The Stand by Stephen King
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The Stand
- By: Stephen King,
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner,
- Length: 47 hrs and 47 mins
- Categories: Literature & Fiction
Publisher’s Summary
First came the days of the plague. Then came the dreams. Dark dreams that warned of the coming of the dark man. The apostate of death, his worn-down boot heels tramping the night roads. The warlord of the charnel house and Prince of Evil. His time is at hand. His empire grows in the west and the Apocalypse looms.
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 listening to 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.
©1978 Stephen King (P)2012 Random House Audio
Dale
One of my favourites
This is one of my most played audiobooks, the narrator does the book justice and tells the story well. I struggled to read the book myself, now I know what happens.
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Daniel
Be prepared for it to get a bit supernatural.
For any Stephen King fan, my headline would induce eye-rolling with a bit of “well what did you expect?”. I have never really been a Stephen King reader, and was under the impression that I was reading a plague survival story (and nothing more). I was not really looking for a supernatural story, and while I got a reasonable amount of enjoyment out of it, I wouldn’t have purchased it if I had known beforehand. So hopefully this can act as a bit of a warning for the uninitiated.
The story itself was quite good, though at times it seemed a little tedious (you can see why they asked him to trim it by 400 pages from the original published version). Grover Gardner’s narration originally got on my nerves, but I grew to really love the way he dealt with each of the characters and their various mannerisms.
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