Friday Recommends #1

Friday Recommends is a weekly meme hosted by Pen to Paper. This a weekly book blog hop where we as bloggers choose a book that we have read and recommend it to our fellow bloggers. We can then visit each others blogs to see what other bloggers recommend and find new books to add to our TBR list. Hopfully we all will have new followers from visiting each blog on the linky list.

The rules for Friday Recommends are:

• Follow Pen to Paper as host of the meme.
• Please consider adding the blog hop button to your blog somewhere, so others can find it easily and join in too! Help spread the word! The code will be at the bottom of the post under the linky.
• Pick a book that you've read, and have enjoyed enough to recommend to other readers. It can be a book you've read recently, or a book you read years ago - it's up to you - but make sure you tell us why you love the book (like a mini review). You make the post as long or as short as you like.
• Add your blog to the linky at the bottom of post on host site Pen to Paper after posting your blog post.
• Put a link back to pen to paper (http://vogue-pentopaper.blogspot.com) somewhere in your post.
• Visit the other blogs and enjoy!

My Recommed for this week:


The Stand By: Stephen King

Goodreads synopsis:

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 Editionincludes 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 comlexity 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.

My Thoughts:

Stephen King has been my favorite writer since high school. I have read and own most of his books. The Stand is my favorite book ever although I do read different genres now. I actually can’t remember how many times I have read The Stand. The reason that I love The Stand so much is because of the evil versus the good that the story portrays. I love all the characters in the book too, Stu, Frannie, Nick, Ralph, Glenn, Tom, Larry, Mother Abagail, Harold, Nadine and the Trash Can Man. I love the poem in the book "This is the way the world ends...."

I believe that when Stephen King writes a book that he puts a message in his books that most people do not get. That there is more than evil versus good to his stories. I have wished for a long time now that I could meet Stephen King and ask him what he is really trying to tell the world with the stories that he writes. Stephen King has been the only writer that I have wanted to meet until lately, now I would really like to meet a lot of other writers too, but now I would really like to meet Emma Mills who wrote the novel Witchblood. Have you read The Stand or any of Stephen King’s novels? Did you like The Stand? Do you like anything that he he has written? Please leave a comment and let me know.