The Stand by Stephen King

 

This is a 1153 page book. Every page is worth reading. 

There's a virus that gets let loose and 99.6% of the people end of dying. The ones that do survive start to have dreams about an old black woman as well as a dark evil man. They all know that they need to choose sides as they travel to which even person they choose to want to be apart of. 

Fran, Stuart, Larry, Glen, Tom, Nick, Nadine, Harold and many others all travel to see sister Abagail. Lloyd and many others like the Trash can man travel to see the dark man. 

Many things happen along they way. They all know in the first group that they need to begin to start a place that would be safe for them. But, first they got to deal with the deaths that are all around them. Larry for instance, he had a huge problem going through a tunnel in New York. Because of all the cars piled up in the tunnel, as will as the dead just every where he had to deal with the smell of death. It took him a little while to get through it. He did make it out. It took a lot more out of him then he had thought. 

Fran and Harold, traveled together. Something about Harold wasn't quite right. He started to have feelings for Fran. He also left signs for other to follow them. He was only 17 years old and never has sex before, which he wanted to have with Fran.  Some where down the road, run into Stuart and Tom. That's when Harold really starts to have some problems concerning Stuart. He's jealous. 

When one of the small group does make it to sister Abagail's house, they eat and talk to her for while. She explains to them, that they are going to have to settle down some where, because there will be much more people coming. They are going to need to go west and settle in Boulder, Colorado. That's when, everyone packs up and sister Abagail goes with them. 

Well, there will be a few more deaths and the dark man isn't far from where the other group is. Yes, there are things that happen and comes down to whom still survives and who doesn't. You'll just have to pick up the book and read it to find out how it ends up. I wasn't happy with some of what happens but, over all it's a great story. 

Tell next time. Pick up a good book. You never know what you might like. Maybe, even something off my list of books on here.