The Stand was not the first Stephen King novel I’d ever read – that honor goes to Thinner, written under his pen name of Richard Bachman – but it was the one that got me hooked on King. This book has stayed with me in the two decades since I first read it, and my two favorite sections are when he shows the spread of the superflu and the government response around the U.S., and then the immediate aftermath of the superflu, where he goes into […]