Reading books after The Stand...

[JohnDalglish]

yea i have been having a hard time with reading different books too ha ha! anyone have any that have the same theme or ideas in it? i would appreciate a good similar read :P

Hi,Welcome to the MB, and keep posting!I'd recommend Robert McCammon's 'Swan Song' (there are spoilers in the Wiki link)..Swan Song (novel)Long days and pleasant hights

[CryoLemon]

thanks ill look that up!

[champ1966]

I would reccomend "The Bachman books" or "Different Seasons".Swan Song is a fantastic book,I personally wouldn't read it straight after The Stand,you would end up comparing them all the way through.Different Seasons has got the brilliant Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption and The Body which was made into the film Stand by Me in it.Good luck

[TheHardcase]

I really don't know what to do. I finished The Stand a month ago and I cannot read anything else now. I have tried to read The Dark Tower series...just doesn't click for me. I have tried to get into Salems Lot and IT but it isn't working out. Should I re-read The Stand? I NEED HELP THIS BOOK WAS TOO GOOD.

The Stand was the first book that, as I approached the end of it, I was sorry I was getting there. The first time I read it (there have been five other re-reads) I was absolutely overwhelmed. Like you, I had a hard time getting into anything else. But what this book accomplished was to get me hooked on SK. I read The Dead Zone after that, and while it was a good read, frankly, it didn't compare. But that's the problem with a masterpiece. How can anything else measure up?

I would encourage you to pick up anything else in the Stephen King library. You won't be disappointed. And, as SK himself wrote in the new and improved version in 1989, "The Stand is the one that, people who like my books, seem to like the most." You may not find anything to equal it, but you will find some outstanding fiction written by a master storyteller.

Long days and pleasant light.

[Reason4Happenings]

My personal second favorite, after The Stand, is Duma Key.