The Stand - The Complete And Uncut Edition

Stephen King

Anchor

2008

1348 páginas

1d 20h 56m

ISBN-10: B001C4NXKM

This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death.

And here is the bleak new world of the day after: a world stripped of its institutions and emptied of 99 percent of its people. A world in which a handful of panicky survivors choose sides -- or are chosen. A world in which good rides on the frail shoulders of the 108-year-old Mother Abigail -- and the worst nightmares of evil are embodied in a man with a lethal smile and unspeakable powers: Randall Flagg, the dark man.

In 1978 Stephen King published The Stand, the novel that is now considered to be one of his finest works. But as it was first published, The Stand was incomplete, since more than 150,000 words had been cut from the original manuscript.

Now Stephen King's apocalyptic vision of a world blasted by plague and embroiled in an elemental struggle between good and evil has been restored to its entirety. The Stand : The Complete And Uncut Edition includes more than five hundred pages of material previously deleted, along with new material that King added as he reworked the manuscript for a new generation. It gives us new characters and endows familiar ones with new depths. It has a new beginning and a new ending. What emerges is a gripping work with the scope and moral comlexity of a true epic.

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 reading 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.

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3.5 (Bom)

A Dança Genérica da Morte

O livro é grande, uma grande decepção. Nada acontece num livro de mais de mil páginas.

O próprio King disse que é a obra da vida dele mas acho que foi apenas uma ação de marketing da época.

As primeiras 500 páginas são basicamente o início de qualquer livro de pandemia, é bem escrito (King né rs), mas nada de novo nem empolgante. Daí pra frente uma narrativa fraca que te leva pra lugar nenhum. O plot não existe.

O ponto positivo que não deixou a nota ser ainda mais baixa é o desenvolvimento dos personagens que conhecemos durante a jornada, alguns chegam a ser memoráveis. O vilão tem um potencial gigantesco mas foi desenvolvido da pior maneira possível e só não é pior pois aparece em outras obras do autor (estou olhando pra você, Torre Negra).

Recomendo caso seja muito fã de King, senão é uma grande perda de tempo.