The Stand

You are free to call me whatever names you so desire for wanting you to read this book; I don't care. It's a very long, hard-to-get-into, horrifying thriller if you know how to read between the lines.

So, it starts out with life all good. In the town of Arnette, Texas, a man in the death throes of some horrid virus smashes into a gas station. The entire town is infected and eventually quarantined, but an army officer enters town to warn his cousin of the impending blockage.

He contracts the virus and spreads it beyond the ability to quarantine. When the United States government sees the writing on the wall, it orders the release of the virus behind both the Steel and Bamboo curtains, ensuring that we all die together.

Later on, the survivors begin to gather around two points in the United States; Las Vegas and its' devilish leader Randal Flagg, or Boulder Colorado and the saint who lives there, an extremely old woman. These inheritors of the world fight one last battle to decide the fate of humanity.

It's a GREAT read, this little review doesn't do it justice.