Question
Out of all of Stephen Kings fiction, what is his best work?
Answer
The Stand is my favorite Stephen King novel.brbrIt by far is my favorite book he has written. I have enjoyed all of them but the depth of the characters makes this one so much more enjoyable. I love to read and reread it....especially if I have a cold brbrI own the original copy that was released in and The Stand The Complete amp Uncut Edition in .brbrsome trivia about The StandbrbrThe Stand is closely related to another of Stephen Kings works, The Dark Tower series. Flagg and other elements of The Stand appear in the Dark Tower books. Flagg also appears as an evil wizard in the fantasy novel The Eyes of the Dragon, which also takes place in the world of the Dark Tower series. brbrKing has said that he nearly abandoned The Stand due to an epic case of writers block. Eventually, he reached the conclusion that the heroes were becoming too complacent, and that they were beginning to repeat all the same mistakes of their old society. As an attempt to solve this, he constructed the part of the storyline where Harold and Nadine create a bomb which explodes in a Free Zone committee meeting, killing Nick Andros, Chad Norris, and Susan Stern. Later, Mother Abigail explains on her deathbed that God permitted the bomb to take place, because He was dissatisfied with the heroes focus on petty politics, and not on the ultimate quest of destroying Flagg. When telling this story, King sardonically observed that the bomb saved the book, and that he only had to kill half of the core cast in order to do this.
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