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賮賷 丕賱亘賻丿亍 噩丕亍鬲 兀賷丕賲 丕賱賵亘丕亍貙 孬賲 鬲賱鬲賴丕 丕賱兀丨賱丕賲.
賷賴乇亘 乇噩賱 賲賳 賲禺鬲亘乇 賱賱鬲噩丕乇亘 丕賱亘賷賵賱賵噩賷丞貙 丨丕賲賱賸丕 賮賷 噩爻丿賴 卮賷卅賸丕 賮鬲丕賰賸丕 丿賵賳 兀賳 賷毓賱賲貨 爻賱丕賱丞 賲鬲丨賵乇丞 賲賳 冥賷乇賵爻 爻賷賯囟賷 毓賱賶 99% 賲賳 爻賰丕賳 丕賱毓丕賱賲 禺賱丕賱 丕賱兀爻丕亘賷毓 丕賱賯丕丿賲丞.
丕賱賳丕噩賵賳 賲賳 丕賱賲賵鬲 鬲毓賱賻賾賲賵丕 兀賳 賷賴丕亘賵丕 卮賷卅賸丕 丌禺乇 睾賷乇 丕賱賲賵鬲貙 丨賷孬 丕賳賯爻賲 丕賱毓丕賱賲 亘毓丿 丕賱噩丕卅丨丞 亘賷賳 丕孬賳賷賳: 丕賱兀賲 丕賱胤賷亘丞 兀亘丕噩賷賱貙 丕賱鬲賷 鬲丿毓賵 賱鬲兀爻賷爻 賲噩鬲賲毓 賴丕丿卅 賮賷 賰賵賱賵乇丕丿賵. 賵丕賱乇噩賱 丕賱睾丕賲囟貙 丕賱匕賷 賷爻賲賵賳賴 乇丕賳丿丕賱 賮賱丕噩貙 丕賱賲丕卮賷貙 丕賱乇噩賱 亘賱丕 賵噩賴貙 氐賵乇丞 丕賱卮賷胤丕賳 丕賱丨賷丞. 賷睾賵賷 丕賱囟毓賮丕亍 賱賷囟賲賴賲 廿賱賶 氐賮賴 賲賳匕乇賸丕: "毓丕噩賱賸丕 兀賵 丌噩賱賸丕貙 爻鬲丨丕乇亘賵賳 賱兀噩賱 丨賷賵丕鬲賰賲貙 賵賲丕 賴賵 兀賰孬乇 賲賳 丨賷賵丕鬲賰賲. 毓丕噩賱賸丕 兀賵 丌噩賱賸丕 爻鬲亘丿兀 丨乇亘 丕賱氐賲賵丿". 丨賷孬 爻賷鬲丨丿丿 賲氐賷乇 丕賱亘卮乇賷丞.
"丕賱氐賲賵丿"貙 乇賵丕賷丞 毓賳 丕賱兀毓丕噩賷亘 丕賱賲購賱睾賻賾夭丞貙 賵丕賱乇毓亘 丕賱匕賷 賱丕 賷購賯丕賵賻賲貙 賵丕賱賲賵丕噩赖丞 丕賱賲賱丨賲賷丞 亘賷賳 丕賱禺賷乇 賵丕賱卮乇.
賷賴乇亘 乇噩賱 賲賳 賲禺鬲亘乇 賱賱鬲噩丕乇亘 丕賱亘賷賵賱賵噩賷丞貙 丨丕賲賱賸丕 賮賷 噩爻丿賴 卮賷卅賸丕 賮鬲丕賰賸丕 丿賵賳 兀賳 賷毓賱賲貨 爻賱丕賱丞 賲鬲丨賵乇丞 賲賳 冥賷乇賵爻 爻賷賯囟賷 毓賱賶 99% 賲賳 爻賰丕賳 丕賱毓丕賱賲 禺賱丕賱 丕賱兀爻丕亘賷毓 丕賱賯丕丿賲丞.
丕賱賳丕噩賵賳 賲賳 丕賱賲賵鬲 鬲毓賱賻賾賲賵丕 兀賳 賷賴丕亘賵丕 卮賷卅賸丕 丌禺乇 睾賷乇 丕賱賲賵鬲貙 丨賷孬 丕賳賯爻賲 丕賱毓丕賱賲 亘毓丿 丕賱噩丕卅丨丞 亘賷賳 丕孬賳賷賳: 丕賱兀賲 丕賱胤賷亘丞 兀亘丕噩賷賱貙 丕賱鬲賷 鬲丿毓賵 賱鬲兀爻賷爻 賲噩鬲賲毓 賴丕丿卅 賮賷 賰賵賱賵乇丕丿賵. 賵丕賱乇噩賱 丕賱睾丕賲囟貙 丕賱匕賷 賷爻賲賵賳賴 乇丕賳丿丕賱 賮賱丕噩貙 丕賱賲丕卮賷貙 丕賱乇噩賱 亘賱丕 賵噩賴貙 氐賵乇丞 丕賱卮賷胤丕賳 丕賱丨賷丞. 賷睾賵賷 丕賱囟毓賮丕亍 賱賷囟賲賴賲 廿賱賶 氐賮賴 賲賳匕乇賸丕: "毓丕噩賱賸丕 兀賵 丌噩賱賸丕貙 爻鬲丨丕乇亘賵賳 賱兀噩賱 丨賷賵丕鬲賰賲貙 賵賲丕 賴賵 兀賰孬乇 賲賳 丨賷賵丕鬲賰賲. 毓丕噩賱賸丕 兀賵 丌噩賱賸丕 爻鬲亘丿兀 丨乇亘 丕賱氐賲賵丿". 丨賷孬 爻賷鬲丨丿丿 賲氐賷乇 丕賱亘卮乇賷丞.
"丕賱氐賲賵丿"貙 乇賵丕賷丞 毓賳 丕賱兀毓丕噩賷亘 丕賱賲購賱睾賻賾夭丞貙 賵丕賱乇毓亘 丕賱匕賷 賱丕 賷購賯丕賵賻賲貙 賵丕賱賲賵丕噩赖丞 丕賱賲賱丨賲賷丞 亘賷賳 丕賱禺賷乇 賵丕賱卮乇.
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Stephen King
2,580听books871k听followersStephen Edwin King was born the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. After his father left them when Stephen was two, he and his older brother, David, were raised by his mother. Parts of his childhood were spent in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where his father's family was at the time, and in Stratford, Connecticut. When Stephen was eleven, his mother brought her children back to Durham, Maine, for good. Her parents, Guy and Nellie Pillsbury, had become incapacitated with old age, and Ruth King was persuaded by her sisters to take over the physical care of them. Other family members provided a small house in Durham and financial support. After Stephen's grandparents passed away, Mrs. King found work in the kitchens of Pineland, a nearby residential facility for the mentally challenged.
Stephen attended the grammar school in Durham and Lisbon Falls High School, graduating in 1966. From his sophomore year at the University of Maine at Orono, he wrote a weekly column for the school newspaper, THE MAINE CAMPUS. He was also active in student politics, serving as a member of the Student Senate. He came to support the anti-war movement on the Orono campus, arriving at his stance from a conservative view that the war in Vietnam was unconstitutional. He graduated in 1970, with a B.A. in English and qualified to teach on the high school level. A draft board examination immediately post-graduation found him 4-F on grounds of high blood pressure, limited vision, flat feet, and punctured eardrums.
He met Tabitha Spruce in the stacks of the Fogler Library at the University, where they both worked as students; they married in January of 1971. As Stephen was unable to find placement as a teacher immediately, the Kings lived on his earnings as a laborer at an industrial laundry, and her student loan and savings, with an occasional boost from a short story sale to men's magazines.
Stephen made his first professional short story sale ("The Glass Floor") to Startling Mystery Stories in 1967. Throughout the early years of his marriage, he continued to sell stories to men's magazines. Many were gathered into the Night Shift collection or appeared in other anthologies.
In the fall of 1971, Stephen began teaching English at Hampden Academy, the public high school in Hampden, Maine. Writing in the evenings and on the weekends, he continued to produce short stories and to work on novels.
Stephen attended the grammar school in Durham and Lisbon Falls High School, graduating in 1966. From his sophomore year at the University of Maine at Orono, he wrote a weekly column for the school newspaper, THE MAINE CAMPUS. He was also active in student politics, serving as a member of the Student Senate. He came to support the anti-war movement on the Orono campus, arriving at his stance from a conservative view that the war in Vietnam was unconstitutional. He graduated in 1970, with a B.A. in English and qualified to teach on the high school level. A draft board examination immediately post-graduation found him 4-F on grounds of high blood pressure, limited vision, flat feet, and punctured eardrums.
He met Tabitha Spruce in the stacks of the Fogler Library at the University, where they both worked as students; they married in January of 1971. As Stephen was unable to find placement as a teacher immediately, the Kings lived on his earnings as a laborer at an industrial laundry, and her student loan and savings, with an occasional boost from a short story sale to men's magazines.
Stephen made his first professional short story sale ("The Glass Floor") to Startling Mystery Stories in 1967. Throughout the early years of his marriage, he continued to sell stories to men's magazines. Many were gathered into the Night Shift collection or appeared in other anthologies.
In the fall of 1971, Stephen began teaching English at Hampden Academy, the public high school in Hampden, Maine. Writing in the evenings and on the weekends, he continued to produce short stories and to work on novels.
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October 17, 2020
As soon as Chinese New Year got cancelled, I knew coronavirus was serious. Then the virus spread just like viruses do in every horror novel. So much so, in fact, that my immediate first thought was not to stock up on bottled water and toilet paper, but that it's finally time to read
The Stand.
Naturally I'm a Stephen King superfan, so it's strange I hadn't yet read what is commonly considered his magnum opus. In the back of my mind I knew there would be a right time to read it. I thought it might be after King's death (rue the day) or after reading everything else by him. As a way to fully compare it to the rest of his oeuvre. Clearly, however, a once-in-a-100-years pandemic was the sign I was looking for. This is it, folks. It's time.
As it turned out...maybe not the best idea. After seven months of living through this, there's a level of new normalcy. But in those early days, during constant uncertainty, seeing nearly 4,000 Americans die daily, entire nursing homes wiped out, entire families...it was scary as hell. Reading a scary book during a scary time isn't nearly as fun as it sounds.
I kept a reading journal throughout this time. Partly because I wanted to remember my reactions throughout such an enormous read, but also to monitor my mental state during a pandemic. Much of my journal entries relate to bad dreams, reactions to the news, or just keeping up with the death count. Many times Stephen King's world was a close parallel to the real world, resulting in much anxiety and much admiration for a writer capable of prophecy.
Here's the full, unabridged copy of my The Stand review journal:
01/27/2020 - What better time to see what The Stand is all about than during a global coronavirus pandemic? Given this book's epic length, I鈥檓 going to do a review journal with spoiler-free reactions over the many months I suspect it will take me to finish.
Three chapters in, and of course I鈥檓 hooked. Would expect nothing less from King. It may be a big ass book, but he doesn鈥檛 wait around to get started. For this rollercoaster, you skip the line and sit right up front. Clickity-clank, clickity-clank, then a straight drop. If the rest of the ride is this intense, and the coronavirus doesn鈥檛 kill me first, I鈥檓 going to be one frazzled mess by the end.
02/11/2020 - I've been reading this a while, but only at 10%. My main thought right now is that it's entirely unfair for Stephen King, probably writing most of this while still in his 20s, to be this good. Old characters, female characters, rich, poor--they all come across so real it's startling. How can one mind comprehend so much? How does he articulate it so well? He builds this terrifying world one person at a time and it's so much scarier that way. I'm in awe.
In other news, over 1,000 deaths have been attributed to the coronavirus. That's approximately 2-3% death rate for those infected. Better than the 99% death rate in The Stand, so there's a bright side. Of course, there are Internet rumors circulating that China is under-reporting and the real count is significantly higher.
02/28/2020 - Up to 15%. Starting to question my logic that reading this during a pandemic will make it more fun. I became physically disturbed last night while reading in bed. Like, on the brink of a panic attack. It's all getting too real. The careful pacing particularly. Stephen King, prophet that he is, describes our current world too well. One case spreads to ten, to fifty, to a thousand. The government doing all it can to prevent blame, to avoid panic. Of course that's making it worse.
For historical reference, what's going on right now is that there are more coronavirus cases outside of ground zero China than in. Last I heard that includes 56 countries, with rates rising every day. Other than China, Iran, Italy, South Korea and Japan seem to have it the worst. The W.H.O. just raised its risk assessment from "high" to "very high," which is their most extreme rating outside of declaring an outright pandemic. Saying the world is under pandemic essentially succumbs to the realization that the virus is unstoppable and everyone on the planet will eventually be exposed.
The death rate for the coronavirus is somewhere between 2-3%. I calculate that 2% of the world population is 154 million.
There's also been a case where someone previously "cured" of the coronavirus caught it a second time.
At home, our president has censored the CDC from making any announcements about the virus without approval by the vice president. When asked why the stock market is tanking, he blamed the recent Democratic debate.
Still unclear which is scarier right now, Stephen King's novel or reality.
03/03/2020 - have to share this frightening quote from the book before I forget:
The President is scheduled to speak tonight at 6:00 PST and his press secretary, Hubert Ross, has branded reports that the President will speak from a set mocked up to look like the Oval Office but actually deep in the White House bunker 鈥渉ysterical, vicious, and totally unfounded.鈥� Advanced copies of the President鈥檚 speech indicate that he will 鈥渟pank鈥� the American people for overreacting, and compare the current panic to that which followed Orson Welles鈥檚 鈥淲ar of the Worlds鈥� radio broadcast in the early 30s.
03/13/2020 - It's a misty Friday the 13th. I'm reading The Stand on my break, which happens to be at home now. The office is still open, but we've been instructed to work from home for the unforeseeable future. This doesn't come as a surprise since nearly all gatherings have been cancelled. Talk shows are without an audience, theme parks are closed, movie releases are all delayed. The upcoming presidential debate has been relocated to avoid cross-country travel. Entire countries are on lockdown.
It's all playing out eerily similar to Stephen King's doomsday scenario. The book, so far, has been a crystal ball for what happens next. Within hours of reading a passage where King's president delivers a cough-filled address stating that virus concerns are blown out of proportion and a vaccine will be delivered next week, Mr. Trump appears in the oval office and assures all Americans will have access to testing and free medical treatment. Surprise, surprise, both presidents lied.
What's still to be determined is just how deadly this virus is. On one hand you have 22 dead in a single Seattle nursing home, but on the other it's been suggested that hundreds of thousands of infected people are running around who don't even know it because they don't have symptoms or they aren't serious. It seems like either way I'm not personally at high risk, but I am worried about those who are.
These are certainly interesting times, to say the least.
03/19/2020 - Today marks my first full week of not leaving the house. There's little incentive to at this point. Movie theaters, restaurants, and book stores are all closed. And even if they weren't, the risk of getting COVID-19 isn't worth the reward. Fortunately we saw this coming and our house is stocked with food, water and other essentials. I'm thinking we can last another two weeks before needing to venture out again.
Being honest, I've struggled to pick up The Stand as of late. King usually delivers a delicious dose of escapism disaster, but under the circumstances it's all hitting too close to home. Like reading Cujo while living with a rabid dog.
I also think the last few chapters have been really boring, though. I'm at 26%, which probably translates to page 350ish, and the most recent characters have really snoozed the action. I know I still have a bazillion pages to go so I'll hold off before giving final judgement, but in this present state I wouldn't call it his best work. Of course this wouldn't be the first time that a King book had a lengthy lull before launching back into life-changing thrills.
We'll see how I feel after another week. Hopefully I'll have better things to say about The Stand, and will not have yet descended into madness.
03/28/2020 - The Stand did get good again. I鈥檓 at 35%. Been reading faster than normal because I have this conspiracy in my head that the coronavirus will finally end the day I finish reading this book. Unfortunately, even at my current pace, that might be several more months. I鈥檓 trying, world, I鈥檓 trying! Lol
As for current affairs, today is sadly noteworthy because over 2,000 people have officially died from COVID-19 in the United States. Just two days ago we hit 1,000 dead. The way things are going, it鈥檚 very realistic for those numbers to continue doubling every few days.
The virus itself is still somewhat mysterious. Is it airborne? Kinda yes, kinda no. How long can it stay on surfaces? Several days...ish. Can you get it from touching cardboard boxes? Maybe? Will warmer weather do any good? Don鈥檛 count on it. Who can you trust? No one, of course, because even the seemingly-healthy can spread it all around.
The president expects everything to be fixed in a few weeks so churches can be packed on Easter Sunday. We鈥檇 all get a good laugh out of a comment like that, except the situation is too dire.
What else has been going on? So much I can鈥檛 even keep track. The government somehow came up with $2,000,000,000,000+ to infuse the economy, save businesses and give people enough money to hopefully keep the lights on. Pretty cool, I guess, but I think we鈥檙e all wondering what will happen next if this goes on for several more months.
A number of celebrities and politicians have caught the virus, some have died from it. A grim reminder that this really does impact everyone. You can鈥檛 buy your way out of this mess.
04/16/2020 - Future me, whenever you decide to re-read The Stand (which I鈥檓 sure you will at some point) remember that the end of 鈥淏ook 1鈥� gets boring. But don鈥檛 give up, because the adventure really starts with 鈥淏ook 2.鈥� There鈥檚 a lot of direct homage to The Wizard of Oz, like there is in The Dark Tower series. Slightly cheesy, I suppose, but Oz is up there among the great quest novels so it鈥檚 worthy. And like Oz, King populates his journey with unexpected characters who become close to your heart. You鈥檒l fear for them, and really hope they don鈥檛 die鈥攅ven though in the back of your mind you suspect they will.
Hopefully you won鈥檛 live to see another global pandemic, but if you do鈥攄on鈥檛 read The Stand during it. You will be tempted, because it is perhaps the definitive literary achievement of pandemic stories, but it won鈥檛 make you feel better. It will make you feel worse.
If it鈥檚 been 19 days since you last updated your review/blog, remember that looking back at what鈥檚 happened in the world will be depressing. For example, 19 days ago only 1,000 Americans were documented as succumbing to the virus. Now that number is 34,000 and growing rapidly. Globally, there鈥檚 been 144,341 deaths. These numbers include only those who were officially counted, of course. The world is unfair, and you know that there are many more who society didn鈥檛 deem important enough to be included in the statistics.
One good thing about revisiting The Stand will be recognizing that no matter how horrible your current political situations are, remember that most political situations are horrible. In the 1970s, King imagined a president who refused to take any responsibility for the handling of a pandemic. Had King鈥檚 president lived long enough for the other branches of government to approve stimulus checks, there鈥檚 no doubt he would have demanded that those checks bear his name. Situations change, but people generally don鈥檛.
If you are absolutely determined to re-read The Stand during another pandemic, remember that it鈥檚 okay to take a break and read other books before coming back to it. I recommend gothic romances. They're a good melodramatic distraction from all the real drama swirling around.
05/06/2020 - What鈥檚 life like during a pandemic? I suppose people will ask years from now. For me, at least, the staying at home part isn鈥檛 bad. Where there鈥檚 books and Internet, I鈥檓 good. I鈥檓 still employed (from home) and taking online classes, so too busy to let staying in every night be oppressive.
That said, I still find myself suddenly panic-stricken. The smallest thing sends me a spiraling. Planning a birthday party and realizing it鈥檚 impossible amid a swirl of uncertainty. Will I still have a job in six months? Will it be safe to travel? Will the next wave of virus be even worse? Will I be dead by then鈥攚hat about my family?
Other things too. Watching a movie where people happily interact can be an escape, or a grim reminder that those moments were the before times鈥攖imes we may never see again.
Are my panic attacks unwarranted? Probably. Mostly. But how can I be sure?
Even if we do eventually return to normal, what鈥檚 the long-term psychological impact? Can I ever attend a concert or visit an amusement park without imagining a plague of death in the air?
The new developments haven鈥檛 been reassuring. It鈥檚 not just flu-like symptoms; the virus causes blood clots which can lead to fatal strokes. The strain that鈥檚 out now is more severe than the original strain. Maybe you get it once and you have antibodies, maybe you can get it an unlimited number of times.
The official death toll continues to rise to terrifying numbers, but they鈥檙e also saying the virus could have gone global as early as December 2019. How many COVID deaths haven't been counted? Hundreds? Thousands?
By the way, says some government leaders, we believe this virus was manufactured in a Chinese lab. Great. What does that mean? Was China reckless? Was this intentional and we have a nuclear war to look forward to?
Oh, and murder hornets.
Ugh!
Anyway, back to The Stand. I鈥檒l admit to still reading slowly. It鈥檚 good. Really good. But I can only handle small doses at a time. King is revving up to create the ultimate Good vs. Evil battle. Stakes of Biblical proportions. I still got about 500 pages to read, but I can see why people find that aspect of it appealing. I鈥檓 not convinced it鈥檚 Top 5 King material yet, but I鈥檓 willing to let the adventure roll on and be convinced otherwise.
06/04/2020 - Dreams play an important role in The Stand. Survivors of the super flu dream both of holy Mother Abigail and evil Randall Flagg, but where their sympathies lie determines their allegiance.
Since the beginning of the pandemic I鈥檝e had my own reoccurring nightmares. All of them some variation on the same theme: impending doom.
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Naturally I'm a Stephen King superfan, so it's strange I hadn't yet read what is commonly considered his magnum opus. In the back of my mind I knew there would be a right time to read it. I thought it might be after King's death (rue the day) or after reading everything else by him. As a way to fully compare it to the rest of his oeuvre. Clearly, however, a once-in-a-100-years pandemic was the sign I was looking for. This is it, folks. It's time.
As it turned out...maybe not the best idea. After seven months of living through this, there's a level of new normalcy. But in those early days, during constant uncertainty, seeing nearly 4,000 Americans die daily, entire nursing homes wiped out, entire families...it was scary as hell. Reading a scary book during a scary time isn't nearly as fun as it sounds.
I kept a reading journal throughout this time. Partly because I wanted to remember my reactions throughout such an enormous read, but also to monitor my mental state during a pandemic. Much of my journal entries relate to bad dreams, reactions to the news, or just keeping up with the death count. Many times Stephen King's world was a close parallel to the real world, resulting in much anxiety and much admiration for a writer capable of prophecy.
Here's the full, unabridged copy of my The Stand review journal:
01/27/2020 - What better time to see what The Stand is all about than during a global coronavirus pandemic? Given this book's epic length, I鈥檓 going to do a review journal with spoiler-free reactions over the many months I suspect it will take me to finish.
Three chapters in, and of course I鈥檓 hooked. Would expect nothing less from King. It may be a big ass book, but he doesn鈥檛 wait around to get started. For this rollercoaster, you skip the line and sit right up front. Clickity-clank, clickity-clank, then a straight drop. If the rest of the ride is this intense, and the coronavirus doesn鈥檛 kill me first, I鈥檓 going to be one frazzled mess by the end.
02/11/2020 - I've been reading this a while, but only at 10%. My main thought right now is that it's entirely unfair for Stephen King, probably writing most of this while still in his 20s, to be this good. Old characters, female characters, rich, poor--they all come across so real it's startling. How can one mind comprehend so much? How does he articulate it so well? He builds this terrifying world one person at a time and it's so much scarier that way. I'm in awe.
In other news, over 1,000 deaths have been attributed to the coronavirus. That's approximately 2-3% death rate for those infected. Better than the 99% death rate in The Stand, so there's a bright side. Of course, there are Internet rumors circulating that China is under-reporting and the real count is significantly higher.
02/28/2020 - Up to 15%. Starting to question my logic that reading this during a pandemic will make it more fun. I became physically disturbed last night while reading in bed. Like, on the brink of a panic attack. It's all getting too real. The careful pacing particularly. Stephen King, prophet that he is, describes our current world too well. One case spreads to ten, to fifty, to a thousand. The government doing all it can to prevent blame, to avoid panic. Of course that's making it worse.
For historical reference, what's going on right now is that there are more coronavirus cases outside of ground zero China than in. Last I heard that includes 56 countries, with rates rising every day. Other than China, Iran, Italy, South Korea and Japan seem to have it the worst. The W.H.O. just raised its risk assessment from "high" to "very high," which is their most extreme rating outside of declaring an outright pandemic. Saying the world is under pandemic essentially succumbs to the realization that the virus is unstoppable and everyone on the planet will eventually be exposed.
The death rate for the coronavirus is somewhere between 2-3%. I calculate that 2% of the world population is 154 million.
There's also been a case where someone previously "cured" of the coronavirus caught it a second time.
At home, our president has censored the CDC from making any announcements about the virus without approval by the vice president. When asked why the stock market is tanking, he blamed the recent Democratic debate.
Still unclear which is scarier right now, Stephen King's novel or reality.
03/03/2020 - have to share this frightening quote from the book before I forget:
The President is scheduled to speak tonight at 6:00 PST and his press secretary, Hubert Ross, has branded reports that the President will speak from a set mocked up to look like the Oval Office but actually deep in the White House bunker 鈥渉ysterical, vicious, and totally unfounded.鈥� Advanced copies of the President鈥檚 speech indicate that he will 鈥渟pank鈥� the American people for overreacting, and compare the current panic to that which followed Orson Welles鈥檚 鈥淲ar of the Worlds鈥� radio broadcast in the early 30s.
03/13/2020 - It's a misty Friday the 13th. I'm reading The Stand on my break, which happens to be at home now. The office is still open, but we've been instructed to work from home for the unforeseeable future. This doesn't come as a surprise since nearly all gatherings have been cancelled. Talk shows are without an audience, theme parks are closed, movie releases are all delayed. The upcoming presidential debate has been relocated to avoid cross-country travel. Entire countries are on lockdown.
It's all playing out eerily similar to Stephen King's doomsday scenario. The book, so far, has been a crystal ball for what happens next. Within hours of reading a passage where King's president delivers a cough-filled address stating that virus concerns are blown out of proportion and a vaccine will be delivered next week, Mr. Trump appears in the oval office and assures all Americans will have access to testing and free medical treatment. Surprise, surprise, both presidents lied.
What's still to be determined is just how deadly this virus is. On one hand you have 22 dead in a single Seattle nursing home, but on the other it's been suggested that hundreds of thousands of infected people are running around who don't even know it because they don't have symptoms or they aren't serious. It seems like either way I'm not personally at high risk, but I am worried about those who are.
These are certainly interesting times, to say the least.
03/19/2020 - Today marks my first full week of not leaving the house. There's little incentive to at this point. Movie theaters, restaurants, and book stores are all closed. And even if they weren't, the risk of getting COVID-19 isn't worth the reward. Fortunately we saw this coming and our house is stocked with food, water and other essentials. I'm thinking we can last another two weeks before needing to venture out again.
Being honest, I've struggled to pick up The Stand as of late. King usually delivers a delicious dose of escapism disaster, but under the circumstances it's all hitting too close to home. Like reading Cujo while living with a rabid dog.
I also think the last few chapters have been really boring, though. I'm at 26%, which probably translates to page 350ish, and the most recent characters have really snoozed the action. I know I still have a bazillion pages to go so I'll hold off before giving final judgement, but in this present state I wouldn't call it his best work. Of course this wouldn't be the first time that a King book had a lengthy lull before launching back into life-changing thrills.
We'll see how I feel after another week. Hopefully I'll have better things to say about The Stand, and will not have yet descended into madness.
03/28/2020 - The Stand did get good again. I鈥檓 at 35%. Been reading faster than normal because I have this conspiracy in my head that the coronavirus will finally end the day I finish reading this book. Unfortunately, even at my current pace, that might be several more months. I鈥檓 trying, world, I鈥檓 trying! Lol
As for current affairs, today is sadly noteworthy because over 2,000 people have officially died from COVID-19 in the United States. Just two days ago we hit 1,000 dead. The way things are going, it鈥檚 very realistic for those numbers to continue doubling every few days.
The virus itself is still somewhat mysterious. Is it airborne? Kinda yes, kinda no. How long can it stay on surfaces? Several days...ish. Can you get it from touching cardboard boxes? Maybe? Will warmer weather do any good? Don鈥檛 count on it. Who can you trust? No one, of course, because even the seemingly-healthy can spread it all around.
The president expects everything to be fixed in a few weeks so churches can be packed on Easter Sunday. We鈥檇 all get a good laugh out of a comment like that, except the situation is too dire.
What else has been going on? So much I can鈥檛 even keep track. The government somehow came up with $2,000,000,000,000+ to infuse the economy, save businesses and give people enough money to hopefully keep the lights on. Pretty cool, I guess, but I think we鈥檙e all wondering what will happen next if this goes on for several more months.
A number of celebrities and politicians have caught the virus, some have died from it. A grim reminder that this really does impact everyone. You can鈥檛 buy your way out of this mess.
04/16/2020 - Future me, whenever you decide to re-read The Stand (which I鈥檓 sure you will at some point) remember that the end of 鈥淏ook 1鈥� gets boring. But don鈥檛 give up, because the adventure really starts with 鈥淏ook 2.鈥� There鈥檚 a lot of direct homage to The Wizard of Oz, like there is in The Dark Tower series. Slightly cheesy, I suppose, but Oz is up there among the great quest novels so it鈥檚 worthy. And like Oz, King populates his journey with unexpected characters who become close to your heart. You鈥檒l fear for them, and really hope they don鈥檛 die鈥攅ven though in the back of your mind you suspect they will.
Hopefully you won鈥檛 live to see another global pandemic, but if you do鈥攄on鈥檛 read The Stand during it. You will be tempted, because it is perhaps the definitive literary achievement of pandemic stories, but it won鈥檛 make you feel better. It will make you feel worse.
If it鈥檚 been 19 days since you last updated your review/blog, remember that looking back at what鈥檚 happened in the world will be depressing. For example, 19 days ago only 1,000 Americans were documented as succumbing to the virus. Now that number is 34,000 and growing rapidly. Globally, there鈥檚 been 144,341 deaths. These numbers include only those who were officially counted, of course. The world is unfair, and you know that there are many more who society didn鈥檛 deem important enough to be included in the statistics.
One good thing about revisiting The Stand will be recognizing that no matter how horrible your current political situations are, remember that most political situations are horrible. In the 1970s, King imagined a president who refused to take any responsibility for the handling of a pandemic. Had King鈥檚 president lived long enough for the other branches of government to approve stimulus checks, there鈥檚 no doubt he would have demanded that those checks bear his name. Situations change, but people generally don鈥檛.
If you are absolutely determined to re-read The Stand during another pandemic, remember that it鈥檚 okay to take a break and read other books before coming back to it. I recommend gothic romances. They're a good melodramatic distraction from all the real drama swirling around.
05/06/2020 - What鈥檚 life like during a pandemic? I suppose people will ask years from now. For me, at least, the staying at home part isn鈥檛 bad. Where there鈥檚 books and Internet, I鈥檓 good. I鈥檓 still employed (from home) and taking online classes, so too busy to let staying in every night be oppressive.
That said, I still find myself suddenly panic-stricken. The smallest thing sends me a spiraling. Planning a birthday party and realizing it鈥檚 impossible amid a swirl of uncertainty. Will I still have a job in six months? Will it be safe to travel? Will the next wave of virus be even worse? Will I be dead by then鈥攚hat about my family?
Other things too. Watching a movie where people happily interact can be an escape, or a grim reminder that those moments were the before times鈥攖imes we may never see again.
Are my panic attacks unwarranted? Probably. Mostly. But how can I be sure?
Even if we do eventually return to normal, what鈥檚 the long-term psychological impact? Can I ever attend a concert or visit an amusement park without imagining a plague of death in the air?
The new developments haven鈥檛 been reassuring. It鈥檚 not just flu-like symptoms; the virus causes blood clots which can lead to fatal strokes. The strain that鈥檚 out now is more severe than the original strain. Maybe you get it once and you have antibodies, maybe you can get it an unlimited number of times.
The official death toll continues to rise to terrifying numbers, but they鈥檙e also saying the virus could have gone global as early as December 2019. How many COVID deaths haven't been counted? Hundreds? Thousands?
By the way, says some government leaders, we believe this virus was manufactured in a Chinese lab. Great. What does that mean? Was China reckless? Was this intentional and we have a nuclear war to look forward to?
Oh, and murder hornets.
Ugh!
Anyway, back to The Stand. I鈥檒l admit to still reading slowly. It鈥檚 good. Really good. But I can only handle small doses at a time. King is revving up to create the ultimate Good vs. Evil battle. Stakes of Biblical proportions. I still got about 500 pages to read, but I can see why people find that aspect of it appealing. I鈥檓 not convinced it鈥檚 Top 5 King material yet, but I鈥檓 willing to let the adventure roll on and be convinced otherwise.
06/04/2020 - Dreams play an important role in The Stand. Survivors of the super flu dream both of holy Mother Abigail and evil Randall Flagg, but where their sympathies lie determines their allegiance.
Since the beginning of the pandemic I鈥檝e had my own reoccurring nightmares. All of them some variation on the same theme: impending doom.
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September 10, 2015
You know what鈥檚 really scary? Getting sick while you鈥檙e reading the first part of The Stand. Just try running a fever, going through a box of tissues and guzzling the better part of a bottle of NyQuil while Stephen King describes the grisly deaths of almost every one on Earth from a superflu. On top of feeling like crap, you'll be terrified. Bonus!
After a bio-engineered virus that acts like a revved up cold escapes from a U.S. government lab, it takes only weeks for almost all of humanity to succumb to the disease. A handful of survivors are mysteriously immune and begin having strange dreams, some of which are about a very old woman called Mother Abigail asking them to come see her. More disturbing are nightmares about a mysterious figure named Randall Flagg also known as the Dark Man or the Walkin鈥� Dude.
As they make their way through an America almost entirely devoid of people, the survivors begin to unite and realize that the flu was just the beginning of their problems. While some are drawn to the saintly Mother Abigail in Boulder Colorado who tells them that they have been chosen by God, others have flocked to Flagg in Las Vegas who is determined to annihilate all those who refuse to pledge their allegiance to him.
If King would have just written a book about a world destroyed by plague and a small number of people struggling in the aftermath, it probably would have been a compelling story. What sets this one apart is the supernatural element. Flagg is the embodiment of evil and chaos. He's a mysterious figure who has been giving the wrong people the push needed for them to make things worse for everyone, and he sees the plague as his chance to fulfill his own destiny as a wrecker of humanity.
And on the other side, we have God. Yep, that God. The Big Cheese himself. But this isn鈥檛 some kindly figure in a white robe with a white beard or George Burns or Morgan Freeman. This is the Old Testament God who demands obedience and worship while usually rewarding his most faithful servants with gruesome deaths.
King calls this a tale of dark Christianity in his forward, and one of the things I love about this book is that it does feel like a Biblical story, complete with contradictions and a moves-in-mysterious-ways factor. Stories don鈥檛 get much more epic than this, and King does a great job of depicting the meltdown of the world through the stories of a variety of relateable characters. (Larry Underwood remains among my favorite King creations.)
One of my few complaints is that this features a lot of King鈥檚 anti-technology themes that he鈥檇 use in several books like Cell or The Dark Tower series. We鈥檙e told repeatedly that the 鈥榦ld ways鈥� like trying to get the power back on in Boulder are a 鈥榙eath trip鈥�. The good guys gather in the Rocky Mountains, but if they try to get the juice going so they won鈥檛 freeze to death in the winter, they鈥檙e somehow acting in defiance of God鈥檚 will and returning to the bad habits? Not all tech is bad tech, Mr. King. Nature is a bitch and will kill your ass quicker than the superflu.
Here鈥檚 another thing I鈥檓 not wild about. When this was published in the late 鈥�70s, the bean counters at King鈥檚 publishers had decided that the book as written would be too pricey in hardback and no one would pay a whopping $13 for a Stephen King hardback. So King cut about three hundred pages.
Around 1990 after it had become apparent that King could publish his shopping list as a best seller, he put those pages back in and released the uncut version. Which I鈥檓 fine with. The original stuff was cut for a financial reason, not an editorial one, and there鈥檚 some very nice bits of story added in. If King would have stopped there, we would have had a great definitive final version as originally created by the author.
Unfortunately, he seemed to catch a case of Lucasitis and decided to update the story a bit and change its original time frame from 1980 to 1990. I鈥檓 not sure why that seemed necessary to him. Yes, the book was a bit dated by then, but it was of its time. He didn鈥檛 rewrite the text (Which I鈥檓 grateful for.), but just stuck in some references to Madonna and Ronald Reagan and Spuds McKenzie.
This led to a whole bunch of anachronisms. Would students in 1990 call soldiers 鈥檞ar pigs鈥�? Someone in New York picks up a phone book to look up the number to call an ambulance instead of dialing 911? A song called Baby, Can You Dig Your Man is a huge hit? None of it quite fits together. There's also a layer of male chauvinism and lack of diversity that you can overlook in a book written in the late '70s, but seems out of place for a book set and updated for 1990.
The things that irritate me are still far outweighed by one of my favorite stories of an apocalyptic battle between good and evil.
I鈥檓 also glad to get a long overdue audio edition of this book. Great narration and 40+ hours of end of the world horror make for a damn fine listening experience.
After a bio-engineered virus that acts like a revved up cold escapes from a U.S. government lab, it takes only weeks for almost all of humanity to succumb to the disease. A handful of survivors are mysteriously immune and begin having strange dreams, some of which are about a very old woman called Mother Abigail asking them to come see her. More disturbing are nightmares about a mysterious figure named Randall Flagg also known as the Dark Man or the Walkin鈥� Dude.
As they make their way through an America almost entirely devoid of people, the survivors begin to unite and realize that the flu was just the beginning of their problems. While some are drawn to the saintly Mother Abigail in Boulder Colorado who tells them that they have been chosen by God, others have flocked to Flagg in Las Vegas who is determined to annihilate all those who refuse to pledge their allegiance to him.
If King would have just written a book about a world destroyed by plague and a small number of people struggling in the aftermath, it probably would have been a compelling story. What sets this one apart is the supernatural element. Flagg is the embodiment of evil and chaos. He's a mysterious figure who has been giving the wrong people the push needed for them to make things worse for everyone, and he sees the plague as his chance to fulfill his own destiny as a wrecker of humanity.
And on the other side, we have God. Yep, that God. The Big Cheese himself. But this isn鈥檛 some kindly figure in a white robe with a white beard or George Burns or Morgan Freeman. This is the Old Testament God who demands obedience and worship while usually rewarding his most faithful servants with gruesome deaths.
King calls this a tale of dark Christianity in his forward, and one of the things I love about this book is that it does feel like a Biblical story, complete with contradictions and a moves-in-mysterious-ways factor. Stories don鈥檛 get much more epic than this, and King does a great job of depicting the meltdown of the world through the stories of a variety of relateable characters. (Larry Underwood remains among my favorite King creations.)
One of my few complaints is that this features a lot of King鈥檚 anti-technology themes that he鈥檇 use in several books like Cell or The Dark Tower series. We鈥檙e told repeatedly that the 鈥榦ld ways鈥� like trying to get the power back on in Boulder are a 鈥榙eath trip鈥�. The good guys gather in the Rocky Mountains, but if they try to get the juice going so they won鈥檛 freeze to death in the winter, they鈥檙e somehow acting in defiance of God鈥檚 will and returning to the bad habits? Not all tech is bad tech, Mr. King. Nature is a bitch and will kill your ass quicker than the superflu.
Here鈥檚 another thing I鈥檓 not wild about. When this was published in the late 鈥�70s, the bean counters at King鈥檚 publishers had decided that the book as written would be too pricey in hardback and no one would pay a whopping $13 for a Stephen King hardback. So King cut about three hundred pages.
Around 1990 after it had become apparent that King could publish his shopping list as a best seller, he put those pages back in and released the uncut version. Which I鈥檓 fine with. The original stuff was cut for a financial reason, not an editorial one, and there鈥檚 some very nice bits of story added in. If King would have stopped there, we would have had a great definitive final version as originally created by the author.
Unfortunately, he seemed to catch a case of Lucasitis and decided to update the story a bit and change its original time frame from 1980 to 1990. I鈥檓 not sure why that seemed necessary to him. Yes, the book was a bit dated by then, but it was of its time. He didn鈥檛 rewrite the text (Which I鈥檓 grateful for.), but just stuck in some references to Madonna and Ronald Reagan and Spuds McKenzie.
This led to a whole bunch of anachronisms. Would students in 1990 call soldiers 鈥檞ar pigs鈥�? Someone in New York picks up a phone book to look up the number to call an ambulance instead of dialing 911? A song called Baby, Can You Dig Your Man is a huge hit? None of it quite fits together. There's also a layer of male chauvinism and lack of diversity that you can overlook in a book written in the late '70s, but seems out of place for a book set and updated for 1990.
The things that irritate me are still far outweighed by one of my favorite stories of an apocalyptic battle between good and evil.
I鈥檓 also glad to get a long overdue audio edition of this book. Great narration and 40+ hours of end of the world horror make for a damn fine listening experience.
October 21, 2024
I loved this book. I read the uncut version years back when I lived in the States, maybe in 2002. I loved everything about it except the ending. I'm a big fan of Stephen King and have 23 of his books on my shelf. Stephen King can only write a good ending to a book by chance. That said, the first 95% of his books is generally so good that I can forgive the ending.
One of the things I like best about King's writing is the way he breathes life into characters and every day settings. For a horror writer this is crucial. You have to make everything utterly believable so that when the monster comes and the stakes are raised the reader feels it's all real and cares about what's at stake. The short story, The Body, on which the film Stand By Me is based is a great example of King's genius at making complicated, flawed, awkward, real characters.
Anyway, The Stand, is not typical King as the main core of it is an apocalypse, and the super natural horror element is rather secondary and low key for most of the story. The apocalypse is a believable one, a flu pandemic with a mortality rate so high that only a tiny fraction of the population survives. King tears the world down in terrifying slow motion and playing on our fears of pandemics it is at once horrifying, touching, and fascinating. King is great at slowly pulling everyday reality apart.
The cast of characters who survive this catastrophe is sizeable, diverse, and interesting. A pyromaniac with an array of mental issues, a man with learning disabilities, a singer who was in the act of breaking big, others more ordinary but no less fascinating under pressure.
The literary institutions of this world sniff at horror writers as much as they do fantasy writers but I find King's prose and insights into the human condition to be as powerful as those in many of the more plodding works of literary fiction I've read. Readers often don't notice it because it's not what they came for. But King is interested in people and how pressure acts on them.
鈥淣o one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side. Or you don't.鈥�
King shows us the inception of the disaster, plots its course through his scattered and varied cast, and slowly brings those actors together into two communities in the aftermath.
The two communities we focus on centre on the supernatural aspect of the book, one of them is home to the 'good' folk, and the other to the 'bad'. The bad camp is ruled over by Randal Flagg who roams through the pages of quite a few of King's books, The Dark Tower in particular.
The book concludes with the fight between these two camps and ultimately the ending was a touch unsatisfying for me, though not awful by any means. The journey to that ending however was a fascinating thrill ride and well worth the price of entry!
If you've not tried Stephen King before then this is a fine place to jump in - be warned though, it is perhaps the longest of his books with a page count to rival GRRM at his most long winded.
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One of the things I like best about King's writing is the way he breathes life into characters and every day settings. For a horror writer this is crucial. You have to make everything utterly believable so that when the monster comes and the stakes are raised the reader feels it's all real and cares about what's at stake. The short story, The Body, on which the film Stand By Me is based is a great example of King's genius at making complicated, flawed, awkward, real characters.
Anyway, The Stand, is not typical King as the main core of it is an apocalypse, and the super natural horror element is rather secondary and low key for most of the story. The apocalypse is a believable one, a flu pandemic with a mortality rate so high that only a tiny fraction of the population survives. King tears the world down in terrifying slow motion and playing on our fears of pandemics it is at once horrifying, touching, and fascinating. King is great at slowly pulling everyday reality apart.
The cast of characters who survive this catastrophe is sizeable, diverse, and interesting. A pyromaniac with an array of mental issues, a man with learning disabilities, a singer who was in the act of breaking big, others more ordinary but no less fascinating under pressure.
The literary institutions of this world sniff at horror writers as much as they do fantasy writers but I find King's prose and insights into the human condition to be as powerful as those in many of the more plodding works of literary fiction I've read. Readers often don't notice it because it's not what they came for. But King is interested in people and how pressure acts on them.
鈥淣o one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side. Or you don't.鈥�
King shows us the inception of the disaster, plots its course through his scattered and varied cast, and slowly brings those actors together into two communities in the aftermath.
The two communities we focus on centre on the supernatural aspect of the book, one of them is home to the 'good' folk, and the other to the 'bad'. The bad camp is ruled over by Randal Flagg who roams through the pages of quite a few of King's books, The Dark Tower in particular.
The book concludes with the fight between these two camps and ultimately the ending was a touch unsatisfying for me, though not awful by any means. The journey to that ending however was a fascinating thrill ride and well worth the price of entry!
If you've not tried Stephen King before then this is a fine place to jump in - be warned though, it is perhaps the longest of his books with a page count to rival GRRM at his most long winded.
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March 5, 2013
Dear Stephen,
I'm sorry. I just don't like you in that way. I know we've been friends for a long time, but I just never developed those kind of feelings for you, even after eleven hundred pages. I feel like we only moved forward in fits and stops, and we were just never able to sustain a kind of even-handed development of the kind of chills and thrills a person really likes. Shock someone enough times with snot running out of their nose, and it just becomes a little meaningless. And there are only so many ways to view a dead body before one gets kind of numb instead of apprehensive. Using the journal device to move things forward seems a little crude, when what we really need to do is talk.
I have to confess, I've felt kind of uncomfortable watching you struggle with religion and spirituality. You sparked my interest when you posited that this might be the battle between the age of reason and that of "irrationalism," and the dark man was the last vestige of doomed rationalism. I thought for a few minutes we were headed somewhere really special, but you didn't seem very confident, and the theme fell apart.
I will say there were a few surprises along the way, which I found pleasant. I appreciate you avoiding the obvious character arcs, especially when it comes to redemption. I was glad to meet most of your friends, especially Joe/Leo, Stu and even Kojak. Your military friends bored me out, though, especially Starkey; I don't even get why you like spending any time with those guys. Such a bunch of fossils. I do have to say, I was really impressed with how you must have studied disease modelling and progression--I almost felt like was there.
Sometimes I get the feeling that you don't really see me as a person, just a baby-maker. You even have an extended soliloquy about it, as if I wasn't even here reading your words. It bothers me, because you took the time to develop nuanced male relationships (Larry, Stu, Lloyd), but the women were about reproducing or were cannon fodder. Since you allowed technology to remain, I'm not going to buy into your lowest most-functional society mentality, no matter how many sociological theories you throw at me. And then there's the elderly black woman as representation of all that's spiritual. Perhaps even Mother Earth? If I'm rolling my eyes, it's because it's another aspect of compartmentalizing women as either maiden, matron or crone, and people of color as closer to God(s)(being savage and all, as you so helpfully illustrate in your "The Circle Closes" afterward). Honestly, it's kind of juvenile, and a little disappointing when I know you are capable of so much more.
It's time for me to move on. I'm sure you'll find someone special eventually, Stephen, because you are such a really great guy. And so unusual, too.
With Three Stars,
Your Friend Always.
Cross posted at
February 15, 2019
M-O-O-N. That spells 鈥淒amn, what a great book!鈥�
I knew King had it in him, I am a fan of his brilliant 1977 haunted house thriller , but I did not expect this.
The best post apocalyptic novel ever?
Maybe, that is a broad category teaming with great work from talented writers, but King鈥檚 The Stand is an epic, genre defining work.
My friend Michael has a profile statement, something to the effect of finding our next 5 star rating. I like that sentiment, and am excited by the opportunity that our next favorite book is out there waiting to be read; a new best friend of an author to whom we鈥檝e yet to be introduced. Here鈥檚 mine. I鈥檓 late to the party, just reading this for the first time in 2015. I think I was always a little intimidated by the length. It鈥檚 a beast, and I was a glutton for punishment reading the 1990 extended version, weighing in at a heavyweight 1153 pages. But it鈥檚 a runaway train, grabbing the reader up and taking him or her where Stephen King wants to take you.
Yes, it鈥檚 a book about a devastating plague, but also so, so much more. King weaves in an allegory about the viruses amongst us. There is also the spiritual quality of the book, King shows how we are sinners in the hands of an angry God, and that dreamers will survive 鈥� and survivors can still dream.
I could not help making a comparison with the series, and associating Flagg to Nicholai Carpathia 鈥� though King鈥檚 characterization is far more complex and well rounded, and like Milton鈥檚 Satan, the most interesting character here is the villain. This makes me appreciate his series and I want to search out Flagg and read more about him.
This is also an American epic and in its context an American eulogy. King shows us the good the bad and the ugly of what we are and what we can be. An observant reader will see references to Ursula K. LeGuin (word for world is woods), to Jim Morison, Edgar Allan Poe, Woody Guthrie, and hell even Rod McKuen.
I know Mr. King and have enjoyed many of his works and I have now been amazed by his finest.
I knew King had it in him, I am a fan of his brilliant 1977 haunted house thriller , but I did not expect this.
The best post apocalyptic novel ever?
Maybe, that is a broad category teaming with great work from talented writers, but King鈥檚 The Stand is an epic, genre defining work.
My friend Michael has a profile statement, something to the effect of finding our next 5 star rating. I like that sentiment, and am excited by the opportunity that our next favorite book is out there waiting to be read; a new best friend of an author to whom we鈥檝e yet to be introduced. Here鈥檚 mine. I鈥檓 late to the party, just reading this for the first time in 2015. I think I was always a little intimidated by the length. It鈥檚 a beast, and I was a glutton for punishment reading the 1990 extended version, weighing in at a heavyweight 1153 pages. But it鈥檚 a runaway train, grabbing the reader up and taking him or her where Stephen King wants to take you.
Yes, it鈥檚 a book about a devastating plague, but also so, so much more. King weaves in an allegory about the viruses amongst us. There is also the spiritual quality of the book, King shows how we are sinners in the hands of an angry God, and that dreamers will survive 鈥� and survivors can still dream.
I could not help making a comparison with the series, and associating Flagg to Nicholai Carpathia 鈥� though King鈥檚 characterization is far more complex and well rounded, and like Milton鈥檚 Satan, the most interesting character here is the villain. This makes me appreciate his series and I want to search out Flagg and read more about him.
This is also an American epic and in its context an American eulogy. King shows us the good the bad and the ugly of what we are and what we can be. An observant reader will see references to Ursula K. LeGuin (word for world is woods), to Jim Morison, Edgar Allan Poe, Woody Guthrie, and hell even Rod McKuen.
I know Mr. King and have enjoyed many of his works and I have now been amazed by his finest.
March 25, 2024
鈥淭he Stand鈥� by Stephen King is a novel I regret not reading sooner. I knew going into this that greatness was awaiting since many readers consider this one of King鈥檚 best books ever written and let me tell you, it delivered and then some. In case you didn鈥檛 know, I have officially decided to start my journey to The Dark Tower and wanted to do a ton of pre-reading to ensure I get the complete experience the best I can.
I am conquering The Dark Tower by reading all these books leading up to it. In case you want to know what I think the best reading route to go is, here鈥檚 how I鈥檓 reading everything after weeks of research and asking several Constant Readers for their feedback...
The Stand
The Eyes of the Dragon
Insomnia
Hearts in Atlantis
鈥楽alem鈥檚 Lot
The Talisman
Black House
Everything's Eventual (The Little Sisters of Eluria)
The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger
The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three
The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands
Charlie the Choo-Choo
The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass
The Dark Tower: The Wind Through the Keyhole
The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla
The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah
The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower
I know, I know. 17 books. I have thousands of hours of reading ahead of me but if 鈥淭he Stand鈥� is any indication, this will easily be one of the best reading experiences of my life. I鈥檓 super excited to finally read all these books (some I have already read) and my goal is to be finished before King鈥檚 next new anthology 鈥淵ou Like It Darker鈥� comes out on May 21, 2024.
Before I jump into my review, I found a ton of trigger warnings while reading as many of these are very graphic. They were鈥�
- Cancer
- Suicide
- Abortion
- Domestic abuse (physical)
- Racism
- Pandemic
- Quarantine
- Dead animals (cars, dogs, kittens, rabbits, and rats)
- Drugs
- Drinking and driving
- Parental abuse (mental and physical)
- Vaccination
- Rape
- Bullying
- Dead children
- Burning churches
- Homophobia
- Death of a child
- Self-harm
- Cannibalism
- Violence against women
- Religion
- Politics
- Violence against animals (hens and chickens)
If any of these triggers you, please do not read this novel. 鈥淭he Stand鈥� is hands down a horror masterpiece and at this point in my life, the longest book I have ever read. This tome is 1,348 pages deep and I know is an intimidating number to many but it鈥檚 worth it.
There are two versions of 鈥淭he Stand鈥� which is the original one that was released and truncated in 1975 due to how much of a behemoth this novel was at the time and a newly re-released 鈥渃omplete and uncut鈥� one in 1990. I went with the latter since King re-added over 400 pages of text that were removed and revised everything to unleash the true vision of this novel he wanted. I love how King wrote about that to start this novel off to keep it real with his Constant Readers. It is officially King鈥檚 longest stand-alone novel in his catalog and will go down in history as one of the greatest horror novels ever written.
King held nothing back in 鈥淭he Stand鈥� as the intense opening set the groundwork for one hell of a ride. I loved the tension and suspense right off the bat and instantly loved all the unique characters I met along the way.
Speaking of which, there are a ton of characters in this novel to the point where I had to take quick notes on who is who due to a lengthy list of people. I didn鈥檛 want to get confused but thanks to my notes, it was pretty easy to remember everyone and enjoy everything in stride. I also loved all the references King had in here from my hometown of Queens here in New York, Freddy Krueger, The Lord of the Rings, Shirley Jackson, Norman Bates, and many more.
This novel was divided into three books all of which contained a bunch of mini-stories in addition to the main story. It was just a brilliant way of formatting everything so you are still kept in the loop of what was going on with the main characters and also all these side characters. I loved how you never knew who could end up being one to keep an eye on as their story progressed.
There weren鈥檛 any boring parts as all the dialogue, situations, and horror were top-notch. King is the master of subtle horror that hits you and continues bringing that terrifying dread of what was ultimately going on. Needless to say, this novel hit home with me and probably many other readers since it鈥檚 eerily similar to the whole COVID-19 pandemic we dealt with a few years ago. Imagine that but taken to extreme new heights in a way only King can deliver.
All the descriptions, stories, atmosphere, and overall horror are perfection. I couldn鈥檛 put this novel down as it took me over two weeks to read and I even dedicated my days off from work to get through it because it鈥檚 such a massive and addictive novel. It鈥檚 great and I assure you if you鈥檙e one of those readers that think this book is too big or would take forever to read, it鈥檚 worth it if you chip away each day and don鈥檛 rush anything. Take your time reading this as it鈥檚 a novel you will never forget for the rest of your life.
Another nice touch was how King added graphic illustrations to this novel as you read to capture some pivotal (and creepy) moments to add to this epic reading experience. I love when authors do this since it brings me back to my teenage days of reading horror paperback books where every chapter had a graphic illustration or they were sprinkled in between chapters.
King did not hold back when it came to all the horror, gore, and creepiness. Some of which I couldn鈥檛 believe and made many weird faces while reading as I started to put the pieces together to the mystery of this disease. Once that was revealed, a whole new part of this novel opened up to situations I never read before in a horror novel.
Once all the characters were finally connected and the race to the end was on, this is where 鈥淭he Stand鈥� truly delivered. There鈥檚 even more horror including a bloodbath of an action scene that was unexpected and pretty intense with some of the main characters. Out of this impressive roster of characters, while hard to choose, I loved Frannie, Stu, Nick, and of course, Kojak the dog. I can鈥檛 also leave out the main antagonist who had some scenes that sent chills down my spine鈥� the infamous 鈥淢an in Black鈥� Randall Flagg.
This was the first time I鈥檝e ever read a novel involving Flagg and wow, I can see why he is despised by so many. Some of the situations involving Flagg were insane and now that I got my introduction to him, I鈥檓 excited to see what happens in the future with such an iconic villain in King鈥檚 Dark Tower universe.
The climactic race to the end was monumental as King takes the famous 鈥済ood vs. bad鈥� angle to new horrific heights. Don鈥檛 worry, I won鈥檛 spoil anything for you but all the plot twists and turns led to an awesome drop-the-mic ending. It was so good that I went back to re-read the last few chapters again because they were outstanding. I never saw that coming and am beyond satisfied with how it ended. The range of emotions from sadness, laughter, rage, disbelief, hope, and heartwarming moments were just some of what I experienced while reading this novel. All of which will last a lifetime with me as it was such a powerhouse of a novel.
I give 鈥淭he Stand鈥� by Stephen King a 5/5 and would give it a 10/5 if I could because this was by far one of the best novels I鈥檝e ever read by King and in my entire life. The incredible story, memorable characters, a villain for the ages, brutal horror that only King can deliver, and the power of hope led to such a powerful read. Now, if you鈥檒l excuse me, I have to prepare for the next step in my journey to The Dark Tower as I plan to start 鈥淭he Eyes of the Dragon鈥� next.
Cough.
I am conquering The Dark Tower by reading all these books leading up to it. In case you want to know what I think the best reading route to go is, here鈥檚 how I鈥檓 reading everything after weeks of research and asking several Constant Readers for their feedback...
The Stand
The Eyes of the Dragon
Insomnia
Hearts in Atlantis
鈥楽alem鈥檚 Lot
The Talisman
Black House
Everything's Eventual (The Little Sisters of Eluria)
The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger
The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three
The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands
Charlie the Choo-Choo
The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass
The Dark Tower: The Wind Through the Keyhole
The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla
The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah
The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower
I know, I know. 17 books. I have thousands of hours of reading ahead of me but if 鈥淭he Stand鈥� is any indication, this will easily be one of the best reading experiences of my life. I鈥檓 super excited to finally read all these books (some I have already read) and my goal is to be finished before King鈥檚 next new anthology 鈥淵ou Like It Darker鈥� comes out on May 21, 2024.
Before I jump into my review, I found a ton of trigger warnings while reading as many of these are very graphic. They were鈥�
- Cancer
- Suicide
- Abortion
- Domestic abuse (physical)
- Racism
- Pandemic
- Quarantine
- Dead animals (cars, dogs, kittens, rabbits, and rats)
- Drugs
- Drinking and driving
- Parental abuse (mental and physical)
- Vaccination
- Rape
- Bullying
- Dead children
- Burning churches
- Homophobia
- Death of a child
- Self-harm
- Cannibalism
- Violence against women
- Religion
- Politics
- Violence against animals (hens and chickens)
If any of these triggers you, please do not read this novel. 鈥淭he Stand鈥� is hands down a horror masterpiece and at this point in my life, the longest book I have ever read. This tome is 1,348 pages deep and I know is an intimidating number to many but it鈥檚 worth it.
There are two versions of 鈥淭he Stand鈥� which is the original one that was released and truncated in 1975 due to how much of a behemoth this novel was at the time and a newly re-released 鈥渃omplete and uncut鈥� one in 1990. I went with the latter since King re-added over 400 pages of text that were removed and revised everything to unleash the true vision of this novel he wanted. I love how King wrote about that to start this novel off to keep it real with his Constant Readers. It is officially King鈥檚 longest stand-alone novel in his catalog and will go down in history as one of the greatest horror novels ever written.
King held nothing back in 鈥淭he Stand鈥� as the intense opening set the groundwork for one hell of a ride. I loved the tension and suspense right off the bat and instantly loved all the unique characters I met along the way.
Speaking of which, there are a ton of characters in this novel to the point where I had to take quick notes on who is who due to a lengthy list of people. I didn鈥檛 want to get confused but thanks to my notes, it was pretty easy to remember everyone and enjoy everything in stride. I also loved all the references King had in here from my hometown of Queens here in New York, Freddy Krueger, The Lord of the Rings, Shirley Jackson, Norman Bates, and many more.
This novel was divided into three books all of which contained a bunch of mini-stories in addition to the main story. It was just a brilliant way of formatting everything so you are still kept in the loop of what was going on with the main characters and also all these side characters. I loved how you never knew who could end up being one to keep an eye on as their story progressed.
There weren鈥檛 any boring parts as all the dialogue, situations, and horror were top-notch. King is the master of subtle horror that hits you and continues bringing that terrifying dread of what was ultimately going on. Needless to say, this novel hit home with me and probably many other readers since it鈥檚 eerily similar to the whole COVID-19 pandemic we dealt with a few years ago. Imagine that but taken to extreme new heights in a way only King can deliver.
All the descriptions, stories, atmosphere, and overall horror are perfection. I couldn鈥檛 put this novel down as it took me over two weeks to read and I even dedicated my days off from work to get through it because it鈥檚 such a massive and addictive novel. It鈥檚 great and I assure you if you鈥檙e one of those readers that think this book is too big or would take forever to read, it鈥檚 worth it if you chip away each day and don鈥檛 rush anything. Take your time reading this as it鈥檚 a novel you will never forget for the rest of your life.
Another nice touch was how King added graphic illustrations to this novel as you read to capture some pivotal (and creepy) moments to add to this epic reading experience. I love when authors do this since it brings me back to my teenage days of reading horror paperback books where every chapter had a graphic illustration or they were sprinkled in between chapters.
King did not hold back when it came to all the horror, gore, and creepiness. Some of which I couldn鈥檛 believe and made many weird faces while reading as I started to put the pieces together to the mystery of this disease. Once that was revealed, a whole new part of this novel opened up to situations I never read before in a horror novel.
Once all the characters were finally connected and the race to the end was on, this is where 鈥淭he Stand鈥� truly delivered. There鈥檚 even more horror including a bloodbath of an action scene that was unexpected and pretty intense with some of the main characters. Out of this impressive roster of characters, while hard to choose, I loved Frannie, Stu, Nick, and of course, Kojak the dog. I can鈥檛 also leave out the main antagonist who had some scenes that sent chills down my spine鈥� the infamous 鈥淢an in Black鈥� Randall Flagg.
This was the first time I鈥檝e ever read a novel involving Flagg and wow, I can see why he is despised by so many. Some of the situations involving Flagg were insane and now that I got my introduction to him, I鈥檓 excited to see what happens in the future with such an iconic villain in King鈥檚 Dark Tower universe.
The climactic race to the end was monumental as King takes the famous 鈥済ood vs. bad鈥� angle to new horrific heights. Don鈥檛 worry, I won鈥檛 spoil anything for you but all the plot twists and turns led to an awesome drop-the-mic ending. It was so good that I went back to re-read the last few chapters again because they were outstanding. I never saw that coming and am beyond satisfied with how it ended. The range of emotions from sadness, laughter, rage, disbelief, hope, and heartwarming moments were just some of what I experienced while reading this novel. All of which will last a lifetime with me as it was such a powerhouse of a novel.
I give 鈥淭he Stand鈥� by Stephen King a 5/5 and would give it a 10/5 if I could because this was by far one of the best novels I鈥檝e ever read by King and in my entire life. The incredible story, memorable characters, a villain for the ages, brutal horror that only King can deliver, and the power of hope led to such a powerful read. Now, if you鈥檒l excuse me, I have to prepare for the next step in my journey to The Dark Tower as I plan to start 鈥淭he Eyes of the Dragon鈥� next.
Cough.
October 4, 2021
Another flashback Saturday and I鈥檓 holding unabridged author鈥檚 cut version which weighs in at 1141 pages. Yes I know, only holding a book that you started equals to about 5 hours training exercise is challenging thing and of course reading a book about highly contagious superflu which escaped from US Army biological weapons facility in the middle of the pandemic makes you think I鈥檓 out of my mind. ( Of course I am! If you check a few reviews of mine, you already found out my true mental state!)
I know I鈥檓 doing the wrong thing at the worst time but I honestly say: this is my favorite King book and at least rereading first 250 pages ( in my opinion those are the best parts of the book) made me remember why Mr. King earned his throne at the literature kingdom.
The first edition of the book was published on 1978 and at the new editions, the cultural references have been changed to connect with the new generation readers. ( I also read most of the editions) This is my routine at the 8 to 12 hours international flights: I cannot sleep during the flight so I carry another edition with me to enjoy my vacation accompanied with lots of Bloody Mary.
When I dive into the chapters and read about Texan Stu, very pregnant Frannie, chubby Harold, rising star Larry, I start to feel at home. ( I don鈥檛 know why a biblical story made me feel like that but this layered multi character driven story telling always help me get lost in the extremely creative taste of literature. )
This is a group of survivors鈥� story who are immune to the virus and suffer from strange dreams. At those disturbing Mother Abigail summons them or a very dangerous dark figure Randall Flagg wants to join him at the dark side.
Eventually as some of the dreamers join to Mother Abigail at Boulder Colorado who tells them, they鈥檙e chosen people, the others go to Sin City to join Mr. Flagg for his big annihilation plan.
I think the biggest challenge is not reading this book. The filmmakers who are brave enough to adapt this into series accepted the biggest challenge. After 1994鈥檚 series adaptation with Gary Sinise, Molly Ringwald, Rob Lowe, the producers have been working on a better version to adapt this masterpiece properly into 10 episodes streaming series.
From Ben Affleck, David Yates to Scott Cooper, too many directors wanted to be on board but later dropped out because of creative differences, schedule conflicts. And finally Josh Boone became a director and started to work on dreamy cast: Christian Bale as Stu and McConaughey as Randall Flagg. Yeap, unfortunately it didn鈥檛 happen but don鈥檛 worry we still have satisfying cast : James Marsden as Stu and Pennyweise鈥檚 real life brother as Randall Flagg.
I am curious about series even though I have questions about the challenges of adapting something so good and struggles to reflect those layered characters we read at the pages into scripts ( at least King鈥檚 young son Owen is one of the screenwriters) but before finding out, I guess I鈥檓 getting one more long ride with this apocalyptic, outstanding novel one more time!
I know I鈥檓 doing the wrong thing at the worst time but I honestly say: this is my favorite King book and at least rereading first 250 pages ( in my opinion those are the best parts of the book) made me remember why Mr. King earned his throne at the literature kingdom.
The first edition of the book was published on 1978 and at the new editions, the cultural references have been changed to connect with the new generation readers. ( I also read most of the editions) This is my routine at the 8 to 12 hours international flights: I cannot sleep during the flight so I carry another edition with me to enjoy my vacation accompanied with lots of Bloody Mary.
When I dive into the chapters and read about Texan Stu, very pregnant Frannie, chubby Harold, rising star Larry, I start to feel at home. ( I don鈥檛 know why a biblical story made me feel like that but this layered multi character driven story telling always help me get lost in the extremely creative taste of literature. )
This is a group of survivors鈥� story who are immune to the virus and suffer from strange dreams. At those disturbing Mother Abigail summons them or a very dangerous dark figure Randall Flagg wants to join him at the dark side.
Eventually as some of the dreamers join to Mother Abigail at Boulder Colorado who tells them, they鈥檙e chosen people, the others go to Sin City to join Mr. Flagg for his big annihilation plan.
I think the biggest challenge is not reading this book. The filmmakers who are brave enough to adapt this into series accepted the biggest challenge. After 1994鈥檚 series adaptation with Gary Sinise, Molly Ringwald, Rob Lowe, the producers have been working on a better version to adapt this masterpiece properly into 10 episodes streaming series.
From Ben Affleck, David Yates to Scott Cooper, too many directors wanted to be on board but later dropped out because of creative differences, schedule conflicts. And finally Josh Boone became a director and started to work on dreamy cast: Christian Bale as Stu and McConaughey as Randall Flagg. Yeap, unfortunately it didn鈥檛 happen but don鈥檛 worry we still have satisfying cast : James Marsden as Stu and Pennyweise鈥檚 real life brother as Randall Flagg.
I am curious about series even though I have questions about the challenges of adapting something so good and struggles to reflect those layered characters we read at the pages into scripts ( at least King鈥檚 young son Owen is one of the screenwriters) but before finding out, I guess I鈥檓 getting one more long ride with this apocalyptic, outstanding novel one more time!
June 28, 2023
鈥淭he place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.鈥� One of King's greatest works - a battle between good and evil on a grand scale, with a seemingly endless cast of characters. Mankind's final folly and how both darkness and light fight over what remains. If you've never read it, you need to do so, right now!
Despite the 1,325 pages the story never stops. I love the understated start and how King pilots numerous character journeys in this rapidly changing world. We also get a full-on take of the Dark Man. Almost every character has a real story of growth (or descent), it's like King's great work to show that no matter how far you fall, how much you limit yourself, we all have potential to be more, to give more.
Captain Trips which is the scourge of humanity itself, could be a bestselling novel by itself! Never more comprehensively and with such creativity has mankind been routed! Remember the names that will stay with you forever - Stuart Redman, Franny Goldsmith, Nick Andros, M O O N that spells Tom Cullen, Larry Underwood, Mother Abagail, Harold Lauder, Nadine Cross, Glen Bateman & Kojak, Ralph Brentner, Susan Stern, Dayna Jurgens, Lucy Swann, Judge Farris, Randall Flagg AKA The Dark Man, Lloyd Henreid, Trashcan, 'The Kid'. M O O N that spells 9.5 out of 12 (a strong Four Star read).
2003 read; 2006 read; 2018 read
Despite the 1,325 pages the story never stops. I love the understated start and how King pilots numerous character journeys in this rapidly changing world. We also get a full-on take of the Dark Man. Almost every character has a real story of growth (or descent), it's like King's great work to show that no matter how far you fall, how much you limit yourself, we all have potential to be more, to give more.
Captain Trips which is the scourge of humanity itself, could be a bestselling novel by itself! Never more comprehensively and with such creativity has mankind been routed! Remember the names that will stay with you forever - Stuart Redman, Franny Goldsmith, Nick Andros, M O O N that spells Tom Cullen, Larry Underwood, Mother Abagail, Harold Lauder, Nadine Cross, Glen Bateman & Kojak, Ralph Brentner, Susan Stern, Dayna Jurgens, Lucy Swann, Judge Farris, Randall Flagg AKA The Dark Man, Lloyd Henreid, Trashcan, 'The Kid'. M O O N that spells 9.5 out of 12 (a strong Four Star read).
2003 read; 2006 read; 2018 read
April 21, 2020
Oh wow, it hasn't even been a year since I finished this and I'm rereading again?
****
I'm not sure what I can say about this massive tome that hasn't been said before, but I came, I read, and I conquered. I also really enjoyed it along the way, which says a lot due to my struggle with committing to massive books. :) Does anyone know if there will be a new book-to-screen adaptation of this one in the near future, or if the old mini series is worth the time? Anyway, I'm satisfied and a tiny bit relieved to be finished. <3 Thanks to everyone who pushed me to make 2019 the year I picked up The Stand and for all the people who cheered me on along the way.
****
I'm not sure what I can say about this massive tome that hasn't been said before, but I came, I read, and I conquered. I also really enjoyed it along the way, which says a lot due to my struggle with committing to massive books. :) Does anyone know if there will be a new book-to-screen adaptation of this one in the near future, or if the old mini series is worth the time? Anyway, I'm satisfied and a tiny bit relieved to be finished. <3 Thanks to everyone who pushed me to make 2019 the year I picked up The Stand and for all the people who cheered me on along the way.
November 28, 2021
The definitive apocalypse masterpiece, maybe until reality writes a better story.
Many different characters in slowly escalating situations of despair and tragedy.
With the extra King spicing of terror, torture, and horror, this makes one, or maybe the best, description of armageddon. And it麓s not worldbuilding or 眉ber cool enemies, it麓s this combination of crazy, not always good, protagonists, antiheroes, and great, sheer lunatics that make this unbelievable rollercoaster the best end time ever. Apocalypse rocks if the King is in the house.
Don麓t trust the government
Seriously, it麓s not as if anyone is still doing stupid things like that, but how it happened, how politicians and the military reacted, how they didn麓t have any problem with mass murdering their own citizens to avoid a panic, censor the media, go full Gestapo mode and, of course, causing the whole mess with secret biological warfare programs is, well, completely realistic. They would have to do, because as long as it doesn麓t escalate completely, it would be the only ethical decision to sacrifice some for the sake of the country, not just for patriots, but just following simple logic. Better lose some cities and dozens of millions of people than all of them. Although I guess if a resident evil style biological warfare project would go really wrong, or be used by an enemy, nothing would help.
Comparison of The Stand and It
It麓s one of Kings麓most complex, interwoven, and ultra many, often one time use, character spiked works, which is the biggest difference to the only real (single novel) opponent, It. It has its small crew and stays with it, close to no disposable sidekicks, and especially no big picture, meta, worldbuilding level. Probably that麓s the reason why some prefer The Stand and King himself says too that his fans are often telling him that it麓s their favorite, although he doesn麓t understand why. It simply can麓t reach the epic, big scale, world ending level, because Kings' intention was to write one of the best novels about childhood, wrecked American dreams, small town terrors, and the Lovecraftian, lurking evil inside all of us. Mission accomplished.
The Stand, on the other hand, is a battle of good versus evil, a dark fantasy horror milestone so intense, dense, and completely absorbing, because it combines the unbelievable characterization skills with a good, and that麓s truly nothing King can always deliver because he is no plotter, story with a satisfying, credible end. And all the details, the world, the extremely slow beginning with the escalation towards overkill, all the crazy characters entering and leaving the stage, and, of course, many average people麓s problems given to the mix. No matter how dead the world is, we still have freaking everyday issues and relationship problems.
Big city vs one horse town.
So good to live on the countryside鈥� Sorry if this may seem insensitive, but the really brutally penetrated ones will always be the metropolitan areas, not just because the slums and hellhole district actually are already a nightmare, but because the collapse and chaos will be worst there. Maybe because it麓s generally kind of incredible how these megastructures, these ape hive mind super colonies function, but are much more fragile than one might expect. Take away food and the possibility to escape and one doesn麓t even need Captain Trips to get the population quite wacky.
King uses this difference to construct completely opposite kinds of fear, the seemingly infinite solitude of the wild with some grains of small towns and the disturbing rests of a megacity now populated by corpses, cannibals, and crazy people.
Characters and writers' block.
Many cool secondary and one time use characters, extra plotlines, and groups consolidating and escalating together.
The reason for the extremely dense atmosphere is the combination of different sets of characters, weirdo antagonists, and a perfect mixture with the stellar characterization and atmosphere King is famous for.
I do also get why he had his writers' block while creating this ingenious masterpiece, because he is no plotter and nearly scribbled his way towards an abyss because he had too much of everything for someone who didn麓t know how it should end. Luckily, he found his way back, but just how he got until the point of hitting the wall without confusing the reader or himself, especially because, ahem, you know, booze and drugs and stuff, is amazing.
A grain of magic
There麓s not really that much high fantasy or complex witching around system, one could also say plot over people focus, and that麓s why it麓s so absorbing, why having terrible, frightening, wonderful nightmare adventures together with the crew feels so damn good. Some psi, mind control, precognition, animal magic, elemental powers, but the real driving engine here is the madness, evilness vs goodness, and especially the shade of grey in between with protagonists switching sides, developing new disgusting goals, or refraining from doing necrophilic cannibalism and stuff. If there would be more, today (2021) standard epic fantasy with real 眉berhuman god power magic, it couldn麓t have such a unique, dense, and not really that action focused atmosphere, without any unnecessary words on freaking endless pages of pure ecstasy.
The real philosophies and ideologies behind the good and evil fractions are manifold, one could waste a great load of time overanalyzing it, but I麓ll let everyone find her/his own interpretation and add mine to the mix:
The Lovecraftian big bad new government
The darkness of confused, evil souls who unite under a new leader who combines elements of many of Kings麓most beloved big cosmic horror and barbarian human traits to mix the perfect, bloody cocktail. Could be seen as a homage to the inherent bad in all of us and systems constructed by mentally unstable apes, philosophically vivisected until regurgitation, or just appreciated at what it most likely is. One of the most realistic, without the demonic superpower elements except secret military research has already reached new levels, descriptions of how a collapse of civilization would most likely end in new dictatorships.
The better, progressive, eco and human friendly alternative
The good ones are seemingly helpless, just have their will, community, and some dream controlling power and soft psi magic to fight the armed to the teeth demonic hordes, but similar to many other deus ex machina solutions, the mind is stronger than tons of steel. What makes it especially satisfying is the multifaceted characters麓 evolution towards good or bad and how extremely stylish and cool the real and mental confrontations of big bad and old as dirt good and their team members play out. Of course, in reality, our good team of friends would immediately be raped, tortured, and eaten, rape torture eat repeat style as some like to call it (and not necessarily in that order), but hey, even King has to integrate some optimistic moments to help his readers to better handle the horror. And to get a story too, of course.
Tropes show how literature is conceptualized and created and which mixture of elements makes works and genres unique:
Many different characters in slowly escalating situations of despair and tragedy.
With the extra King spicing of terror, torture, and horror, this makes one, or maybe the best, description of armageddon. And it麓s not worldbuilding or 眉ber cool enemies, it麓s this combination of crazy, not always good, protagonists, antiheroes, and great, sheer lunatics that make this unbelievable rollercoaster the best end time ever. Apocalypse rocks if the King is in the house.
Don麓t trust the government
Seriously, it麓s not as if anyone is still doing stupid things like that, but how it happened, how politicians and the military reacted, how they didn麓t have any problem with mass murdering their own citizens to avoid a panic, censor the media, go full Gestapo mode and, of course, causing the whole mess with secret biological warfare programs is, well, completely realistic. They would have to do, because as long as it doesn麓t escalate completely, it would be the only ethical decision to sacrifice some for the sake of the country, not just for patriots, but just following simple logic. Better lose some cities and dozens of millions of people than all of them. Although I guess if a resident evil style biological warfare project would go really wrong, or be used by an enemy, nothing would help.
Comparison of The Stand and It
It麓s one of Kings麓most complex, interwoven, and ultra many, often one time use, character spiked works, which is the biggest difference to the only real (single novel) opponent, It. It has its small crew and stays with it, close to no disposable sidekicks, and especially no big picture, meta, worldbuilding level. Probably that麓s the reason why some prefer The Stand and King himself says too that his fans are often telling him that it麓s their favorite, although he doesn麓t understand why. It simply can麓t reach the epic, big scale, world ending level, because Kings' intention was to write one of the best novels about childhood, wrecked American dreams, small town terrors, and the Lovecraftian, lurking evil inside all of us. Mission accomplished.
The Stand, on the other hand, is a battle of good versus evil, a dark fantasy horror milestone so intense, dense, and completely absorbing, because it combines the unbelievable characterization skills with a good, and that麓s truly nothing King can always deliver because he is no plotter, story with a satisfying, credible end. And all the details, the world, the extremely slow beginning with the escalation towards overkill, all the crazy characters entering and leaving the stage, and, of course, many average people麓s problems given to the mix. No matter how dead the world is, we still have freaking everyday issues and relationship problems.
Big city vs one horse town.
So good to live on the countryside鈥� Sorry if this may seem insensitive, but the really brutally penetrated ones will always be the metropolitan areas, not just because the slums and hellhole district actually are already a nightmare, but because the collapse and chaos will be worst there. Maybe because it麓s generally kind of incredible how these megastructures, these ape hive mind super colonies function, but are much more fragile than one might expect. Take away food and the possibility to escape and one doesn麓t even need Captain Trips to get the population quite wacky.
King uses this difference to construct completely opposite kinds of fear, the seemingly infinite solitude of the wild with some grains of small towns and the disturbing rests of a megacity now populated by corpses, cannibals, and crazy people.
Characters and writers' block.
Many cool secondary and one time use characters, extra plotlines, and groups consolidating and escalating together.
The reason for the extremely dense atmosphere is the combination of different sets of characters, weirdo antagonists, and a perfect mixture with the stellar characterization and atmosphere King is famous for.
I do also get why he had his writers' block while creating this ingenious masterpiece, because he is no plotter and nearly scribbled his way towards an abyss because he had too much of everything for someone who didn麓t know how it should end. Luckily, he found his way back, but just how he got until the point of hitting the wall without confusing the reader or himself, especially because, ahem, you know, booze and drugs and stuff, is amazing.
A grain of magic
There麓s not really that much high fantasy or complex witching around system, one could also say plot over people focus, and that麓s why it麓s so absorbing, why having terrible, frightening, wonderful nightmare adventures together with the crew feels so damn good. Some psi, mind control, precognition, animal magic, elemental powers, but the real driving engine here is the madness, evilness vs goodness, and especially the shade of grey in between with protagonists switching sides, developing new disgusting goals, or refraining from doing necrophilic cannibalism and stuff. If there would be more, today (2021) standard epic fantasy with real 眉berhuman god power magic, it couldn麓t have such a unique, dense, and not really that action focused atmosphere, without any unnecessary words on freaking endless pages of pure ecstasy.
The real philosophies and ideologies behind the good and evil fractions are manifold, one could waste a great load of time overanalyzing it, but I麓ll let everyone find her/his own interpretation and add mine to the mix:
The Lovecraftian big bad new government
The darkness of confused, evil souls who unite under a new leader who combines elements of many of Kings麓most beloved big cosmic horror and barbarian human traits to mix the perfect, bloody cocktail. Could be seen as a homage to the inherent bad in all of us and systems constructed by mentally unstable apes, philosophically vivisected until regurgitation, or just appreciated at what it most likely is. One of the most realistic, without the demonic superpower elements except secret military research has already reached new levels, descriptions of how a collapse of civilization would most likely end in new dictatorships.
The better, progressive, eco and human friendly alternative
The good ones are seemingly helpless, just have their will, community, and some dream controlling power and soft psi magic to fight the armed to the teeth demonic hordes, but similar to many other deus ex machina solutions, the mind is stronger than tons of steel. What makes it especially satisfying is the multifaceted characters麓 evolution towards good or bad and how extremely stylish and cool the real and mental confrontations of big bad and old as dirt good and their team members play out. Of course, in reality, our good team of friends would immediately be raped, tortured, and eaten, rape torture eat repeat style as some like to call it (and not necessarily in that order), but hey, even King has to integrate some optimistic moments to help his readers to better handle the horror. And to get a story too, of course.
Tropes show how literature is conceptualized and created and which mixture of elements makes works and genres unique:
April 4, 2025
A masterpiece of epic proportions. I will never stop rereading this book. This is my 4th-time with this story and honestly, it may be my favorite time.
I took the time to annotate it and picked up so many new things that I may have overlooked before, particularly in regards to our good friend, Randy Flagg.
There were things I had forgotten, and things I remembered, but was dreading revisiting. Most notably, everything involving the scouting trips to the West just tugged at all my damn heartstrings.
My most hated character: freaking Nadine Cross.
More thoughts to come...stay tuned!!!
I took the time to annotate it and picked up so many new things that I may have overlooked before, particularly in regards to our good friend, Randy Flagg.
There were things I had forgotten, and things I remembered, but was dreading revisiting. Most notably, everything involving the scouting trips to the West just tugged at all my damn heartstrings.
My most hated character: freaking Nadine Cross.
More thoughts to come...stay tuned!!!
February 1, 2019
goodness me, this book was a chore. it took me nearly a month to finish and by the 12 day mark i was really regretting reading the unabridged version. and along the way, i realised that this is a classic case of me liking the idea of the book so much more than the book itself, which is so unfortunate.
i thought the beginning started off really strong. i was enjoying seeing how the plague affected everyone differently and the lengths everyone had to take to survive the mass confusion and looming death. oh, and nick. nick is the best thing to come out of fiction since i dont know when. and although an attachment to a character is enough motivation to finish a book, its sometimes not enough to actually enjoy the book entirely.
what really made me check out was when the dreams started becoming a major focal point to the plot. i just could not get behind the whole mother abigail vs. randall flagg story line. i understand that stephen king has wonderful and deep messages in his books, but if im not really engaged with the story, then im not going to invest the extra time to try to analyse everything. so i know i missed out there, but i cant bring myself to care more about it.
so what began as an interesting story turned into a very religious subtext of good vs. evil. its an ambitious story, but one i just wasnt quite feeling by the end.
鈫� 2.5 stars
i thought the beginning started off really strong. i was enjoying seeing how the plague affected everyone differently and the lengths everyone had to take to survive the mass confusion and looming death. oh, and nick. nick is the best thing to come out of fiction since i dont know when. and although an attachment to a character is enough motivation to finish a book, its sometimes not enough to actually enjoy the book entirely.
what really made me check out was when the dreams started becoming a major focal point to the plot. i just could not get behind the whole mother abigail vs. randall flagg story line. i understand that stephen king has wonderful and deep messages in his books, but if im not really engaged with the story, then im not going to invest the extra time to try to analyse everything. so i know i missed out there, but i cant bring myself to care more about it.
so what began as an interesting story turned into a very religious subtext of good vs. evil. its an ambitious story, but one i just wasnt quite feeling by the end.
鈫� 2.5 stars
November 19, 2018
Want to catch the flu? Read The Stand.
I caught it twice in the month it took me to read this book. Twice! I'm rarely sick so it's clearly a thing.
Post-apocalyptic book where most people die from a super flu. That part was my favorite.
It then becomes a battle between Good and Evil. Some fantasy elements were included. This part was still solid. I liked how we got to follow the characters and get to know them. I felt some similarities to Station Eleven so if you like The Stand I would give this one a shot too!
I caught it twice in the month it took me to read this book. Twice! I'm rarely sick so it's clearly a thing.
Post-apocalyptic book where most people die from a super flu. That part was my favorite.
It then becomes a battle between Good and Evil. Some fantasy elements were included. This part was still solid. I liked how we got to follow the characters and get to know them. I felt some similarities to Station Eleven so if you like The Stand I would give this one a shot too!
May 6, 2018
Wow!! So I have had this awesome paperback door stopper for some time. (Gift from friend) I decided to get the audio through the library and of course now I have added it to my Audible wishlist. The narration is freaking awesome! The whole damn book is freaking awesome!
The thing is, I didn't think I would like it because I barely remember the movie and am not sure I liked it. That was a long time ago and who the hell knows! I'm just extremely happy I finally read it.
Yeah! It's long, but most books I read or listen to are so that's neither here nor there. I just loved reading about all of the people and events. And I did laugh at times. YES, scary stories do have some comedy at times. Lol.
Anyhoo, enjoy peeps!!
Happy Reading!
Mel 馃枻馃惥馃惡
The thing is, I didn't think I would like it because I barely remember the movie and am not sure I liked it. That was a long time ago and who the hell knows! I'm just extremely happy I finally read it.
Yeah! It's long, but most books I read or listen to are so that's neither here nor there. I just loved reading about all of the people and events. And I did laugh at times. YES, scary stories do have some comedy at times. Lol.
Anyhoo, enjoy peeps!!
Happy Reading!
Mel 馃枻馃惥馃惡
March 11, 2018
3.5/5 stars
M-O-O-N. That spells I am done with this MOONstrosity of a tome.
This is the biggest single book I鈥檝e ever read in my life so far鈥擨t鈥檚 470k words and it鈥檚 even bigger than Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson鈥攁nd although it doesn鈥檛 go into my personal favorite list, I enjoyed the majority of the book.
The Stand is totally not what I expected. I really thought this would be a super thrilling plot-driven with a lot of actions book due to the nature that the story revolves around a plague outbreak. As it turns out, The Stand is a HIGHLY characters鈥� driven book with the plot moving at a very slow pace, and as great as it was, sometimes it did get a bit excruciating.
One of the two that stands out the most from this book鈥攐ther than the gigantic size鈥攊n my opinion was the theological nature and the classic tale of a battle between good versus evil.
There are a lot of symbolism to the aspect of light versus darkness here. To give one example of many, with the country being ravaged by the outbreak, the survivors ended up joining either Mother Abagail鈥檚 group (the good) or Randal Flagg鈥檚 group (the evil); Mother Abagail is located in the East (where the sun rises every day) and Randal Flagg is located in the West (where the sun set). I enjoyed reading almost all the characters鈥� perspectives and survivor鈥檚 tales and I really think if you love a HEAVY theological talk in your fiction, this is a must-read.
Other than the theological talk, the characters were almost absolutely delightful to read. The characters developments in this book were astounding to say the least and it was awesome to see how far these characters changed from where they began. Plus, Stephen King writes very unconventional and memorable characters in The Stand such as Nick, Tom Cullen, Randal Flagg, Harold, Larry, and Mother Abagail to name a few.
Picture: Mother Abagail by Bernie Wrightson
Now, the parts that didn鈥檛 work for me. First being Stephen King鈥檚 prose took quite a while for me to get used to. Second, and probably my major problem with the book, The Trashcan鈥檚 man chapters were atrocious. I didn鈥檛 enjoy any moment reading his POV, it was messy, felt juvenile, and during my time reading it, I knew immediately this his meeting with the Kid was going to be the one that was cut out from the first published edition of this book, and I was right. It was a painful 70 pages chapter which in my opinion offer close to zero points to the story. Finally, with a book this HUGE, I really expected the ending to blow me away but the ending ended up being anti-climactic. I also can鈥檛 help but think that the first edition of this book (the 800 pages one) would probably be a better experience. Stephen King received the title 鈥渨ord diarrhea鈥� for a great reason and a lot of the words in this book in my opinion definitely deserves to be flushed.
Overall though, I think The Stand is still overall a great book. Even though it鈥檚 not a genre that I dive into frequently, I found myself amazed by the characterizations and compelled to read what happened to most of the characters. It鈥檚 unfortunate that there were a few hiccups with the pacing and ending but I still will recommend this book to anyone who enjoyed a heavy theological discussion and memorable characters in their read. Thank you also to my good friend, Celeste, for giving me this book as a late birthday present!
You can find and the rest of my Adult Epic/High Fantasy & Sci-Fi reviews at
M-O-O-N. That spells I am done with this MOONstrosity of a tome.
This is the biggest single book I鈥檝e ever read in my life so far鈥擨t鈥檚 470k words and it鈥檚 even bigger than Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson鈥攁nd although it doesn鈥檛 go into my personal favorite list, I enjoyed the majority of the book.
The Stand is totally not what I expected. I really thought this would be a super thrilling plot-driven with a lot of actions book due to the nature that the story revolves around a plague outbreak. As it turns out, The Stand is a HIGHLY characters鈥� driven book with the plot moving at a very slow pace, and as great as it was, sometimes it did get a bit excruciating.
One of the two that stands out the most from this book鈥攐ther than the gigantic size鈥攊n my opinion was the theological nature and the classic tale of a battle between good versus evil.
鈥淭hat wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.鈥�
There are a lot of symbolism to the aspect of light versus darkness here. To give one example of many, with the country being ravaged by the outbreak, the survivors ended up joining either Mother Abagail鈥檚 group (the good) or Randal Flagg鈥檚 group (the evil); Mother Abagail is located in the East (where the sun rises every day) and Randal Flagg is located in the West (where the sun set). I enjoyed reading almost all the characters鈥� perspectives and survivor鈥檚 tales and I really think if you love a HEAVY theological talk in your fiction, this is a must-read.
鈥淭he beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window.鈥�
Other than the theological talk, the characters were almost absolutely delightful to read. The characters developments in this book were astounding to say the least and it was awesome to see how far these characters changed from where they began. Plus, Stephen King writes very unconventional and memorable characters in The Stand such as Nick, Tom Cullen, Randal Flagg, Harold, Larry, and Mother Abagail to name a few.
Picture: Mother Abagail by Bernie Wrightson
Now, the parts that didn鈥檛 work for me. First being Stephen King鈥檚 prose took quite a while for me to get used to. Second, and probably my major problem with the book, The Trashcan鈥檚 man chapters were atrocious. I didn鈥檛 enjoy any moment reading his POV, it was messy, felt juvenile, and during my time reading it, I knew immediately this his meeting with the Kid was going to be the one that was cut out from the first published edition of this book, and I was right. It was a painful 70 pages chapter which in my opinion offer close to zero points to the story. Finally, with a book this HUGE, I really expected the ending to blow me away but the ending ended up being anti-climactic. I also can鈥檛 help but think that the first edition of this book (the 800 pages one) would probably be a better experience. Stephen King received the title 鈥渨ord diarrhea鈥� for a great reason and a lot of the words in this book in my opinion definitely deserves to be flushed.
Overall though, I think The Stand is still overall a great book. Even though it鈥檚 not a genre that I dive into frequently, I found myself amazed by the characterizations and compelled to read what happened to most of the characters. It鈥檚 unfortunate that there were a few hiccups with the pacing and ending but I still will recommend this book to anyone who enjoyed a heavy theological discussion and memorable characters in their read. Thank you also to my good friend, Celeste, for giving me this book as a late birthday present!
You can find and the rest of my Adult Epic/High Fantasy & Sci-Fi reviews at
February 20, 2017
M-O-O-N spells spectacular!
I first read THE STAND in the early 80's. It was during the Christmas break- I lived out in the boonies with my family, and after the holiday hoopla was over -I planted myself in my favorite chair and sat there for 4 days devouring every page-(only leaving for bathroom breaks, meals and sleep).
30+ years later my reading experience was a little different. I read it with my 欧宝娱乐 friend Lisa- who had the uncut version, while I had the original- I stopped and started as she caught up- there were huge amounts of messages back and forth- on the characters, the differences in editions, who we loved- who we hated, and everything and anything we could think of to discuss. It was a month long read...
...but the one thing both experiences did have in common was- I LOVED IT each time!!
At a remote U.S. Army base, a strain of influenza is accidentally released. Despite a lock down- soldier Charles Campion is able to escape with his wife and child. By the time the military is able to track his whereabouts- Campion has spread the disease around parts of Texas- triggering a pandemic which kills off 99 percent of the population.
The one percent are left in survival mode- spread out over the entire country and plagued by strange dreams about two individuals which eventually draw some to Nebraska and some to Las Vegas.
Hemingford Home, Nebraska- Is the home of Abagail Freemantle鈥� "Mother Abagail" a 108 year- old woman who receives visions from God. She is the embodiment of good.
Las Vegas, Nevada- is where Randall Flagg has set up shop- Randall is also called The Dark Man and The Walking Dude. He lives to cause death and destruction and has supernatural powers which allow him to be human, animal or demon. He is the embodiment of evil.
King said that he "wanted to write a fantasy epic like The Lord of the Rings, only with an American setting"- and that is just what he did. THE STAND is a wonderful epic fantasy adventure about good vs evil- One that I would recommend to anybody who hasn't read it yet, and even to those who have!
I first read THE STAND in the early 80's. It was during the Christmas break- I lived out in the boonies with my family, and after the holiday hoopla was over -I planted myself in my favorite chair and sat there for 4 days devouring every page-(only leaving for bathroom breaks, meals and sleep).
30+ years later my reading experience was a little different. I read it with my 欧宝娱乐 friend Lisa- who had the uncut version, while I had the original- I stopped and started as she caught up- there were huge amounts of messages back and forth- on the characters, the differences in editions, who we loved- who we hated, and everything and anything we could think of to discuss. It was a month long read...
...but the one thing both experiences did have in common was- I LOVED IT each time!!
At a remote U.S. Army base, a strain of influenza is accidentally released. Despite a lock down- soldier Charles Campion is able to escape with his wife and child. By the time the military is able to track his whereabouts- Campion has spread the disease around parts of Texas- triggering a pandemic which kills off 99 percent of the population.
The one percent are left in survival mode- spread out over the entire country and plagued by strange dreams about two individuals which eventually draw some to Nebraska and some to Las Vegas.
Hemingford Home, Nebraska- Is the home of Abagail Freemantle鈥� "Mother Abagail" a 108 year- old woman who receives visions from God. She is the embodiment of good.
Las Vegas, Nevada- is where Randall Flagg has set up shop- Randall is also called The Dark Man and The Walking Dude. He lives to cause death and destruction and has supernatural powers which allow him to be human, animal or demon. He is the embodiment of evil.
King said that he "wanted to write a fantasy epic like The Lord of the Rings, only with an American setting"- and that is just what he did. THE STAND is a wonderful epic fantasy adventure about good vs evil- One that I would recommend to anybody who hasn't read it yet, and even to those who have!
September 18, 2023
Haunting read!
It's a scary good and well written book. (paperback!)
It's a scary good and well written book. (paperback!)
March 23, 2020
鈥淣one of us want to see portents and omens, no matter how much we like our ghost stories and the spooky films. None of us want to really see a Star in the East or a pillar of fire by night. We want peace and rationality and routine. If we have to see God in the black face of an old woman, it鈥檚 bound to remind us that there鈥檚 a devil for every god鈥攁nd our devil may be closer than we like to think.鈥�
A plague has escaped a lab killing most of the population, only a few, a mere fraction of the whole, has immunity or manages to survive being infected.
It is over in a matter of weeks. Civilization grinds to a halt, then collapses, and then falls into chaos.
A Mad Max world is born.
A virus that kills 99.4% of the people it infects is a very stupid virus. Even the Black Plague had a 20% survival rate, so for a virus to act this stupidly, it would have to be man made. The last thing any virus should do is kill the host. Death of the host leads to death of the virus.
鈥漀ow most of the young folks and old folks were gone, and most of those in between. God had brought down a harsh judgment on the human race.鈥�
Invariably, we can鈥檛 help bringing God into any situation where we think a judgment has been handed down on humanity, but he/she doesn鈥檛 have anything to do with this. This is man destroying himself. Some would make the case that God could have interceded, could have saved us if we had been worthy, but then when have we ever been 鈥榳orthy鈥�? Since we are made in his image I do think sometimes what God, if he exists, likes least in us is what he likes least about himself. The whole theory of God is built on good and evil. If evil exists, then oddly God exists. The Vatican has been working relentlessly to prove for centuries that pure evil exists to justify the whole need for their continued existence.
The proof might be rising out of the ashes of this virulent plague. 鈥滺e was coming, Flagg was coming like some terrible horror monster out of the scariest picture ever made. The dark man鈥檚 cheeks were flushed with jolly color, his eyes were twinkling with happy good fellowship, and a great hungry voracious grin stretched his lips over huge tombstone teeth, shark teeth, and his hands were held out in front of him, and there were shiny black crow feathers fluttering from his hair.鈥�
The survivors are dreaming about the Dark Man, and they are dreaming about the old black woman in the cornfields of Nebraska. These dreams are as vivid as they are confusing. There is a battle for their souls going on. They must choose. Do they go to Randall Flagg, or do they flock to Abagail Freemantle?
You would think it would be an easy decision. Don鈥檛 most of us think of ourselves as good people? Of course, we would join Abagail, the self-anointed prophet of God. Except, maybe it isn鈥檛 so clearly cut; as the two groups grow, it is starting to look like an even split. Abagail brings her flock to Boulder, Colorado, wanting to use the natural barrier of the Rockies to be the dividing line between her 鈥済ood people鈥� and the evil people following the Dark Man.
Not to mention that she knows there has to be a reckoning.
But are they evil? When people from the Boulder Free Zone mingle with those from the Dark Side, they find them to be normal people, just like the people they left back in Boulder. The biggest difference is that they are afraid, and fear, as we know, is the most insidious and easiest way to control people. It becomes very clear that Abagail鈥檚 army is really only fighting one man, one man with supernatural powers. 鈥漀evermore. Tap, tap, tap. The crow, looking in at him, seeming to grin. And it came to him with a dreamy, testicle-shriveling certainty that this was the dark man, his soul, his ka somehow projected into this rain-drenched, grinning crow that was looking in at him, checking up on him.鈥�
So it is sort of interesting to speculate about whether there are truly evil beings like Randall Flagg in the world, waiting for their opportunity, waiting for people to need someone larger than themselves to lead. Their power grows as people choose to believe in them. As long as civilization exists and people are reasonably content, a person like Flagg is never given an opportunity to thrive.
We through our own discontent empower evil.
This novel is one of the King epics. A fan poll on 欧宝娱乐, The Best of Stephen King Poll, shows that his fans still believe this is his best book. My favorite book, and the one that I feel will be considered his masterpiece, is IT , a book that I feel really brings together all of his best skills in building characters and shows off his gift for creating twisty, scary plots . IT is #2 on the 欧宝娱乐 poll. Pennywise, in my opinion, might have had as large an impact on reading/watching audiences as Norman Bates in Psycho. Once you have been introduced to Pennywise try walking past a storm drain without giving it a wide berth.
The Stand has a large cast, and most readers will have a favorite character. I liked several characters, actually, and wondered if I was going to find myself in a George R.R. Martin universe where identifying with a character was tantamount to self-inflicted grief. I was fortunate to stick with Stu Redman. He is a hick from Texas who continues to show hidden depths as circumstances shape and reveal his character. He made me smile with the following response, when it looks like dire circumstances may lead to a slow death: 鈥淩alph came over to Stu and knelt down. 鈥楥an we get you anything, Stu?鈥� Stu smiled. 鈥榊eah. Everything Gore Vidal ever wrote鈥攖hose books about Lincoln and Aaron Burr and those guys. I always meant to read the suckers. Now it looks like I got the time.鈥欌€�
Gotta love the thought of a redneck from Texas reading the unabashed New York homosexual.
In the forward, Stephen King talks about the meeting he had with the publishing group about the size of The Stand. It was originally published at about 800 pages, but then when they decided to reissue the uncut version, he was able to put back in about 400 pages that he had been forced to excise. 鈥滻 reluctantly agreed to do the surgery myself. I think I did a fairly good job, for a writer who has been accused over and over again of having diarrhea of the word processor.鈥� He agreed to the cuts because the publishing team made a compelling case. They were able to show him the sales from his previous four books, the profit margin, and if he sold the same number of books of The Stand, how much slimmer the profit margin would be, because of the cost to produce the 400 extra pages. So the cuts were not made for editorial reasons, but for common sense accounting reasons. King was very happy to have the orphaned material reunited with the rest of the book.
The book does bog down at times for me. I think that is inevitable with a book this size. King is taking on some larger themes here and for the most part keeps all the plates spinning in the air. I read a lot of post-apocalyptic books, and I鈥檓 sure if I ever let myself be put on a couch, a psychologist will explore those reasons thoroughly, but one thing I notice, while I am immersing myself in The Stand, is that I have a greater appreciation for my life and the cocoon that civilization wraps around me to keep me safe and provide me with the necessities so that I can have the time I want to read, putter, and write. Maybe I鈥檓 not as obsessed with the END OF THE WORLD as much as I am finding new ways to appreciate the wonderful life I do have.
I have to admit, though, that I had to agree with lifestyle philosophy of the sociologist Glen Bateman. 鈥滲ut Bateman himself hadn鈥檛 wanted to get in on the ground floor of society鈥檚 reappearance. He seemed perfectly content鈥攁t least for the time being鈥攖o go for his walks with Kojak, paint his pictures, putter around his garden, and think about the sociological ramifications of nearly total decimation.鈥�
I would hope I could ignore the siren calls of the ancient, wise woman in Nebraska and the seductive pull of The Dark Man and just enjoy the peace and quiet of a more tranquil world without the constant noise of people talking on their cell phones, music blaring from cars, planes taking off from airports, and millions of electrical lines humming.
It is truly amazing any of us can think.
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A plague has escaped a lab killing most of the population, only a few, a mere fraction of the whole, has immunity or manages to survive being infected.
It is over in a matter of weeks. Civilization grinds to a halt, then collapses, and then falls into chaos.
A Mad Max world is born.
A virus that kills 99.4% of the people it infects is a very stupid virus. Even the Black Plague had a 20% survival rate, so for a virus to act this stupidly, it would have to be man made. The last thing any virus should do is kill the host. Death of the host leads to death of the virus.
鈥漀ow most of the young folks and old folks were gone, and most of those in between. God had brought down a harsh judgment on the human race.鈥�
Invariably, we can鈥檛 help bringing God into any situation where we think a judgment has been handed down on humanity, but he/she doesn鈥檛 have anything to do with this. This is man destroying himself. Some would make the case that God could have interceded, could have saved us if we had been worthy, but then when have we ever been 鈥榳orthy鈥�? Since we are made in his image I do think sometimes what God, if he exists, likes least in us is what he likes least about himself. The whole theory of God is built on good and evil. If evil exists, then oddly God exists. The Vatican has been working relentlessly to prove for centuries that pure evil exists to justify the whole need for their continued existence.
The proof might be rising out of the ashes of this virulent plague. 鈥滺e was coming, Flagg was coming like some terrible horror monster out of the scariest picture ever made. The dark man鈥檚 cheeks were flushed with jolly color, his eyes were twinkling with happy good fellowship, and a great hungry voracious grin stretched his lips over huge tombstone teeth, shark teeth, and his hands were held out in front of him, and there were shiny black crow feathers fluttering from his hair.鈥�
The survivors are dreaming about the Dark Man, and they are dreaming about the old black woman in the cornfields of Nebraska. These dreams are as vivid as they are confusing. There is a battle for their souls going on. They must choose. Do they go to Randall Flagg, or do they flock to Abagail Freemantle?
You would think it would be an easy decision. Don鈥檛 most of us think of ourselves as good people? Of course, we would join Abagail, the self-anointed prophet of God. Except, maybe it isn鈥檛 so clearly cut; as the two groups grow, it is starting to look like an even split. Abagail brings her flock to Boulder, Colorado, wanting to use the natural barrier of the Rockies to be the dividing line between her 鈥済ood people鈥� and the evil people following the Dark Man.
Not to mention that she knows there has to be a reckoning.
But are they evil? When people from the Boulder Free Zone mingle with those from the Dark Side, they find them to be normal people, just like the people they left back in Boulder. The biggest difference is that they are afraid, and fear, as we know, is the most insidious and easiest way to control people. It becomes very clear that Abagail鈥檚 army is really only fighting one man, one man with supernatural powers. 鈥漀evermore. Tap, tap, tap. The crow, looking in at him, seeming to grin. And it came to him with a dreamy, testicle-shriveling certainty that this was the dark man, his soul, his ka somehow projected into this rain-drenched, grinning crow that was looking in at him, checking up on him.鈥�
So it is sort of interesting to speculate about whether there are truly evil beings like Randall Flagg in the world, waiting for their opportunity, waiting for people to need someone larger than themselves to lead. Their power grows as people choose to believe in them. As long as civilization exists and people are reasonably content, a person like Flagg is never given an opportunity to thrive.
We through our own discontent empower evil.
This novel is one of the King epics. A fan poll on 欧宝娱乐, The Best of Stephen King Poll, shows that his fans still believe this is his best book. My favorite book, and the one that I feel will be considered his masterpiece, is IT , a book that I feel really brings together all of his best skills in building characters and shows off his gift for creating twisty, scary plots . IT is #2 on the 欧宝娱乐 poll. Pennywise, in my opinion, might have had as large an impact on reading/watching audiences as Norman Bates in Psycho. Once you have been introduced to Pennywise try walking past a storm drain without giving it a wide berth.
The Stand has a large cast, and most readers will have a favorite character. I liked several characters, actually, and wondered if I was going to find myself in a George R.R. Martin universe where identifying with a character was tantamount to self-inflicted grief. I was fortunate to stick with Stu Redman. He is a hick from Texas who continues to show hidden depths as circumstances shape and reveal his character. He made me smile with the following response, when it looks like dire circumstances may lead to a slow death: 鈥淩alph came over to Stu and knelt down. 鈥楥an we get you anything, Stu?鈥� Stu smiled. 鈥榊eah. Everything Gore Vidal ever wrote鈥攖hose books about Lincoln and Aaron Burr and those guys. I always meant to read the suckers. Now it looks like I got the time.鈥欌€�
Gotta love the thought of a redneck from Texas reading the unabashed New York homosexual.
In the forward, Stephen King talks about the meeting he had with the publishing group about the size of The Stand. It was originally published at about 800 pages, but then when they decided to reissue the uncut version, he was able to put back in about 400 pages that he had been forced to excise. 鈥滻 reluctantly agreed to do the surgery myself. I think I did a fairly good job, for a writer who has been accused over and over again of having diarrhea of the word processor.鈥� He agreed to the cuts because the publishing team made a compelling case. They were able to show him the sales from his previous four books, the profit margin, and if he sold the same number of books of The Stand, how much slimmer the profit margin would be, because of the cost to produce the 400 extra pages. So the cuts were not made for editorial reasons, but for common sense accounting reasons. King was very happy to have the orphaned material reunited with the rest of the book.
The book does bog down at times for me. I think that is inevitable with a book this size. King is taking on some larger themes here and for the most part keeps all the plates spinning in the air. I read a lot of post-apocalyptic books, and I鈥檓 sure if I ever let myself be put on a couch, a psychologist will explore those reasons thoroughly, but one thing I notice, while I am immersing myself in The Stand, is that I have a greater appreciation for my life and the cocoon that civilization wraps around me to keep me safe and provide me with the necessities so that I can have the time I want to read, putter, and write. Maybe I鈥檓 not as obsessed with the END OF THE WORLD as much as I am finding new ways to appreciate the wonderful life I do have.
I have to admit, though, that I had to agree with lifestyle philosophy of the sociologist Glen Bateman. 鈥滲ut Bateman himself hadn鈥檛 wanted to get in on the ground floor of society鈥檚 reappearance. He seemed perfectly content鈥攁t least for the time being鈥攖o go for his walks with Kojak, paint his pictures, putter around his garden, and think about the sociological ramifications of nearly total decimation.鈥�
I would hope I could ignore the siren calls of the ancient, wise woman in Nebraska and the seductive pull of The Dark Man and just enjoy the peace and quiet of a more tranquil world without the constant noise of people talking on their cell phones, music blaring from cars, planes taking off from airports, and millions of electrical lines humming.
It is truly amazing any of us can think.
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December 10, 2024
Our disintegrating modern ethical cliff - hanging in a sheer drop over our grim future world in the Stand - will soon utterly collapse. Then what?
Well, you know, and I know, that Hell is Deep.
Should we heed pale Dante's warning and "give up hope, all you who enter in here?"
No. Because we're not there yet. Repentance's Window of Opportunity is still open!
The Tibetan Buddhists describe the Land of the Dead as a land in which all reference points are lost. We will soon know Nothing For Sure. Our pride, which had always given us our bearings, is now gone in a puff of smoke. No friends, no diversions.
You know, Sartre had it wrong - Hell is not other people - it is only our narrow, naked self under the Bardo's Bright Light. Where is forgiveness now?
Well, remember that puff of smoke?
This is Hell's - or Heaven's, depending on how we lived our life - Anteroom. You pays your money and you takes your chances. Life is tough, and then you die. The Bardo's bottom line.
***
But there's another option. We can now make the best of a bad situation. As King's band of fighters here do. "It is not too late to seek a better world!"
***
I read The Stand in the languid summer of 1980, in a paradisal resort getaway in Canada's Kawarthas. It was a gift to my girlfriend and me (was it intended as Fifth Business, as in the blockbuster novel? You betcha!) from my Mom. She had stayed here many times, and had relished its gastronomical cuisine.
You see, Mom was dying of terminal cancer - she knew it and we knew it. But she knew we were deeply in love, and she only wanted to see our two wedding bands before her exit! And she did - just before, in fact.
What had I packed in my luggage before we left the smog 'n stress of the city for this heaven on earth?
As much of the Stephen King oeuvre as I could carry! So it was to be the Perfect Storm...
***
You guys know by now I am an Aspie who refuses to read signals - but that vacation I read 'em all, in our rich near-neighbours' gestures. I became utterly antsy, and so dug deep into those novels in order to self-medicate. It worked.
And I've been in a state of simmering High Anxiety ever since, though now confidently medicated. But I remembered back then St. Paul's words - "marry or BURN."
That was Mom's Fifth Business. And it did the trick.
***
But now that we all face The Disaster on a daily basis, we know that its grim aftermath, as Stephen King says, is Anarchy. There are always sorrowful survivors who must face That New Disaster.
King says we will never be able, naturally, to go back to utopia.
So what then? Put on a perpetually glum face and sink deep into nothingness? Heaven forbid - for at that time all our preferred anodynes will be permanently out of stock - for all the stores will be boarded up.
No. Remember November 22, 1963?
Kennedy had just been gunned down. Anarchy loomed like a Death's Head.
The great W.H. Auden simply wrote:
Remembering his death
How we choose to live
Will decide its meaning.
So, fast forward again sixty years.
Now we're ALL burning, and soon must pay the piper.
Hell is murky. The Death's Head has appeared again.
Whatever will we do? Well, how we choose to act or not to act will decide the Disaster's meaning.
And when that time comes I know I'll be sure to make my STAND.
Will YOU?
Well, you know, and I know, that Hell is Deep.
Should we heed pale Dante's warning and "give up hope, all you who enter in here?"
No. Because we're not there yet. Repentance's Window of Opportunity is still open!
The Tibetan Buddhists describe the Land of the Dead as a land in which all reference points are lost. We will soon know Nothing For Sure. Our pride, which had always given us our bearings, is now gone in a puff of smoke. No friends, no diversions.
You know, Sartre had it wrong - Hell is not other people - it is only our narrow, naked self under the Bardo's Bright Light. Where is forgiveness now?
Well, remember that puff of smoke?
This is Hell's - or Heaven's, depending on how we lived our life - Anteroom. You pays your money and you takes your chances. Life is tough, and then you die. The Bardo's bottom line.
***
But there's another option. We can now make the best of a bad situation. As King's band of fighters here do. "It is not too late to seek a better world!"
***
I read The Stand in the languid summer of 1980, in a paradisal resort getaway in Canada's Kawarthas. It was a gift to my girlfriend and me (was it intended as Fifth Business, as in the blockbuster novel? You betcha!) from my Mom. She had stayed here many times, and had relished its gastronomical cuisine.
You see, Mom was dying of terminal cancer - she knew it and we knew it. But she knew we were deeply in love, and she only wanted to see our two wedding bands before her exit! And she did - just before, in fact.
What had I packed in my luggage before we left the smog 'n stress of the city for this heaven on earth?
As much of the Stephen King oeuvre as I could carry! So it was to be the Perfect Storm...
***
You guys know by now I am an Aspie who refuses to read signals - but that vacation I read 'em all, in our rich near-neighbours' gestures. I became utterly antsy, and so dug deep into those novels in order to self-medicate. It worked.
And I've been in a state of simmering High Anxiety ever since, though now confidently medicated. But I remembered back then St. Paul's words - "marry or BURN."
That was Mom's Fifth Business. And it did the trick.
***
But now that we all face The Disaster on a daily basis, we know that its grim aftermath, as Stephen King says, is Anarchy. There are always sorrowful survivors who must face That New Disaster.
King says we will never be able, naturally, to go back to utopia.
So what then? Put on a perpetually glum face and sink deep into nothingness? Heaven forbid - for at that time all our preferred anodynes will be permanently out of stock - for all the stores will be boarded up.
No. Remember November 22, 1963?
Kennedy had just been gunned down. Anarchy loomed like a Death's Head.
The great W.H. Auden simply wrote:
Remembering his death
How we choose to live
Will decide its meaning.
So, fast forward again sixty years.
Now we're ALL burning, and soon must pay the piper.
Hell is murky. The Death's Head has appeared again.
Whatever will we do? Well, how we choose to act or not to act will decide the Disaster's meaning.
And when that time comes I know I'll be sure to make my STAND.
Will YOU?
September 2, 2021
The Stand, Stephen King
Publication date: October 3, 1978.
The Stand is a post-apocalyptic horror/fantasy novel by American author Stephen King.
It expands upon the scenario of his earlier short story "Night Surf" and outlines the total breakdown of society after the accidental release of a strain of influenza that had been modified for biological warfare causes an apocalyptic pandemic, which kills off the majority of the world's human population.
King dedicated the book to his wife, Tabitha: "For Tabby: This dark chest of wonders."
鬲丕乇蹖禺 賳禺爻鬲蹖賳 禺賵丕賳卮: 乇賵夭 蹖丕夭丿賴賲 賲丕賴 丕讴鬲亘乇 锟斤拷丕賱 2005賲蹖賱丕丿蹖
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鬲丕乇蹖禺 亘賴賳诏丕賲 乇爻丕賳蹖 14/08/1399賴噩乇蹖 禺賵乇卮蹖丿蹖貨 10/06/1400賴噩乇蹖 禺賵乇卮蹖丿蹖貨 丕. 卮乇亘蹖丕賳蹖
Publication date: October 3, 1978.
The Stand is a post-apocalyptic horror/fantasy novel by American author Stephen King.
It expands upon the scenario of his earlier short story "Night Surf" and outlines the total breakdown of society after the accidental release of a strain of influenza that had been modified for biological warfare causes an apocalyptic pandemic, which kills off the majority of the world's human population.
King dedicated the book to his wife, Tabitha: "For Tabby: This dark chest of wonders."
鬲丕乇蹖禺 賳禺爻鬲蹖賳 禺賵丕賳卮: 乇賵夭 蹖丕夭丿賴賲 賲丕賴 丕讴鬲亘乇 锟斤拷丕賱 2005賲蹖賱丕丿蹖
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鬲丕乇蹖禺 亘賴賳诏丕賲 乇爻丕賳蹖 14/08/1399賴噩乇蹖 禺賵乇卮蹖丿蹖貨 10/06/1400賴噩乇蹖 禺賵乇卮蹖丿蹖貨 丕. 卮乇亘蹖丕賳蹖
April 27, 2025
The Stand is my favorite book of all time.
This was my third time through it and my opinion hasn't changed one bit. I am in awe of this creation.
Full review to come...stay tuned!!!
Let's be real though, if that ever actually happens, it's just going to be me swooning for roughly nineteen paragraphs. Don't hold your breath.
This was my third time through it and my opinion hasn't changed one bit. I am in awe of this creation.
Full review to come...stay tuned!!!
Let's be real though, if that ever actually happens, it's just going to be me swooning for roughly nineteen paragraphs. Don't hold your breath.
October 18, 2018
Dear god this was a lot to get through but DAMN was it worth it. WOW
March 9, 2020
FULL REVIEW UP!
Laws yes, I finished this huge ass book!
I鈥檝e been wanting to read The Stand for years. I put it off because of the sheer size of the book. I finally kicked my butt in gear and read this post-apocalyptic tale of good vs evil.
I love post-apocalyptic/dystopian plots and I knew I needed to read this. I'm so glad I did!
I went into this book not knowing much about the plot or characters. I did not watch the TV mini-series of The Stand which was produced back in 1994. I'm glad that I didn鈥檛 watch it or know what type of plot and characters that Stephen King was going to introduce me too!! I think it's better that way.
The Stand starts off with a deadly plague that kills most of the world鈥檚 population. I enjoyed reading about the trials and tribulations of the survivors trying to navigate in this new world. I loved this part of the book!
And because of the death and destruction that occurs, Randall Flagg, the Dark Man comes back for the remaining survivors. Dun dun dun!
I ended up reading the unabridged version of this dystopian tale. I do think that some of this 鈥渆xtra鈥� of the unabridged version could have been cut out. I still loved the overall story though and have to give this book 5 stars because of the amount of world building and characterization that King ends up writing about.
One thing that I had issue with on the unabridged version was the Trashcan Man chapters. It slowed down the pace for me and made me miss the other characters.
Now that I鈥檝e finished the book though, I understand why King wrote those chapters and wanted them in the book.
I absolutely loved the ending of this book! I鈥檝e read some reviews that had problems with it, but it worked for me. I鈥檓 not saying more due to spoilers.
Last of all, some of the characters in this book will be with me for years. That鈥檚 the skill and brilliance of King when he writes a character driven plot.
Nick Andros, Tom Cullen and Glenn Bateman will always be my favorites.
And I will always hate Harold Lauder with a raging passion. What a weasel! Speaking of weasels鈥�
And now thanks to King, I want an Irish Setter like Kojak. Fetch Kojak, fetch!
Laws yes, I finished this huge ass book!
I鈥檝e been wanting to read The Stand for years. I put it off because of the sheer size of the book. I finally kicked my butt in gear and read this post-apocalyptic tale of good vs evil.
I love post-apocalyptic/dystopian plots and I knew I needed to read this. I'm so glad I did!
I went into this book not knowing much about the plot or characters. I did not watch the TV mini-series of The Stand which was produced back in 1994. I'm glad that I didn鈥檛 watch it or know what type of plot and characters that Stephen King was going to introduce me too!! I think it's better that way.
The Stand starts off with a deadly plague that kills most of the world鈥檚 population. I enjoyed reading about the trials and tribulations of the survivors trying to navigate in this new world. I loved this part of the book!
And because of the death and destruction that occurs, Randall Flagg, the Dark Man comes back for the remaining survivors. Dun dun dun!
I ended up reading the unabridged version of this dystopian tale. I do think that some of this 鈥渆xtra鈥� of the unabridged version could have been cut out. I still loved the overall story though and have to give this book 5 stars because of the amount of world building and characterization that King ends up writing about.
One thing that I had issue with on the unabridged version was the Trashcan Man chapters. It slowed down the pace for me and made me miss the other characters.
Now that I鈥檝e finished the book though, I understand why King wrote those chapters and wanted them in the book.
I absolutely loved the ending of this book! I鈥檝e read some reviews that had problems with it, but it worked for me. I鈥檓 not saying more due to spoilers.
Last of all, some of the characters in this book will be with me for years. That鈥檚 the skill and brilliance of King when he writes a character driven plot.
Nick Andros, Tom Cullen and Glenn Bateman will always be my favorites.
And I will always hate Harold Lauder with a raging passion. What a weasel! Speaking of weasels鈥�
And now thanks to King, I want an Irish Setter like Kojak. Fetch Kojak, fetch!
December 5, 2022
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賱賰賳 賲丕 噩匕亘賰 賱鬲鬲禺賱賷 毓賳 賰賱 丕賱賰鬲亘 賱鬲爻鬲賰賲賱 賯乇丕亍丞 乇賵丕賷丞 賮賷 1440 氐賮丨丞責
兀毓賱賲 兀賳賳賷 賱賳 兀賯賳毓賰 毓夭賷夭賷 丕賱賯丕乇卅 亘賲丕 賷賰賮賷貙 亘賱 乇亘賲丕 賱丕 兀乇卮丨 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 亘賯賵丞 賰亘毓囟 兀毓賲丕賱 爻鬲賷賮賷賳 賰賷賳噩 丕锘坟辟�
锘毁嗁囏� 乇丨賱丞 賯丿 鬲噩丿 賳賮爻賰 賲噩亘乇丕 賱兀爻鬲賰賲丕賱賴丕...兀賵 鬲鬲賵賯賮 賮賷 乇亘毓賴丕 丕賱兀賵賱 賵鬲賮囟賱 丕賱乇丨賷賱 毓賳賴丕 賰賲丕 賲賳 乇丨賱 毓賳 丕賱丕丨丿丕孬 亘爻亘亘 "賰丕亘鬲賳 丕賱鬲乇丨丕賱"貙 "丕賱乇丨丕賱丞"貙 "丕賱廿賳賮賱賵賳夭丕 丕锘坟关纲�"貙 亘賱 賵胤賵丕賱 賯乇丕亍鬲賴丕 爻鬲噩丿 毓賯亘丕鬲 兀卮丿 賯丿 鬲噩毓賱賰 鬲乇丨賱 毓賳賴丕
賱賰賳賰 廿賳 氐賲丿鬲貙 丨鬲賷 丕賱賲賵丕噩赖丞
丕賱賵賯賮丞
爻鬲噩丿 賳賮爻賰 卮賴丿鬲 賲賵丕噩赖丞 毓賲賷賯丞貙 賯賵賷丞 賱賴丕 兀賰孬乇 賲賳 亘毓丿
賵賱賳乇 賱丕爻鬲胤賷毓 鬲賯賷賷賲 乇丨賱鬲賷 鬲賱賰 亘鬲賯爻賷賷賲 丕賱賲乇丕噩毓丞 賱賱孬賱丕孬 賰鬲亘 丕賱鬲賷 兀丨鬲賵鬲賴丕 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞
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丕賱賰鬲丕亘 丕锘毁堎� : 賰丕亘鬲賳 丕賱鬲乇丨丕賱
賲賳 16 賷賵賳賷賵 丕賱賷 4 賷賵賱賷賵 -480 氐賮丨丞 賮賯胤
亘毓賰爻 賰賱 丕賱乇賵丕賷丕鬲 丕賱卮賴賷乇丞 丕賱丨丕賱賷丞 丕賱鬲賷 鬲亘丿兀 賲孬賱丕 賮賷 賲噩鬲賲毓 鬲賲 鬲丿賲賷乇賴 賲賳 賯亘賱 亘爻亘亘 丨乇亘貙 賰丕乇孬丞 胤亘賷毓賷丞貙 兀賵 亘卮乇賷丞貙 乇亘賲丕 賳賵賵賷丞 貙 賵亘丕亍貙 兀賵 丨鬲賷 丨丕賰賲 胤丕睾賷丞 賲爻鬲亘丿 .. 賰賱 鬲賱賰 丕賱乇賵丕賷丕鬲 丕賱鬲賷 鬲亘丿兀 亘噩賵 丿賵爻鬲賵亘賷丕 賲毓賱亘丞貙 賲噩賴夭丞 賲爻亘賯丕
賱賰賳 賮賷 賴匕賴 丕賱丨丕賱丞...丕賱賵亘丕亍 丕賱賲爻亘亘 賱賱丿賷爻鬲賵亘賷丕 賴賵 丕賱賲毓亘兀 賵丕賱賲噩賴夭 賲爻亘賯丕...賮賷 賲禺鬲亘乇丕鬲 丕賱丕爻鬲禺亘丕乇丕鬲 丕賱毓爻賰乇賷丞 丕賱兀賲乇賷賰賷丞
賴賳丕 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 鬲亘丿兀 賮賷 兀賲乇賷賰丕..丕賱鬲爻毓賷賳丕鬲貙 鬲毓丕賳賷 賰賲丕 丕賱賰孬賷乇 賲賳 丕賱丿賵賱 賵賯鬲賴丕 貙 鬲毓丕賳賷 賰賲丕 爻鬲毓丕賳賷 丿賵賲丕 貨 丕賱丕夭賲丞 丕賱丕賯鬲氐丕丿賷丞 貙 丕賱鬲囟禺賲...夭賷丕丿丞 丕賱爻賰丕賳 賵賯賱丞 丕賱賲賵丕乇丿 賮兀乇鬲賮丕毓 丕賱丕爻毓丕乇 賰丕賱毓丕丿丞..丨夭亘 丕賱丿賷賲賵賯乇丕胤賷賷賳..兀賱禺
賵賱賰賳 賮賷 賲禺鬲亘乇 毓爻賰乇賷 鬲丕亘毓 賱賱丨賰賵賲丞 丕賱兀賲乇賷賰賷丞 賷賮賱鬲 賲賳賴 賮乇丿 兀賲賳 亘爻賷胤 卮賴丿 賵賮丕丞 賲賮丕噩兀丞 賱賰賱 賲賳 亘丕賱賲毓賲賱 毓賱賷 賰丕賲賷乇丕鬲 丕賱賲乇丕賯亘丞 亘丕賱禺丕乇噩...賱賷賴乇亘 賯亘賱 兀賳 賷睾賱賯 亘丕亘 賲亘丕賳賷 丕賱賲禺鬲亘乇 丕賵鬲賵賲丕鬲賷賰賷丕 亘丕賱賰丕賲賱 賱賱丕丨鬲賵丕亍貙 賵 賷兀禺匕 毓丕卅賱鬲賴 賵賷乇丨賱 毓賳 丕賱賵賱丕賷丞 亘兀爻乇毓 賵賯鬲
鬲氐丿賲 爻賷丕乇鬲賴 氐亘丕丨 丕賱賷賵賲 丕賱鬲丕賱賷 亘賲丨胤丞 亘賳夭賷賳 賮賷 丕賱賵賱丕賷丞 丕賱鬲丕賱賷丞貙 賵賱丨爻賳 丕賱丨馗- 兀賵 爻賵亍賴- 賷賱丨馗 爻鬲賵 乇賷丿賲丕賳 丕賱爻賷丕乇丞 丕賱賲爻乇毓丞 賮賷睾賱賯 賲囟禺丕鬲 丕賱亘賳夭賷賳 亘爻乇毓丞 賰賷 賱丕 鬲賳賮噩乇 亘丕賱爻賷丕乇丞 亘丕賱賲丨胤丞 賰賱賴丕
(賷丕賱賷鬲賴丕 丕賳賮噩乇鬲) 貙 (丨賯丕責)
賵賲賳 鬲賱賰 丕賱亘賱丿丞 丕賱氐睾賷乇丞貙 亘賲賯丕亘賱丞 毓丕亘乇丞 鬲賱賵 丕賱丕禺乇賷 賷亘丿兀 賰丕亘鬲賳 丕賱乇丨賱丕鬲貙 丕賱乇丨丕賱丞貙 丕賱廿賳賮賱賵賳夭丕 丕賱毓馗賷賲丞
賵氐賮 丕賱爻賷丿 賰賷賳噩 賰丕賳 賰丕亘賵爻賷丕 賴賳丕 賱賰賷賮 兀賳鬲卮乇 丕賱賲乇囟貙 賴賳丕賰 賮氐賵賱 賰兀賳賴丕 鬲乇賵賷 賲賳 賲賳馗賵乇 丕賱賵亘丕亍 賳賮爻賴 賵賱賰賳 亘卮賰賱 睾賷乇 賲亘丕卮乇貙 賰賷賮 賷賯丕亘賱 卮禺氐丕 賲氐丕亘 卮禺氐丕 丕禺乇 爻賱賷賲丕貙 賱賷匕賴亘 賱卮禺氐 丕禺乇 賷乇鬲丨賱 賱賵賱丕賷丞 兀禺乇賷 丨丕賲賱丕 賲乇囟 賷賳鬲卮乇 亘爻賴賵賱丞 賮賷 丕賱賴賵丕亍..亘卮賰賱 鬲賮氐賷賱賷 睾乇賷亘 賰丕亘賵爻賷
賵賯丿 賷賰賵賳 亘丿兀 賯賵賷丕貙 賷賯鬲賱 賮賷 賱丨馗鬲賴丕貙 賱賰賳 亘兀賳鬲卮丕乇賴 胤丕賱鬲 賮鬲乇丞 丨囟丕賳鬲賴...賵氐丕乇 賰卮賮賴 兀氐毓亘
賮兀毓乇丕囟賴 兀毓乇丕囟 賲噩乇丿 亘乇丿 毓丕丿賷 貙 亘乇丿 兀賵賱 丕賱氐賷賮 丕賱毓鬲賷丿貙 賱賰賳賴 賷鬲丨賵賱 賱賰賱 賲囟丕毓賮丕鬲 丕賱亘乇丿 賵丕賱廿賳賮賱賵賳夭丕 丕賱亘卮毓丞 丨鬲賷 賷賵丿賷 亘丨賷丕丞 丕賱賲乇賷囟
孬賲 鬲鬲胤賵乇 丕賱丕賲賵乇 亘爻乇毓丞
賯賲毓 毓爻賰乇賷 兀毓賱丕賲賷 貙 賲爻鬲卮賮賷丕鬲 鬲毓噩 亘丕賱賲乇囟賷 賵丕賱賲賵鬲賷 貙 賮賵囟賷 賮賷 丕賱兀毓賱丕賲 賵乇毓亘 賮賷 丕賱卮賵丕乇毓 賵丕賱噩賷卮 賷囟毓 丨賵丕噩夭 亘丕賱胤乇賯 亘賷賳 丕賱賵賱丕賷丕鬲 丕賱鬲賷 賱丕 賷毓乇賮 爻賰丕賳賴丕 廿賱賷 兀賷賳 賷賮乇賵賳 賲賳 丕賱兀爻丕爻
賵賯亘賱 兀賳 賷賳鬲賴賷 賴匕丕 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 丕賱賰丕亘賵爻賷 (丕賱噩夭亍 丕锘焚堎�)貙 賷賰賵賳 賯丿 鬲賲 丕賱賯囟丕亍 亘賳噩丕丨 毓賱賷 99% 賲賳 爻賰丕賳 兀賲乇賷賰丕 賵亘丕賱鬲亘毓賷丞 丕賱毓丕賱賲 賰賱賴 -亘爻亘亘 匕賰乇 毓丕亘乇 兀賳賴 兀賷囟丕 賵氐賱 丕賱氐賷賳 賵乇賵爻賷丕-..賰丕亘鬲賳 丕賱鬲乇丨丕賱 賯丕賲 亘乇丨賱丕鬲 賳丕噩丨丞 亘丨賯
賵賱賰賳 賴賳丕賰 賳丕噩賷賳 賱賲 賷氐亘賴賲 丕賱賵亘丕亍...賵賱賰賳賴賲 1%賮丨爻亘
賵亘丕賱胤亘毓 賱賲 賷賳爻 丕賱爻賷丿 賰賷賳噩 兀囟丕賮丞 賮氐賱 賯亘賱 賳賴丕賷丞 賴匕丕 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 毓賳 賰賷賮 兀賳 丕賱1% 賲賳 丕賱爻賰丕賳 丕賱賳丕噩賷賳 賱賲賳丕毓鬲賴賲 賲賳 丕賱賵亘丕亍 貙賯丿 賷賱賯賷 乇亘毓賴賲 賳丨亘賴 亘爻亘亘 兀爻亘丕亘 兀禺乇賷 胤亘賷毓賷丞
鬲禺賷賱 賰賱 噩賷乇丕賳賰 賵卮丕乇毓賰 賵丕賱丨賷 丕賱匕賷 鬲賯鬲賳賴 賲賷鬲賵賳 亘亘賷賵鬲賴賲 兀賵 爻賷丕乇丕鬲賴賲 丕賱毓丕賱賯丞 賮賷 兀夭丿丨丕賲 賲乇賵乇賷 賱賳 賷賮賰 兀亘丿丕貙 賴賱 爻賷鬲丨賲賱 毓賯賱賰 賵丕毓氐丕亘賰責
胤賮賱 乇囟賷毓 賱丿賷賴 賲賳丕毓丞 賱賳 賷爻鬲賮丕丿 亘賴丕 賲賳 匕賱賰 丕賱賵亘丕亍貙 爻賷賲賵鬲 賮賷 睾囟賵賳 爻丕毓丕鬲 賵丨賷丿丕
匕賱賰 丕賱賮氐賱 亘丕賱丕禺氐 賰丕賳 賯丕爻賷 亘亘卮丕毓丞 貙 兀爻賱賵亘 丕賱爻賷丿 賰賷賳噩 亘賴 賰丕賳 毓亘賯乇賷丕 貙 兀囟丕賮丞 毓亘丕乇丞 "賱賷爻鬲 亘丕賱禺爻丕乇丞 丕賱賰亘乇賷" 亘毓丿 兀睾賱亘 丕賱賵賮賷丕鬲 丕賱鬲賷 賳鬲噩鬲 亘兀爻亘丕亘 睾賷乇 丕賱賵亘丕亍 兀氐丕亘鬲賳賷 亘丕賱乇毓卮丞 貙 丨鬲賷 廿賳 賰丕賳鬲 毓賳 賲丿賲賳 賴賷乇賵賷賳 賲丕鬲 亘噩乇毓丞 夭丕卅丿丞 賱賲 賷噩丿 賲賳 賷爻丕毓丿賴
賱賰賳 鬲賱賰 丕賱卮禺氐賷丕鬲 丕賱鬲爻毓 亘賴匕丕 丕賱賮氐賱 賵丕賱鬲賷 鬲乇丕賵丨鬲 賯氐鬲賴賲 亘賷賳 氐賮丨丞 賵賳氐賮 丕賱賷 爻胤乇 賵賳氐賮 賱賷爻賵丕 丕賱賵丨賷丿賷賳 丕賱匕賷賳 毓丕賳賵丕 賯爻賵丞 丕賱爻賷丿 賰賷賳噩
亘賱 丕賱卮禺氐賷丕鬲 丕賱乇卅賷爻賷丞 賳賮爻賴丕 丕賱鬲賷 賳噩鬲 丕賱賵亘丕亍 兀賷囟丕 爻鬲卮賴丿 賯爻賵丞 兀卮丿 賵胤乇丕
賵丕賱鬲賷 爻賳鬲毓乇賮 毓賳賴丕 賱丕丨賯丕
賵賱賰賷 賱丕 丕丨乇賯 賱賰 賲氐丕卅乇 丕賱卮禺氐賷丕鬲 賱賳乇 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 丕賱孬丕賳賷
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丕賱賰鬲丕亘 丕賱孬丕賳賷 : 毓賱賷 丕賱丨丿賵丿
賲賳 5 賷賵賱賷賵 丕賱賷 6 爻亘鬲賲亘乇 - 660 氐賮丨丞 賮賯胤
丕賱兀賳 賰賱 丕賱卮禺氐賷丕鬲 丕賱乇卅賷爻賷丞 -賲賳 賲禺鬲賱賮 丕賱賵賱丕賷丕鬲- 亘丿兀鬲 鬲鬲丨乇賰 賲賳 丕賱賲丿賳 丕賱禺丕賵賷丞 丕賱丕 賲賳 噩孬孬 丕賱丕賱丕賮 丕賱賲賵鬲賷 亘賰賱 賲丿賷賳丞 賱鬲鬲噩賴 丕賱賷 賲氐賷乇賴丕
賵賱賰賳 丕賱賷 丕賷賳責
賴匕賴 賴賷 丕賱賳賯胤丞
賱丕 賷賵噩丿 賲噩鬲賲毓 丕賱丕賳 貙 亘賱 爻賷鬲賲 亘賳丕亍 賲噩鬲賲毓 賲賳 丕賱丕爻丕爻 賲賳 噩丿賷丿
賴賳丕賰 丕賱亘毓囟 賷丨賱賲 亘乇噩賱 賲馗賱賲 貙 賷賲卮賷 賮賷 丕賱馗賱丕賲 賷爻亘亘 亘乇賵丿丞 賵賯卮毓乇賷乇丞 賱賲賳 賷乇丕賴 賵賷丨丕賵賱 丕賳 賷噩賳丿 丕鬲亘丕毓 賱賴
賵丕丨賷丕賳丕 鬲鬲賳鬲賯賱 丕賱丕丨賱丕賲 丕賱賷 爻賷丿丞 爻賵丿丕亍 毓噩賵夭 賲毓賲乇丞 賮賷 賲夭乇毓鬲賴丕 鬲睾賳賷 胤賷賱丞 丕賱賳賴丕乇 丕睾丕賳賷 賵丕亘鬲賴丕賱丕鬲 鬲亘丕乇賰 丕賱賱賴
賵丕賱睾乇賷亘 丕賳 丕賱噩賲賷毓 賷丨賱賲 亘賰賱丕 丕賱卮禺氐賷鬲賷賳 貙 賵賰賱 賳賮爻 賱賴丕 兀賳 鬲賮囟賱 胤乇賷賯丕 毓賳 丕賱丕禺乇
鬲賮爻賷乇 噩夭亍 丕賱兀丨賱丕賲 丕賱噩賲丕毓賷丞 乇睾賲 丕賳 亘賴丕 卮卅 賲賳 丕賱賲賷鬲丕賮賷夭賷賯丕 "賲丕賵乇丕亍 丕賱胤亘賷毓丞" 賴賵 兀賳 丕賱兀丨賱丕賲 毓丕賲丕 鬲鬲兀孬乇 亘卮賰賱 賰亘賷乇 亘丕賱賵毓賷 丕賱噩賲毓賷 貙 賵毓賳丿賲丕 賵氐賱 爻賰丕賳 丕賱丕乇囟 賱1% 賮賯胤 賮賯丿 賰丕賳 爻賴賱丕 丕賱鬲兀孬乇 亘丕賱丕丨賱丕賲 賵賷鬲賰賵賳 賲丕 賷卮亘賴 丨賱賲 噩賲丕毓賷
賯丿 賷賰賵賳 丕賱乇噩賱 丕賱賲馗賱賲 "乇丕賳丿賱 賮賱丕噩" 賱兀賳賴 鬲丕亘毓 賱賱卮賷胤丕賳 賱賴 亘毓囟 丕賱賯丿乇丕鬲 丕賱禺丕乇賯丞 賱賱胤亘賷毓丞 賱賷賳丕丿賷 毓賱賷 丕鬲亘丕毓 賱賴 亘丕賱丕丨賱丕賲貙 賵賱賰賳 賰賴亘丞 賲賳 丕賱賱賴 賷丨賱賲 丕賱亘毓囟 丕賷囟丕 亘鬲賱賰 丕賱爻賷丿丞 丕賱毓丕丿賷丞貙 "丕锘毁� 兀亘丕噩丕賷賱" 貙 丕賱賲丐賲賳丞 賮丨爻亘..賵丕賱鬲賷 鬲卮毓乇 兀賳 丕賱賱賴 兀禺鬲丕乇賴丕 賱鬲毓賲乇 賱爻亘亘 噩丕亍 賵賯鬲賴
賮鬲鬲禺匕 丕賱兀賲 兀亘丕噩丕賷賱 丿賵乇 兀乇卮丕丿 丕賱賳丕噩賷賳 丕賱匕賷賳 爻賷鬲賵噩賴賵丕 賱賴丕 貙 丨爻亘 乇丐賷丕賴丕 賲賳 丕賱賱賴貙 賱賱匕賴丕亘 賱賱睾乇亘 賱賱丕爻鬲賯乇丕乇 亘賲丿賷賳丞 爻賷爻賲賵賳賴丕 "丕賱賲賳胤賯丞 丕賱丨乇丞" 毓賳丿 卮乇賯 噩亘丕賱 乇賵賰賷
亘賷賳賲丕 賷禺鬲丕乇 丕賱噩丕賳亘 丕賱丕禺乇 丕賱匕賴丕亘 賱睾乇亘 噩亘丕賱 乇賵賰賷 貙 賱賱丕爻 賮賷噩丕爻 賳賷賮丕丿丕...賱丿賷 乇噩賱 丕賱馗賱丕賲..乇噩賱 丕賱卮賷胤丕賳
賵賴賳丕 爻賷鬲賰賵賳 丕賱賲噩鬲賲毓貙 賲賳 噩丿賷丿
兀賵 亘丕锘回地� 丕賱賲噩鬲賲毓丕賳
賵賳鬲丕亘毓 亘卮賰賱 賲乇賴賯 賵賯賵賷 賰賷賮 賷鬲賯丕亘賱 卮禺氐賷丕鬲 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 丕賱丕賵賱 賲毓 卮禺氐賷丕鬲 噩丿賷丿丞 毓賱賷 丕賱胤乇賷賯 貙 丕賱鬲丨丕賱賮丕鬲 丕賱鬲賷 鬲丨丿孬 亘賷賳 丕賱卮禺氐賷丕鬲 貙 賵鬲卮賴丿 賲毓賴賲 丕賴賵丕賱 賲丕 丨丿孬 亘丕賱賵賱丕賷丕鬲 丕賱丕禺乇賷 亘乇丨賱丞 胤乇賷賯 卮丕賯丞 毓亘乇 丕賱賵賱丕賷丕鬲 丕賱丕賲乇賷賰賷丞
賵賰賱 卮禺氐賷丞 丕賵 噩賲丕毓丞 丨爻亘 賵噩賴鬲賴丕
賴賳丕 賷賯丿賲 爻鬲賷賮賷賳 賰賷賳噩 賳賯丕卮 賲爻鬲賲乇 胤賵丕賱 丕賱丕丨丿丕孬 賴賳丕 毓賳 丕賱賲噩鬲賲毓丕鬲 賵鬲賰賵賳賴丕.. 賰賷賮 賯丿 賷賰賵賳 賲噩鬲賲毓 賷丿賷乇賴 卮賷胤丕賳 胤丕睾賷丞 賷丨賰賲 乇毓丕賷丕賴 亘丕賱禺賵賮..賵賷禺胤胤 賰賱 賲噩賴賵丿丕鬲賴 賰賷賮 賷賯囟賷 毓賱賷 睾賷乇賴
賵賰賷賮 賷賲賰賳 丕賳 賷馗賱 賲噩鬲賲毓丕 賲鬲卮鬲鬲丕 賲鬲禺亘胤丕 亘乇睾賲 賲賳 丕賳 賳賵丕賷丕賴 氐丕賱丨丞貙 丿賷賲賵賯乇丕胤賷貙 賵賱賰賳賴 賷丨丕賵賱 鬲賳馗賷賲 賮賯胤 亘卮賰賱 亘賷乇賵賯乇丕胤賷 鬲賳馗賷賲賷 毓賯賷賲 賵亘兀噩鬲賲丕毓丕鬲 賱丕 鬲賳鬲賴賷 賲賲丕 賯丿 賷丐丿賷 賱囟毓賮賴
亘賱 賵丕賱丕賴賲 賰賷賮 賷賲賰賳 賱賱賲噩鬲賲毓 丕賱氐丕賱丨 丕賱鬲噩賴賷夭 囟丿 丕賱卮賷胤丕賳責 丕賱毓丿賵 丕賱禺丕乇噩賷責
賴賱 賷亘丿兀 丕賷囟丕 賮賷 丕乇爻丕賱 噩賵丕爻賷爻責 丕賱鬲丨囟賷乇 锘回迟勜� 丕禺乇賷責 乇亘賲丕 亘賷賵賱賵丨賷丞責 賵亘丕亍 丕禺乇責
亘賱 賱賲丕匕丕 亘毓丿 賰賱 賴匕賴 丕賱氐毓丕亘 (賵亘丕亍 賯丕鬲賱)..(鬲匕賰乇 丕賳 氐賳毓賴 丕賱亘卮乇 亘賳賮爻賴賲)貙 賷馗賱 毓賱賷賴賲 賲賵丕噩赖丞 丕賱卮賷胤丕賳責責
賴賳丕 賳毓賵丿 賱賱丌賷丞 丕賱鬲賷 匕賰乇鬲賴丕 亘兀賵賱 丕賱賲乇丕噩毓丞
兀毓鬲乇賮 丕賳賳賷 賱孬丕賳賷 丕賵 孬丕賱孬 賲乇丞 兀賯賵賲 亘兀丿禺丕賱 丕賱丿賷賳 賮賷 乇賵丕賷丞 賱爻鬲賷賮賷賳 賰賷賳噩
賱賰賳 賴匕丕 亘丕賱馗亘胤 卮亘賷賴 賱乇丿 丕賱兀賲 丕亘丕噩賷賱 毓賱賷 丕丨丿 丕賱卮禺氐賷丕鬲 丕賱鬲賷 兀鬲賴賲鬲 丕賱匕丕鬲 丕賱廿賱賴賷丞 亘丕賱馗賱賲 賱賵囟毓 丕賱亘卮乇 丿賵賲丕 賮賷 賱毓亘丞 卮胤乇賳噩 亘賷賳 丕賱丕賳爻丕賳 賵丕賱卮賷胤丕賳
賱丕賳 丕賱丕賳爻丕賳 賳賮爻賴 亘丿丕禺賱賴 賳賮爻 丕賱氐乇丕毓 丿丕卅賲丕. . 賵丿丕卅賲丕 賲丕 賷丨鬲丕噩 賱賲賵丕噩赖丞
賮賰乇鬲 丕賱丕賲 丕賳 賯丿 賷賰賵賳 賴匕丕 丨丿孬 丕賷囟丕 賮賷 丕賱賲噩鬲賲毓 亘毓丿 胤賵賮丕賳 爻賷丿賳丕 賳賵丨貙 亘丕賱鬲兀賰賷丿 賰丕賳 賴賳丕賰 丕賳賯爻丕賲 丕禺乇 亘賷賳 丕賱亘卮乇 丕賱賳丕噩賷賳
賵賯賮丞 兀禺乇賷
賲賵丕噩赖丞
賲賵丕噩赖丞 丕賱賳賮爻...賲賵丕噩赖丞 丕賱卮賷胤丕賳
賮丨鬲賷 賮賷 賲噩鬲賲毓 "丕賱賲賳胤賯丞 丕賱丨乇丞" 賰丕賳 亘賴 賳賮賵爻 賲囟胤乇亘丞 賲禺賮賷丞 亘賷賳賴賲..賷賲賷賱賵賳 賱賱馗賱丕賲 兀賰孬乇 賮賷 丕賱禺賮丕亍
丕賱賲賵丕噩赖丞 賴賷 丕賱鬲賷 爻鬲馗賴乇 丕賱賲丐賲賳賷賳 賵鬲賯賵賷賴賲
賵賰賱賲丕 賰丕賳鬲 丕爻乇毓貙 賰丕賳鬲 賳鬲賷噩鬲賴丕 丨丕爻賲丞 丕賰孬乇
賮賷 賴匕丕 丕賱噩夭亍 兀賷囟丕 賷賳丕賯卮 丕賱乇賲賵夭 丕賱丿賷賳賷丞 賵丕賴賲賷鬲賴丕 賱賱亘卮乇..賲丕匕丕 丕匕丕 鬲賵賮鬲 丕賱兀賲 丕亘丕噩丕賷賱責 賴賱 爻賷鬲夭毓夭毓 丕賷賲丕賳 丕賱賳丕噩賷賳 丕賱匕賷賳 賰賵賳賵丕 賴匕丕 丕賱賲噩鬲賲毓 丕賱氐睾賷乇 亘爻亘亘 丕賱丕乇鬲賷丕丨 丕賱賳賮爻賷 賱賴丕賱鬲賴丕 丕賱丿賷賳賷丞責
丕賱丕賲乇 亘丕賱馗亘胤 賰丕賱賲乇鬲丿賷賳 亘毓丿 賵賮丕丞 丕賱乇爻賱.. 賵賱賰賳 亘卮賰賱 乇賲夭賷 賲賳 禺賱丕賱 丕賱丕丨丿丕孬 賲賯丿賲丞 亘卮賰賱 賲賱丕卅賲 賵毓氐乇賷 賵賷丿毓賵 賱賱鬲賮賰賷乇
賱匕丕 賰丕賳 賱丕亘丿 賲賳 丕賱賲賵丕噩赖丞
丕賱賵賯賮丞 丕賱丕禺賷乇丞
賵丕賱賰鬲丕亘 丕賱孬丕賱孬 賵丕賱丕禺賷乇
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丕賱賰鬲丕亘 丕賱孬丕賱孬 : 丕賱賲賵丕噩赖丞
賲賳 7 爻亘鬲賲亘乇 丕賱賷 10 賷賳丕賷乇 - 300 氐賮丨丞 賮賯胤
賵丕賱丕賳貙 賴匕丕 賴賵 丕賱噩夭亍 丕賱丕爻賵兀 亘丕賱賳爻亘丞 賱賷...賵丕賱丕噩賲賱 亘賳賮爻 丕賱賵賯鬲
丕賱噩夭亍 丕賱丕囟毓賮... 賵丕賱丕賰孬乇 丨賲丕爻丞 亘賳賮爻 丕賱賵賯鬲
鬲禺賷賱 丕賳鬲 鬲賯乇兀 丕賰孬乇 賲賳 1100 氐賮丨丞 賱毓賱賰 鬲鬲賵賯毓 賲賱丨賲丞 賵賲賵丕噩赖丞 鬲爻鬲賲乇 賱氐賮丨丕鬲 胤賵賷賱丞 賲賱賷卅丞 亘丕賱丨乇亘 賵丕賱丿賲丕亍 賵丕賱噩賲賱 丕賱乇賳丕賳丞 賵丕賱丕賯鬲亘丕爻丕鬲 丕賱丿賷賳賷丞 丕賱賯賵賷丞
賱賰賳 丕賱丕賲乇 鬲賲 亘卮賰賱 丕亘爻胤 亘賰孬賷乇貙 賵丕賯爻賷 亘賰孬賷乇 賲賲丕 鬲賵賯毓鬲 亘賳賮爻 丕賱賵賯鬲
賱賳 丕丨乇賯 賱賰 丕賱丕賲乇
賱賰賳 丕賱賲賵丕噩賴丕鬲 丕賱鬲賷 鬲賲鬲 亘賷賳 丕賱卮禺氐賷丕鬲 賵丕賱卮賷胤丕賳貙 丕賱賲爻賷禺 丕賱丿噩丕賱 貙 賵囟毓賮 丨賷賱鬲賴 兀賲丕賲 賯賵丞 丕賱丕賷賲丕賳 賵鬲夭毓夭毓 氐賵乇鬲賴 丕賲丕賲 丕鬲亘丕毓賴 賴賵 丕賲乇 賷爻鬲丨賯 丕賱賯乇丕亍丞
丕賱丕爻賱賵亘 賴賳丕 賰丕賳 爻丕丨乇丕 賵丨賲丕爻賷丕
胤賵丕賱 丕賱賵賯鬲 賰賳鬲 丕賰鬲賲 丕賳賮丕爻賷貙 丕卮賴賯 貙 丕賵 丕鬲丨賲爻 賰兀賳賷 丕乇賷丿 丕賳 丕氐賷丨
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賮賯胤 賰賱 卮賷亍 鬲賲 亘爻乇毓丞 丕賰亘乇 賲賲丕 鬲賵賯毓鬲
丕爻賲毓賰 鬲賯賵賱 貙 賰賷賮 300 氐賮丨丞 丕賲 鬲賰賮賷賰貙 賴賳丕賰 乇賵丕賷丕鬲 鬲鬲丨丿孬 毓賳 賲丕 賴賵 丕賰孬乇 賲賳 匕賱賰 賮賷 300 氐賮丨丞 賮賯胤責!!責
丨爻賳丕貙 賱賳 丕丨乇賯 賱賰 丕賱丕賲乇
賵賱賰賳 噩夭亍 賰亘賷乇 賷氐賱 賱賱賳氐賮 賲賳 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 丕賱孬丕賱孬 賵丕賱丕禺賷乇 賷丿賵乇 賮賷 丕賱胤乇賷賯 丕賱賷 丕賱賲賵丕噩赖丞 貙 賵胤乇賷賯 丕賱毓賵丿丞
賮賷 胤乇賷賯 丕賱匕賴丕亘 賷賳丕賯卮 丕賱爻賷丿 賰賷賳噩 亘亘乇丕毓丞 丕賴賲賷丞 乇丨賱丕鬲 鬲胤賴賷乇 丕賱賳賮爻貙 賰乇丨賱丕鬲 丕賱丨噩 賮賷 賰賱 丕賱丕丿賷丕賳 貙 賰禺乇賵噩 -賲毓 丕賱賮丕乇賯- 丕賱丕賳亘賷丕亍 賵丕賱乇爻賱 賱賱毓乇丕亍 賮賷 氐賵賲 賱賱賵丨賷 丕賱廿賱賴賷
丕賲丕 賮賷 丕賱噩夭亍 丕賱匕賷 賷丿賵乇 賮賷 賲丿賷賳丞 賱丕爻 賮賷噩丕爻 貙 丕賱賲噩鬲賲毓 丕賱匕賷 賷鬲夭毓賲賴 丕賱乇噩賱 丕賱賲馗賱賲貙 賮賷賯丿賲 賮賷賴 丕賱爻賷丿 賰賷賳噩 毓賳 胤乇賷賯 丕賱噩賵丕爻賷爻 丕賱賲乇爻賱賷賳 賲賳 丕賱賲賳胤賯丞 丕賱丨乇丞 賱賱丕爻 賮賷噩丕爻貙 賲賯丕乇賳丞 賲孬賷乇丞 賱賱鬲賮賰賷乇 亘賷賳 丕賱賲噩鬲賲毓賷賳
賰賷賮 丕賳 丕賱丨賰賲 丕賱賳丕夭賷貙 丨賰賲 丕賱胤丕睾賷丞貙 賷丐丿賷 丕賱賷 噩毓賱 丕賱亘卮乇 賷丨丕賮馗賵賳 毓賱賷 賲賵丕毓賷丿 毓賲賱賴賲 賵賷爻丕乇毓賵賳 賮賷 丕賳噩丕夭賴貙 亘毓賰爻 丕賱丨丕賱 鬲賲丕賲丕 賮賷 "丕賱賲賳胤賯丞 丕賱丨乇丞" 丨賷孬 賴賳丕賰 卮卅 賲賳 丕賱鬲乇丕禺賷 乇睾賲 兀賴賲賷丞 丕賱毓賲賱
賱賰賳 亘賳賮爻 丕賱賵賯鬲 丕賱丨賰賲 丕賱賳丕夭賷 貙 丨賰賲 丕賱卮賷胤丕賳 丕賱胤丕睾賷丞貙 賷噩毓賱 丕賱賲丨賰賵賲賷賳 賰兀卮亘丕賴 亘卮乇...賷毓賷卮賵賳 賮賷 禺賵賮 丿丕卅賲貙 賱丕賳 丕賱胤丕睾賷丞 賱丕 賷賲賱賰 睾賷乇賴 賷毓胤賷賴 賱賴賲 賱賷丨賰賲 亘賴
賮賱氐丕賱丨 賲賳 鬲賳鬲賴賷 丕賱賲賵丕噩赖丞責
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孬賲 賲丕匕丕 亘毓丿責
賰賷賮 爻賷賰賵賳 丕賱賲噩鬲賲毓 亘毓丿 匕賱賰
賴賱 爻賷賳噩丨 丕賱賳爻亘丞 丕賱鬲賷 鬲賯賱 賯賱賷賱丕 毓賳 1% 賲賳 丕賱亘卮乇 丕賱毓賷卮 亘爻賱丕賲
丕賲 丕賳 丕賱丿丕卅乇丞 爻鬲賳睾賱賯
賵爻賳賰乇乇 兀禺胤丕卅賳丕
賵賷毓賷丿 丕賱鬲丕乇賷禺 賳賮爻賴責
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丕賱賷 賴賳丕 鬲賳鬲賴賷 賲乇丕噩毓丞 丕賱兀丨丿丕孬
丕鬲賲賳賷 丕賳 鬲賰賵賳 毓乇賮鬲 丕賱丕賳 氐丿賷賯賷 丕賱賯丕乇卅 賱賲 賯乇兀鬲 乇賵丕賷丞 1440 氐賮丨丞..賵賲丕匕丕 禺乇噩鬲 賲賳賴丕
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丕賱卮禺氐賷丕鬲
賲賳 爻鬲氐胤丨亘賴賲 兀睾賱亘 丕賱1440 氐賮丨丞
丿賵賳 丨乇賯 賲氐丕卅乇
爻鬲賵 乇賷丿賲丕賳
賴賵 賲賮賴賵賲 爻鬲賷賮賷賳 賰賷賳噩 毓賳 "乇噩賱 丕賱卮丕乇毓 丕賱亘爻賷胤" 貙 丕賱乇噩賱 丕賱噩丿毓 丕賱毓丕丿賷
丕賱睾乇賷亘 兀賳賴 乇睾賲 賵噩賵丿賴 賮賷 丿賵乇 乇卅賷爻賷 廿賱丕 兀賳賴 賱賲 賷賰賳 卮禺氐賷鬲賷 丕賱賲賮囟賱丞..賰丕賳 乇噩賱丕 毓丕丿賷丕 賮賷 馗乇賵賮 睾賷乇 毓丕丿賷丞 貙 賴匕丕 賰賱 卮卅
賵賱兀賳 丕賱卮丿丞 鬲馗賴乇 賲毓丕丿賳 丕賱亘卮乇..丨爻賳丕 貙 賱賴匕丕 賯賱鬲 毓賳賴 丕賳賴 丕賱乇噩賱 "丕賱噩丿毓" 貙 乇丨賱鬲賴 亘毓丿 丕賱賵亘丕亍 賴賷 丕賱兀氐毓亘 亘丨賯..乇亘賲丕 賱賲 鬲鬲胤賵乇 丕賱卮禺氐賷丞 賰孬賷乇丕 賱丕丨賯丕 賱賰賳 丕賱鬲噩乇亘丞 賴賷 賲丕 爻鬲禺賱賮 亘賴 兀孬丕乇丕 賵丕囟丨丞
賮乇丕賳賷 噩賵賱丿賲丕賳
卮丕亘丞 噩賲賷賱丞 貙 毓賮賵賷丞 噩丿丕..丕賷囟丕 賯丿 鬲毓丿 卮禺氐賷丞 毓丕丿賷丞 乇睾賲 賰賱 卮卅 賱賰賳 賲丕 爻鬲賲乇 亘賴 锟斤拷賳 賲氐丕毓亘 賷噩毓賱賴丕 賷馗賴乇 賲毓丿賳賴丕 丕賱賯賵賷 貙 亘丕賱兀禺氐 賮賷 丕賱乇亘毓 丕賱兀賵賱 毓賳丿 賲毓乇賮鬲賴丕 亘丨賲賱賴丕 賵賲賵丕噩賴鬲賴丕 賱賵丕賱丿賷賴丕
賵賱賰賳 鬲賯乇賷亘丕 賲卮賴丿 鬲丨賲賱賴丕 丕賱賲爻卅賵賱賷丞 亘賵賮丕丞 賵丕賱丿賴丕 賰丕賳 賲賳 兀氐毓亘 丕賱賲卮丕賴丿..賵兀氐乇丕乇賴丕 毓賱賷 兀賳 鬲丿賮賳賴 亘賳賮爻賴丕 乇睾賲 氐毓賵亘丞 丕賱丕賲乇貙 乇爻賲賴丕 賰賷賳噩 亘亘乇丕毓丞貙 賵馗賴乇鬲 亘賱賵丨丞 賲賳 賱賵丨丕鬲 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞
賵廿賳 賰賳鬲 毓乇賮鬲 兀賳 賮乇丕賳賷 賷賲賰賳賴丕 鬲丨賲賱 丕賱賲爻卅賵賱賷丞 亘賴匕丕 丕賱卮賰賱 亘丕賱乇亘毓 丕賱兀賵賱 貙 賮賴賷 亘賴匕丕 毓賰爻 丕賱卮禺氐賷丞 丕賱賲賳丕賯囟丞 賱賴丕
賱丕乇賷 兀賳丿乇賵賵丿
賲胤乇亘 丕賱乇賵賰 貙 卮禺氐賷鬲賷 丕賱賲賮囟賱丞...乇亘賲丕 亘丕賱丕禺氐 亘爻亘亘 賮氐賵賱賴 賲毓 兀賲賴 兀賱賷爻 兀賳丿乇賵賵丿
兀賲賴 鬲賵丕噩賴賴 亘丨賯賷賯鬲賴 貙 亘氐乇丕丨丞 賵賵囟賵丨責 賳毓賲貙 賱賰賳 亘賯爻賵丞責...賱丕 兀毓鬲賯丿.. 賯丕賱鬲賴丕 賱賴 賲亘丕卮乇丞 兀賳賴 賲賳 丕賱賳賵毓 丕賱匕賷 賷兀禺匕 賵賷兀禺匕 賵賱丕 賷毓胤賷貙 賱丕 賷鬲丨賲賱 賲爻卅賵賱賷丞 鈥� 馗賳鬲 丕賳 丕賱爻賳賵賳 賯丿 鬲噩毓賱賴 賷賳囟噩 賱賰賳賴 賲丕夭丕賱 賱丕乇賷 丕賱賯丿賷賲貙 賷賯毓 賮賷 賲卮賰賱丞 賮賷賱噩兀 賱賱丨賱 丕賱兀爻賴賱
賱賰賳 鬲賵丕賮賯 兀賲賴 毓賱賷 兀賳 賷賲賰孬 賲毓賴丕 賮賷 亘賷鬲賴 丕賱賯丿賷賲 賮賷 囟賷賯鬲賴 貙 亘賱 賵鬲丨囟乇 賱賴 賰賱 丕賱賲兀賰賵賱丕鬲 丕賱鬲賷 賷丨亘賴丕 賲賳 丕賱氐睾乇 丨鬲賷 丿賵賳 兀賳 賷胤賱亘
賱丕乇賷 卮禺氐賷丞 賲孬賷乇丞 噩丿丕 賱丕賳 賴賳丕賰 賲孬賱賴 丕賱賰孬賷乇賷賳貙 亘賱 賱賱丕爻賮 卮毓乇鬲 亘卮卅 賲丕 賲兀賱賵賮丕 毓賳丿賷
賱丕 賷賯氐丿 丕賳 賷賰賵賳 爻賷卅丕..賷賳丿賲 亘毓丿 賮賵丕鬲 丕賱丕賵丕賳..賱賰賳賴 賷馗賱 丿賵賲丕 賲胤丕乇丿丕 亘匕賱賰 丕賱賳丿賲..賰賲丕 馗賱 賲胤丕乇丿丕 亘賰賱賲丕鬲 兀賲賴貙 賵卮亘丨 丕鬲賴丕賲賴 兀賳賴 "賱賷爻 亘丕賱卮禺氐 丕賱噩賷丿"..乇亘賲丕 賴賵 賰匕賱賰責
丕賱賮氐賵賱 丕賱鬲賷 噩賲毓鬲賴 賵兀賲賴 兀睾賱亘賴丕 賲賳 丕賱賳爻禺丞 丕賱賲賲鬲丿丞 -賰丕賳鬲 賲丨匕賵賮丞 賮賷 丕賱賳爻禺丞丕賱賯丿賷賲丞- 貙 賵賴賳丕 兀毓鬲賯丿 兀賳賰 爻鬲丿乇賰 爻乇 噩賲丕賱 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 丕賱胤賵賷賱丞 廿賳 賰丕賳鬲 賲賰鬲賵亘丞 噩賷丿丕
丕賱鬲賮丕氐賷賱 賴賳丕 爻鬲噩毓賱賰 鬲鬲賮丕毓賱 賲毓 賱丕乇賷貙 鬲丨亘賴貙 鬲賰乇賴賴貙 鬲卮賮賯 毓賱賷賴 賰兀賲賴...賵亘丕賱丕禺氐 卮禺氐賷丞 兀賲賴 賵丕賱鬲賷 丕乇丕賴丕 賲賳 丕噩賲賱 賲丕 賰鬲亘 賰賷賳噩 賲賳 丕賱丕賲賴丕鬲
爻鬲賷賮賷賳 賰賷賳噩 賲卮賴賵乇 亘丕賱丕賲賴丕鬲 丕賱賯丕爻賷丞 丕賱賲爻鬲亘丿丞 -兀賲 賮乇丕賳賷貙 丕賱卮禺氐賷丞 丕賱爻丕亘賯丞貙 禺賷乇 丿賱賷賱- 賱賰賳 兀賱賷爻 乇睾賲 丕賳賴丕 賵丕噩賴鬲 賱丕乇賷 亘毓賷賵亘賴 賱賰賳 鬲氐乇賮丕鬲賴丕 丕賱氐丕賲鬲丞 賲毓賴 賰丕賳鬲 丕賯賵賷 鬲兀孬賷乇丕
賵乇亘賲丕 賱賴匕丕 賰丕賳 爻亘亘 孬乇丕亍 鬲丨賵賱丕鬲 卮禺氐賷丞 賱丕乇賷 賲賳 丕賱亘丿丕賷丞 賱賱賳賴丕賷丞
兀毓鬲賯丿 丕賳 賰賱 賲卮丕賴丿賴 賲毓 丕賲賴 賱丕鬲賳爻賷貙 賲賱賵賴丕 丕賱孬賱丕噩丞 賱賲丕 賷丨亘賴 貙 賲氐乇賵賮賴 賱賷丿禺賱 丕賱爻賷賳賲丕 亘乇睾賲 賲賳 爻賳賴 丕賱賰亘賷乇貙 賵毓丿賴 賱賴丕 賱丕氐胤丨丕亘賴丕 賱賱毓亘丞 丕賱亘賷爻亘賵賱 賮賷 賷賵賱賷賵 貙 氐乇丕毓賴 丕賱賳賮爻賷 丕賱卮丿賷丿 賵賯鬲 丕丨鬲囟丕乇賴丕 賵賵賮丕鬲賴丕 賵丕賱匕賷 丕毓鬲賯丿 丕賳賴 賴賳丕 賰丕賳 賳賯賷囟丕 賳賵毓丕 賲丕 賲賲鬲丕夭丕 賱丿賵乇 賮乇丕賳賷
賳賷賰 兀賳丿乇賵夭
卮丕亘 氐睾賷乇 丕亘賰賲 賵兀氐賲 貙 賷鬲賷賲貙 毓氐丕賲賷貙 馗乇賵賮 賲毓賷卮鬲賴 丕賱氐毓亘丞 噩毓賱鬲 鬲丨賲賱賴 賱賱賲爻卅賵賱賷丞 兀賴賲 禺氐丕賱賴
卮丕亘 氐丕禺亘 乇睾賲 賲馗賴乇賴 丕賱賴丕丿卅 賵丨丕賱鬲賴
賷鬲丨賲賱 丕賱賲爻卅賵賱賷丞 賲賳 亘丿丕賷丞 馗賴賵乇賴 賲毓 賲兀賲賵乇亘賱丿丞 氐睾賷乇丞貙 亘賱 賵丨鬲賷 賷乇毓賷 夭賵噩鬲賴 亘毓丿 乇丨賷賱賴.. 賵賱賲 賷毓賱賲 賵賯鬲賴丕 賲賯丿丕乇 丕賱賲爻卅賵賱賷丞 丕賱鬲賷 爻鬲賱賯賷 毓賱賷賴 賱丕丨賯丕
賲賳 丕賱賲卮丕賴丿 丕賱鬲賷 賱丕鬲賳爻賷 賱賴 賴賵 毓賳丿賲丕 丕毓鬲乇賮 賱賱兀賲 兀亘丕噩丕賷賱 兀賳賴 睾賷乇 賲丐賲賳丕貙 乇丿賴丕 賰丕賳 噩賲賷賱丕 賵賵丕賯毓賷丕...賵丿賵乇賴 賮賷 丕賱賲噩鬲賲毓 丕賱賵賱賷丿 毓丕賲丕 賰丕賳 賲賰鬲賵亘丕 亘卮賰賱 噩賷丿 噩丿丕
噩賱賷賳 亘丕鬲賷賲丕賳
賴賵 禺亘賷乇 毓賱賲 丕賱丕噩鬲賲丕毓 丕賱毓噩賵夭貙 乇噩賱 匕賰賷 賮胤賳...賷賯乇兀 亘爻賴賵賱丞 賰賷賮 爻賷賰賵賳 丕賱賲噩鬲賲毓 丕賱匕賷 賯丿 賷鬲賰賵賳 賲賳 丕賱賳丕噩賷賳 乇睾賲 丕賳賴 丕賵賱 馗賴賵乇賴 賱賲 賷鬲賯丕亘賱 爻賵賷 爻鬲賵 乇賷丿賲丕賳 賵賰賱亘 丕爻賲丕賴 賰賵噩丕賰
賲賳匕 亘丿丕賷丞 馗賴賵乇賴 兀禺乇 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 丕賱丕賵賱 賵賴賵 "乇賲丕賳丞 丕賱賲賷夭丕賳"貙 匕賱賰 丕賱匕賷 賱丕 賷賳胤賯 毓賳 賴賵賷貙 亘賱 賷賳胤賯 毓賳 丕賯鬲亘丕爻丕鬲貙 丕睾賱亘 丕賯鬲亘丕爻丕鬲 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 爻鬲噩丿賴丕 賲賳賴
賷賳胤賯 毓賳 毓賱賲 賳賮爻 亘卮乇賷丞 賵毓賱賲 丕噩鬲賲丕毓 賵賮賱爻賮丞...賰賷賮 丕賳 丕賱鬲丕乇賷禺 賷毓賷丿 賳賮爻賴 . 賰賷賮 丕賳 亘賳丕亍 丕賱賲噩鬲賲毓丕鬲 賱賲 賷鬲睾賷乇貙 丕賱賵毓賷 丕賱噩賲毓賷 賵丕賱丕丨賱丕賲...丕賱毓賱丕賯丕鬲 亘賷賳 丕賱賲噩鬲賲毓丕鬲...亘賱 賵丨鬲賷 丕賱丕噩夭丕亍 丕賱丿賷賳賷丞 丕賷囟丕 乇睾賲 丕賳賴 睾賷乇 賲丐賲賳
賴丕乇賵賱丿 賱賵賷丿乇
卮丕亘 賲乇丕賴賯 賵丨賷丿貙 亘丿賷賳貙 賱丕 賷賲賱賰 爻賵賷 丕賱賰鬲亘 賵丕賱賰鬲丕亘丞 賰乇賮賯丞 丿丕卅賲丞...賵丕毓噩丕亘 賯丿賷賲 賲賳 胤乇賮 賵丕丨丿 亘氐丿賷賯丞 丕禺鬲賴 丕賱鬲賷 鬲賰亘乇賴 亘亘囟毓丞 丕毓賵丕賲...賮乇丕賳賷
賴丕乇賵賱丿 卮禺氐賷丞 賲賴鬲夭丞 睾賷乇 賵丕孬賯丞 亘賳賮爻賴丕...賵賱賰賳賴 毓亘賯乇賷丕貙 匕賰賷丕
賵賱匕賰丕亍賴 賵爻毓丞 丨賷賱鬲賴 賵丕賮賯鬲 賮乇丕賳賷 丕賳 鬲乇丕賮賯賴 賮賷 乇丨賱丞 丕賱亘丨孬 毓賳 賳丕噩賷賳貙 睾賷乇 兀賳 匕賱賰 亘爻亘亘 兀賳 亘亘賱丿鬲賴賲 賴賲丕 丕禺乇 賳丕噩賷賳 賲賳 丕賱賵亘丕亍
鬲胤賵乇丕鬲 丕賱卮禺氐賷丞 賰鬲亘賴丕 爻鬲賷賮賷賳 賰賷賳噩 亘卮賰賱 毓亘賯乇賷 胤賵丕賱 丕賱丕丨丿丕孬 賲毓 賰賱 丕賱卮禺氐賷丕鬲 丕賱鬲賷 爻鬲賳囟賲 賲毓賴 賵賮乇丕賳賷 貙 賱賷賰賵賳 賲賳 丕賱卮禺氐賷丕鬲 丕賱賯賱賷賱丞 丕賱鬲賷 鬲胤賵乇鬲 卮禺氐賷鬲賴賲 亘卮賰賱 賰亘賷乇 毓賱賷 賲丿丕乇 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞
-爻鬲賷賮賷賳 賰賷賳噩 賲賲鬲丕夭 賮賷 乇爻賲 賲孬賱 鬲賱賰 丕賱卮禺氐賷丕鬲-
乇賷鬲丕
爻賷丿丞 丕乇亘毓賷賳賷丞 賲乇賮賴丞貙 賱賰賳 乇睾賲 丕賳賴丕 賯丿 鬲亘丿賵 賯賵賷丞 賵氐賱亘丞 亘毓丿 賳噩丕鬲賴丕 賲賳 丕賱賵亘丕亍 廿賱丕 兀賳 賳賷賵賷賵乇賰 亘毓丿 丕賱賵亘丕亍 賰丕賳鬲 賯丕丿乇丞 毓賱賷 鬲丨胤賷賲 丕毓氐丕亘賴丕
丕賱卮禺氐賷丞 賲乇爻賵賲丞 亘卮賰賱 噩賷丿 賵賲丐孬乇 亘丕賱丕禺氐 亘丕賱賳爻亘丞 賱賱丕乇賷 丕賳丿乇賵賵丿
兀賯鬲亘丕爻賴丕 賲賳 乇丨賱丞 毓氐亘丞 丕賱禺丕鬲賲 賮賷 乇賵丕賷丞 鬲賵賱賰賷賳 丕賱賲賱丨賲賷丞 丕賱丕卮賴乇 "賲賱賰 丕賱禺賵丕鬲賲" 賮賷 亘丿丕賷丞 乇丨賱丞 '丕賱禺乇賵噩' 賲賳 賳賷賵賷賵乇賰 賲毓 賱丕乇賷 賰丕賳 賲賵賮賯丕. 禺丕氐丕 丕賳 乇丨賱丞 鬲賵賱賰賳貙 賵丕賱鬲賷 鬲毓鬲亘乇 賲賱賴賲丞 爻鬲賷賮賷賳 賰賷賳噩 丕賱乇卅賷爻賷丞 賱賰鬲丕亘丞 鬲賱賰 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 丕賱賲賱丨賲賷丞 毓賱賷 睾乇丕乇賴丕.. 賵賱賰賳 賮賷 毓丕賱賲賳丕貙 亘丕賲乇賷賰丕 亘丿賱丕 賲賳 丕賱兀乇囟 丕賱賵爻胤賷 丕賱賮丕賳鬲丕夭賷丕
賱賵賷丿
賲噩乇賲 賲丨亘賵爻 賮賷 賯囟賷丞 賯鬲賱 丕乇鬲賰亘鬲 賱丕賳賴 賰丕賳 鬲丕亘毓丕 賱賲噩乇賲丕 丕禺乇 賲禺鬲賱丕
賱賰賳 丕賱賵亘丕亍 亘丿賱丕 賲賳 丕賳 賷鬲爻亘亘 丕賱賯囟丕亍 毓賱賷賴貙 鬲爻亘亘 賮賷 丕賳賴 賰丕賳 毓賱賷 賵卮賰 丕賱賲賵鬲 賲賳 丕賱噩賵毓 賵丕賱毓胤卮 賵丨賷丿丕 賮賷 丕賱夭賳夭丕賳丞
丨鬲賷 賷兀鬲賷 賲賳 賲毓賴 丕賱賲賮鬲丕丨 賱丕禺乇丕噩 賲噩乇賲 賰賴匕丕
賵賲賳 爻賷賰賵賳 爻賵賷 乇噩賱 丕賱馗賱丕賲 賳賮爻賴
賱賷賰賵賳 賱賵賷丿..賰賲丕 賮賷 賯亘賱 丕賱賵亘丕亍 賰賲丕 賮賷 亘毓丿賴.. 賲噩乇丿 鬲丕亘毓 賱賯丕鬲賱
賲毓 丕賱丕禺鬲賱丕賮
乇噩賱 氐賳丕丿賷賯 丕賱賯賲丕賲丞
賲禺鬲賱 亘爻亘亘 賲丕囟 賯丕爻 賵馗乇賵賮 毓丕卅賱賷丞 爻賷卅丞 賷丨賰賷賴丕 賱賳丕 丕賱爻賷丿 賰賷賳噩 亘丕賱鬲賮氐賷賱
賷賴賵賷 丕卮毓丕賱 丕賱丨乇丕卅賯 亘賴賵爻 卮丿賷丿
禺賲賳 丕賱賷 丕賷 噩丕賳亘 爻賷賳囟賲
賳丕丿賷賳
卮禺氐賷丞 賲孬賷乇丞貙 卮丕亘丞 賮賷 丕賵丕禺乇 爻賳賵丕鬲 丕賱卮亘丕亘 賱賰賳 卮毓乇賴丕 丕賱賲禺鬲賱胤 丕爻賵丿賴 亘丕賱亘賷丕囟 爻亘亘賴 丨丕丿孬 賯丿賷賲 睾丕賲囟
賳丕丿賷賳 卮禺氐賷丞 賲鬲丨賮馗丞貙 鬲禺賮賷 丕賲乇丕 賲丕 賷賯鬲賱賴丕 亘氐乇丕毓 賳賮爻賷 乇賴賷亘 亘賷賳 賯亘賵賱 賵乇賮囟
賷賯丕亘賱賴丕 賱丕乇賷 兀賳丿乇賵賵丿 禺賱丕賱 丕賱乇丨賱丞 賲毓 賮鬲賷 氐睾賷乇 毓噩賷亘 亘賴 卮賷卅丕 賲賳 丕賱卮賮丕賮賷丞貙 丕賵 賰賲丕 賷賮囟賱 丕賱爻賷丿 賰賷賳噩 丕胤賱丕賯 毓賱賷賴丕 "丕賱賱賲毓丕賳" 賰賲丕 賮賷 丕爻賲 乇賵丕賷鬲賴 丕賱鬲賷 爻亘賯鬲 鬲賱賰
The Shining
賰賱丕 丕賱卮禺氐賷鬲賷賳 賰丕賳 賲賲鬲毓丕 賮賷 賯乇丕亍丞 賲卮丕賴丿賴賲丕 亘丕賱丕禺氐 毓賳丿 賱賯丕亍 丕賱兀賲 丕亘丕噩丕賷賱
賵賴賳丕賰 丕賱賰孬賷乇 賲賳 丕賱卮禺氐賷丕鬲 丕賱丕禺乇賷 丕賱鬲賷 鬲馗賴乇 亘毓丿 匕賱賰貙 賲賴賲丞 賵賱賴丕 乇賵丨 貙 賵丕禺乇賷 毓丕丿賷丞 丕賵 賲噩乇丿 賮乇丿 丕禺乇 賮賷 丕賱賲噩鬲賲毓丕鬲 丕賱鬲賷 爻鬲鬲賰賵賳貙 賵卮禺氐賷丕鬲 丕禺乇賷 睾賷乇 賲丕 爻亘賯 賱賴丕 丿賵乇 賲賴賲 賵賲丨乇賰 賮賷 丕賱丕丨丿丕孬 丨鬲賷 賱賵 氐睾乇
賱賰賳 賱囟賷賯 丕賱賲爻丕丨丞 賱賳乇 丕賴賲 卮禺氐賷鬲賷賳
乇丕賳丿賱 賮賱丕噩/乇噩賱 丕賱馗賱丕賲/馗賮乇 丕賱卮賷胤丕賳
毓賳丿 馗賴賵乇賴 亘丕賱乇亘毓 丕賱丕禺賷乇 賲賳 丕賱賰鬲丕亘丕賱丕賵賱 丕爻鬲賳賰乇鬲 丕賱賲丕賵乇丕卅賷丞 賵丕賱噩夭亍 丕賱賮丕賳鬲丕夭賷 丕賱匕賷 賯丕賲 爻鬲賷賮賷賳 賰賷賳噩 鬲賯丿賷賲賴 亘賴
賱賰賳賴 亘賲乇賵乇 丕賱兀丨丿丕孬 爻鬲賮賴賲 丕賳 賰賷賳噩 賷賯氐丿 亘賴 丕賳賴 兀丿丕丞 丕賱卮賷胤丕賳貙 賲禺賱亘賴 丕賵 丕氐亘毓賴 丕賵 馗賮乇賴
賰丕賱卮賷胤丕賳 賷賳賲賵 賵賷賯賵賷 賮賷 丕賱賮賵囟賷貙 賮賷 夭毓夭毓丞 丕賱丕賷賲丕賳貙 賮賷 賲孬賱 鬲賱賰 丕賱丕丨丿丕孬 丕賱賰丕亘賵爻賷丞
賱賰賳 賮賷 賴匕丕 丕賱毓丿丿 丕賱賯賱賷賱 賲賳 丕賱亘卮乇貙 賵亘毓丿 賯賷丕賲丞 氐睾乇賷 賯丕賲 亘賴丕 丕賱亘卮乇 亘丕賷丿賷賴賲貙 賯丿賲賴 爻鬲賷賮賷賳 賰賷賳噩 賰乇賲夭 賱賱賲爻賷禺 丕賱丿噩丕賱
賱賷禺鬲亘乇 亘賴 丕賱亘卮乇貙 賱賷噩賲毓 丕鬲亘丕毓貙 賵賷賰賷丿 賱賱噩丕賳亘 丕賱丕禺乇..丕賱賲丐賲賳
丕毓噩亘賳賷 亘卮丿丞 乇賲賵夭 丕賱馗賱丕賲 丕賱賲丨賷胤丞 亘鬲賱賰 丕賱卮禺氐賷丞貙 賲賵丕噩賴鬲賴 丕賱囟毓賷賮丞 亘丕賱亘丿丕賷丞 賱賱兀賲 丕亘丕噩丕賷賱 賰丨賷賵丕賳丕鬲 丕亘賳 毓乇爻
賵賱賰賳 丕毓噩亘賳賷 丕賰孬乇 丕賳賴 賱賲 賷賱噩兀 賱鬲賴賵賷賱 賵鬲毓馗賷賲 卮禺氐賷鬲賴 丕賱禺賷丕賱賷丞 賱噩毓賱賴丕 丕賱卮賷胤丕賳 賳賮爻賴 賲孬賱丕貙 賮賯胤 乇賲夭丕
賰丕賱噩丕賳亘 丕賱丕禺乇
丕賱丕賲 丕亘丕噩丕賷賱
爻賷丿丞 毓噩賵夭 賲丐賲賳丞 貙鬲賰賱賲鬲 毓賳賴丕 賮賷 噩夭亍 丕賱丕丨丿丕孬
鬲丨賵賱鬲 賱乇賲夭 丿賷賳賷 賱爻亘亘 廿賱賴賷 賷丨賱賲 亘賴丕 丕賱賳丕爻
丕賱噩賲賷賱 賴賳丕 丕賳 賰賷賳噩 賯丿賲 丨賷丕鬲賴丕 亘卮賰賱 鬲賮氐賷賱賷 賯亘賱 匕賱賰
賱賰賳 丕賱丕噩賲賱 兀賳賴 丨丕賵賱 丕賳 賷賯爻賵 毓賱賷賴丕 賮賯胤 賱賷賳賮賷 禺胤賷卅丞 賯丿 賷賯毓 賮賷賴丕 丕賲孬丕賱賴丕
賲賳 賷噩丿 鬲噩賲毓 丕賱賳丕爻 丨賵賱賴
禺胤賷卅丞 丕賱卮賷胤丕賳
丕賱賮禺乇
賱丕 賷鬲亘賯 爻賵賷 丨乇賵賮 賯賱賷賱丞貙 賵丕毓鬲賯丿 丕賳 丕賱賷 賴賳丕 賷賳鬲賴賷 丕賱賲乇丕噩毓丞 "丕賱賲禺鬲氐乇丞" 賱賱賳爻禺丞 "丕賱賰丕賲賱丞" 賱賲賱丨賲丞 爻鬲賷賮賷賳 賰賷賳噩 丕賱丕囟禺賲
賮賷 1440 氐賮丨丞
丕賱賲賵丕噩赖丞
賲丨賲丿 丕賱毓乇亘賷
賲賳 1 賲丕乇爻 2017
丕賱賷 31 賲丕乇爻 2017
-賷賲賰賳賰 賲鬲丕亘毓丞 賲乇丕噩毓丕鬲 丕賱賰賵賲賷賰爻 賱賲夭賷丿 賲賳 丕賱鬲賮氐賷賱-
賱兀賳賴丕 乇賵丕賷丞 爻鬲賷賮賷賳 賰賷賳噩 丕賱兀胤賵賱貙 賱賲 賷賱噩兀 賴賳丕 賱丿賷爻鬲賵亘賷丕 賲毓賱亘丞 賲噩賴夭丞 賲爻亘賯丕貙 賵丨丿賴 賯丕丿乇 亘亘賳丕亍 賵丕丨丿丞 賲賳 丕賱亘丿丕賷丞
!賱賰賳賴丕 1440 氐賮丨丞
賱兀賳賴丕 賲賱丨賲丞 賱賷爻鬲 禺賷丕賱賷丞 亘賱 賲毓丕氐乇丞 毓賳 毓丕賱賲賳丕..賲丕匕丕 賱賵 兀氐丕亘賴 賵亘丕亍 亘賷賵賱賵噩賷 賯囟賷 毓賱賷 99% 賲賳 爻賰丕賳賴
!賮賷 1440 氐賮丨丞責
賱兀賳賴丕 鬲氐賵乇 賱丌禺乇 丕賱兀賷丕賲貙 丕賱賯賷丕賲丞貙 毓賳 丕賱賲賵丕噩赖丞貙 丕賱禺賷乇 囟丿 丕賱卮乇 .. 賯賱 賱賷 賴賱 兀賳鬲 賲爻鬲毓丿 賱賲賵丕噩赖丞 丕賱賲爻賷禺 丕賱丿噩丕賱 丨賯丕責
!賱賰賳賴丕 乇賵丕賷丞..賵賮賷 1440 氐賮丨丞
賱兀賳賴丕 3 乇賵丕賷丕鬲 亘賵丕丨丿丞貙 鬲亘丿兀 亘賲賵丕噩赖丞 賱賱賳賮爻 丕賱亘卮乇賷丞..氐乇丕毓丕鬲 賳賮爻賷丞 賱卮禺氐賷丕鬲 賲禺鬲賱賮丞 鬲賵丕噩賴 兀氐毓亘 兀賷丕賲 丨賷丕鬲賴丕
鬲禺賷賱 丕賱賳丕噩賷賳 賮賷 兀乇囟 賲賵鬲賷貙 噩孬孬 亘賰賱 賲賰丕賳..丕賱噩賲賷毓 賮賯丿 丕丨亘丕亍賴 賵賲毓丕乇賮賴..賮賯丿 兀賷賲丕賳賴... 丕賱卮丿丕卅丿 賰鬲賱賰 賴賷 賲丕 鬲馗賴乇 賲毓丿賳 丕賱亘卮乇
賳丨賳 賲賳 氐賳毓賳丕 丕賱兀賵亘卅丞 丕賱噩丿賷丿丞 賵丕賱兀爻賱丨丞 丕賱亘賷賵賱賵噩賷丞 賵丕賱噩乇孬賵賲賷丞 賮賷 丕賱賲禺鬲亘乇丕鬲 丕賱毓爻賰乇賷丞 賱賳爻鬲禺丿賲賴丕 賰爻賱丕丨
賮賲丕匕丕 賱賵 丕賳賯賱亘鬲 囟丿賳丕責
賱賯丿 爻亘賯 賰賷賳噩 爻丕乇丕賲丕噩賵 亘爻賳賵丕鬲 賮賷 乇爻賲 丕賱賮賵囟賷 丕賱鬲賷 鬲賳鬲噩 毓賳 賵亘丕亍 賲賰鬲爻丨 賵鬲睾賷乇丕鬲 丕賱鬲賷 鬲丨丿孬 亘賳賮賵爻 丕賱亘卮乇
賰賲丕 兀賳賴丕 毓賳 毓賱賲 丕賱丕噩鬲賲丕毓 ..賵賰賷賮 爻賷賰賵賳 丕賱賳丕噩賷賳 賲噩鬲賲毓丕 賲賳 噩丿賷丿
賵賰賷賮 兀賳賳丕 丿丕卅賲丕 賳賰乇乇 兀禺胤丕卅賳丕
乇亘賲丕 賷賰賵賳 丕賱廿賳爻丕賳 賯丿 禺賱賯 毓賱賷 氐賵乇丞 丕賱賱賴貙 賱賰賳 丕賱賲噩鬲賲毓 丕賱亘卮乇賷 禺賱賯 毓賱賷 氐賵乇丞 丕賱卮賷胤丕賳貙 賱賰賳賴 丿賵賲丕 賷丨丕賵賱 丕賱毓賵丿丞 賱丕氐賱賴亘賱 賵亘毓丿 丕賱賳噩丕丞 賲賳 丕賱賲賵鬲 毓賱賷賴賲 賲賵丕噩赖丞 賰亘乇賷 ...賲賵丕噩赖丞 丕賱卮賷胤丕賳 貙 賮賷 丕禺鬲亘丕乇 丕氐毓亘
賵賻賱賽賷購賲賻丨賽賾氐賻 丕賱賱賻賾賴購 丕賱賻賾匕賽賷賳賻 丌賲賻賳購賵丕 賵賻賷賻賲賿丨賻賯賻 丕賱賿賰賻丕賮賽乇賽賷賳賻匕賱賰 賱兀賳賴丕 兀賷囟丕 毓賳 賮賱爻賮丞 丕賱廿賷賲丕賳 亘丕賱賱賴...兀賵 丕賱卮賷胤丕賳
!!鬲亘丿賵 賱賷 賰乇賵丕賷丞 鬲亘卮賷乇賷丞 丿賷賳賷丞..賵賮賷 1440 氐賮丨丞
賱賰賳賴丕 乇賵丕賷丞 廿賳爻丕賳賷丞貙 毓丕賱賲賷丞貙 賰賱賳丕 賷賵丕噩賴 卮賷丕胤賷賳 賳賮爻賴貙 賵丕賱丕睾乇丕亍丕鬲 亘丕賱爻賱胤丞貙 丕賱丕爻鬲丨賵丕匕貙 毓丿賲 鬲丨賲賱 丕賱賲爻卅賵賱賷丞貙 丨鬲賷 賮賰乇丞 丕賱賲爻賷禺 丕賱丿噩丕賱 賵丕鬲亘丕毓 丕賱卮賷胤丕賳 賴賷 兀賲乇 匕賰乇 亘丕賱兀爻賱丕賲 賰賲丕 丕賱賲爻賷丨賷丞 賵賱賴 鬲卮丕亘賴 亘賰賱 丕賱丕丿賷丕賳
賵丨鬲賷 廿賳 賱賲 鬲賰賳 賲丐賲賳丕貙 賮氐丿賯賳賷 丨鬲賷 兀亘胤丕賱 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 賱賲 賷賰賵賳賵丕 賰匕賱賰
丕賱噩賲丕賱 賮賷 噩賳賵賳 丕賱鬲丿賷賳 賴賵 賯賵鬲賴 毓賱賷 鬲賮爻賷乇 兀賷 卮卅. 亘賲噩乇丿 賯亘賵賱 兀賳 丕賱賱賴 (兀賵 丕賱卮賷胤丕賳) 賴賵 丕賱賲爻亘亘 丕锘焚堎� 賮賷 丨丿賵孬 賰賱 卮卅 賮賷 丕賱毓丕賱賲 丕賱賮丕賳賷貙 賱丕 卮卅 賷亘賯賷 賱賱氐丿賮丞..丕賱賲賳胤賯 賷賲賰賳 兀賱賯丕亍賴 賲賳 丕賱卮亘丕賰 亘爻毓丕丿丞賯丿 賷賰賵賳 賮賰乇丞 丕賱卮賷胤丕賳 賵丕賱賲爻賷禺 丕賱丿噩丕賱 睾賷乇 賲賳胤賯賷丞 賱賲賱丨丿..賱賰賳 丕賱卮賷胤丕賳 賴賳丕 賯丿 賷賰賵賳 賲噩乇丿 夭毓賷賲貙 胤丕睾賷丞..賲丨亘 賱賱爻賱胤丞 賷噩賲毓 兀鬲亘丕毓賴 賰丕賱兀賳毓丕賲
賲賳 賷賴丿乇 丕賱賲賱賷丕乇丕鬲 賮賷 氐賳丕毓丞 丕賱丕爻賱丨丞 丕賱賳賵賵賷丞 貙 丕賱噩乇孬賵賲賷丞..賵亘丕亍 賱賷賯鬲賱 亘賴 睾賷乇賴
賱賯丿 賰鬲亘賴丕 爻鬲賷賮賷賳 賰賷賳噩 亘丕賱爻亘毓賷賳丕鬲貙 亘毓丿 賳賴丕賷丞 丨賯亘丞 丕賱爻鬲賷賳丕鬲 亘賲禺丕賵賮賴丕 賵匕毓乇賴丕 賲賳 丨丿賵孬 丨乇亘 賳賵賵賷丞 丕禺乇賷 賲禺賷賮丞 亘賱丕 賲毓賳賷 賷囟賷毓 亘爻亘亘賴丕 賲賱丕賷賷賳 丕賱亘卮乇貙 賵爻胤 丕鬲賴丕賲丕鬲 亘鬲噩丕乇亘 丕賱兀爻賱丨丞 丕賱亘賷賱賵噩賷丞
賵賲丕 兀卮亘賴 丕賱亘丕乇丨丞 亘丕賱賷賵賲
!賮賷 1440 氐賮丨丞責
賳毓賲 爻鬲賷賮賷賳 賰賷賳噩 孬乇孬丕乇丕 亘丨賯..賷賰孬乇 賲賳 賵氐賮 丕賱胤乇賯 賵丕賱丕卮丕乇丕鬲 賱賱賲賳鬲噩丕鬲 丕賱兀賲乇賷賰賷丞 賵丕賱毓賱丕賲丕鬲 丕賱鬲噩丕乇賷丞 賲賳 爻賷丕乇丕鬲 賵丨鬲賷 丕賱兀胤毓賲丞 丕賱賲毓賱亘丞
賳毓賲 賰孬賷乇 賲賳 丕賱爻胤賵乇 賰丕賳鬲 丨卮賵丕貙 賱賲 鬲丐孬乇 賮賷 丕賱兀丨丿丕孬 亘卮賰賱 賲亘丕卮乇 賵賱賰賳賴 亘賳賮爻 丕賱賵賯鬲 賷噩毓賱賰 鬲毓賷卮 賵爻胤 丕賱兀丨丿丕孬
賮賴匕丕 丕賱鬲胤賵賷賱 噩毓賱賳賷 兀噩賵亘 丕賱賵賱丕賷丕鬲 丕賱賲鬲丨丿丞丕賱兀賲乇賷賰賷丞 賲賳 卮乇賯賴丕 賱睾乇亘賴丕 兀賰孬乇 賲賳 賲乇丞貙 賰胤乇賷賯 丕賱丨噩貙 賮賷 丿賷爻鬲賵亘賷丕 賲乇毓亘丞 賲賯亘囟丞..毓卮鬲 亘賴丕 卮賴乇丕 賮賷 鬲噩乇亘丞 賱賳 兀賳爻賴丕
!亘丕賱胤亘毓貙 兀賳賴丕 1440 氐賮丨丞 亘丨賯 丕賱賱賴
賱兀賳 囟禺丕賲鬲賴丕 賴賷 爻亘亘 噩毓賱賴丕 乇丨賱丞 鬲毓丕賷卮賴丕 賱丕 鬲賳爻賷
賴賷 兀賴賲 兀毓賲丕賱 丕賱賰賷賳噩貙 賵賱賵 丕賳賴丕 賱賷爻鬲 丕賱兀賯乇亘 賱賯賱亘賴 賵賲毓 匕賱賰 賵丕賮賯 賮賷 廿毓丕丿丞 賳卮乇賴丕 亘賳爻禺丞 兀賰亘乇 亘賴丕 賰賱 賲丕 丨匕賮賴 賮賷 賵賯鬲 賳卮乇賴丕 丕賱兀賵賱 賮賷 1978
賵毓賳丿賲丕 毓乇賮鬲 鬲賱賰 丕賱兀噩夭丕亍 賵噩丿鬲 兀賳賴丕 賲丕 噩毓賱賳賷 賲賳 乇亘毓 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 丕锘焚堎� 兀卮毓乇 亘賯乇亘 兀賰亘乇 賲賳 丕賱卮禺氐賷丕鬲 亘丕賱兀禺氐貙 賱丕乇賷 兀賳丿乇賵賵丿 賵賮乇丕賳賷 噩賵賱丿爻賲賷孬 賵毓賲賯 賱卮禺氐賷丕鬲賴賲丕 賵鬲胤賵乇 賲賱丨賵馗 賱賴賲丕 賱丕丨賯丕
兀鬲毓噩亘 賲賳 賴匕丕 丕賱匕賷 賷賯乇兀 賳爻禺丞 賲禺鬲氐乇丞 賲賳 乇賵丕賷丞 囟禺賲丞 孬賲 賷賯賵賱 賱賰 兀賳 賱丕 鬲胤賵乇 亘卮禺氐賷丕鬲賴丕 賵賷賰鬲亘 毓賳賴丕 賲乇丕噩毓丞 賷賴丕噩賲賴丕
賱賰賳 賲丕 噩匕亘賰 賱鬲鬲禺賱賷 毓賳 賰賱 丕賱賰鬲亘 賱鬲爻鬲賰賲賱 賯乇丕亍丞 乇賵丕賷丞 賮賷 1440 氐賮丨丞責
兀毓賱賲 兀賳賳賷 賱賳 兀賯賳毓賰 毓夭賷夭賷 丕賱賯丕乇卅 亘賲丕 賷賰賮賷貙 亘賱 乇亘賲丕 賱丕 兀乇卮丨 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 亘賯賵丞 賰亘毓囟 兀毓賲丕賱 爻鬲賷賮賷賳 賰賷賳噩 丕锘坟辟�
锘毁嗁囏� 乇丨賱丞 賯丿 鬲噩丿 賳賮爻賰 賲噩亘乇丕 賱兀爻鬲賰賲丕賱賴丕...兀賵 鬲鬲賵賯賮 賮賷 乇亘毓賴丕 丕賱兀賵賱 賵鬲賮囟賱 丕賱乇丨賷賱 毓賳賴丕 賰賲丕 賲賳 乇丨賱 毓賳 丕賱丕丨丿丕孬 亘爻亘亘 "賰丕亘鬲賳 丕賱鬲乇丨丕賱"貙 "丕賱乇丨丕賱丞"貙 "丕賱廿賳賮賱賵賳夭丕 丕锘坟关纲�"貙 亘賱 賵胤賵丕賱 賯乇丕亍鬲賴丕 爻鬲噩丿 毓賯亘丕鬲 兀卮丿 賯丿 鬲噩毓賱賰 鬲乇丨賱 毓賳賴丕
賱賰賳賰 廿賳 氐賲丿鬲貙 丨鬲賷 丕賱賲賵丕噩赖丞
丕賱賵賯賮丞
爻鬲噩丿 賳賮爻賰 卮賴丿鬲 賲賵丕噩赖丞 毓賲賷賯丞貙 賯賵賷丞 賱賴丕 兀賰孬乇 賲賳 亘毓丿
賵賱賳乇 賱丕爻鬲胤賷毓 鬲賯賷賷賲 乇丨賱鬲賷 鬲賱賰 亘鬲賯爻賷賷賲 丕賱賲乇丕噩毓丞 賱賱孬賱丕孬 賰鬲亘 丕賱鬲賷 兀丨鬲賵鬲賴丕 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞
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丕賱賰鬲丕亘 丕锘毁堎� : 賰丕亘鬲賳 丕賱鬲乇丨丕賱
賲賳 16 賷賵賳賷賵 丕賱賷 4 賷賵賱賷賵 -480 氐賮丨丞 賮賯胤
賴賳丕 賰賲丕 賯賱鬲貙 爻鬲賷賮賷賳 賰賷賳噩 賷亘賳賷 丿賷爻鬲賵亘賷丕 賲賳 丕賱兀爻丕爻
亘毓賰爻 賰賱 丕賱乇賵丕賷丕鬲 丕賱卮賴賷乇丞 丕賱丨丕賱賷丞 丕賱鬲賷 鬲亘丿兀 賲孬賱丕 賮賷 賲噩鬲賲毓 鬲賲 鬲丿賲賷乇賴 賲賳 賯亘賱 亘爻亘亘 丨乇亘貙 賰丕乇孬丞 胤亘賷毓賷丞貙 兀賵 亘卮乇賷丞貙 乇亘賲丕 賳賵賵賷丞 貙 賵亘丕亍貙 兀賵 丨鬲賷 丨丕賰賲 胤丕睾賷丞 賲爻鬲亘丿 .. 賰賱 鬲賱賰 丕賱乇賵丕賷丕鬲 丕賱鬲賷 鬲亘丿兀 亘噩賵 丿賵爻鬲賵亘賷丕 賲毓賱亘丞貙 賲噩賴夭丞 賲爻亘賯丕
賱賰賳 賮賷 賴匕賴 丕賱丨丕賱丞...丕賱賵亘丕亍 丕賱賲爻亘亘 賱賱丿賷爻鬲賵亘賷丕 賴賵 丕賱賲毓亘兀 賵丕賱賲噩賴夭 賲爻亘賯丕...賮賷 賲禺鬲亘乇丕鬲 丕賱丕爻鬲禺亘丕乇丕鬲 丕賱毓爻賰乇賷丞 丕賱兀賲乇賷賰賷丞
賴賳丕 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 鬲亘丿兀 賮賷 兀賲乇賷賰丕..丕賱鬲爻毓賷賳丕鬲貙 鬲毓丕賳賷 賰賲丕 丕賱賰孬賷乇 賲賳 丕賱丿賵賱 賵賯鬲賴丕 貙 鬲毓丕賳賷 賰賲丕 爻鬲毓丕賳賷 丿賵賲丕 貨 丕賱丕夭賲丞 丕賱丕賯鬲氐丕丿賷丞 貙 丕賱鬲囟禺賲...夭賷丕丿丞 丕賱爻賰丕賳 賵賯賱丞 丕賱賲賵丕乇丿 賮兀乇鬲賮丕毓 丕賱丕爻毓丕乇 賰丕賱毓丕丿丞..丨夭亘 丕賱丿賷賲賵賯乇丕胤賷賷賳..兀賱禺
賵賱賰賳 賮賷 賲禺鬲亘乇 毓爻賰乇賷 鬲丕亘毓 賱賱丨賰賵賲丞 丕賱兀賲乇賷賰賷丞 賷賮賱鬲 賲賳賴 賮乇丿 兀賲賳 亘爻賷胤 卮賴丿 賵賮丕丞 賲賮丕噩兀丞 賱賰賱 賲賳 亘丕賱賲毓賲賱 毓賱賷 賰丕賲賷乇丕鬲 丕賱賲乇丕賯亘丞 亘丕賱禺丕乇噩...賱賷賴乇亘 賯亘賱 兀賳 賷睾賱賯 亘丕亘 賲亘丕賳賷 丕賱賲禺鬲亘乇 丕賵鬲賵賲丕鬲賷賰賷丕 亘丕賱賰丕賲賱 賱賱丕丨鬲賵丕亍貙 賵 賷兀禺匕 毓丕卅賱鬲賴 賵賷乇丨賱 毓賳 丕賱賵賱丕賷丞 亘兀爻乇毓 賵賯鬲
鬲氐丿賲 爻賷丕乇鬲賴 氐亘丕丨 丕賱賷賵賲 丕賱鬲丕賱賷 亘賲丨胤丞 亘賳夭賷賳 賮賷 丕賱賵賱丕賷丞 丕賱鬲丕賱賷丞貙 賵賱丨爻賳 丕賱丨馗- 兀賵 爻賵亍賴- 賷賱丨馗 爻鬲賵 乇賷丿賲丕賳 丕賱爻賷丕乇丞 丕賱賲爻乇毓丞 賮賷睾賱賯 賲囟禺丕鬲 丕賱亘賳夭賷賳 亘爻乇毓丞 賰賷 賱丕 鬲賳賮噩乇 亘丕賱爻賷丕乇丞 亘丕賱賲丨胤丞 賰賱賴丕
(賷丕賱賷鬲賴丕 丕賳賮噩乇鬲) 貙 (丨賯丕責)
賵賲賳 鬲賱賰 丕賱亘賱丿丞 丕賱氐睾賷乇丞貙 亘賲賯丕亘賱丞 毓丕亘乇丞 鬲賱賵 丕賱丕禺乇賷 賷亘丿兀 賰丕亘鬲賳 丕賱乇丨賱丕鬲貙 丕賱乇丨丕賱丞貙 丕賱廿賳賮賱賵賳夭丕 丕賱毓馗賷賲丞
賵氐賮 丕賱爻賷丿 賰賷賳噩 賰丕賳 賰丕亘賵爻賷丕 賴賳丕 賱賰賷賮 兀賳鬲卮乇 丕賱賲乇囟貙 賴賳丕賰 賮氐賵賱 賰兀賳賴丕 鬲乇賵賷 賲賳 賲賳馗賵乇 丕賱賵亘丕亍 賳賮爻賴 賵賱賰賳 亘卮賰賱 睾賷乇 賲亘丕卮乇貙 賰賷賮 賷賯丕亘賱 卮禺氐丕 賲氐丕亘 卮禺氐丕 丕禺乇 爻賱賷賲丕貙 賱賷匕賴亘 賱卮禺氐 丕禺乇 賷乇鬲丨賱 賱賵賱丕賷丞 兀禺乇賷 丨丕賲賱丕 賲乇囟 賷賳鬲卮乇 亘爻賴賵賱丞 賮賷 丕賱賴賵丕亍..亘卮賰賱 鬲賮氐賷賱賷 睾乇賷亘 賰丕亘賵爻賷
賵賯丿 賷賰賵賳 亘丿兀 賯賵賷丕貙 賷賯鬲賱 賮賷 賱丨馗鬲賴丕貙 賱賰賳 亘兀賳鬲卮丕乇賴 胤丕賱鬲 賮鬲乇丞 丨囟丕賳鬲賴...賵氐丕乇 賰卮賮賴 兀氐毓亘
賮兀毓乇丕囟賴 兀毓乇丕囟 賲噩乇丿 亘乇丿 毓丕丿賷 貙 亘乇丿 兀賵賱 丕賱氐賷賮 丕賱毓鬲賷丿貙 賱賰賳賴 賷鬲丨賵賱 賱賰賱 賲囟丕毓賮丕鬲 丕賱亘乇丿 賵丕賱廿賳賮賱賵賳夭丕 丕賱亘卮毓丞 丨鬲賷 賷賵丿賷 亘丨賷丕丞 丕賱賲乇賷囟
孬賲 鬲鬲胤賵乇 丕賱丕賲賵乇 亘爻乇毓丞
賯賲毓 毓爻賰乇賷 兀毓賱丕賲賷 貙 賲爻鬲卮賮賷丕鬲 鬲毓噩 亘丕賱賲乇囟賷 賵丕賱賲賵鬲賷 貙 賮賵囟賷 賮賷 丕賱兀毓賱丕賲 賵乇毓亘 賮賷 丕賱卮賵丕乇毓 賵丕賱噩賷卮 賷囟毓 丨賵丕噩夭 亘丕賱胤乇賯 亘賷賳 丕賱賵賱丕賷丕鬲 丕賱鬲賷 賱丕 賷毓乇賮 爻賰丕賳賴丕 廿賱賷 兀賷賳 賷賮乇賵賳 賲賳 丕賱兀爻丕爻
賵賯亘賱 兀賳 賷賳鬲賴賷 賴匕丕 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 丕賱賰丕亘賵爻賷 (丕賱噩夭亍 丕锘焚堎�)貙 賷賰賵賳 賯丿 鬲賲 丕賱賯囟丕亍 亘賳噩丕丨 毓賱賷 99% 賲賳 爻賰丕賳 兀賲乇賷賰丕 賵亘丕賱鬲亘毓賷丞 丕賱毓丕賱賲 賰賱賴 -亘爻亘亘 匕賰乇 毓丕亘乇 兀賳賴 兀賷囟丕 賵氐賱 丕賱氐賷賳 賵乇賵爻賷丕-..賰丕亘鬲賳 丕賱鬲乇丨丕賱 賯丕賲 亘乇丨賱丕鬲 賳丕噩丨丞 亘丨賯
賵賱賰賳 賴賳丕賰 賳丕噩賷賳 賱賲 賷氐亘賴賲 丕賱賵亘丕亍...賵賱賰賳賴賲 1%賮丨爻亘
賵亘丕賱胤亘毓 賱賲 賷賳爻 丕賱爻賷丿 賰賷賳噩 兀囟丕賮丞 賮氐賱 賯亘賱 賳賴丕賷丞 賴匕丕 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 毓賳 賰賷賮 兀賳 丕賱1% 賲賳 丕賱爻賰丕賳 丕賱賳丕噩賷賳 賱賲賳丕毓鬲賴賲 賲賳 丕賱賵亘丕亍 貙賯丿 賷賱賯賷 乇亘毓賴賲 賳丨亘賴 亘爻亘亘 兀爻亘丕亘 兀禺乇賷 胤亘賷毓賷丞
鬲禺賷賱 賰賱 噩賷乇丕賳賰 賵卮丕乇毓賰 賵丕賱丨賷 丕賱匕賷 鬲賯鬲賳賴 賲賷鬲賵賳 亘亘賷賵鬲賴賲 兀賵 爻賷丕乇丕鬲賴賲 丕賱毓丕賱賯丞 賮賷 兀夭丿丨丕賲 賲乇賵乇賷 賱賳 賷賮賰 兀亘丿丕貙 賴賱 爻賷鬲丨賲賱 毓賯賱賰 賵丕毓氐丕亘賰責
胤賮賱 乇囟賷毓 賱丿賷賴 賲賳丕毓丞 賱賳 賷爻鬲賮丕丿 亘賴丕 賲賳 匕賱賰 丕賱賵亘丕亍貙 爻賷賲賵鬲 賮賷 睾囟賵賳 爻丕毓丕鬲 賵丨賷丿丕
匕賱賰 丕賱賮氐賱 亘丕賱丕禺氐 賰丕賳 賯丕爻賷 亘亘卮丕毓丞 貙 兀爻賱賵亘 丕賱爻賷丿 賰賷賳噩 亘賴 賰丕賳 毓亘賯乇賷丕 貙 兀囟丕賮丞 毓亘丕乇丞 "賱賷爻鬲 亘丕賱禺爻丕乇丞 丕賱賰亘乇賷" 亘毓丿 兀睾賱亘 丕賱賵賮賷丕鬲 丕賱鬲賷 賳鬲噩鬲 亘兀爻亘丕亘 睾賷乇 丕賱賵亘丕亍 兀氐丕亘鬲賳賷 亘丕賱乇毓卮丞 貙 丨鬲賷 廿賳 賰丕賳鬲 毓賳 賲丿賲賳 賴賷乇賵賷賳 賲丕鬲 亘噩乇毓丞 夭丕卅丿丞 賱賲 賷噩丿 賲賳 賷爻丕毓丿賴
賱賰賳 鬲賱賰 丕賱卮禺氐賷丕鬲 丕賱鬲爻毓 亘賴匕丕 丕賱賮氐賱 賵丕賱鬲賷 鬲乇丕賵丨鬲 賯氐鬲賴賲 亘賷賳 氐賮丨丞 賵賳氐賮 丕賱賷 爻胤乇 賵賳氐賮 賱賷爻賵丕 丕賱賵丨賷丿賷賳 丕賱匕賷賳 毓丕賳賵丕 賯爻賵丞 丕賱爻賷丿 賰賷賳噩
亘賱 丕賱卮禺氐賷丕鬲 丕賱乇卅賷爻賷丞 賳賮爻賴丕 丕賱鬲賷 賳噩鬲 丕賱賵亘丕亍 兀賷囟丕 爻鬲卮賴丿 賯爻賵丞 兀卮丿 賵胤乇丕
賵丕賱鬲賷 爻賳鬲毓乇賮 毓賳賴丕 賱丕丨賯丕
賵賱賰賷 賱丕 丕丨乇賯 賱賰 賲氐丕卅乇 丕賱卮禺氐賷丕鬲 賱賳乇 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 丕賱孬丕賳賷
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丕賱賰鬲丕亘 丕賱孬丕賳賷 : 毓賱賷 丕賱丨丿賵丿
賲賳 5 賷賵賱賷賵 丕賱賷 6 爻亘鬲賲亘乇 - 660 氐賮丨丞 賮賯胤
丕賱兀賳 賰賱 丕賱卮禺氐賷丕鬲 丕賱乇卅賷爻賷丞 -賲賳 賲禺鬲賱賮 丕賱賵賱丕賷丕鬲- 亘丿兀鬲 鬲鬲丨乇賰 賲賳 丕賱賲丿賳 丕賱禺丕賵賷丞 丕賱丕 賲賳 噩孬孬 丕賱丕賱丕賮 丕賱賲賵鬲賷 亘賰賱 賲丿賷賳丞 賱鬲鬲噩賴 丕賱賷 賲氐賷乇賴丕
賵賱賰賳 丕賱賷 丕賷賳責
賴匕賴 賴賷 丕賱賳賯胤丞
賱丕 賷賵噩丿 賲噩鬲賲毓 丕賱丕賳 貙 亘賱 爻賷鬲賲 亘賳丕亍 賲噩鬲賲毓 賲賳 丕賱丕爻丕爻 賲賳 噩丿賷丿
兀乇賳賷 乇噩賱丕 丕賵 丕賲乇兀丞 賵丨丿賴丕 兀乇賷賰 賯丿賷爻丕. 兀毓胤賳賷 丕锘回嗁娰� 賵爻賷賯毓丕 賮賷 丕賱丨亘. 兀毓胤賳賷 孬賱丕孬丞 賵爻賷禺鬲乇毓賵丕 兀賲乇丕 爻丕丨乇丕 賳爻賲賷賴 鈥樫呚呚光€�. 兀毓胤賳賷 兀乇亘毓丞 賵爻賷亘賳賵丕 賴乇賲丕. 兀毓胤賳賷 禺賲爻丞 賵爻賷噩毓賱賵丕 兀丨丿賴賲 賲賳亘賵匕丕. 兀毓胤賳賷 爻鬲丞 賵爻賷毓賷丿賵丕 兀禺鬲乇丕毓 丕賱毓賳氐乇賷丞 兀毓胤賳賷 爻亘毓丞 賵賮賷 爻亘毓 爻賳賷賳 爻賷毓賷丿賵丕 兀禺鬲乇丕毓 丕賱丨乇賵亘.賵賴賳丕 賷賱毓亘 爻鬲賷賮賷賳 賰賷賳噩 賱毓亘丞 丕賱賲賵丕噩赖丞 丕賱賳賮爻賷丞
賴賳丕賰 丕賱亘毓囟 賷丨賱賲 亘乇噩賱 賲馗賱賲 貙 賷賲卮賷 賮賷 丕賱馗賱丕賲 賷爻亘亘 亘乇賵丿丞 賵賯卮毓乇賷乇丞 賱賲賳 賷乇丕賴 賵賷丨丕賵賱 丕賳 賷噩賳丿 丕鬲亘丕毓 賱賴
賵丕丨賷丕賳丕 鬲鬲賳鬲賯賱 丕賱丕丨賱丕賲 丕賱賷 爻賷丿丞 爻賵丿丕亍 毓噩賵夭 賲毓賲乇丞 賮賷 賲夭乇毓鬲賴丕 鬲睾賳賷 胤賷賱丞 丕賱賳賴丕乇 丕睾丕賳賷 賵丕亘鬲賴丕賱丕鬲 鬲亘丕乇賰 丕賱賱賴
賵丕賱睾乇賷亘 丕賳 丕賱噩賲賷毓 賷丨賱賲 亘賰賱丕 丕賱卮禺氐賷鬲賷賳 貙 賵賰賱 賳賮爻 賱賴丕 兀賳 鬲賮囟賱 胤乇賷賯丕 毓賳 丕賱丕禺乇
鬲賮爻賷乇 噩夭亍 丕賱兀丨賱丕賲 丕賱噩賲丕毓賷丞 乇睾賲 丕賳 亘賴丕 卮卅 賲賳 丕賱賲賷鬲丕賮賷夭賷賯丕 "賲丕賵乇丕亍 丕賱胤亘賷毓丞" 賴賵 兀賳 丕賱兀丨賱丕賲 毓丕賲丕 鬲鬲兀孬乇 亘卮賰賱 賰亘賷乇 亘丕賱賵毓賷 丕賱噩賲毓賷 貙 賵毓賳丿賲丕 賵氐賱 爻賰丕賳 丕賱丕乇囟 賱1% 賮賯胤 賮賯丿 賰丕賳 爻賴賱丕 丕賱鬲兀孬乇 亘丕賱丕丨賱丕賲 賵賷鬲賰賵賳 賲丕 賷卮亘賴 丨賱賲 噩賲丕毓賷
賯丿 賷賰賵賳 丕賱乇噩賱 丕賱賲馗賱賲 "乇丕賳丿賱 賮賱丕噩" 賱兀賳賴 鬲丕亘毓 賱賱卮賷胤丕賳 賱賴 亘毓囟 丕賱賯丿乇丕鬲 丕賱禺丕乇賯丞 賱賱胤亘賷毓丞 賱賷賳丕丿賷 毓賱賷 丕鬲亘丕毓 賱賴 亘丕賱丕丨賱丕賲貙 賵賱賰賳 賰賴亘丞 賲賳 丕賱賱賴 賷丨賱賲 丕賱亘毓囟 丕賷囟丕 亘鬲賱賰 丕賱爻賷丿丞 丕賱毓丕丿賷丞貙 "丕锘毁� 兀亘丕噩丕賷賱" 貙 丕賱賲丐賲賳丞 賮丨爻亘..賵丕賱鬲賷 鬲卮毓乇 兀賳 丕賱賱賴 兀禺鬲丕乇賴丕 賱鬲毓賲乇 賱爻亘亘 噩丕亍 賵賯鬲賴
賮鬲鬲禺匕 丕賱兀賲 兀亘丕噩丕賷賱 丿賵乇 兀乇卮丕丿 丕賱賳丕噩賷賳 丕賱匕賷賳 爻賷鬲賵噩賴賵丕 賱賴丕 貙 丨爻亘 乇丐賷丕賴丕 賲賳 丕賱賱賴貙 賱賱匕賴丕亘 賱賱睾乇亘 賱賱丕爻鬲賯乇丕乇 亘賲丿賷賳丞 爻賷爻賲賵賳賴丕 "丕賱賲賳胤賯丞 丕賱丨乇丞" 毓賳丿 卮乇賯 噩亘丕賱 乇賵賰賷
亘賷賳賲丕 賷禺鬲丕乇 丕賱噩丕賳亘 丕賱丕禺乇 丕賱匕賴丕亘 賱睾乇亘 噩亘丕賱 乇賵賰賷 貙 賱賱丕爻 賮賷噩丕爻 賳賷賮丕丿丕...賱丿賷 乇噩賱 丕賱馗賱丕賲..乇噩賱 丕賱卮賷胤丕賳
賵賴賳丕 爻賷鬲賰賵賳 丕賱賲噩鬲賲毓貙 賲賳 噩丿賷丿
兀賵 亘丕锘回地� 丕賱賲噩鬲賲毓丕賳
賵賳鬲丕亘毓 亘卮賰賱 賲乇賴賯 賵賯賵賷 賰賷賮 賷鬲賯丕亘賱 卮禺氐賷丕鬲 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 丕賱丕賵賱 賲毓 卮禺氐賷丕鬲 噩丿賷丿丞 毓賱賷 丕賱胤乇賷賯 貙 丕賱鬲丨丕賱賮丕鬲 丕賱鬲賷 鬲丨丿孬 亘賷賳 丕賱卮禺氐賷丕鬲 貙 賵鬲卮賴丿 賲毓賴賲 丕賴賵丕賱 賲丕 丨丿孬 亘丕賱賵賱丕賷丕鬲 丕賱丕禺乇賷 亘乇丨賱丞 胤乇賷賯 卮丕賯丞 毓亘乇 丕賱賵賱丕賷丕鬲 丕賱丕賲乇賷賰賷丞
賵賰賱 卮禺氐賷丞 丕賵 噩賲丕毓丞 丨爻亘 賵噩賴鬲賴丕
賴賳丕 賷賯丿賲 爻鬲賷賮賷賳 賰賷賳噩 賳賯丕卮 賲爻鬲賲乇 胤賵丕賱 丕賱丕丨丿丕孬 賴賳丕 毓賳 丕賱賲噩鬲賲毓丕鬲 賵鬲賰賵賳賴丕.. 賰賷賮 賯丿 賷賰賵賳 賲噩鬲賲毓 賷丿賷乇賴 卮賷胤丕賳 胤丕睾賷丞 賷丨賰賲 乇毓丕賷丕賴 亘丕賱禺賵賮..賵賷禺胤胤 賰賱 賲噩賴賵丿丕鬲賴 賰賷賮 賷賯囟賷 毓賱賷 睾賷乇賴
賵賰賷賮 賷賲賰賳 丕賳 賷馗賱 賲噩鬲賲毓丕 賲鬲卮鬲鬲丕 賲鬲禺亘胤丕 亘乇睾賲 賲賳 丕賳 賳賵丕賷丕賴 氐丕賱丨丞貙 丿賷賲賵賯乇丕胤賷貙 賵賱賰賳賴 賷丨丕賵賱 鬲賳馗賷賲 賮賯胤 亘卮賰賱 亘賷乇賵賯乇丕胤賷 鬲賳馗賷賲賷 毓賯賷賲 賵亘兀噩鬲賲丕毓丕鬲 賱丕 鬲賳鬲賴賷 賲賲丕 賯丿 賷丐丿賷 賱囟毓賮賴
亘賱 賵丕賱丕賴賲 賰賷賮 賷賲賰賳 賱賱賲噩鬲賲毓 丕賱氐丕賱丨 丕賱鬲噩賴賷夭 囟丿 丕賱卮賷胤丕賳責 丕賱毓丿賵 丕賱禺丕乇噩賷責
賴賱 賷亘丿兀 丕賷囟丕 賮賷 丕乇爻丕賱 噩賵丕爻賷爻責 丕賱鬲丨囟賷乇 锘回迟勜� 丕禺乇賷責 乇亘賲丕 亘賷賵賱賵丨賷丞責 賵亘丕亍 丕禺乇責
亘賱 賱賲丕匕丕 亘毓丿 賰賱 賴匕賴 丕賱氐毓丕亘 (賵亘丕亍 賯丕鬲賱)..(鬲匕賰乇 丕賳 氐賳毓賴 丕賱亘卮乇 亘賳賮爻賴賲)貙 賷馗賱 毓賱賷賴賲 賲賵丕噩赖丞 丕賱卮賷胤丕賳責責
賴賳丕 賳毓賵丿 賱賱丌賷丞 丕賱鬲賷 匕賰乇鬲賴丕 亘兀賵賱 丕賱賲乇丕噩毓丞
{賵賻賱賽賷購賲賻丨賽賾氐賻 丕賱賱賻賾賴購 丕賱賻賾匕賽賷賳賻 丌賲賻賳購賵丕 賵賻賷賻賲賿丨賻賯賻 丕賱賿賰賻丕賮賽乇賽賷賳賻 * 兀賻賲賿 丨賻爻賽亘賿鬲購賲賿 兀賻賳賿 鬲賻丿賿禺購賱購賵丕 丕賱賿噩賻賳賻賾丞賻 賵賻賱賻賲賻賾丕 賷賻毓賿賱賻賲賽 丕賱賱賻賾賴購 丕賱賻賾匕賽賷賳賻 噩賻丕賴賻丿購賵丕 賲賽賳賿賰購賲賿 賵賻賷賻毓賿賱賻賲賻 丕賱氐賻賾丕亘賽乇賽賷賳賻}
兀毓鬲乇賮 丕賳賳賷 賱孬丕賳賷 丕賵 孬丕賱孬 賲乇丞 兀賯賵賲 亘兀丿禺丕賱 丕賱丿賷賳 賮賷 乇賵丕賷丞 賱爻鬲賷賮賷賳 賰賷賳噩
賱賰賳 賴匕丕 亘丕賱馗亘胤 卮亘賷賴 賱乇丿 丕賱兀賲 丕亘丕噩賷賱 毓賱賷 丕丨丿 丕賱卮禺氐賷丕鬲 丕賱鬲賷 兀鬲賴賲鬲 丕賱匕丕鬲 丕賱廿賱賴賷丞 亘丕賱馗賱賲 賱賵囟毓 丕賱亘卮乇 丿賵賲丕 賮賷 賱毓亘丞 卮胤乇賳噩 亘賷賳 丕賱丕賳爻丕賳 賵丕賱卮賷胤丕賳
賱丕賳 丕賱丕賳爻丕賳 賳賮爻賴 亘丿丕禺賱賴 賳賮爻 丕賱氐乇丕毓 丿丕卅賲丕. . 賵丿丕卅賲丕 賲丕 賷丨鬲丕噩 賱賲賵丕噩赖丞
賮賰乇鬲 丕賱丕賲 丕賳 賯丿 賷賰賵賳 賴匕丕 丨丿孬 丕賷囟丕 賮賷 丕賱賲噩鬲賲毓 亘毓丿 胤賵賮丕賳 爻賷丿賳丕 賳賵丨貙 亘丕賱鬲兀賰賷丿 賰丕賳 賴賳丕賰 丕賳賯爻丕賲 丕禺乇 亘賷賳 丕賱亘卮乇 丕賱賳丕噩賷賳
賵賯賮丞 兀禺乇賷
賲賵丕噩赖丞
賲賵丕噩赖丞 丕賱賳賮爻...賲賵丕噩赖丞 丕賱卮賷胤丕賳
賮丨鬲賷 賮賷 賲噩鬲賲毓 "丕賱賲賳胤賯丞 丕賱丨乇丞" 賰丕賳 亘賴 賳賮賵爻 賲囟胤乇亘丞 賲禺賮賷丞 亘賷賳賴賲..賷賲賷賱賵賳 賱賱馗賱丕賲 兀賰孬乇 賮賷 丕賱禺賮丕亍
丕賱賲賵丕噩赖丞 賴賷 丕賱鬲賷 爻鬲馗賴乇 丕賱賲丐賲賳賷賳 賵鬲賯賵賷賴賲
賵賰賱賲丕 賰丕賳鬲 丕爻乇毓貙 賰丕賳鬲 賳鬲賷噩鬲賴丕 丨丕爻賲丞 丕賰孬乇
賮賷 賴匕丕 丕賱噩夭亍 兀賷囟丕 賷賳丕賯卮 丕賱乇賲賵夭 丕賱丿賷賳賷丞 賵丕賴賲賷鬲賴丕 賱賱亘卮乇..賲丕匕丕 丕匕丕 鬲賵賮鬲 丕賱兀賲 丕亘丕噩丕賷賱責 賴賱 爻賷鬲夭毓夭毓 丕賷賲丕賳 丕賱賳丕噩賷賳 丕賱匕賷賳 賰賵賳賵丕 賴匕丕 丕賱賲噩鬲賲毓 丕賱氐睾賷乇 亘爻亘亘 丕賱丕乇鬲賷丕丨 丕賱賳賮爻賷 賱賴丕賱鬲賴丕 丕賱丿賷賳賷丞責
丕賱丕賲乇 亘丕賱馗亘胤 賰丕賱賲乇鬲丿賷賳 亘毓丿 賵賮丕丞 丕賱乇爻賱.. 賵賱賰賳 亘卮賰賱 乇賲夭賷 賲賳 禺賱丕賱 丕賱丕丨丿丕孬 賲賯丿賲丞 亘卮賰賱 賲賱丕卅賲 賵毓氐乇賷 賵賷丿毓賵 賱賱鬲賮賰賷乇
賱匕丕 賰丕賳 賱丕亘丿 賲賳 丕賱賲賵丕噩赖丞
丕賱賵賯賮丞 丕賱丕禺賷乇丞
賵丕賱賰鬲丕亘 丕賱孬丕賱孬 賵丕賱丕禺賷乇
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丕賱賰鬲丕亘 丕賱孬丕賱孬 : 丕賱賲賵丕噩赖丞
賲賳 7 爻亘鬲賲亘乇 丕賱賷 10 賷賳丕賷乇 - 300 氐賮丨丞 賮賯胤
{廿賽賳賻賾 賰賻賷賿丿賻 丕賱卮賻賾賷賿胤賻丕賳賽 賰賻丕賳賻 囟賻毓賽賷賮賸丕}
賵丕賱丕賳貙 賴匕丕 賴賵 丕賱噩夭亍 丕賱丕爻賵兀 亘丕賱賳爻亘丞 賱賷...賵丕賱丕噩賲賱 亘賳賮爻 丕賱賵賯鬲
丕賱噩夭亍 丕賱丕囟毓賮... 賵丕賱丕賰孬乇 丨賲丕爻丞 亘賳賮爻 丕賱賵賯鬲
鬲禺賷賱 丕賳鬲 鬲賯乇兀 丕賰孬乇 賲賳 1100 氐賮丨丞 賱毓賱賰 鬲鬲賵賯毓 賲賱丨賲丞 賵賲賵丕噩赖丞 鬲爻鬲賲乇 賱氐賮丨丕鬲 胤賵賷賱丞 賲賱賷卅丞 亘丕賱丨乇亘 賵丕賱丿賲丕亍 賵丕賱噩賲賱 丕賱乇賳丕賳丞 賵丕賱丕賯鬲亘丕爻丕鬲 丕賱丿賷賳賷丞 丕賱賯賵賷丞
賱賰賳 丕賱丕賲乇 鬲賲 亘卮賰賱 丕亘爻胤 亘賰孬賷乇貙 賵丕賯爻賷 亘賰孬賷乇 賲賲丕 鬲賵賯毓鬲 亘賳賮爻 丕賱賵賯鬲
賱賳 丕丨乇賯 賱賰 丕賱丕賲乇
賱賰賳 丕賱賲賵丕噩賴丕鬲 丕賱鬲賷 鬲賲鬲 亘賷賳 丕賱卮禺氐賷丕鬲 賵丕賱卮賷胤丕賳貙 丕賱賲爻賷禺 丕賱丿噩丕賱 貙 賵囟毓賮 丨賷賱鬲賴 兀賲丕賲 賯賵丞 丕賱丕賷賲丕賳 賵鬲夭毓夭毓 氐賵乇鬲賴 丕賲丕賲 丕鬲亘丕毓賴 賴賵 丕賲乇 賷爻鬲丨賯 丕賱賯乇丕亍丞
丕賱丕爻賱賵亘 賴賳丕 賰丕賳 爻丕丨乇丕 賵丨賲丕爻賷丕
胤賵丕賱 丕賱賵賯鬲 賰賳鬲 丕賰鬲賲 丕賳賮丕爻賷貙 丕卮賴賯 貙 丕賵 丕鬲丨賲爻 賰兀賳賷 丕乇賷丿 丕賳 丕氐賷丨
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賮賯胤 賰賱 卮賷亍 鬲賲 亘爻乇毓丞 丕賰亘乇 賲賲丕 鬲賵賯毓鬲
丕爻賲毓賰 鬲賯賵賱 貙 賰賷賮 300 氐賮丨丞 丕賲 鬲賰賮賷賰貙 賴賳丕賰 乇賵丕賷丕鬲 鬲鬲丨丿孬 毓賳 賲丕 賴賵 丕賰孬乇 賲賳 匕賱賰 賮賷 300 氐賮丨丞 賮賯胤責!!責
丨爻賳丕貙 賱賳 丕丨乇賯 賱賰 丕賱丕賲乇
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丕賱賷 賴賳丕 鬲賳鬲賴賷 賲乇丕噩毓丞 丕賱兀丨丿丕孬
丕鬲賲賳賷 丕賳 鬲賰賵賳 毓乇賮鬲 丕賱丕賳 氐丿賷賯賷 丕賱賯丕乇卅 賱賲 賯乇兀鬲 乇賵丕賷丞 1440 氐賮丨丞..賵賲丕匕丕 禺乇噩鬲 賲賳賴丕
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賲賳 爻鬲氐胤丨亘賴賲 兀睾賱亘 丕賱1440 氐賮丨丞
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賴賵 賲賮賴賵賲 爻鬲賷賮賷賳 賰賷賳噩 毓賳 "乇噩賱 丕賱卮丕乇毓 丕賱亘爻賷胤" 貙 丕賱乇噩賱 丕賱噩丿毓 丕賱毓丕丿賷
丕賱睾乇賷亘 兀賳賴 乇睾賲 賵噩賵丿賴 賮賷 丿賵乇 乇卅賷爻賷 廿賱丕 兀賳賴 賱賲 賷賰賳 卮禺氐賷鬲賷 丕賱賲賮囟賱丞..賰丕賳 乇噩賱丕 毓丕丿賷丕 賮賷 馗乇賵賮 睾賷乇 毓丕丿賷丞 貙 賴匕丕 賰賱 卮卅
賵賱兀賳 丕賱卮丿丞 鬲馗賴乇 賲毓丕丿賳 丕賱亘卮乇..丨爻賳丕 貙 賱賴匕丕 賯賱鬲 毓賳賴 丕賳賴 丕賱乇噩賱 "丕賱噩丿毓" 貙 乇丨賱鬲賴 亘毓丿 丕賱賵亘丕亍 賴賷 丕賱兀氐毓亘 亘丨賯..乇亘賲丕 賱賲 鬲鬲胤賵乇 丕賱卮禺氐賷丞 賰孬賷乇丕 賱丕丨賯丕 賱賰賳 丕賱鬲噩乇亘丞 賴賷 賲丕 爻鬲禺賱賮 亘賴 兀孬丕乇丕 賵丕囟丨丞
賮乇丕賳賷 噩賵賱丿賲丕賳
卮丕亘丞 噩賲賷賱丞 貙 毓賮賵賷丞 噩丿丕..丕賷囟丕 賯丿 鬲毓丿 卮禺氐賷丞 毓丕丿賷丞 乇睾賲 賰賱 卮卅 賱賰賳 賲丕 爻鬲賲乇 亘賴 锟斤拷賳 賲氐丕毓亘 賷噩毓賱賴丕 賷馗賴乇 賲毓丿賳賴丕 丕賱賯賵賷 貙 亘丕賱兀禺氐 賮賷 丕賱乇亘毓 丕賱兀賵賱 毓賳丿 賲毓乇賮鬲賴丕 亘丨賲賱賴丕 賵賲賵丕噩賴鬲賴丕 賱賵丕賱丿賷賴丕
賵賱賰賳 鬲賯乇賷亘丕 賲卮賴丿 鬲丨賲賱賴丕 丕賱賲爻卅賵賱賷丞 亘賵賮丕丞 賵丕賱丿賴丕 賰丕賳 賲賳 兀氐毓亘 丕賱賲卮丕賴丿..賵兀氐乇丕乇賴丕 毓賱賷 兀賳 鬲丿賮賳賴 亘賳賮爻賴丕 乇睾賲 氐毓賵亘丞 丕賱丕賲乇貙 乇爻賲賴丕 賰賷賳噩 亘亘乇丕毓丞貙 賵馗賴乇鬲 亘賱賵丨丞 賲賳 賱賵丨丕鬲 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞
賵廿賳 賰賳鬲 毓乇賮鬲 兀賳 賮乇丕賳賷 賷賲賰賳賴丕 鬲丨賲賱 丕賱賲爻卅賵賱賷丞 亘賴匕丕 丕賱卮賰賱 亘丕賱乇亘毓 丕賱兀賵賱 貙 賮賴賷 亘賴匕丕 毓賰爻 丕賱卮禺氐賷丞 丕賱賲賳丕賯囟丞 賱賴丕
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賲胤乇亘 丕賱乇賵賰 貙 卮禺氐賷鬲賷 丕賱賲賮囟賱丞...乇亘賲丕 亘丕賱丕禺氐 亘爻亘亘 賮氐賵賱賴 賲毓 兀賲賴 兀賱賷爻 兀賳丿乇賵賵丿
兀賲賴 鬲賵丕噩賴賴 亘丨賯賷賯鬲賴 貙 亘氐乇丕丨丞 賵賵囟賵丨責 賳毓賲貙 賱賰賳 亘賯爻賵丞責...賱丕 兀毓鬲賯丿.. 賯丕賱鬲賴丕 賱賴 賲亘丕卮乇丞 兀賳賴 賲賳 丕賱賳賵毓 丕賱匕賷 賷兀禺匕 賵賷兀禺匕 賵賱丕 賷毓胤賷貙 賱丕 賷鬲丨賲賱 賲爻卅賵賱賷丞 鈥� 馗賳鬲 丕賳 丕賱爻賳賵賳 賯丿 鬲噩毓賱賴 賷賳囟噩 賱賰賳賴 賲丕夭丕賱 賱丕乇賷 丕賱賯丿賷賲貙 賷賯毓 賮賷 賲卮賰賱丞 賮賷賱噩兀 賱賱丨賱 丕賱兀爻賴賱
賱賰賳 鬲賵丕賮賯 兀賲賴 毓賱賷 兀賳 賷賲賰孬 賲毓賴丕 賮賷 亘賷鬲賴 丕賱賯丿賷賲 賮賷 囟賷賯鬲賴 貙 亘賱 賵鬲丨囟乇 賱賴 賰賱 丕賱賲兀賰賵賱丕鬲 丕賱鬲賷 賷丨亘賴丕 賲賳 丕賱氐睾乇 丨鬲賷 丿賵賳 兀賳 賷胤賱亘
賱丕乇賷 卮禺氐賷丞 賲孬賷乇丞 噩丿丕 賱丕賳 賴賳丕賰 賲孬賱賴 丕賱賰孬賷乇賷賳貙 亘賱 賱賱丕爻賮 卮毓乇鬲 亘卮卅 賲丕 賲兀賱賵賮丕 毓賳丿賷
賱丕 賷賯氐丿 丕賳 賷賰賵賳 爻賷卅丕..賷賳丿賲 亘毓丿 賮賵丕鬲 丕賱丕賵丕賳..賱賰賳賴 賷馗賱 丿賵賲丕 賲胤丕乇丿丕 亘匕賱賰 丕賱賳丿賲..賰賲丕 馗賱 賲胤丕乇丿丕 亘賰賱賲丕鬲 兀賲賴貙 賵卮亘丨 丕鬲賴丕賲賴 兀賳賴 "賱賷爻 亘丕賱卮禺氐 丕賱噩賷丿"..乇亘賲丕 賴賵 賰匕賱賰責
丕賱賮氐賵賱 丕賱鬲賷 噩賲毓鬲賴 賵兀賲賴 兀睾賱亘賴丕 賲賳 丕賱賳爻禺丞 丕賱賲賲鬲丿丞 -賰丕賳鬲 賲丨匕賵賮丞 賮賷 丕賱賳爻禺丞丕賱賯丿賷賲丞- 貙 賵賴賳丕 兀毓鬲賯丿 兀賳賰 爻鬲丿乇賰 爻乇 噩賲丕賱 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 丕賱胤賵賷賱丞 廿賳 賰丕賳鬲 賲賰鬲賵亘丞 噩賷丿丕
丕賱鬲賮丕氐賷賱 賴賳丕 爻鬲噩毓賱賰 鬲鬲賮丕毓賱 賲毓 賱丕乇賷貙 鬲丨亘賴貙 鬲賰乇賴賴貙 鬲卮賮賯 毓賱賷賴 賰兀賲賴...賵亘丕賱丕禺氐 卮禺氐賷丞 兀賲賴 賵丕賱鬲賷 丕乇丕賴丕 賲賳 丕噩賲賱 賲丕 賰鬲亘 賰賷賳噩 賲賳 丕賱丕賲賴丕鬲
爻鬲賷賮賷賳 賰賷賳噩 賲卮賴賵乇 亘丕賱丕賲賴丕鬲 丕賱賯丕爻賷丞 丕賱賲爻鬲亘丿丞 -兀賲 賮乇丕賳賷貙 丕賱卮禺氐賷丞 丕賱爻丕亘賯丞貙 禺賷乇 丿賱賷賱- 賱賰賳 兀賱賷爻 乇睾賲 丕賳賴丕 賵丕噩賴鬲 賱丕乇賷 亘毓賷賵亘賴 賱賰賳 鬲氐乇賮丕鬲賴丕 丕賱氐丕賲鬲丞 賲毓賴 賰丕賳鬲 丕賯賵賷 鬲兀孬賷乇丕
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兀毓鬲賯丿 丕賳 賰賱 賲卮丕賴丿賴 賲毓 丕賲賴 賱丕鬲賳爻賷貙 賲賱賵賴丕 丕賱孬賱丕噩丞 賱賲丕 賷丨亘賴 貙 賲氐乇賵賮賴 賱賷丿禺賱 丕賱爻賷賳賲丕 亘乇睾賲 賲賳 爻賳賴 丕賱賰亘賷乇貙 賵毓丿賴 賱賴丕 賱丕氐胤丨丕亘賴丕 賱賱毓亘丞 丕賱亘賷爻亘賵賱 賮賷 賷賵賱賷賵 貙 氐乇丕毓賴 丕賱賳賮爻賷 丕賱卮丿賷丿 賵賯鬲 丕丨鬲囟丕乇賴丕 賵賵賮丕鬲賴丕 賵丕賱匕賷 丕毓鬲賯丿 丕賳賴 賴賳丕 賰丕賳 賳賯賷囟丕 賳賵毓丕 賲丕 賲賲鬲丕夭丕 賱丿賵乇 賮乇丕賳賷
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卮丕亘 氐睾賷乇 丕亘賰賲 賵兀氐賲 貙 賷鬲賷賲貙 毓氐丕賲賷貙 馗乇賵賮 賲毓賷卮鬲賴 丕賱氐毓亘丞 噩毓賱鬲 鬲丨賲賱賴 賱賱賲爻卅賵賱賷丞 兀賴賲 禺氐丕賱賴
卮丕亘 氐丕禺亘 乇睾賲 賲馗賴乇賴 丕賱賴丕丿卅 賵丨丕賱鬲賴
賷鬲丨賲賱 丕賱賲爻卅賵賱賷丞 賲賳 亘丿丕賷丞 馗賴賵乇賴 賲毓 賲兀賲賵乇亘賱丿丞 氐睾賷乇丞貙 亘賱 賵丨鬲賷 賷乇毓賷 夭賵噩鬲賴 亘毓丿 乇丨賷賱賴.. 賵賱賲 賷毓賱賲 賵賯鬲賴丕 賲賯丿丕乇 丕賱賲爻卅賵賱賷丞 丕賱鬲賷 爻鬲賱賯賷 毓賱賷賴 賱丕丨賯丕
賲賳 丕賱賲卮丕賴丿 丕賱鬲賷 賱丕鬲賳爻賷 賱賴 賴賵 毓賳丿賲丕 丕毓鬲乇賮 賱賱兀賲 兀亘丕噩丕賷賱 兀賳賴 睾賷乇 賲丐賲賳丕貙 乇丿賴丕 賰丕賳 噩賲賷賱丕 賵賵丕賯毓賷丕...賵丿賵乇賴 賮賷 丕賱賲噩鬲賲毓 丕賱賵賱賷丿 毓丕賲丕 賰丕賳 賲賰鬲賵亘丕 亘卮賰賱 噩賷丿 噩丿丕
噩賱賷賳 亘丕鬲賷賲丕賳
賴賵 禺亘賷乇 毓賱賲 丕賱丕噩鬲賲丕毓 丕賱毓噩賵夭貙 乇噩賱 匕賰賷 賮胤賳...賷賯乇兀 亘爻賴賵賱丞 賰賷賮 爻賷賰賵賳 丕賱賲噩鬲賲毓 丕賱匕賷 賯丿 賷鬲賰賵賳 賲賳 丕賱賳丕噩賷賳 乇睾賲 丕賳賴 丕賵賱 馗賴賵乇賴 賱賲 賷鬲賯丕亘賱 爻賵賷 爻鬲賵 乇賷丿賲丕賳 賵賰賱亘 丕爻賲丕賴 賰賵噩丕賰
賲賳匕 亘丿丕賷丞 馗賴賵乇賴 兀禺乇 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 丕賱丕賵賱 賵賴賵 "乇賲丕賳丞 丕賱賲賷夭丕賳"貙 匕賱賰 丕賱匕賷 賱丕 賷賳胤賯 毓賳 賴賵賷貙 亘賱 賷賳胤賯 毓賳 丕賯鬲亘丕爻丕鬲貙 丕睾賱亘 丕賯鬲亘丕爻丕鬲 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 爻鬲噩丿賴丕 賲賳賴
賷賳胤賯 毓賳 毓賱賲 賳賮爻 亘卮乇賷丞 賵毓賱賲 丕噩鬲賲丕毓 賵賮賱爻賮丞...賰賷賮 丕賳 丕賱鬲丕乇賷禺 賷毓賷丿 賳賮爻賴 . 賰賷賮 丕賳 亘賳丕亍 丕賱賲噩鬲賲毓丕鬲 賱賲 賷鬲睾賷乇貙 丕賱賵毓賷 丕賱噩賲毓賷 賵丕賱丕丨賱丕賲...丕賱毓賱丕賯丕鬲 亘賷賳 丕賱賲噩鬲賲毓丕鬲...亘賱 賵丨鬲賷 丕賱丕噩夭丕亍 丕賱丿賷賳賷丞 丕賷囟丕 乇睾賲 丕賳賴 睾賷乇 賲丐賲賳
賴丕乇賵賱丿 賱賵賷丿乇
卮丕亘 賲乇丕賴賯 賵丨賷丿貙 亘丿賷賳貙 賱丕 賷賲賱賰 爻賵賷 丕賱賰鬲亘 賵丕賱賰鬲丕亘丞 賰乇賮賯丞 丿丕卅賲丞...賵丕毓噩丕亘 賯丿賷賲 賲賳 胤乇賮 賵丕丨丿 亘氐丿賷賯丞 丕禺鬲賴 丕賱鬲賷 鬲賰亘乇賴 亘亘囟毓丞 丕毓賵丕賲...賮乇丕賳賷
賴丕乇賵賱丿 卮禺氐賷丞 賲賴鬲夭丞 睾賷乇 賵丕孬賯丞 亘賳賮爻賴丕...賵賱賰賳賴 毓亘賯乇賷丕貙 匕賰賷丕
賵賱匕賰丕亍賴 賵爻毓丞 丨賷賱鬲賴 賵丕賮賯鬲 賮乇丕賳賷 丕賳 鬲乇丕賮賯賴 賮賷 乇丨賱丞 丕賱亘丨孬 毓賳 賳丕噩賷賳貙 睾賷乇 兀賳 匕賱賰 亘爻亘亘 兀賳 亘亘賱丿鬲賴賲 賴賲丕 丕禺乇 賳丕噩賷賳 賲賳 丕賱賵亘丕亍
鬲胤賵乇丕鬲 丕賱卮禺氐賷丞 賰鬲亘賴丕 爻鬲賷賮賷賳 賰賷賳噩 亘卮賰賱 毓亘賯乇賷 胤賵丕賱 丕賱丕丨丿丕孬 賲毓 賰賱 丕賱卮禺氐賷丕鬲 丕賱鬲賷 爻鬲賳囟賲 賲毓賴 賵賮乇丕賳賷 貙 賱賷賰賵賳 賲賳 丕賱卮禺氐賷丕鬲 丕賱賯賱賷賱丞 丕賱鬲賷 鬲胤賵乇鬲 卮禺氐賷鬲賴賲 亘卮賰賱 賰亘賷乇 毓賱賷 賲丿丕乇 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞
-爻鬲賷賮賷賳 賰賷賳噩 賲賲鬲丕夭 賮賷 乇爻賲 賲孬賱 鬲賱賰 丕賱卮禺氐賷丕鬲-
乇賷鬲丕
爻賷丿丞 丕乇亘毓賷賳賷丞 賲乇賮賴丞貙 賱賰賳 乇睾賲 丕賳賴丕 賯丿 鬲亘丿賵 賯賵賷丞 賵氐賱亘丞 亘毓丿 賳噩丕鬲賴丕 賲賳 丕賱賵亘丕亍 廿賱丕 兀賳 賳賷賵賷賵乇賰 亘毓丿 丕賱賵亘丕亍 賰丕賳鬲 賯丕丿乇丞 毓賱賷 鬲丨胤賷賲 丕毓氐丕亘賴丕
丕賱卮禺氐賷丞 賲乇爻賵賲丞 亘卮賰賱 噩賷丿 賵賲丐孬乇 亘丕賱丕禺氐 亘丕賱賳爻亘丞 賱賱丕乇賷 丕賳丿乇賵賵丿
兀賯鬲亘丕爻賴丕 賲賳 乇丨賱丞 毓氐亘丞 丕賱禺丕鬲賲 賮賷 乇賵丕賷丞 鬲賵賱賰賷賳 丕賱賲賱丨賲賷丞 丕賱丕卮賴乇 "賲賱賰 丕賱禺賵丕鬲賲" 賮賷 亘丿丕賷丞 乇丨賱丞 '丕賱禺乇賵噩' 賲賳 賳賷賵賷賵乇賰 賲毓 賱丕乇賷 賰丕賳 賲賵賮賯丕. 禺丕氐丕 丕賳 乇丨賱丞 鬲賵賱賰賳貙 賵丕賱鬲賷 鬲毓鬲亘乇 賲賱賴賲丞 爻鬲賷賮賷賳 賰賷賳噩 丕賱乇卅賷爻賷丞 賱賰鬲丕亘丞 鬲賱賰 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 丕賱賲賱丨賲賷丞 毓賱賷 睾乇丕乇賴丕.. 賵賱賰賳 賮賷 毓丕賱賲賳丕貙 亘丕賲乇賷賰丕 亘丿賱丕 賲賳 丕賱兀乇囟 丕賱賵爻胤賷 丕賱賮丕賳鬲丕夭賷丕
賱賵賷丿
賲噩乇賲 賲丨亘賵爻 賮賷 賯囟賷丞 賯鬲賱 丕乇鬲賰亘鬲 賱丕賳賴 賰丕賳 鬲丕亘毓丕 賱賲噩乇賲丕 丕禺乇 賲禺鬲賱丕
賱賰賳 丕賱賵亘丕亍 亘丿賱丕 賲賳 丕賳 賷鬲爻亘亘 丕賱賯囟丕亍 毓賱賷賴貙 鬲爻亘亘 賮賷 丕賳賴 賰丕賳 毓賱賷 賵卮賰 丕賱賲賵鬲 賲賳 丕賱噩賵毓 賵丕賱毓胤卮 賵丨賷丿丕 賮賷 丕賱夭賳夭丕賳丞
丨鬲賷 賷兀鬲賷 賲賳 賲毓賴 丕賱賲賮鬲丕丨 賱丕禺乇丕噩 賲噩乇賲 賰賴匕丕
賵賲賳 爻賷賰賵賳 爻賵賷 乇噩賱 丕賱馗賱丕賲 賳賮爻賴
賱賷賰賵賳 賱賵賷丿..賰賲丕 賮賷 賯亘賱 丕賱賵亘丕亍 賰賲丕 賮賷 亘毓丿賴.. 賲噩乇丿 鬲丕亘毓 賱賯丕鬲賱
賲毓 丕賱丕禺鬲賱丕賮
乇噩賱 氐賳丕丿賷賯 丕賱賯賲丕賲丞
賲禺鬲賱 亘爻亘亘 賲丕囟 賯丕爻 賵馗乇賵賮 毓丕卅賱賷丞 爻賷卅丞 賷丨賰賷賴丕 賱賳丕 丕賱爻賷丿 賰賷賳噩 亘丕賱鬲賮氐賷賱
賷賴賵賷 丕卮毓丕賱 丕賱丨乇丕卅賯 亘賴賵爻 卮丿賷丿
禺賲賳 丕賱賷 丕賷 噩丕賳亘 爻賷賳囟賲
賳丕丿賷賳
卮禺氐賷丞 賲孬賷乇丞貙 卮丕亘丞 賮賷 丕賵丕禺乇 爻賳賵丕鬲 丕賱卮亘丕亘 賱賰賳 卮毓乇賴丕 丕賱賲禺鬲賱胤 丕爻賵丿賴 亘丕賱亘賷丕囟 爻亘亘賴 丨丕丿孬 賯丿賷賲 睾丕賲囟
賳丕丿賷賳 卮禺氐賷丞 賲鬲丨賮馗丞貙 鬲禺賮賷 丕賲乇丕 賲丕 賷賯鬲賱賴丕 亘氐乇丕毓 賳賮爻賷 乇賴賷亘 亘賷賳 賯亘賵賱 賵乇賮囟
賷賯丕亘賱賴丕 賱丕乇賷 兀賳丿乇賵賵丿 禺賱丕賱 丕賱乇丨賱丞 賲毓 賮鬲賷 氐睾賷乇 毓噩賷亘 亘賴 卮賷卅丕 賲賳 丕賱卮賮丕賮賷丞貙 丕賵 賰賲丕 賷賮囟賱 丕賱爻賷丿 賰賷賳噩 丕胤賱丕賯 毓賱賷賴丕 "丕賱賱賲毓丕賳" 賰賲丕 賮賷 丕爻賲 乇賵丕賷鬲賴 丕賱鬲賷 爻亘賯鬲 鬲賱賰
The Shining
賰賱丕 丕賱卮禺氐賷鬲賷賳 賰丕賳 賲賲鬲毓丕 賮賷 賯乇丕亍丞 賲卮丕賴丿賴賲丕 亘丕賱丕禺氐 毓賳丿 賱賯丕亍 丕賱兀賲 丕亘丕噩丕賷賱
賵賴賳丕賰 丕賱賰孬賷乇 賲賳 丕賱卮禺氐賷丕鬲 丕賱丕禺乇賷 丕賱鬲賷 鬲馗賴乇 亘毓丿 匕賱賰貙 賲賴賲丞 賵賱賴丕 乇賵丨 貙 賵丕禺乇賷 毓丕丿賷丞 丕賵 賲噩乇丿 賮乇丿 丕禺乇 賮賷 丕賱賲噩鬲賲毓丕鬲 丕賱鬲賷 爻鬲鬲賰賵賳貙 賵卮禺氐賷丕鬲 丕禺乇賷 睾賷乇 賲丕 爻亘賯 賱賴丕 丿賵乇 賲賴賲 賵賲丨乇賰 賮賷 丕賱丕丨丿丕孬 丨鬲賷 賱賵 氐睾乇
賱賰賳 賱囟賷賯 丕賱賲爻丕丨丞 賱賳乇 丕賴賲 卮禺氐賷鬲賷賳
乇丕賳丿賱 賮賱丕噩/乇噩賱 丕賱馗賱丕賲/馗賮乇 丕賱卮賷胤丕賳
毓賳丿 馗賴賵乇賴 亘丕賱乇亘毓 丕賱丕禺賷乇 賲賳 丕賱賰鬲丕亘丕賱丕賵賱 丕爻鬲賳賰乇鬲 丕賱賲丕賵乇丕卅賷丞 賵丕賱噩夭亍 丕賱賮丕賳鬲丕夭賷 丕賱匕賷 賯丕賲 爻鬲賷賮賷賳 賰賷賳噩 鬲賯丿賷賲賴 亘賴
賱賰賳賴 亘賲乇賵乇 丕賱兀丨丿丕孬 爻鬲賮賴賲 丕賳 賰賷賳噩 賷賯氐丿 亘賴 丕賳賴 兀丿丕丞 丕賱卮賷胤丕賳貙 賲禺賱亘賴 丕賵 丕氐亘毓賴 丕賵 馗賮乇賴
賰丕賱卮賷胤丕賳 賷賳賲賵 賵賷賯賵賷 賮賷 丕賱賮賵囟賷貙 賮賷 夭毓夭毓丞 丕賱丕賷賲丕賳貙 賮賷 賲孬賱 鬲賱賰 丕賱丕丨丿丕孬 丕賱賰丕亘賵爻賷丞
賱賰賳 賮賷 賴匕丕 丕賱毓丿丿 丕賱賯賱賷賱 賲賳 丕賱亘卮乇貙 賵亘毓丿 賯賷丕賲丞 氐睾乇賷 賯丕賲 亘賴丕 丕賱亘卮乇 亘丕賷丿賷賴賲貙 賯丿賲賴 爻鬲賷賮賷賳 賰賷賳噩 賰乇賲夭 賱賱賲爻賷禺 丕賱丿噩丕賱
賱賷禺鬲亘乇 亘賴 丕賱亘卮乇貙 賱賷噩賲毓 丕鬲亘丕毓貙 賵賷賰賷丿 賱賱噩丕賳亘 丕賱丕禺乇..丕賱賲丐賲賳
丕毓噩亘賳賷 亘卮丿丞 乇賲賵夭 丕賱馗賱丕賲 丕賱賲丨賷胤丞 亘鬲賱賰 丕賱卮禺氐賷丞貙 賲賵丕噩賴鬲賴 丕賱囟毓賷賮丞 亘丕賱亘丿丕賷丞 賱賱兀賲 丕亘丕噩丕賷賱 賰丨賷賵丕賳丕鬲 丕亘賳 毓乇爻
賵賱賰賳 丕毓噩亘賳賷 丕賰孬乇 丕賳賴 賱賲 賷賱噩兀 賱鬲賴賵賷賱 賵鬲毓馗賷賲 卮禺氐賷鬲賴 丕賱禺賷丕賱賷丞 賱噩毓賱賴丕 丕賱卮賷胤丕賳 賳賮爻賴 賲孬賱丕貙 賮賯胤 乇賲夭丕
賰丕賱噩丕賳亘 丕賱丕禺乇
丕賱丕賲 丕亘丕噩丕賷賱
爻賷丿丞 毓噩賵夭 賲丐賲賳丞 貙鬲賰賱賲鬲 毓賳賴丕 賮賷 噩夭亍 丕賱丕丨丿丕孬
鬲丨賵賱鬲 賱乇賲夭 丿賷賳賷 賱爻亘亘 廿賱賴賷 賷丨賱賲 亘賴丕 丕賱賳丕爻
丕賱噩賲賷賱 賴賳丕 丕賳 賰賷賳噩 賯丿賲 丨賷丕鬲賴丕 亘卮賰賱 鬲賮氐賷賱賷 賯亘賱 匕賱賰
賱賰賳 丕賱丕噩賲賱 兀賳賴 丨丕賵賱 丕賳 賷賯爻賵 毓賱賷賴丕 賮賯胤 賱賷賳賮賷 禺胤賷卅丞 賯丿 賷賯毓 賮賷賴丕 丕賲孬丕賱賴丕
賲賳 賷噩丿 鬲噩賲毓 丕賱賳丕爻 丨賵賱賴
禺胤賷卅丞 丕賱卮賷胤丕賳
丕賱賮禺乇
賱丕 賷鬲亘賯 爻賵賷 丨乇賵賮 賯賱賷賱丞貙 賵丕毓鬲賯丿 丕賳 丕賱賷 賴賳丕 賷賳鬲賴賷 丕賱賲乇丕噩毓丞 "丕賱賲禺鬲氐乇丞" 賱賱賳爻禺丞 "丕賱賰丕賲賱丞" 賱賲賱丨賲丞 爻鬲賷賮賷賳 賰賷賳噩 丕賱丕囟禺賲
賮賷 1440 氐賮丨丞
丕賱賲賵丕噩赖丞
賲丨賲丿 丕賱毓乇亘賷
賲賳 1 賲丕乇爻 2017
丕賱賷 31 賲丕乇爻 2017
-賷賲賰賳賰 賲鬲丕亘毓丞 賲乇丕噩毓丕鬲 丕賱賰賵賲賷賰爻 賱賲夭賷丿 賲賳 丕賱鬲賮氐賷賱-
April 19, 2017
I never get tired of reading this book. It's my absolute all time favorite reads. Every once in a while I have to go back and read it again and again....and it's just as good as the first time I read it those many years ago.
1st Review
The end of the world where humanity takes a stand between good and evil.
I am a Stephen King fan and whilst I have read most of his books, The Stand has remained my all-time favorite. I read it when it was first published in 1978 and I was really happy when a longer and uncut version came out in 1990 and have since read it many times. It remains an incredible, riveting and unforgettable story. The ultimate post-apocalyptic/horror/fantasy and thought provoking novel.
The following content was provided by the publisher, giving a brief synopsis of the story and information on the 1991 uncut version.
This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death.
And here is the bleak new world of the day after: a world stripped of its institutions and emptied of 99 percent of its people. A world in which a handful of panicky survivors choose sides -- or are chosen. A world in which good rides on the frail shoulders of the 108-year-old Mother Abigail -- and the worst nightmares of evil are embodied in a man with a lethal smile and unspeakable powers: Randall Flagg, the dark man.
In 1978 Stephen King published "The Stand, the novel that is now considered to be one of his finest works. But as it was first published, "The Stand was incomplete, since more than 150,000 words had been cut from the original manuscript.
Now Stephen King's apocalyptic vision of a world blasted by plague and embroiled in an elemental struggle between good and evil has been restored to its entirety. "The Stand: "The Complete And Uncut Edition includes more than five hundred pages of material previously deleted, along with new material that King added as he reworked the manuscript for a new generation. It gives us new characters and endows familiar ones with new depths. It has a new beginning and a new ending.
What emerges is a gripping work with the scope and moral complexity of a true epic.
For hundreds of thousands of fans who read "The Stand in its original version and wanted more, this new edition is Stephen King's gift. And those who are reading "The Stand for the first time will discover a triumphant and eerily plausible work of the imagination that takes on the issues that will determine our survival. [image error]
This is one book that鈥檚 left a lasting impression on me and I love picking it up and reading it all over again and again. How quickly and easily greed, corruption and playing the Hand of God can bring humanity to its knees and even with the possibility of their total extinction. That thought is not that far fetched with all the stuff that鈥檚 being done today, all in the name science. Hah!!!!!!!!The plot line which is divided into three parts/books follows the experiences of the plague survivors before, during and after the catastrophe and the roles they play in the story. It鈥檚 dark, intense, terrifying and uplifting鈥here鈥檚 hope, faith, religion, love, hate, fear, fate and redemption. A suspenseful and emotional build-up to the final face-off of good versus evil. There鈥檚 a meaning to everything that happens in the story 鈥� the betrayals, the dreams, death and births. There is nothing random in anything.
But it鈥檚 the realistic and deep characterization that鈥檚 astonishing. Complex and well developed characters that leap off the pages. It gives us a deeper understanding using the viewpoints of many of the characters 鈥� their back stories show the differences in the morality of humankind.
The vivid descriptions make the plot and characters so real and believable.
There are so many great characters in this story that some have left a lasting impression on me.
Stu Redman, a quiet, moral and unassuming character that inspires people to continue their fight against evil.
Abigail Freemantle, 108 years old and believed to be the oldest person and survivor in the world and claims to be God鈥檚 prophet and is instrumental in bringing the good forces together.
Because humanity never learns from his mistakes. Bad things that happen are quickly forgotten pushed aside as memories past鈥nd so the circle begins again. An eternal and never-ending battle where neither side wins or loses.
Stu & Frannie, at the end say it all鈥︹€︹€︹€�.
1st Review
The end of the world where humanity takes a stand between good and evil.
I am a Stephen King fan and whilst I have read most of his books, The Stand has remained my all-time favorite. I read it when it was first published in 1978 and I was really happy when a longer and uncut version came out in 1990 and have since read it many times. It remains an incredible, riveting and unforgettable story. The ultimate post-apocalyptic/horror/fantasy and thought provoking novel.
The following content was provided by the publisher, giving a brief synopsis of the story and information on the 1991 uncut version.
This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death.
And here is the bleak new world of the day after: a world stripped of its institutions and emptied of 99 percent of its people. A world in which a handful of panicky survivors choose sides -- or are chosen. A world in which good rides on the frail shoulders of the 108-year-old Mother Abigail -- and the worst nightmares of evil are embodied in a man with a lethal smile and unspeakable powers: Randall Flagg, the dark man.
In 1978 Stephen King published "The Stand, the novel that is now considered to be one of his finest works. But as it was first published, "The Stand was incomplete, since more than 150,000 words had been cut from the original manuscript.
Now Stephen King's apocalyptic vision of a world blasted by plague and embroiled in an elemental struggle between good and evil has been restored to its entirety. "The Stand: "The Complete And Uncut Edition includes more than five hundred pages of material previously deleted, along with new material that King added as he reworked the manuscript for a new generation. It gives us new characters and endows familiar ones with new depths. It has a new beginning and a new ending.
What emerges is a gripping work with the scope and moral complexity of a true epic.
For hundreds of thousands of fans who read "The Stand in its original version and wanted more, this new edition is Stephen King's gift. And those who are reading "The Stand for the first time will discover a triumphant and eerily plausible work of the imagination that takes on the issues that will determine our survival. [image error]
This is one book that鈥檚 left a lasting impression on me and I love picking it up and reading it all over again and again. How quickly and easily greed, corruption and playing the Hand of God can bring humanity to its knees and even with the possibility of their total extinction. That thought is not that far fetched with all the stuff that鈥檚 being done today, all in the name science. Hah!!!!!!!!The plot line which is divided into three parts/books follows the experiences of the plague survivors before, during and after the catastrophe and the roles they play in the story. It鈥檚 dark, intense, terrifying and uplifting鈥here鈥檚 hope, faith, religion, love, hate, fear, fate and redemption. A suspenseful and emotional build-up to the final face-off of good versus evil. There鈥檚 a meaning to everything that happens in the story 鈥� the betrayals, the dreams, death and births. There is nothing random in anything.
But it鈥檚 the realistic and deep characterization that鈥檚 astonishing. Complex and well developed characters that leap off the pages. It gives us a deeper understanding using the viewpoints of many of the characters 鈥� their back stories show the differences in the morality of humankind.
The vivid descriptions make the plot and characters so real and believable.
There are so many great characters in this story that some have left a lasting impression on me.
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Stu Redman, a quiet, moral and unassuming character that inspires people to continue their fight against evil.
鈥淢en who find themselves late are never sure. They are all the things the civics books tell us the good citizen should be: partisans but never zealots, respecters of the facts which attend each situation but never benders of those facts, uncomfortable in positions of leadership but rarely unable to turn down a responsibility once it has been offered . . . or thrust upon them. They make the best leaders in a democracy because they are unlikely to fall in love with power.鈥�
Abigail Freemantle, 108 years old and believed to be the oldest person and survivor in the world and claims to be God鈥檚 prophet and is instrumental in bringing the good forces together.
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鈥淕od doesn't bribe, child. He just makes a sign and lets people take it as they will.鈥�And a fine answer to why God had chosen her to be the messenger of God
鈥淭he Lord provides strength, not taxicabs.鈥�
鈥�...you'll find that God often chooses to speak through the dying and the insane...A healthy person might be apt to filter the divine message, to alter it with his or her own personality. In other words, a healthy person might make a shitty prophet.鈥�And then there鈥檚 Randall Flagg also known as the Dark Man, The Walking Dude, friendly, smiling and helpful鈥� but one can sense the evil and darkness behind that facade 鈥� a true villain.
A demon wearing a denim jacket that displays a button of a pig wearing a cop鈥檚 cap one the one lapel and the other with a smiling face button.
The sound that his well-worn, sharp-toed cowboy boots make as he walks the prison corridors to 鈥渟ave鈥� Lloyd Heinrich. A face of true and dark evil.
鈥淗e was known, well known, along the highways in hiding that are traveled by the poor and the mad, by the professional revolutionaries and by those who have been taught to hate so well that their hate shows on their faces like harelips and they are unwanted except by others like them, who welcome them to cheap with slogans and posters on the walls, to basements where lengths of sawed-off pipe are held in padded vises while they are stuffed with high explosives, to back rooms where lunatic plans are laid.鈥�
鈥淗e鈥檚 in the wolves鈥� the crows, the rattlesnake, and the shadow of the owl at midnight and the scorpion at high noon. He roosts upside down with the bats. He鈥檚 blind like them.鈥�
Because humanity never learns from his mistakes. Bad things that happen are quickly forgotten pushed aside as memories past鈥nd so the circle begins again. An eternal and never-ending battle where neither side wins or loses.
Stu & Frannie, at the end say it all鈥︹€︹€︹€�.
鈥溾€楧o you think鈥� do you think people ever learn anything?鈥�Some more quotes I really liked -
She opened her mouth to speak, hesitated, fell silent. The kerosene lamp flickered. Her eyes seemed very blue.
鈥業 don鈥檛 know,鈥� she said at last. She seemed unpleased with her answer; she struggled to say something more; to illuminate her first response; and could only say it again:
鈥業 don鈥檛 know.鈥欌€�
鈥淭here's precious little reform in the human race.鈥�
March 24, 2024
I like the part where they stand.
February 3, 2023
3.5 stars. An entertaining book and a wonderful thought experiment, but was far longer than it needed to be with a rather disappointing conclusion to the story.
I was extremely excited to read this book, as I have heard over and over that this is one of Stephen King's (one of the biggest writers of all time) best book. Having had very little exposure to Stephen King, I didn't know what to expect when I started into this goliath of a book.
The premise of this book is wonderful, and something I have never read about before but have thought about plenty of times. But the ultimate problem with this book is it is far too length. And I don't say this because it takes too long to read, I have read books longer than this that I have given 5 stars to - but this book goes on, and on, and on, and on, AND ON about character development to a ridiculous degree. At some point you need to get to the plot, but I suppose this is just Stephen King's style.
I know there is a condensed version of this book, but honestly I don't even think that would cut this book down to what it would need to be in order to be appealing to me. While I did love the characters in this book, there was too much random stories going on that ultimately didn't help me appreciate this story any greater, and it felt like he was just writing stream of consciousness and trying to rack up as many pages as possible at points.
But once the plot really starts moving in the 2nd half of this book, my enjoyment skyrocketed. I loved so much about the conflict itself that I couldn't put the book down, and even given my dislike for the first half of this book I was planning on giving this book a 4 or 4.5 rating.
Unfortunately, the conclusion to this story is anti-climactic to say the least. For so much build up, I expected the most epic of showdowns, but what I got was a whimper not a bang. It's unfortunate, but ultimately I still did enjoy my experience, but I can confidently say that I will never re-read this book.
September 27, 2024
Considering the popularity of this book, there'll be no need for me to make this long, so, just my feelings and impressions while reading this.
The first half of this reads like a classic Stephen King novel. All hell has broken loose and he has generously provided great exposition akin to a front row seating for anyone curious in observing how the world might end in a meticulously written high definition detail. A true class act indeed, nevertheless, I did find myself getting bored and/or transfixed with the world-building and character development in equal measures.
The second half deals with how the various remaining forces of good and evil have choosen to remake the wasteland of the world in their respective images. I think my problem with this read was that I went into it with expectations of mythic proportions. I'll still recommend this for both Stephen King die hards yet to pick this up and general post-apocalyptic fans out there that'll love a very interesting and immersive experience of world-building and character development of truly macabre tints.
2022 Read
The first half of this reads like a classic Stephen King novel. All hell has broken loose and he has generously provided great exposition akin to a front row seating for anyone curious in observing how the world might end in a meticulously written high definition detail. A true class act indeed, nevertheless, I did find myself getting bored and/or transfixed with the world-building and character development in equal measures.
The second half deals with how the various remaining forces of good and evil have choosen to remake the wasteland of the world in their respective images. I think my problem with this read was that I went into it with expectations of mythic proportions. I'll still recommend this for both Stephen King die hards yet to pick this up and general post-apocalyptic fans out there that'll love a very interesting and immersive experience of world-building and character development of truly macabre tints.
2022 Read
March 24, 2024
鈥淭he place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet.鈥�
How is it even possible for me to condense my thoughts on The Stand into one review. I don鈥檛 know. But I鈥檒l try!
Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed my reread of The Stand. Revisiting these characters reminded me of reconnecting me with old friends you haven鈥檛 seen in a while - you don鈥檛 realise how much you鈥檝e missed them until you see them again. And the characters are what make The Stand so epic, for me personally.
But... I鈥檒l get this out of the way early - it didn鈥檛 break into my top 10 King books. Yes, I love it, but some parts are bloody painful. That first section is mostly fantastic, I love reading about the outbreak of Captain Trips, a deadly flu that kills 99.4% of the population, but some chapters are a real drag. The Trashcan Man, for example. Yes, he is a crucial character, but good god, reading about him in the first section is like pulling teeth.
But truly, what would The Stand be without the epic cast of characters and the terrifying villain? My top 3 are Stu, the everyday man who proves a leader in such challenging times, Tom Cullen, a sweet innocent character who is impossible not to love, and Kojak, the goodest boy I ever did see, but there鈥檚 just sooo many that are fascinating to read about - from Harold to Nadine to Fran to Glen to Mother Abigail to the main man, Randall Flagg himself. And his scary penis. But a special shout-out to the often-forgotten Dayna Jurgens. She is the very definition of a BADASS.
The Stand is the ultimate battle of Good vs Evil, accelerated by a terrifying pandemic. It was quite scary to read during the time of COVID, and I can only be thankful that it never got quite this bad!
M-O-O-N spells EPIC. The greatest post-apocalyptic novel ever written, in my humble opinion.
Reread: March 2024. I still love this book but there鈥檚 just too many boring parts that take me out of the story. 4 stars.
How is it even possible for me to condense my thoughts on The Stand into one review. I don鈥檛 know. But I鈥檒l try!
Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed my reread of The Stand. Revisiting these characters reminded me of reconnecting me with old friends you haven鈥檛 seen in a while - you don鈥檛 realise how much you鈥檝e missed them until you see them again. And the characters are what make The Stand so epic, for me personally.
But... I鈥檒l get this out of the way early - it didn鈥檛 break into my top 10 King books. Yes, I love it, but some parts are bloody painful. That first section is mostly fantastic, I love reading about the outbreak of Captain Trips, a deadly flu that kills 99.4% of the population, but some chapters are a real drag. The Trashcan Man, for example. Yes, he is a crucial character, but good god, reading about him in the first section is like pulling teeth.
But truly, what would The Stand be without the epic cast of characters and the terrifying villain? My top 3 are Stu, the everyday man who proves a leader in such challenging times, Tom Cullen, a sweet innocent character who is impossible not to love, and Kojak, the goodest boy I ever did see, but there鈥檚 just sooo many that are fascinating to read about - from Harold to Nadine to Fran to Glen to Mother Abigail to the main man, Randall Flagg himself. And his scary penis. But a special shout-out to the often-forgotten Dayna Jurgens. She is the very definition of a BADASS.
The Stand is the ultimate battle of Good vs Evil, accelerated by a terrifying pandemic. It was quite scary to read during the time of COVID, and I can only be thankful that it never got quite this bad!
M-O-O-N spells EPIC. The greatest post-apocalyptic novel ever written, in my humble opinion.
Reread: March 2024. I still love this book but there鈥檚 just too many boring parts that take me out of the story. 4 stars.
September 8, 2016
One of the reasons why I would never club Stephen King together with any of the other best-selling writers of his generation (Grisham, Archer, Patterson, Sheldon and so on) is this :-
None of them match King's calibre as a story-teller. They don't even come close.
If somebody spins an intriguing tale, his characters get in the way of my enjoyment of it.
If somebody excels at characterization, his plotting is rather unconvincing.
If somebody plots a story well, then his writing turns out to be flat.
(And if you're unlucky enough, some of them mess everything up.)
But Stephen King possesses that rare talent of getting everything right - the story, the unraveling of the plot, the imagery, the underlying implications, the characters, the backdrop, the world-building, the writing - down to the very last detail.
He can grasp your attention at the onset, reel you in slowly but surely, give you nerve-wracking moments of pure anxiety, make you visualize a scene exactly the way he must have imagined it, feel for the characters in his story as if they were people of flesh and blood you were familiar with and, at some point, render you completely incapable of discerning between reality and the make-believe world of his imagination. And you're caught in the same nightmare as the characters of his book are plunging deeper into with every passing moment.
The Stand is one such Stephen King creation. Arguably known as his best written work yet, The Stand, I'm happy to inform readers, deserves every bit of the praise and adulation it continues to receive worldwide till this day.
Now don't get me wrong. The book is nothing new when you glance at the blurb. It is nothing you haven't already read or known about because it is the story your mom/dad/grandma must have read to you as a kid - while you listened moon-eyed with wonder and awe, overcome with emotions you couldn't quite fathom.
It is the ever-fascinating and timeless tale of good triumphing over evil that you have come across enough times yet can never possibly get over.
It is that same story, but with a distinct Stephen King-esque flavour.
Add a dystopian, post-apocalyptic, anarchic world in the grip of an epidemic that claimed most human lives to the eternal conflict between good and evil, and the summation result will lead to The Stand.
But it is so much more than this simple one-sentence summary. Every character, every plot device, every written scene has been constructed and put together so fastidiously in this book that at the end of it one feels that the reader is assigned with the task of collecting and preserving every piece of the gigantic puzzle to form this humbling, larger-than-life image the author had begotten.
Everything is done so ingeniously, that the mesmerized reader can only sit back and watch this spectacle of gargantuan proportions unfolding right in front of his/her mind's eyes.
Horror, psychological ramifications of events, political intrigue, war, chaos in the absence of a centralized administration, a crumbling world order, basest of our human tendencies - King doesn't shy away from exploring the entire gamut of human actions and emotions in a world where nothing of the old establishments has survived.
This man can write. There's no doubt about it.
In terms of sheer volume, scale and narrative sweep, it is an epic. In a way it is The Ramayana, The Mahabharata, The Iliad and The Odyssey or a concoction of all the elements that transformed each one of these stories into epics the world will never cease to look upon with the utmost respect.
It is the story that never becomes stale despite the number of years you insert between the time you read it first and read it for the umpteenth time in some other form. It is the story that transcends barriers of language, culture, religion and history and will always be told and retold in possible ways imaginable, for as long as humanity survives.
It is the story you are bound to be won over by even if you're snotty enough to swear by your copy of Ulysses and frown upon the Stephen Kings of the world of writing simply because they don't have much of a chance of ever winning the Man Booker or Pulitzer or *gasp* the Nobel Prize.
It is the story of good, evil and everything in between. It is the story of love and hatred, loyalty and betrayal, sin and redemption, fate and co-incidence, rationality and the inexplicable. Of unalterable mistakes and innocence lost. Of the goodness of the human heart and the face of the Devil.
At 1100+ pages, it was rather much too short.
I almost wished for it to never end.
But then again one can always re-read to start the cycle of awesomeness all over again.
None of them match King's calibre as a story-teller. They don't even come close.
If somebody spins an intriguing tale, his characters get in the way of my enjoyment of it.
If somebody excels at characterization, his plotting is rather unconvincing.
If somebody plots a story well, then his writing turns out to be flat.
(And if you're unlucky enough, some of them mess everything up.)
But Stephen King possesses that rare talent of getting everything right - the story, the unraveling of the plot, the imagery, the underlying implications, the characters, the backdrop, the world-building, the writing - down to the very last detail.
He can grasp your attention at the onset, reel you in slowly but surely, give you nerve-wracking moments of pure anxiety, make you visualize a scene exactly the way he must have imagined it, feel for the characters in his story as if they were people of flesh and blood you were familiar with and, at some point, render you completely incapable of discerning between reality and the make-believe world of his imagination. And you're caught in the same nightmare as the characters of his book are plunging deeper into with every passing moment.
The Stand is one such Stephen King creation. Arguably known as his best written work yet, The Stand, I'm happy to inform readers, deserves every bit of the praise and adulation it continues to receive worldwide till this day.
Now don't get me wrong. The book is nothing new when you glance at the blurb. It is nothing you haven't already read or known about because it is the story your mom/dad/grandma must have read to you as a kid - while you listened moon-eyed with wonder and awe, overcome with emotions you couldn't quite fathom.
It is the ever-fascinating and timeless tale of good triumphing over evil that you have come across enough times yet can never possibly get over.
It is that same story, but with a distinct Stephen King-esque flavour.
Add a dystopian, post-apocalyptic, anarchic world in the grip of an epidemic that claimed most human lives to the eternal conflict between good and evil, and the summation result will lead to The Stand.
But it is so much more than this simple one-sentence summary. Every character, every plot device, every written scene has been constructed and put together so fastidiously in this book that at the end of it one feels that the reader is assigned with the task of collecting and preserving every piece of the gigantic puzzle to form this humbling, larger-than-life image the author had begotten.
Everything is done so ingeniously, that the mesmerized reader can only sit back and watch this spectacle of gargantuan proportions unfolding right in front of his/her mind's eyes.
Horror, psychological ramifications of events, political intrigue, war, chaos in the absence of a centralized administration, a crumbling world order, basest of our human tendencies - King doesn't shy away from exploring the entire gamut of human actions and emotions in a world where nothing of the old establishments has survived.
This man can write. There's no doubt about it.
In terms of sheer volume, scale and narrative sweep, it is an epic. In a way it is The Ramayana, The Mahabharata, The Iliad and The Odyssey or a concoction of all the elements that transformed each one of these stories into epics the world will never cease to look upon with the utmost respect.
It is the story that never becomes stale despite the number of years you insert between the time you read it first and read it for the umpteenth time in some other form. It is the story that transcends barriers of language, culture, religion and history and will always be told and retold in possible ways imaginable, for as long as humanity survives.
It is the story you are bound to be won over by even if you're snotty enough to swear by your copy of Ulysses and frown upon the Stephen Kings of the world of writing simply because they don't have much of a chance of ever winning the Man Booker or Pulitzer or *gasp* the Nobel Prize.
It is the story of good, evil and everything in between. It is the story of love and hatred, loyalty and betrayal, sin and redemption, fate and co-incidence, rationality and the inexplicable. Of unalterable mistakes and innocence lost. Of the goodness of the human heart and the face of the Devil.
At 1100+ pages, it was rather much too short.
I almost wished for it to never end.
But then again one can always re-read to start the cycle of awesomeness all over again.
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