The Stand

[tinhuvielartanis]

I'm reading it again for the first time since 1980. It's the unabridged version which, I hear, is superior. I'm just hoping I can finish it before I die of the the super flu that the "authoritEYEZ" keep foretelling. Although....that'd be rather ironic. I can see the headlines now:

WOMAN DIES OF AVIAN KILLER FLU WITH
A COPY OF THE STAND CLUTCHED IN HER DESSICATED DIGITS!

What's weird is I opened the book up to get reacquainted with it and just happened to open to the pages on which Nadine consummates her marriage to the Walkin' Dude.

Tonight I'm going to watch Starship Troopers until I pass out from exhaustion.

Tomorrow, Aunt Tudi and I have errands to run. Then I'm coming home to start the radical overhaul of barryandrews.net. Between bouts of battling with HTML, I shall read on The Stand and work on The Chalice. I don't know what I'm gonna do with myself once I'm in school and employed. There will be no time to do anything, which will frustrate me no end.

Comments

[dissolvedgurl.livejournal.com]

my husband LOVES the Stand. I bought him the unabridged version for Xmas (it's wrapped under the tree hehe). I also got him the DVD of the mini series.

The current version he has, has been read so many times, it's actually lost the cover and split in two.

[onyxblue1.livejournal.com]

That used to be my all-time favorite book. I have no idea how many times I've read it. I lost count by the time I was a freshman in high school.:-) The first time I read it I was nine, it had just come out (at least, in paperback, I'm not sure if it was originally offered in hardcover), and we were driving to or from Florida to visit my grandparents. I read it in about a day.

I really prefer the original publication. The one with that excellent cover that you posted the other day. I don't know why, but the updated/unabridged version just doesn't do it for me. I think it's the updating, actually. There is some neat stuff that was left out of the old one, but I didn't appreciate having Madonna mentioned.

I always get a cold when I read it. Always.

Nick Andros was the character I always had the hots for.

[tinhuviel.livejournal.com]

Well, drat! I'm getting antsy about reading it now.

[falkenna.livejournal.com]

If the tacked-on ending does some de-Christianizing, I'm there. What a letdown it was in the last quarter of the book, after a terrific start. And when King's books are usually so vocally anti.