Esta narración cuenta cómo un virus gripal, creado artificialmente como posible arma bacteriológica, se extiende por Estados Unidos y provoca la muerte de millones de personas. Los supervivientes tienen sueños comunes, en los que aparecen una anciana y un hombre joven. La mujer anciana los incita a viajar a Nebraska para combatir a Randall Flagg, un abominable personaje que lidera las fuerzas del mal y busca su aniquilación definitiva mediante un temible arsenal.

One of my favorite books I have ever read. I reread it every few years, because it is so long, but it's just as good as the first time I read it. ( )

I first read The Stand in high school. It was a revelatory experience then, what with its fascinating characters, grotesque horror, and overt fantasy. But revisiting now, over a decade later, has given this book a new color.

Not just because of the pandemic, though the parallels are eerily prescient, but because I understand these characters better than I did when I was fifteen. I understand their motivations, and I am in awe of King's extensive backstory and character work. Even the villains are multidimensional people. That's what made me fall in love with King's work back then, and that's why I still love it now. ( )

Amazing writing and development, but it was so lengthy that the good bits got lost in a sea of utter crap. Not worth reading. Ending is quite disappointing. I was going to give it two stars for it wasn't that horrible really, but it wasted a lot of my precious time and therefore it gets one star. Nothing more.


Old review (back when it was unfinished):
I finished about half of this book (which is a million pages), and I am suddenly feeling very unmotivated to finish it. Don't get me wrong, Stephen King is a WONDERFUL writer, but the story seemed to drag on and on and on. At times, I felt like I could easily give this book a 5-star rating, and at other times, I felt like throwing it from a 10-story building. If this book was shorter, and if SK wasn't so attached to ALL the crap he writes, and if he believed in deleting CHAPTERS that aren't necessary/important nor related to the plot, then this would have been, indeed, a great book.

I don't want this to stop you from reading it, though. I have a lot of other books I'd like to read before ever continuing reading this. ( )

So this book was crazy, but I loved it. I always have a hard time reading Stephen King because of how descriptive he can be at times and I lose focus. This book did not do that to me at all. I loved all of it. Tom is my favorite character and I had to actually ask my husband and cousin if anything bad was going to happen or I wasn't going to read the book. LOL. (They refused to tell me.) ( )