The Stand cont.

Wow this book is intense! I can not put it down. Some of the characters are starting to come together but the problem is none of them trust eachother. I guess that’s what happens when the world ends.

Most of what I’ve read since my last blog is just about the individual characters getting everything together and deciding what they are going to do. This one guy, Stu, was orginally quarantined by the army because his town is where it all started and he was the only survivor. But then somehow the flu gets loose and all the nurses, doctors and army guys die so Stu escapes and decides to head east to the coast. Another couple, who are the only survivors in their town, hear about the army centre and head west in hope to find survivors from the centre. Stu and the couples paths cross.

I am still really curious about why they are all immune?! I do have one idea though. All survivors seem to be good natured, healthy people. One girl is even pregnant. Maybe that’s the connection. Only the fittest survive.

The Stand

DONE! Well actually I finished All We Know of Heaven last week but it wasn’t that interesting so I haven’t felt the urge to blog about it. Because I started a different book since I finished that one I can’t really remember what happened or what I felt while I was reading or anything so I’m just going to blog about the new book I started which was recommended to me by my sister.

The Stand by Stephen King is without a doubt the best horror story I’ve ever read (which is a lot) and I’m only a quarter done! I can not put it down!! The detail he goes into to describe scenes amazes me. But the thing is, he ONLY describes the scenes and not the characters so that gives an excellent opportunity to step into their shoes. For example one character is deaf and mute. He describes the way he reads lips by seeing the way “the tongue dances across the lips and teeth.” This one line gave me a great viewpoint on what it would be like to only depend on your eyes.

The horror begins on page one and hooked me right away. Most of it so far has taken place in a small town so every time something bad happens I can picture it happening here in my own small town. Which, frankly, scares the crap out of me.

Each main character is a survivor who is immune to the disease that is killing the entire country (as far as we know so far) and my guess is that they will all eventually find each other and but knows where it will go from there? I wonder why all of them are having the same dream? I doubt it’s from the disease since they are immune. And why ARE they immune? I can’t see any similarities in the characters so far. They are all different age, sex, and race. But Stephen King loves to leave you hanging so I really hope he explains cause now I’m really curious! But I guess I’ll just have to keep reading to find out. TaTa for now!