M-O-O-N that spells inaccuracy **Spoilers**

[melindaville]

This novel is my all-time favorite STORY..it's not a scientific friggin' treatise...nor a textbook or a technical manual-items that are supposed to be error free!!!!It's a tale to be enjoyed, not dissected...GOOD GOD, am I weary of all the anal retentive "picker aparters" out there...move on and flame somebody else's world!

I hear you my friend! This is my all time favorite story too!

[CarrieJo]

The book seemed full of little stuff like this that became frustrating.

I want to reiterate that I did like the book.

These are very contradictory statements to me. Usually things that I like don't frustrate me, and I don't like frustrating things.


But I could just be crazy...

[Checkman]

Well here is one thing that I have argued about Captain Trips when folks with degrees in biology and other biological/chemical/medical fields start picking apart the nature of the virus. The virus is God's way of wiping the slate clean. Things are not going to necessarily follow The Rules. Is Trips pretty impressive? Yes it is. But it's a story with biblical overtones. Stop over-thinking it.

Try to remember that SK wrote this novel back in the early/middling section of the seventies. The man was in his early twenties. I'm 43 years old. I can tell you that I have changed in many ways since I was 23. The same goes for Mr. King. Stop looking at it from the perspective of 2011.

Why do so many people have trouble with the idea that he didn't write The Stand in the 21st century. He wrote it over 35 years ago! If you take that into account the book will go down easier.