 Hello everybody, E here. Welcome back to another Stephen King review. If you're feeling confused asking yourself, why hasn't But hadn't hasn't he already reviewed these? No, I have not. I have done my Thursday Theorist series, which you can find at the end of the video. It'll be one of the you know the videos at the end Up there with the subscribe button, but today we are talking about the complete uncut version of The stand Also before we get started. I want to let me let me put this up. This is a big chunker to be Yeah, it's a it's a big book anyways So I will be doing once I'm done covering all of these Stephen King reviews Catching up with all that stuff. I'm gonna be starting a new series where I break down the original version of the stand I have two of these old paperbacks My buddy Mike sent me one and then someone else sent me another one I don't even think they put on the address or I didn't know who it was who sent it to me But anyways, if you're the person who sent it, thank you so much and let yourself be known But I will be doing a side-by-side comparison doing one chapter every Thursday Where I tell the differences between the complete uncut edition and the original edition It's like 400 pages difference. I think King cut a hundred and fifty thousand words to a piece as editor So that they could get it out the history behind this is a double-day Couldn't didn't have a way to make such a big book and they still didn't a hundred percent trust In King's celibacy, which is funny because we got the Carrie movie and all that but another thing is the original edition the first edition The first edition is the size. It's much smaller as you can see It's a book club edition size because they didn't want to They didn't want to put all that money into him Put all this stuff back So the book club editions and the first edition are the same size But of course the book club edition says that it is a book club edition the This one of course Returns brings back all the stuff that King cut out of the original one Which is the entire opening with champ champion champion. I think it's campion with him Escaping the facility at the beginning. That's completely gone So that first episode when I do my side-by-side comparison is probably just gonna be me saying okay This is what happens in the prologue that was returned to the complete uncut edition And the original edition doesn't even have it. It has a different not a different ending But it stops before the ending that you read in this version There's so many so many things that are different. It doesn't have the kid in it at all The you know, of course the kid the one that Well, if you've read the book you if you've read the complete uncut edition, you know what I'm talking about It's when trash and the kid meet that whole thing is completely gone But anyways on to the review of this one. I actually prefer this one Over the original a lot of people think that the original version is tighter That is better But some of my favorite scenes have been cut out of had been cut out of the original version Which is the kid the the opening sequence where he's trying to get out all that stuff In fact every time I read the complete uncut edition when it opens up. I hear don't fear the reaper I think it's actually quoted in the book too at the beginning. I hear Don't fear the reaper from blue oyster cult, which is of course how the original mini series went I'm not gonna be talking about the adaptations here But that I'm gonna keep my opinions to myself about both of them but the book it that the only issue that I have and I talked about this in the original version because it's pretty much the same on this level is When they start rebuilding boulder, I lose interest up until the end Up until the final the final fight the the final fight is It's polarizing for fans My buddy Josh thinks that you know it couldn't have happened to any other way really that he was leading up to that I'm of the mindset that it is one of the biggest. What is it do s mock? Do do s Machina whatever endings ever Where it's I don't know that it's a cop-out, but it really is I mean by definition It is pretty much literally do s Machina I Do find that with the uncut with a complete and uncut edition I get more involved in the storyline than I do with the cut edition the book is fantastic It is a classic It it if you don't if you don't know it the end of the world is brought upon by a disease called the captain trips And everybody gets sick dies. It's a terrible. They they're faces swell with mucus. It's it's disgusting And then after that there are certain survivors. There are the good ones the bad ones some in between That's I think that's the best part of the book some of the best characters are in the gray area between you know Truly dark and truly light But everybody has their flaws and all these characters it is a smorgasbord of amazing character development For some reason again, I like this one more than I like the original. So my question is for you out there Do you like which one do you like have you even read the original is so hard to come by like I had I had to People send me copies again. Thanks very much Mike and thank you very much to the stranger who sent me the other one This one I believe this one is the one that that Mike sent me and the other one is very strange It has like a glaring almost, you know the face of what Pazuzu in the Exorcist Where they you get those flashes of subliminal flashes of Pazuzu It has like that on the cover I should have brought it out here But I'll I'll show it to you guys when I do the next series where I do the side-by-side comparison And a big cross and lightning striking the cross almost fits revival More than if it's that one in that book came like 30 years later, but anyways I I prefer this one to go give you a little more in-depth without going into spoilers You have two different factions one led by Randall flag and one led by mother Abigail Mother Abigail is a psychic. She well, I don't know that she's psychic. I think she's more She's able to go into people's dreams and bring them, you know together into Boulder, Colorado Where they end up rebuilding society and then you have Randall flag who takes over Las Vegas Which is of course sin city. Where else is he going to go? And the the differences in the characters, you know the the good and the bad my favorite My favorite part of the book of course is the characters, but my favorite characters you got Nick Andrews And Tom Cullen are two of my favorite characters of all time period hands-down. I love those two characters The Herald is a great Not really gray shaded character. You know, he's definitely a bad guy But I really enjoyed reading about him I never cared too much for stew or Franny I like their stories the character development is great But the their stories kind of pale in comparison to you know, the other ones that I mentioned But the question for you today, like I said, have you read the original edition? If you have if you've read both editions tell me which ones that you prefer down there in the doobly-doo Tell me why you like them so that we can have a discussion But until next time I have been a you've been you this has been another Stephen King book review. I'll talk to you guys later. Bye. Bye