Problems with the ending

[Teddy Duchamp]

I suppose if I was REALLY nitpicking (and as this is my favourite book it would really BE nitpicking)...................I would say that it would have been nice to hear a bit more of life in Vegas - I loved the way that folk were deserting Flagg, for instance, and that it was only loyalty was keeping Lloyd there - and even he was wavering a bit.

I thought it so interesting that although people flocked to Vegas, and Flagg, it was obvious that they werent "all bad" - just human like all of us, as obviously they could see that the society he was building was evil, well a lot of them anyway.

But how long would the book have to have been to accommodate all of the things we would have liked to see (it was a bruiser anyway!!)

[Silhouette86]

This is kind of funny. It seems that everybody(nearly everybody) thought that the ending of "Under The Dome" was rushed, which it was, no problem in my books, and "The Stand" dragged on too long in the end. I think that "IT" was the inbetween, making it perfect really, and the best of the massive novels by Stephen King. "The Stand" truly was an epic, but the end, or to put it in four words, "The Hand Of God" was just Stephen King painting himself into a corner. Stephen King is a great storyteller, but his endings-most of the time- are something to be desired.
Anyway, pro "The Stand".