If you loved The Stand, you HAVE to get this book. If you don???t mind the hairs standing up on the back of your neck, get this book. If you???re looking for an epic good read that you can???t put down, get this book. It will scare you and keep your nerves tied up from start to finish. It's one of those books that you don't want to end.

Thank you Audible for this treat. Please add more unabridged McCammon.

Wonderful story. I "listen" to books alot & simply could not put this one down. I'm an older mom with a two year old who needs sleep and actually caught myself several nights not realizing how late it was. (3am). The narrator is hands down the best I've heard. It wasn't until chapter 8 that I realized there was only one narrator. He's that good even with female voices and NO ONE sounds like anyone else. Great simply great. The story is not too shabby either. For those of us that like supernatural undertones this book did not disappoint. I've been reading alot of doomsday & zombie books lately and this is definitely my favorite. If I had to pick one thing I would change I think I would unfold the eerie/supernatural elements sooner for those of us that like that genre. The characters were well developed and it wasn't forced like some books. It honestly makes you think this could really happen. There wasn't one time that I skipped through a chapter (yep done that before). Another thing I like is that he spends just the right amount of time on character development & even imagery. I recently listened to a book where it seem it took the author a whole chapter to describe what a simple spoon looked like. I'm definitely a Robert McCammon & Tom Stechschulte fan. Just downloaded "The Oath" & so far Mr. Stechschulte is superb again! If you're on the fence - go for it - you won't regret it!!!!

I could not find a single likable character - except the dog and the mule.

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For me, it was a 24 hour waste of time. I gave up after part 3.

I bought this book because I heard that it is one of Stephen Kings favourite books...I was not disappointed.The only books I could compare it too are ... Stephen Kings' - The Stand andJustin Cronins' - The Passage.I loved this book! It is very long but give it a try!

More imagination. The plot was imaginative, but the characters were all super dumb.

No

Narrator could have tried to make them sound smarter. It sounded like a kids book when it wasn't supposed to be.

I like a long book. Good value, so I didn't feel it needed to be cut, just rewritten. It was turning into a long comic book.

I didn't understand what other reviewers meant by "cardboard characters". A little bit into the book I understood. I feel like the idea was good and if it were given to another writer it could have been something.
Nothing like "Lost" btw.

I tried so hard to finish it on a road trip, but preferred static radio stations instead.

An ending that doesn't include a megalomaniac with a "doomsday" machine. I felt like I was listening to a James Bond movie with an unlikely bad guy who has a doomsday machine that exists beyond credibility. The doomsday machine relies on nuclear weapons launched from satellites that have existed 10 years past nuclear winter.

A bit. I like post-apocalyptic stories, but this one too itself too seriously with a cruddy ending. I kept waiting for a meaningful ending, but it never came. Cliche is the order for day for this book.

Narration was OK.

The ending.

Not worth the many, many hours it took to get to the end of this book.

Based on the stellar reviews, I thought this would be a slam dunk. But the story is predictable, the pacing is very uneven, and the payoff doesn't match the build up.

So real. Love the narrator. Love books with a semi realistic theme. You'll love it.

Its one thing to talk about what would happen, its another to go into detail of the sounds, textures, and smells as people crush each others skulls for the last scraps of food. Yick. I could stand it for once or twice, but every 10 minutes or so it got too gorey for me. I also didn't care the fantacy side of things. The shapeshifting satan character, and the dream glass ball, were too dumb for me to enjoy.
Here I am a grown man, father of 4 and I felt like I needed to take a shower after listening. I only got through 10 hours then called it quits. Don't know how it ends, don't care. Yick, yick, and icky.
I will say this. The actor that read this book should get an award! So many voices, and with such natureal tallent. WELL DONE.

Every once in a while you may come across a book about the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it that centers on how the human spirit, in spite of all of the hardships of the world around us, triumphs. How human nature shines through the darkness and how hope for a better world is the basic animating and driving force in all of us. How, in spite of all, our basic goodness will thrust back the darkness and bring the shining light of the human spirit into our lives and the lives of those around us.

This is not that book.

This book is an unremitting descent into Hell, or at least the first 1/3 is like that since that is as far as I was able to get before I just gave up. I am not a Pollyanna type of person and I don't expect uplifting moments every page, but so far I have found nothing to think that the world pictured in this book is anything other than the lower circle of Hell. Perhaps I will return to this book later. I would like to hope that there is something worth returning to, but I doubt it. One of the books listed under "People who bought this book also bought" was Alas, Babylon. That book, a classic written more than 50 years ago and not the most upbeat book in the world, seems like a light comedy compared to the world pictured here.

On the positive side the book is well written and the narration is very good indeed. Good luck to all of you who venture into this swamp.