[cake_crumb]

Preferred The Stand to The Talisman (a King/Straub collaboration). The Talisman was good and very original in it's way...but The Stand was King's magnum opus. The SUB PLOTS in the book - the movie could come nowhere close - were incredible. We had devastating plague, human kindness and cruelty, human ingenuity for the sake of survival and typical human frailties ALL overlaid with a monumental battle of Good against Evil.

I either sold at a flea market of loaned out The Talisman...The Stand is in my book case. It's a keeper.

[octobersky]

The Stand was King's magnum opus

I agree! THE STAND was definitely King's best work. He was on top of his game when he wrote that one!

[X-FID]

Can't argue about that, the Stand was aweswome, the Talisman was more of a fantasy and I loved it, it's also the last King book I read, even though I tried some of the others. I'd like to get a copy of both of them.