I’ve just spent the last three months reading The Stand Uncut and I want Stephen King to know that I magnanimously forgive him. REASON FOR READING I took up "The Stand" for two reasons. First, I like the stuff King wrote in the 1970s and second, the novel is widely believed to be his best book. SPOILER ALERT The Stand is a pre-apocalyptic novel that quickly becomes an apocalyptic novel, which quickly turns into a post-apocalyptic novel when the world dies off from a very bad