The Stand by Stephen King - WITH spoilers but ONLY up to where I’m reading 🤣🤣

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I downloaded the book after recommendations here and I’ve got 8 hours left (out of 48!!!) to listen to.

It’s amazing but I can’t stand the emotional rollercoaster! I’ve just got to the part where that Julie girl recognises Tom Cullen in Vegas. If anything happens to Tom I might actually cry, I still can’t believe Nick and Mother Abigail died!
I am SO close to googling what happens to Tom but I wont.

Awful Harold and Nadine are on the way West, and so are the 4 from the committee (without Fran thank goodness).

I’m quite glad that there won’t be any committee meetings for a while, they were a bit too much like being at an actual committee meeting.

Anyway I just had to talk about it 🤣

My absolute favourite book, I've read it so many times the characters feel like my friends 😂
Hope you enjoy it

Yes you don't need to pay,you just subscribe to the thing it's on and then unsubscribe,it's well worth it. Yes I liked the better diversity casting move,missed old Larry though.new Nadine was nowhere near as good.both nicks were awesome!
Yes open sequence to the first one was epic,could never be beaten so guess that's why they changed that.and Larry's sewer trip was nowhere near as good as the tunnel trip.i liked the new ending better though I think.
It's so good.

My favourite book 😊

We were holiday planning for this year looking at Maine/Massachusetts and we both were like let's go to Ogunquit! We've ended up booking a totally different part of the US .

I love The Stand so much, it stays with you

My favourite!

Different to a pp, I would NOT recommend the most recent series. It was shit. I also couldn't get away with the older one. Possibly because nothing on screen could match up with what was in my head.

I'm a huge SK fan anyway but this is his masterpiece. He's got so many excellent books but this one is his number one.

I just can't do audio books though, DH was listening to the shinning a few weeks ago and it just made me fall asleep.

Such a brilliant book.

I felt like a chapter of my life had ended when I finished reading it.

@UpToonGirl I only ever listen in the car I can't pay attention if I'm trying to listen while pottering around the house.

I'm listening to Thinner at the minute but as I'm only in the office 3 days it's taking longer!

The actor that played Randall Flagg in the first series was exactly how I imagined him in the book.

Omg! The uncut version. The Kid! Chilling. I love Stephen King and I LOVE The Stand. Sorry, a bit OTT maybe but you don't meet many fans in day to day life and I'm just delighted to talk about it!

Fantastic book! I get the urge to reread it every few years!

I envy you.

I'd love to be able to read this again for the first time.

Enjoy!

It's my favourite Stephen King book. Loved Tom in it. It really is great.

They made a dodgy TV miniseries in the 1990s, starring Molly Ringwald and Gary Sinise, amongst others.

It's crying out to be made into a decent movie - or split into two movies.

Contains the worst song title ever though - Baby can you dig your man 😂

I’m getting scared to come back here in case a spoiler slips out 🤣

I just cannot believe I’d never heard of this book. Another for the ‘Things Mumsnet Has Told Me’ list!

Not much chance to listen tonight but I’m now up to where RF has been told that Tom has gone, and Nadine is in a catatonic state. I keep feeling bits of pity for her and Harold but then I remember poor Nick. Lloyd is starting to worry, not sure what I think about him.

I listened to this audiobook just as the lockdown started in 2020.. it is BRILLIANT!

Sorry, a bit OTT maybe but you don't meet many fans in day to day life and I'm just delighted to talk about it!

Don’t be sorry! That’s how I felt, that’s why I started the thread!!

My favourite book ever- I read it every few years and feels like I am catching up with old friends!

I think it's the best book I've ever read - I think I must have read it at least a dozen times 😆😆. It was the first Stephen King I ever bought and I can still remember buying it at a book sale by the entrance to the canteen in County Hall in the 1980s. I really didn't enjoy the TV adaptation because the characters really weren't how I had always envisaged them, but it did keep quite close to the book.

I loved Thinner, I thought the movie was pretty good as well. Most SK films aren't the best but I thought that one worked well as a movie.

I think the first SK book I read was Gerald's Game when I was a young teen. Terrified me.

Oh this thread has got me all excited, The Stand is one of my all time favourite books ever but I have no idea who Tom is or what he’s doing in vegas which makes me realise how much of the book I’ve forgotten and now I get to read it all again. There are plus points to menopausal brain for after all

This has reignited my interest in the book, which I've read more times than I can remember. I have some Audible credits and the narrator has a good voice so I'll give it a whirl.

The first King book I read was "The Shining" when I was off work ill. I could barely bring myself to go to the bathroom!!

My favourite bit is the bit with Mother Abagail and the weasels. Fuuuuuuck. Or anything where Flagg walks around a bit.

I rarely enjoy a SK movie. They're never as good as the books, the way he writes is just so... intense, and complex... it's just so difficult to get that across in a movie.
The only exceptions IMO are the Shawshank Redemption (my favourite movie ever) and Stand By Me. And The Green Mile.

I re-read Night Surf a couple of days ago, due to my son seeing The Boogeyman at the cinemas. Some of those stories have not aged well! The Boogeyman main character is awful. But yeah, the Boogeyman was written in 1973!

OP I'm loving your Tom Cullen updates. He's such a lovely character.

And The Alarm wrote a song about it. "Come on down and meet your maker, come on down and make a stand"