From: utzoo!decvax!decwrl!sun!megatest!fortune!hpda!hplabs!hao!seismo!presby!burdvax!bmcjmp
Newsgroups: net.books
Title: Re: The Stand
Article-I.D.: burdvax.704
Posted: Tue May  3 16:13:20 1983
Received: Wed May 11 08:42:17 1983

I wonder why so many people disliked "The Stand". I can only conclude that
more people are interested in plot development than in character
development. While the plot was on the slow side, most of that was due to
the excellent character development, which, as others have pointed out, is
King's strong point. In "The Stand" he does such a good job of making you
care for his characters that I even felt a little sorry for Harold (the
adolescent slob) when he gets killed. 

For the person who wanted to know the name of the earlier short story
collection, it is called "Night Shift". Interestingly enough, as somebody
else mentioned the "The Stand" seemed like a short story idea overblown (and
that was a paraphrasing on my part), one might be interested in one story in
this collection entitled "Night Surf". No, I'm not going to tell you what
it's about -- go read it.

Barb Puder  burdvax!bmcjmp