Stephen King, The Stand Review

Good Points
The complete, uncut edition has illustrations, a new beggining, and new ending.

Bad Points
Long - over 1100 pages, but in those pages is a great, mesmerizing story. If your one of those people who can only read up to 200 or so before you quit, then this book is not for you, but if your a constant reader who can come up to the challenge of this book, consisting of a mind-boggling raunchy 1100 pages, then it's for you baby.

General Comments
Out of all the King books I've read so far, The stand complete and uncut, is my favorite out of all of them, so far that is. It is about (Synopsis): A chemical warfare facility in California who apparently, have a chemical spill. They kill all the occupants inside, of what will later be known as "SuperFlu" or "Captain Trips." Charles Campion, the guard of the facilitation escapes, but he has a container of the new Superflu made, and spreads it across America, killing 99% of all occupants.


However, a few people are immune to the virus, and start having very vivid and lucid dreams, all being similar or identical, of walking in a corn field and seeing an old, black woman playing the guitar on a rocking chair on a wooden porch, saying: "Name, come here, your welcome anytime". Or dreams of a certain "Dark Man" who is said to be The devils imp.


Eventually, the survivors split into two groups, one is good in Boulder, Colorado with Mother Abigail (Black woman), and the other one evil, who runs off to Las Vegas with Randall Flagg, otherwise known as "Dark Man", "Walkin Dude", or just "Randy."


In the end they're is a final battle between good and evil, and I'm not going to tell you which side wins, find out for yourself, it will be the worth the wait.


During the whole book, there is a lot of adventure, romance, realism, destruction, sex, apocalytipsm, prophecy etc...


The new uncut edition is filled with illustrations, subplots, more character suspenseful , more dialogue, and sideplots and a new beggining, and a new ending, making King's best novel, better.