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The Stand

By: Stephen King
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
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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 in which good rides on the frail shoulders of the 108-year-old Mother Abagail--and the worst nightmares of evil are embodied in a man with a lethal smile and unspeakable powers: Randall Flagg, the dark man.

In 1978 Stephen King published The Stand, the novel that is now considered to be one of his finest works. But as it was first published, The Stand was incomplete, since more than 150,000 words had been cut from the original manuscript.

Now Stephen King's apocalyptic vision of a world blasted by plague and embroiled in an elemental struggle between good and evil has been restored to its entirety. The Stand : The Complete And Uncut Edition includes more than five hundred pages of material previously deleted, along with new material that King added as he reworked the manuscript for a new generation. It gives us new characters and endows familiar ones with new depths. It has a new beginning and a new ending. What emerges is a gripping work with the scope and moral complexity of a true epic.

For hundreds of thousands of fans who read The Stand in its original version and wanted more, this new edition is Stephen King's gift. And those who are reading The Stand for the first time will discover a triumphant and eerily plausible work of the imagination that takes on the issues that will determine our survival.

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"[The Stand] has everything. Adventure. Romance. Prophecy. Allegory. Satire. Fantasy. Realism. Apocalypse. Great!"
—The New York Times Book Review

"A master storyteller."
—Los Angeles Times

“An undisputed master of suspense and terror.”
—The Washington Post

“King is one of the most powerful storytellers we have. His work satisfies on first reading and is even better the second time around.”
—Chicago Tribune
“Crackling . . . with explosive climaxes.”
—The Boston Globe
“[For] those who like their horror on a humongous scale.”
—Los Angeles Times

"As brilliant a dark dream as has ever been dreamed in this century."
—Palm Beach Post
“Peerless imagination.”
—The Observer (London)
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47 listening hours, but they went too fast. Amazing book, and excellent narrator. I feel lost now I've finished!

Amazing book!

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This was a great read. More than just ‘genre’ fiction.

I had to remind myself that this book was written before I was born, and some of the language and perspectives of the characters and narrators aren’t socially progressive by today’s standards, even though it was set in the future which of course now the past !

The voice actor’s use of regional accents adds a lot to making the characters come alive. This is a long listen but for me the story never dragged.

One of the best reads in a long time

A really great book

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Un des meilleurs romans de Stephen King, une histoire noire à souhait à vous empêcher de dormir. Le livre est certes assez long mais vous ne verrez pas le temps passer, on s'attache très facilement aux personnages ou au contraire on souhaite leur mort assez vite. Bref on ne peut pas rester indifférent devant The Stand. Les rebondissements et dénouements sont menés de main de maître bien que certains passages soient évidents.

Vive l'apocalypse

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The voice acting was amazing. I can't unearned Grover Gardner chanting "Baby can you dig your man?". Can she?

When the good adaptation?

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Voici une excellente histoire mais très longue. Je ne sais pas si je l'aurais apprécié autant en livre. Grover Gardner a fourni une magnifique lecture qui arrivait à garder mon attention même dans les longueurs de la narration. Le résultat : une très bonne expérience tout du long.

Excellent !

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