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The Stand

The Stand

by Stephen King

6,723

Total Points

#121

4.6 (10 reviews)
Pages
1152

This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death. And here is the bleak new world of the day after: a world stripped of its institutions and emptied of 99 percent of its people. A world in which a handful of panicky survivors choose sides -- or are chosen. A world...

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forline

Jan 5th, 2018

It took the BBC list to get me to finally read Stephen King and I LOVED this!!!!!

Hammer2665

Aug 15th, 2016

bryanoz

Jun 19th, 2015

acpac2004

Apr 2nd, 2015

funkygman007

Mar 11th, 2015

jwk

jwk

Dec 12th, 2014

Couldn't put it down.

jbrookeiv

Oct 7th, 2014

sanayhs

Jul 2nd, 2014

laros76

Mar 19th, 2014

MarjorieMM

Aug 30th, 2013

This tale is most likely King's masterpiece.
It's an intricate edge-of-the-seater.