IMO - Decipher that, in my opinion, you don't have to feel the same way - The Stand tried way too hard to be epic literature. For one, the characters were weak. The only one I found myself caring about was Harold Lauder, and he was painted to be a modern Judas. He was the only one that was remotely human! Stu, the undeniable main character, was pretty much infallible and boring. The story started off with a really interesting post-apocalyptic premise and dwindled down to pretentious dialogue meant to justify self-righteous, half baked political and theological theory. It picked up in the end but about 700 pages too late... by that time I had stopped caring about the characters and kind of hoped, in a demented way, that Trashcan Man, one of the only exciting characters, would destroy the entire world and become the hero of the Dark Tower series, since King tries so desperately to tie all of his loose ends together.
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