[SamAdams76]

"The Stand" was Stephen King's best work in my opinion as well. It was one of his early novels before he became famous and his publisher felt it was too long and cut about 200 pages out of it. It has since been released in its full unabridged version and it's worth getting. A good book to bring to the beach.

My favorite character was "Trashcan Man."

[USMCWife6869]

I have long since lost my copy of The Stand. I should definitely get a new copy. I feel really old these days. I just finished Stephen King’s son’s (Joe Hill) book “Heart Shaped Box”. It was a good read, and I found it reminiscent of the Stephen King I used to know and really enjoy. But I kept thinking that he just wasn’t old enough to have a son that was old enough to write a novel. Then, when I was looking on Amazon for The Stand, I saw that it was published in ‘78. Good gravy.