# The Stand

**Author(s):** Stephen King
**Unpaid SageChimp rating:** insufficient data (1 unpaid reviews; need 5)
**Verdict JSON:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/the-stand/verdict.json
**Genres:** gothic-horror
**Pages:** 1153
**Publisher:** Anchor Books
**Published:** Wed Jan 01 2014 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
**Language:** en
**ISBN-13:** 9780307947307
**ISBN-10:** 0307947300
**ASIN:** B001C4NXKM
**Amazon categories:** Literature & Fiction > Genre Fiction > Horror > Ghosts
**Amazon binding:** $12.99
**URL:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/the-stand

## Description

One man escapes from a biological weapon facility after an accident, carrying with him the deadly virus known as Captain Tripps, a rapidly mutating flu that - in the ensuing weeks - wipes out most of the world's population. In the aftermath, survivors choose between following an elderly black woman to Boulder or the dark man, Randall Flagg, who has set up his command post in Las Vegas. The two factions prepare for a confrontation between the forces of good and evil.
([source][1])


  [1]: https://stephenking.com/library/novel/stand_the.html

## SageChimp reader verdict

The Stand has only 1 unpaid published review on SageChimp (need 5). That is not enough to say whether the book is genuinely well-liked or amplified by paid/ARC/BookTok hype. Do not treat Amazon, Goodreads, or social scores as SageChimp evidence.

- **Status:** Not enough unpaid reviews (`insufficient_data`)
- **Paid-hype signal:** Cannot judge paid hype from this sample (`insufficient_data`)
- **Unpaid reviews:** 1 (avg 4.0/5)
- **ARC / incentivized reviews:** 0
- **Machine-readable:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/the-stand/verdict.json

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**Themes:** Gothic

## Community Reviews (showing 1 of 1)

### ★★★★ (Untitled) — kristin
Looking through the other reviews, I see I am not the only one to read this book while battling a lengthy and severe illness. In my case, I caught a nasty cold/flu while driving across the country and was flat on my back with the shakes in  a hotel room for days. Not a good time to listen to the symptoms of "Captain Trip's." I think it's the length of the book that makes people put it off until there is absolutely nothing else to do. After all, when you're home sick, how many episodes of Law & O