guessing, I can't remember exactly).
Eventually, there was enough demand that King released
his version that about doubles the page count. This sounds like you read the unabridged version.