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A review by shelfofunread
The Stand by Stephen King
Did not finish book. Stopped at 32%.
I can admire what King is doing in The Stand and, at times, I was really enjoying this. But OMG if this book bogged down with just a ton of unnecessary detail. For ever snipped that is a moment of brilliant characterisation or powerful insight, I felt there were pages where nothing really happened in terms of either moving the action along or developing the characters. Add in that the female characters felt extremely underdeveloped and that I have over 700 pages left to go and I opted to nope out of this one.
Graphic: Death, Forced institutionalization, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, Religious bigotry, and Death of parent
Minor: Ableism, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, and War