The Stand, Favorite Character & Question

[TJLamb0518]

My favorites are Nick Andros and Glen Bateman. I think I'd be more like Glen although I'd want to be more like Nick.

[Stefanie]

Stu or Nick are my favorites too. Probably because I could fall in love with men like that.

Same with me. Absolutley fell in love with Nick, but I wasn´t so much into Stu.
All the characters, their relationships, discussions and motivations are very authentic (in my opinion). That´s why the novel is so special.

[GNTLGNT]

The wealth of detail in the Unabridged version makes it the book of choice for me-and I'm torn between Glen Bateman, Nick Andros or Tom Cullen. M-O-O-N, that spells favorites!

[Haunted]

Dont't forget Kojak!! I think Kojak and Glenn are my favorites. Maybe because they didn't have all the flaws the others did?

[JohnDalglish]

Dont't forget Kojak!! I think Kojak and Glenn are my favorites. Maybe because they didn't have all the flaws the others did?

Hi,

I never figured out why Glen named him Kojak?

Though I can see why Sai King called him Big Steve.

Long days and pleasant nights

[Sarkisaur]

Although i liked the "good guys", and Larry especially had an interesting character development (loved it when he was struggling with nasty Rita Blakemoor thoughts), as always in King novels, it's the psychotic characters that are most intriguing to me. I loved reading about Harold, and of course, The Kid.

[Algernon]

Stu is my favorite character. That's your Tom Hanks//Jimmy Stewart//Everyman character. Plus he gets to cohort with Molly Ringwald in the movie version.

[aspergillus]

Hard to pick, but have to go with Larry Underwood. Interesting how he changed throughout the book, found what was important, and found love just might save him. Which in the end I believe it did.

[bobledrew]

I have to agree with Larry Underwood as a favorite character. I'm torn over whether he's a hero or an anti-hero; he certainly has most, if not all, of his flaws exposed to the world and the reader, and he's tortured by those flaws. But at the end, he certainly behaves as a hero, sacrificing himself for the greater good. Then again, maybe I just want that Gibson 12-string.

[aeroplane]

Stu is my favorite character. That's your Tom Hanks//Jimmy Stewart//Everyman character. Plus he gets to cohort with Molly Ringwald in the movie version.

Molly Ringwald would have been worth making the trip to Boulder for, at least as she looked in the movie.

But in all seriousness, Stu isn't one of my favorites and I never really identified or related to "Everyman" types in any sort of literature. I'd be closer to Harold (cynical and bitter) or Larry (tortured and occasionally self-destructive).