Originally Posted by The Villain (Post 935950)

Finally finished The Stand. Wow, i've heard a lot of things about this book but no one ever told me how boring it is.

The first part with the plague was so vivid and engrossing that i actually felt like i was getting sick but the second part which was just a lot of walking was so boring, i barely got through it.

I thought that it couldn't get any worse until i got to the third part. When i decided to read an apocalyptic tale of good vs. evil i wasn't expecting to have to read about committee meetings and census reports and social reform. I get that showing how a society would rebuild itself after an apocalypse might be interesting to some but given what this book is about, what it was building towards, it just seemed like a lot of filler bullshit.

The last part though where the battle actually happens was pretty good and i liked the ending.

Overall, this was not what i was expecting at all and it was way over hyped and overrated. It's not a bad book but not a great one either and i wouldn't call it King's best work either.

Anyway now i'm reading Guardian by John Saul.

Originally Posted by JudgeU (Post 939388)

I know there are two different editions out there of The Stand. I can't remember exactly, but when it first came out they edited out about... 400 or so pages (just guessing, I can't remember exactly).

Eventually, there was enough demand that King released his version that about doubles the page count. This sounds like you read the unabridged version.

Originally Posted by JudgeU (Post 939389)

I'm reading The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte. I'm about a quarter of the way into it, and so far, so good.

This is the book that the movie "The Ninth Gate" is based off, and deals a lot with the fictional book The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows. I would only recommend it to other bibliophiles though.

Originally Posted by The Villain (Post 939418)

Yeah i read the unabridged version