Stand (Complete and Uncut) | 
pickWhile I'm never going to connect as closely to a story with biblical themes as someone with a Judeo-Christian religious background would, there's a lot that's human about this story, that benefitted from King taking his time, to develop not just the characters but their interrelationships.
It's ultimately a book about faith but also about choices, obviously I lean more to one than the other unless it's a faith in people, and I think that was 1/?
Today's 'scratched my brain just right' sentence.
Welcome to the #LosersClub open discussion for #theStand
Please be mindful of spoilers. We have new readers to King who haven‘t read all of his books. When referencing his other work, please keep this in mind for our new-to-King friends. Don‘t forget to tag each other in the comments so your friends can see your reply. Have fun!
#StephenKing #StephenKingInOrder #KingFromTheBeginning #ConstantReader #ReadAlong #BuddyRead #BookDiscussion
pickThis is one of those books I can read every year or so and I get something different from it every time. Looking forward to discussing with the #LosersClub later this month.
Starting next for the #LosersClub. Sparrow is keeping me company while the kittens run amok.
#KingFromTheBeginning #TheStand #Read2025
Just reached the part that will always make me scared of the Lincoln Tunnel. #IYKYK #LosersClub #KingFromBeginning #ITakeTheBridge
Laughing because this is the bookmark that came up in my mug, it‘s from a romance author at a book con I went to a couple years ago. Not so sure doctor romance could handle Captain Trips 🤣 #losersclub #StephenKing #StephenKingInOrder #KingFromTheBeginning #ConstantReader #ReadAlong #BuddyRead #BookDiscussion
This month‘s book is #theStand Grab your copy and check back at the end of the month for open discussion! Don‘t forget to tag me so I can see which version you have! #LosersClub #StephenKing #StephenKingInOrder #KingFromTheBeginning #ConstantReader #ReadAlong #BuddyRead
I realized I never posted this! My #bookspinbingo stack is ready to go, and a little precarious in my front window 🤣 @TheAromaofBooks
repost for @BarkingMadRead:
Just a reminder that February‘s #LosersClub read is #theStand Put your library holds in now, search your shelves, or buy a new copy, and check back on or about March 1st, when we begin reading this one. Discussion will be at the end of the month! #StephenKing #StephenKingInOrder #KingFromTheBeginning #ConstantReader #ReadAlong #BuddyRead #BookDiscussion
Just a reminder that February‘s #LosersClub read is #theStand Put your library holds in now, search your shelves, or buy a new copy, and check back on or about March 1st, when we begin reading this one. Discussion will be at the end of the month! #StephenKing #StephenKingInOrder #KingFromTheBeginning #ConstantReader #ReadAlong #BuddyRead #BookDiscussion
News to me: Stephen King had authorized a new collection of short stories set in the world of The Stand
https://gizmodo.com/the-stand-stephen-king-anthology-1850948210
#losersclub #constantreader
#wickedwhispers @eggs @alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
When Stephen King isn't looking into the evil in the hearts of ordinary men, he is often projecting that evil in the form of Randall Flagg, who often goes by an alias that maintains the “R.F.“ initials.
pickWell, my beat up old copy made it through another reread. The pages are a bit looser, and there are a few more cracks here and there, but it's hanging in. And it remains one of my favorite books of all time.
#hauntedshelf
#frightclub
24.5hours(245)+tbr(25)+1+17words(255)=526 points
@Jadams89
Down to my last 3 words from the #hauntedshelf word search - thanks to The Stand, which really helped me out with 17 from the list. I'm thinking I need to find a witchy book for those last three -
Hallow, Equinox, and Cider
Any suggestions?
#frightclub
Little late with my #bookspin list, but here it is. 21-25 will be impulse reads. I've been in a slump for a few months it seems, so I'm hoping this and #hauntedshelf will help get my mojo back.
I reread The Stand every couple of years. Sometimes I listen to the audio, sometimes I do the ebook, but this time I was feeling nostalgic and pulled out my 1991 copy that was my first ever King experience. It's falling apart a bit (30+ years and multiple reads will do that), so I'm just hoping it'll hold together for this read.
Do you have any old books that you still pull out and read even though their condition is questionable?
pickThis was a re-read for me, and still one of my favorites by King. My answer to what I thought a pandemic would be like before we actually lived through one.
pickI was held hostage for over a month reading this brick. The book is too long and I didn‘t need all the details. Yet the fantastical prose combined with religious allegories kept me turning the page to see what was next. The book possesses several themes, but the greatest is that evil will always exist in the world and that it‘s up to us to overcome it. But be wary of power and political systems.
“I‘ve come to teach you how to be civilized.”
I managed to avoid it for almost four years now, but Captain Tripps finally caught up with me today! 😩😷 Fortunately I‘ve felt up to reading at times today! 🤓
Getting a late start on my new SK project this year (due to taking January to finish off last year's project). I still hope to average one a month and get through the 24 books on my extended Dark Tower list by the end of 2025. However, this utter brick of a book will take as long as it takes! I'll catch up later.
1. When I'm most awake, whenever that is.
2. The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket.
3. The Stand, 1200 pgs.
#WondrousWednesday @Eggs
pick⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ After reading this big chonker I can't help but to feel accomplished, it's been awhile since I saw the miniseries so I forgot parts of the end so I was surprised at some of the emotional parts (at least for me)....loved this very LOONG book
When you‘re at the Ogunquit library, you have to look for their copy of the Stand! #iykyk #losersclub
#OrangeStack 🧡 #AutumnPlease 🎃 👻🕷️🧡🤍🖤
#BookNerd 🤓💙📚
1. Unpopular opinion but candy corn! Or Twix
2. Tagged book. Most Stephen King I‘ve read probably fits here
3. #teamglinda
4. Freddy Krueger. I‘m sure there are others because I‘m a wuss but I watched this movie when I was like 10 which I think is when my fear of horror movies started. I dream vividly so someone killing you in your dreams? Literally the worst for me 😂
5. Introvert, introspective, responsible
#HHC #scarathlon @dabbe
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, STEPHEN KING! 🎈🎈🎈
I've loved his work for many many years, and it's still blows my mind that when I first read his books in high school I didn't like him as an author at all! 😱 But then I gave him another try and I read the stand a few years after that and it completely blew my mind and still remains one of my favorite books to this day! He is definitely one of my biggest comfort authors! 💕📚
What's your favorite SK book? 🧐
pickI first read King‘s opus when I was 13 years old - the thought of a global plague as inconceivable as King‘s other supernatural creations. It was unsettling to reread this in the age of COVID, and while King‘s literal battle between God and the Devil may not be playing out today as he imagined, it‘s difficult not to sometimes feel that we might be living in a version of King‘s post-plague world. ⬇️
We are in the mountains at the SC/Georgia border and scored some grape and orange Nehi. #losersclub members probably recognize this from at least one or two #stephenking books!
so-soThis was a #SuperChunkster. It's really kind of too long. #ChunksterChallenge2023 @Amiable I am kind of speechless on what to think about this book. But being a The Walking Dead fan, humans really don't change. I managed to get one bingo spot in #ISpyBingoJune @Clwojick @TheAromaofBooks. I also got a spot bingo on the #NSR23 @Nessavamusic. I am starting to think that I'm really not a Stephen King fan. I wanted to know what happened to Tom lol
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I started this #chunkster at the start of 2023 and read the final pages today. My first King in quite some time. Did not disappoint.
This Readathon will give me a reason to read this Chunkster. #20in4 #Readathon @Andrew65 My goal is 20 pages, 220 pages, perhaps 20 chapters, as the chapters are really long. @Amiable
I have two to finish and two I have been putting off. #MagnificentMayReadathon @Andrew65 These readathons make me start books I've been putting off
May 5 #MayMontage 22nd on TBR list. This one has been moved down over and over. It's it page amount that scares me. @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
Kim from Book Interrupted recommends the first "big" book she ever read on this weeks Manuscript Monday.
https://www.bookinterrupted.com/post/manuscript-monday-the-stand
#bookinterrupted #bookish #bookworm #thestand #stephenking #BigBook #bookclub #stephenkingbooks
Meredith Kaknevicius KJ Lenton Kara Jessie Steyaert Sarah Diop
Lia Macbean
pick#Booked2023 pandemic
#Pop23 longest book on TBR
My laws! This was a terrific story! King‘s longest book to date (the uncut version.) I never felt a lull in the story. I loved the characters, and how complicated they were. Over the years, I‘ve been told time and again to read this one or how it‘s a favorite of King‘s work by so many, and I‘m happy to say, this one lives up to the hype! I loved it!
What grabbed me were so many microcosms of the larger crisis, individuals and smaller groups trying to manage, figuring out how they could make things better or worse, where they stood on the spectrum of self-serving to communally beneficial action, and making those types of decisions again and again, without anything necessarily getting easier with each choice. 2d
There's some promising but vague world building around the idea of telepathy on a larger scale, somehow more evident in the population as the world gets depopulated and maybe magicked up.
1d
Definitely shows its age in the language, terms for disabilities we don't use anymore, slurs mostly out of the ignorant/evil characters' mouths, but I think most horror writers would still hesitate to be as cavalier on the page these days. 1d
See the Magical [Black Person] entry in the non-fiction book The Black Guy Dies First for the run down on Mother Abigail.
And RF reconstituted only to start working his mojo on a 'primitive people' at the end, yikes. 😬 1d
It just makes me more frustrated that, largely attributed to pregnancy hormones, 1d
She definitely did not get enough page time. 1d
Whoa, 20 parts, I guess long books mean long reflections! 1d