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In its 1978 incarnation, The Stand was a healthy, hefty 823-pager. Now, King and Doubleday are republishing The Stand in the gigantic version in which, according to King, it was originally written. Not true . The same excellent tale of the walking dude, the chemical warfare weapon called superflu and the confrontation between its survivors has been updated to 1990, so references to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the Reagan years, Roger Rabbit and AIDS are unnecessarily forced into the mouths of King's late-'70s characters. That said, the extra 400 or so pages of subplots, character development, conversation, interior dialogue, spiritual soul-searching, blood, bone and gristle make King's best novel better still. A new beginning adds verisimilitude to an already frighteningly believable story, while a new ending opens up possibilities for a sequel. Sheer size makes an Everest of the whole deal.
内容简介
Arguably the greatest horror novel ever written by the greatest horror novelist, this is a true Modern Classic that was first published in 1978, and then re-published in 1990, complete and unabridged, with 150,000 words cut from the first edition restored, and now accompanied by unusual and imaginative line art. The total copies for both editions, in hardcover and paperback, exceeds 4 million worldwide.
The Stand is a truly terrifying reading experience, and became a four-part mini-series that memorably brought to life the cast of characters and layers of story from the novel. It is an apocalyptic vision of the world, when a deadly virus runs amok around the globe. But that lethal virus is almost benign compared to the satanic force gathering minions from those still alive to destroy humanity and create a world populated by evil.
Stephen King is a brilliant storyteller who has the uncanny gift of putting ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances, giving readers an experience that chills and thrills on every page.
作者简介
Stephen King is the author of more than fifty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His novel 11/22/63 was named a top ten book of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller as well as the Best Hardcover Book Award from the International Thriller Writers Association. He is the recipient of the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.
斯蒂芬·金(Stephen King,1947年9月21日-),是一位作品多产,屡获奖项的美国畅销书作家,编写过剧本、专栏评论,曾担任电影导演、制片人以及演员。斯蒂芬·金作品销售超过3亿5000万册,以恐怖小说著称,活脱脱概括了此一类别的整个发展沿革。他的作品还包括科幻小说、奇幻小说、短篇小说、非小说、影视剧本及舞台剧剧本。大多数的作品都曾被改编到其它媒体,像是电影、电视系列剧和漫画书上。他在2003年获得美国文学杰出贡献奖章。
精彩书评
In 1978, science fiction writer Spider Robinson wrote a scathing review of The Stand in which he exhorted his readers to grab strangers in bookstores and beg them not to buy it.
The Stand is like that. You either love it or hate it, but you can't ignore it. Stephen King's most popular book, according to polls of his fans, is an end-of-the-world scenario: a rapidly mutating flu virus is accidentally released from a U.S. military facility and wipes out 99 and 44/100 percent of the world's population, thus setting the stage for an apocalyptic confrontation between Good and Evil.
"I love to burn things up," King says. "It's the werewolf in me, I guess... The Stand was particularly fulfilling, because there I got a chance to scrub the whole human race, and man, it was fun!... Much of the compulsive, driven feeling I had while I worked on The Stand came from the vicarious thrill of imagining an entire entrenched social order destroyed in one stroke."
There is much to admire in The Stand: the vivid thumbnail sketches with which King populates a whole landscape with dozens of believable characters; the deep sense of nostalgia for things left behind; the way it subverts our sense of reality by showing us a world we find familiar, then flipping it over to reveal the darkness underneath. Anyone who wants to know, or claims to know, the heart of the American experience needs to read this book.
--Fiona Webster
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这本书一直很想看,今天终于买到了,包装和印刷特别好!信赖京东!
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这个价格买真的非常划算,原版口袋书哦!!
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作家本·米尔斯回到阔别多年的故乡撒冷镇,发现阴森鬼魅的马斯登老宅依旧矗立在山崖上俯瞰小镇,儿时的梦魇不断浮上心头。随着神秘的房客人住马斯登老宅,小镇立刻陷入了莫名的不安:格立克兄弟分别离奇失踪、死亡,老文的猎犬被剖尸……
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内容比较丰富有趣的一本书,值得一看
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价格实惠 纸质很不错 原版书都比较小 比较轻 很方便携带 看完肯定英文进步很多吧
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很厚的一本,大爱,虽然等了很久才收到,书质量超赞。
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石钟笑了,他本意就是如此,只是想要让邱胜云自己说出来而已,道:“那么,另外两位老总就在隔壁,邱总可以过去和他们详谈具体配额,等你们商量好了,我们再谈价格!”
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图书很好,送货速度也快。用了优惠券,很划算。
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Joey冰箱里的书。价格合适,挺好,就是没时间看啊。我很我自己