The Stand
Novel by Stephen KingWikipedia
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Sep 13, 2026
speaker_5HOST
If the town of Derry feels like a place you could actually visit, then the monster in the sewer feels like something that could actually reach up and grab you.
speaker_4HOST
I think about The Stand, too, when you say that.
speaker_4HOST
I mean, it's a sprawling epic about a super flu wiping out humanity, but the first few hundred pages are just microscopic mundane details.
speaker_5HOST
Just normal people living normal lives.
9 MINS LATER
speaker_4HOST
It made his Goodreads top 10 list of all-time favorite books.
speaker_4HOST
He has spoken very highly of it.
speaker_5HOST
He even lifted the story's main antagonist, a brutal dictatorial rabbit named General Woundwort, and directly referenced him in his own massive novels, The Stand and The Dark Tower.
speaker_4HOST
Wait, really? He put a rabbit in The Stand?
speaker_4HOST
But Scott, his counterproposal is what sparked a massive debate
speaker_3HOST
He argued that the single greatest starting point for any reader is the unabridged version of The Stand
speaker_4HOST
He passionately praised it for offering masterful, deeply constructed character arcs, a flawless exploration of societal collapse, and the ultimate battle between good and evil
speaker_3HOST
Now, from a literary standpoint, The Stand is widely considered King's magnum opus.
speaker_3HOST
However, from a practical standpoint, the uncut version is a massive undertaking
speaker_4HOST
It frequently exceeds 1,000 pages
speaker_3HOST
His core argument was based on momentum.
speaker_3HOST
He believes it is one of King's fastest paced, most relentless narratives
Stephen KingSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
You know? That's, that's great.
speaker_12HOST
Well, see, like, speaking of, you know, things that you've written for the screen, like, I, one of the, a, a massive influence on, on me was the, the, the TV miniseries for The Stand that, you know, came back in-
Stephen KingSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Mm-hmm
speaker_12HOST
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speaker_2GUEST
I'll be honest with you.
VyzygothHOST
I mean, this might seem a little trite, but there's that movie, The Stand, based on the book by Stephen King.
VyzygothHOST
Yes.
VyzygothHOST
And we had watched that and felt very unsettling about it.
speaker_6HOST
Right, because usually there's so many people.
speaker_7HOST
Yeah, if you think about his most famous epics like The Stand or Under the Dome, you are usually dealing with an entire town, dozens of interconnected characters, and this massive societal breakdown.
speaker_6HOST
A huge tapestry.
speaker_7HOST
But for this first pair of stories focusing on isolation, we are looking at protagonists who are completely cut off from society.
Jim CramerHOST
I also think that we'll get smarter as people.
Jim CramerHOST
I don't think that we will all end up like the humans in Stephen King's best, The Stand, when a virus escapes from a secret US lab and kills almost everyone.
Jim CramerHOST
Uh, although I, I don't want that book near Claude or OpenAI, and don't let them watch Terminator or 2001 either.
Jim CramerHOST
Nevertheless, I think that this, these days of ignoring this stuff, they've come and gone.
Jim CramerHOST
I-
Carl QuintanillaHOST
You often compare things to The Stand.
Jim CramerHOST
Yeah, Charles Dickens.
Jim CramerHOST
Now, okay, so let's say you fed all, The Stand to everybody, to every one of these foundational models.
Jim CramerHOST
It's got a real blueprint to kill the vast majority of people in, uh, around the world, uh, including a tremendous scene trying to get out, uh, the Lincoln Tunnel to get to New Jersey.
Jim CramerHOST
I mean, what would happen if you just said, "Okay, listen guys," to all the different agents, "Here it is.
Carl QuintanillaHOST
... that it tackled in 88 hours?
Jim CramerHOST
Look, if it can do that, I got ...
Mickey MickelsonGUEST
He is an instrument for building the brand of Stephen King.
Mickey MickelsonGUEST
And every book that has his name on it, his fans are going to buy that book because they know that Stephen King is the author of the products being Cujo, Misery, The Stand, Carrie.
Mickey MickelsonGUEST
Those are the byproducts of what he's done.
Mickey MickelsonGUEST
So that's what I'm trying to do with my team.
Ramesh GopalGUEST
Like a writer like Stephen King got started writing short stories, but then he very quickly graduated to 800 pages.
Ramesh GopalGUEST
page volumes like It or The Stand or something like that.
Ramesh GopalGUEST
So it gives you a full length format, may take a book, a novel may take more time, but it gives you the opportunity to develop your characters, develop your plot.
Ramesh GopalGUEST
Whereas a short story has to be hard hitting and punchy.
ErikHOST
It's his second longest novel, I believe.
ErikHOST
The longest novel is The Stand, the uncut version of The Stand.
Stephen BissetteGUEST
Oh, The Stand, right.
ErikHOST
Which clocked in at 1,153 pages.
ErikHOST
It is 1,138 pages.
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Junot DiazGUEST
And there's a reason that shit isn't in there in any of the presentations as well.
Junot DiazGUEST
Because there's areas where I'm kind of like, you know what, Stephen King is good in some places and he's real bad in other places.
Junot DiazGUEST
And I'm always reminded of, you know, the part that he added back into the stand where black American soldiers in grass skirts and spears.
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