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ariel05 · Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 4:59 pm Post subject: 5. The Stand, Stephen King

(The uncut version)

1-sentence summary of 1,141 pages: Devastating plague wipes out 99% of the US population and the survivors square off in a Good vs. Evil showdown.

Eh, I needed some comfort reading, and I hadn't read this one in a while.

This may be the last time I read it though. While I was reading it, I couldn't stop thinking that "nobody talks like this in real life!". Every time I've read it before, I've been able to be absorbed in the intertwined stories, and the characters, and etc etc. This time was different. It's difficult to put my finger on.

Maybe it's time to find new comfort reading. Confused

twunny · Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 5:30 pm Post subject:

Realistic dialogue is not one of King's strong points, I agree.
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jeffcon0 · Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 8:57 pm Post subject:

Quite the tome, and still at 5 books at the end of January. Color me impressed.

I've read virtually every Stephen King novel but this one and I still have no idea why seeing as it's considered one of his best. I think trying to make it through the first 1/15 of War and Peace (and then putting it down out of boredom) has made me fear the 1000+ page novel.

ariel05 · Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 8:01 am Post subject:

malabar · Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 2:30 pm Post subject:

Still one of my faves; I imprinted on it at an early age and it can still do little wrong for me. (I often like to read it when I'm home sick with some virus or other.)