Vlog #15: Why Everyone in the World Should Read Stephen King's THE STAND

[EndlessLaymon]

Sayings like M-O-O-N and MY LIFE FOR YOU and BABY CAN YOU DIG YOUR MAN and I’M 108 YEARS OLD AND I STILL MAKE MY OWN BISCUITS will stay with me for a long time.

Anyway, glad to see a hardcore fan of THE STAND; I was hoping I wasn’t alone. Trust me, check out MARVELS adaptation of The Stand! You won’t regret it!!

[EndlessLaymon]

My 3 favorite characters are Nadine, Tom Cullen and Harold. Randall Flagg is the best villain in the world! Lol. The entire story is just an incredible epic adventure – King has never written anything else like The Stand and never will. It just blows your mind!! IT comes very close though, but KING has claimed twice in separate interviews that his favorite book is Salems Lot.

[EndlessLaymon]

The Stand has everything you ever need in a book. It deals with universal issues and has pretty much successfully combined ever genre together!

The book is long, but it is a page turning read with no filler. It is an epic journey! To me, it is incomparable to any other book. Compared to classics like Brave New World, Catcher in the Rye, Of mice and men….there is no contest. If I could choose any other book to read before I die…it would be THE STAND!

[EndlessLaymon]

You are totally correct when you say that THE STAND will have an impact on you. It sure has with me.

Watching your video made me think that I have come across someone who likes the book even more than I do – but I’m still thinking that I am a bigger fan of the novel than you are, lol. ;)

I am obsessed with THE STAND. To me it IS the greatest fictional book EVER written.

[MrFX313]

I'm about 470 pages into the Uncut version and I LOVE IT. Absolutely love the characters and love the plot. I can't wait to finish...but that's going to happen pretty soon seeing as that I cannot put this book down for very long. It's that good!

[Jack741000]

Did any of you notice a very close similarity with the "walking dude" and Criss Angel?

[kevdawg55]

u should read say cheese and die...that book changed my life.

^^haha im funny :)

[richsabre]

you read IT when you were 8? haha

yep pratchett and king are the two best, along wth JRR

[paintedbird]

I totally agree with you. The Stand is probably my all time favorite book. It is such an amazing epic novel. I also really love the mini-series, I saw it first as a kid and have seen it replayed several times over the years. The book is amazing and a must read. Also for anyone who has not read it and wants to you MUST get the complete and uncut version of the book.

Its so cool to find someone who loves The Stand as much as I do. I think this is Stephen King's best work. A simply AMAZING book.

[HtownNative713]

i completely agree with you. i read it 3 years when i was 20. i just heard about the uncut version king put out some years ago and i went to the bookstore to buy it. it comes with like 400 extra pages( mainly about the Trashcan Man's journey across america) Epic Book !!!!

[DIVINEMOTHMAN]

M,O,O,N that spells Good Reveiw

[BrendanIsCool]

fap fap fap fap

[thedon420333]

lol you REALLY love this book.

[Leviticus26]

Like your review, awesome job!

[Nate70]

if you like post- apocalyptic books, read "Alas Babylon"

[Opie2]

I have only seen the miniseries as a kid and I thought that was awesome. I recently discovered Stephen King (a year ago) reading all the Dark Tower books and a ton of others (I can't get enough King). I get my hard cover copy of The Stand tomorrow and will start reading it asap. I was wondering what King book to read next after finishing Full Dark no Stars and Just after Sunset and you helped me make my choice. I'm certain I wont regret it :). King is my hero!

[donniedarkodevotte]

M-o-o-n. That spells mink.

[uraha1]

@donniedarkodevotte Oh my...did you really just pull one of those? x3

[donniedarkodevotte]

The Stand is my favorite book of all time, too! We're soul mates! You should really check out Swan Song, by Robert R. McCammon. It too concerns the end of the world, good vs evil, but they are very different. Holy dammers, is it a great book! After I finished reading it, I started reading every Robert R. McCammon book I could get my hands on. Stephen King is still my favorite, but McCammon is definitely in my top five and Swan Song is my second favorite book ever.

[MrDandCB]

my fave book/books of his is the dark tower series

[leopheard]

You are so right - the characters are so well written. Who doesn't love Stu Redman? And, at first you hate Larry Underwood, but then by the end of the book, you bloody love him.

[kenshin4227]

GREAT book!!! Gotta love Coheed and Cambria, too!

[wesker789]

i didnt think the book was particularly complex or difficult to read. other than it simply being very very very long.

[StephenKingFan100]

@JordanSKfan Jordan, I can see you didn't like the book, but you don't have to go to people's videos and say that they are wrong and that the book is bad. Especially when they say it's good. It's there opinion, and that's your opinion. Plus I'm reading it right now and I think it's incredible. And everybody who's read says it's amazing, except for you. It's very strange to hear this from a huge Stephen King fan. No offense.

[JordanSKfan]

@StephenKingFan100 You've totally misread wht i've put in this message. I'm not saying the book is bad. Im just saying it's not the best battle to ever happen between good and evil in literature. Nothing happens dude they all just get nuked. That's all i'm saying I'm not saying she is wrong. She saying it's the best battle ever in a book. This is not an opinion this is fact there is no battle that takes place. They just get bombed in the end! Enough said.

[SpeCulaTionS101]

@JordanSKfan: You missed the point. The "battle" took place from the very beginning of the book all the way to the end, with hints that it would continue on. THAT was "The Stand", and it was indeed one of the best battles in literature if you really think about it. Vegas getting nuked was really nothing more than a consequence of Randall Flagg's diminishing power over his people. It also served as the Trashcan Man's redemption in more ways than one.

[JordanSKfan]

OMG ARE YOU DUMB OR WHAT! You said it is the best clash between good and evil in letrature....? FUCKING BOLLOCKS this book is no where near his best what is wrong with people? The book is interesting i give you that but all it consistes of is being scared of a dark man who is a shit character as he doenst even appraoch the free zone he had to use harold as a puppet. I read it all just to see them get nuked in Las Veagas what sloppy ending stop gettin plople to read it, they will be dissapointed

[leopheard]

@JordanSKfan I don't think you appreciate the character development or nuances, it's not all about COOL plot twists. Sometimes, plot takes a back seat (I'm not saying doesn't count at all).

[emrahsz]

I had this book on my Shelf for over a year now, I think its time to start reading this bad boy, your video inspired to pick up the book and start reading, Thanks alot. i hope its good as people say it is :)

[leopheard]

@emrahsz It is. The unabridged version - I never skipped any bits at all, it was just brilliantly written.

[malicia77]

M-O-O-N, that spells one massive book. :) 

[Stupidsquire]

I cant get over how underwhelming the ending was

[cheynedogg]

"My life for yours, my life for yours, my life for yours, BOOM"

[demon19il]

I've just finished reading it a few days ago, and I can't get it out of my head. You did a great job on this video, I'm definitely gonna show this to several people to make them read it. By the way- can you leave a comment with the titles and authors of all the other books you mentioned here? I'd like to check them out as well. thanks!

[MontagTheMagician]

If this is your favorite book then obviously you've never read anything really great like Knut Hamsen's "Hunger" or John Fante's "Ask The Dust". How silly.

[MissCottonTail09]

The book I have has 1,325 pages though some of those pages are blank o pictures.

I too love this book I am almost finished it and i'm actually feeling sad about that and wondering what on earth I can read next!!

[83phatman]

I fully agree with you about The Stand. It's easily the best of Stephen King's really LONG books (IT's only second because the first half's far better than the end).

Check out my review for THE STAND on my channel, where I also did a HUGE amount of Stephen King review last March.

[MJFanForevea]

omg I LOVE Tom Cullen! M O O N thats spells (insert random word)

[PeadarBoc]

In the beginning the superflu gets . MY CONFUSION! is the following...The underground facility where the virus was created seemed to kill the people working there as they sat in their desks, or were desperately trying to escape. HOW in the name of god did it kill them people almost instantly when it took days to kill everyone else ? also how did the guy Charles Campion contract the disease..was he not above ground in a control tower while the virus was way below the surface?

[costerluver]

@PeadarBoc I think it's because the original form of the virus killed within minutes so the first people to get it died almost instantly. The virus then mutated to kill a bit slower.

[demon19il]

@PeadarBoc I guess that the virus got the people in that facility a lot faster because that was the place where it first erupted, you know, ground zero. Think about it, the destructive power of the flu, all supressed in a small tube, then someone drops it, it breaks, and hell breaks loose. Obviously it took a bit longer as it spread around to the world. And Charley realized what was happening too late, when he looked up and the niddle pointing red. The virus had plenty of time to rech him.

[DHfurLIFE]

im reading The Stand now im only on like page 400 but its soooooooooooooooo gooood.

[LordMacBeth79]

The UK unedited edition is 1,421 pages long and I have read it three times. Once this year. And it is without a doubt the best book I've ever read. Easily on par as a modern day 'Lord of the Rings'. (Which is my other favorite book). But if you want a good time. Go with Pratchett. Just started the Discworld series yet again. Major fun. It's like rewatching your favorite sitcom again.

[RpattzMyPapiChulo]

hey i just became a stephen king fan, i think imma read this book

whts the best version??

[Asterik103]

I share the EXACT same feelings/thoughts toward The Stand. Only I was 16 when I read it. I remember reading the last lines, closing the book up, and just sitting there for a few minutes and taking it all in.

[imanadult]

Captain Tripps!!

[Lizardtheinsane]

I just have to chime in and agree. This is the best book I've ever read. It's been like 18 years since I've read it. I need to break it back out.

"Bumpty Bump!"

[redline181]

I dont get it, is there 3 books to the stand? The book you hold has all 3 novels?

[Minkandensetsu]

Nope, there's just ONE massive book that's 1,182 pages long.

[person6656]

how did you read it when you were 8.

there's alto of things in it that i wouldn't of understood when i was 8. im reading it now and im 14

[Minkandensetsu]

I grew up reading/listening to some pretty heavy books. My father read me Ender's Game when I was four, and as soon as I could understand polysyllabic words, I was reading Stephen King and Arthur Conan Doyle.

Basically, I'm an ubergeek.

[person6656]

u must have a good reading speed then

[ms41576]

reading is something everyone should do. its not really geeky to read. reading is the universal gateway between reality and fiction.

[toltusone]

dude i totally agree with you. this book is the best! i read it at least once every month.

[sauronbaggins]

I absolutely love The Stand, excellent vlog Angie, i think The Stand is amazing on so many levels as its a Lord of the Rings style epic adventure set in 80s america with demons, crucifixion, coughing and sneezing, if you like apocalyptic/post apocalyptic movies, i highly recommend a docudrama from the UK called Threads, again excellent review Angie

[Minkandensetsu]

Thanks! I'm glad another die-hard fan approved of my humble attempts at fangirly glee. :D

[sauronbaggins]

Are you following the comic adaptation, its FAN flipping TASTIC !!!

[harrybo76]

I totally agree with you Angie! Its a truly amazing book, You need it in your life!!!

[Minkandensetsu]

It upsets me that more people don't know how fantastic this book is! Thanks for the comment, bebe! <3