I was reluctant to start of with The Stand. The sheer bulk of thbookmight put off all but the most foolish( why call myself foolhardy?).
To begin at the beginning: this book is all about how a flu epidemic decimates us. Sounds farfetched? Think of Ebola, of AIDS & drug resistant TB.
Freud, the grand-daddy of analytical psychology calls that which we once knew well and now don’t recognise, fearful. Well this book really makes us scared. Between the lips and the saucer so many things can occur: some horrible virus might come out from secret Russian hi scurity labs, some crazy fundamentalist can gas our tube -rails. The list seems endless.
King latches on to one of these eventualities and really drills into his readers whatmay happen is some insane thing like breaches at high security labs happen. Think of all of us getting rapid small pox, no matter vaccines.
End-time novels have unreal, airy and often silly feels to them. This one though, sucks out any unreality you may still harbor.