Just finished The Stand this afternoon

[bluesky]

Hi all the Stephen King fans here. Today i finally closed the last page of The Stand (uncut and complete version) . It takes me a little bit more than four months to finish reading it. (quite a long time i guess :)

I enjoy most of the book (esp the "Captain Trips" ) and love the characters the author created which seem so real. esp Fran Goldsmith. And my favorite character is Larry Underwood.

But how do you guys think of the ending? Do you like the ending? Does it end the way that you expected or unexpected? To me the ending is a bit different from what i thought.

Please let me know what you think of the The Stand and let's share with each other.

[luckygehrig]

I definitely didn't see that type of ending coming. It all seemed so sudden after the buildup that went on for hundreds of pages. That being said, I think it was still a pretty good ending. It did seem abrupt, but it didn't necessarily feel out of place. I'm glad that King decided to show us Stu and Nick's journey back rather than leaving it with the destruction of Vegas.

[wally wonder]

flagg, bewildered. yeah, neat-o. and then he isn't. the cyclic nature of evil. reading night shift and much of those stories have that element. it keeps coming back...you talkin, like, last few pages, or what? guess my answer is kinda doorkey if not. :dunno:

[aeroplane]

Depends on what part of the ending we are talking about.

I am not the least bit surprised about some of the founders of the Free Zone, such as Stu & Frannie, getting disenchanted with the place and deciding to leave.

Makes perfect sense to me.

If they had survived, I like to think that people like Glen, Larry and Nick would have eventually pulled up stakes and left the Zone.

Nor does it surprise me that other people living there would eventually try to squeeze the "founders" out of power.

[bluesky]

I definitely didn't see that type of ending coming. It all seemed so sudden after the buildup that went on for hundreds of pages. That being said, I think it was still a pretty good ending. It did seem abrupt, but it didn't necessarily feel out of place. I'm glad that King decided to show us Stu and Nick's journey back rather than leaving it with the destruction of Vegas.

Yea, i feel the same way. It all came so suddenly and abruptly that the Dark Man just disappeared in the firestorm before i could learn more about it. I've been turning over and over in my mind what the Dark Man really is but then it ended in a few pages. And Larry Underwood and Ralph Brentner and others were all engulfed in the fire, that quick. and there is no telling of how Lucy reacted to Larry's death when she heard about it. I had been expecting the ending would have been much more powerful but then it was not.