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When I was a lot younger, I read a few King books, Christine, The Dead Zone, but then I read this one....

I really didn't care for this. I found the characters stereotypical and the plot meandering. It just went on and on and on....I loved the concept, but knew I wouldn't like the book when all the 'good' survivors felt a call to go to an old black woman's farm, where she promptly killed all the chickens and fried 'em up and told them they needed to go to Denver. huh. All the 'bad' people went to Vegas.

Besides, it was never really clear how some characters got lumped into 'good' while others got lumped into 'bad'. I am sure it was supposed to signify that delineation is very fuzzy line, and that one or two path choices in life can easily take you to the wrong 'town', but I just kept wondering why?.
Then it tried to make the Denver people sound all great because they were going around clearing the homes of the dead and prepping to turn the power on....Meanwhile the bad people are all holed up the Vegas hotels. But wouldnt they have to remove corpses and get the power going too? There was like 500 pages of this kind of thing, and getting ready for the inevitable 'showdown'. Why is there a need for a showdown? There have always been evil people in the world. Most of humanity just shrugs it off and does nothing about them. It all just seemed rather pointless.
I hear there is an abridged version. Maybe I would have liked it better

I remember expressing this frustration to other people I managed to get into book conversations, and having McCammon's Swan Song recommended. I enjoyed that much more.

After that I didnt read any King for a long time, which is too bad, as he does have many good books that are more genuinely suspenseful.