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!