Book · 2012 · Fiction
The Stand
#108 of 16,741 books, ranked by how many different people bring it up on podcasts
- mentions
- 31
- people
- 19
- podcasts
- 8
- episodes
- 27
- critical mentions
- 0
I think that it is probably the most influential book in terms of my writing and my storytelling.
What they say about it
- Called it a favorite3
- Mentioned its huge length“it's like 1500 pages”3
The best things said about it
Have you read The Stand no no dude you would love it so it's about sure superflous right so it wipes out let's say it's 10% remember what the number is but it wipes out virtually everybody and then the remaining people have the task of rebuilding Society now it's the Stephen King novel.
Joe Rogan The Joe Rogan Experience · Aug 2017 The stand remains you know it's his it's his sort of American version of Lord of the Rings it is this giant Epic Journey tale.
I read the stand the stand was awesome the stand's a long ass B he rules.
My oldest son he loves the loves Stephen King and he likes to book the stand and he was like I want you to read this and it's like 1500 pages and I'm like I don't want to read this but um I'm reading it and I'm finding it fascinating.
Uh, and I I think this panic was an equal mix of PTSD from COVID and quite frankly the enduring popularity of Stephen King's best novel, The Stand. I bring up The Stand because I can't lie, I initially got a little worried because the way in which this started is exactly how the world ending plague and The Stand.
Where and when it comes up
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How it comes up
Most mentions, by podcast
19 people who brought it up
Why people recommend it
Stephen King's monumental post-apocalyptic epic The Stand details the devastating sweep of a weaponized influenza strain that wipes out the vast majority of humanity, leaving survivors to choose sides in a final conflict between good and evil. The novel has garnered widespread acclaim and enthusiastic recommendations across multiple platforms. Damon Lindelof stated on The Book Review that The Stand is his most-read and single most influential book regarding his own writing and storytelling. Joanna Penn also named it her favorite book of all time on ChooseFI, while Pamela Paul included it on her desert island reading list. Joe Rogan recommended the novel to listeners on The Joe Rogan Experience, highlighting its engaging exploration of societal rebuilding after a catastrophic plague. James Stout discussed the book on Behind the Bastards while drawing parallels between real-world public anxieties and the fictional plague's origins, and Sean Fennessey analyzed the work's historical publication context on The Book Review. Reviewers and creators consistently celebrate the novel for its expansive world-building and profound impact on the post-apocalyptic genre.
Every mention
Joe Rogan have you read The Stand no no dude you would love it so it's about sure superflous right so it wipes out le… 4
Discussed
“The Dark Half. Is that the other one that I that I really liked?”
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“but many many stories were a guy from maine yeah did he write shawshank redemption yep yep think about the word based off at least yeah dude yeah it's not his story”
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“there's creativity like to write the stand with Stephen King novel that requires creativity there's something about his”
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“have you read The Stand no no dude you would love it so it's about sure superflous right so it wipes out let's say it's 10% remember what the number is but it wipes out virtually everybody and then the remaining people have the task of rebuilding Society now it's the Stephen King novel”
Pamela Paul when you did this Roundup for vulture the stand the sort of the the best of the best 3
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“Tina Stephen King's The Stand”
Discussed
“the stand remains you know it's his it's his sort of American version of Lord of the Rings it is this giant Epic Journey tale”
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“when you did this Roundup for vulture the stand the sort of the the best of the best”
Damon Lindelof I love a lot of Stephen King's books and I have I've probably read the stand particularly the onor bridge s… 2
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“but I think that if you're adapting the stand then it's very clear that Stephen King was an influence but but we started talking about the stand very early on as it related to lost for a couple of reasons”
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“I love a lot of Stephen King's books and I have I've probably read the stand particularly the onor bridge stand the most times and I think that it is probably the most influential book in terms of my writing and my storytelling”
Joanna Penn so I'm I'm actually gonna pick to The Stand by Stephen King which is MK also likes 1
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“so I'm I'm actually gonna pick to The Stand by Stephen King which is MK also likes”
Post Malone There's another book that's really good that stephen king did about aliens called the tommy knockers That's… 1
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“There's another book that's really good that stephen king did about aliens called the tommy knockers That's a great book that they made a movie out of it but the movie didn't really kind of capture what the book was about”
Ben Bowlin it reminds me of um for anybody's read The Stand by Stephen King there's there's a moment where the US gove… 2
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“it reminds me of um for anybody's read The Stand by Stephen King there's there's a moment where the US government decides to cover up an outbreak of a very dangerous infection”
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“he's like are you familiar with the stand I am okay so in the adaptation of the stand in the novel itself which is which is better than the adaptation no knock on the adaptation but in the novel The Stand”
Shane Gillis I read the stand the stand was awesome the stand's a long ass B he rules 2
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“do you remember that we were talking about that movie the other day um that they made about that Stephen King book when he was Richard Bachmann the dark side we're talking about that movie do you know what that movie is no which one is it it was a movie where there was a guy who was a writer”
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“I read the stand the stand was awesome the stand's a long ass B he rules”
Duncan Trussell like I'm just listening to the stand the Stephen King audio book The Stand oh it's good 1
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“like I'm just listening to the stand the Stephen King audio book The Stand oh it's good”
Dwayne Betts my oldest son he loves the loves Stephen King and he likes to book the stand and he was like I want you to… 1
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“my oldest son he loves the loves Stephen King and he likes to book the stand and he was like I want you to read this and it's like 1500 pages and I'm like I don't want to read this but um I'm reading it and I'm finding it fascinating”
Grady Hendrix if you read something like the stand those characters are really when you start that book those characters… 1
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“if you read something like the stand those characters are really when you start that book those characters are some Thin grel”
Graham Hancock oddly enough i've just been reading stephen king's dark tower series yeah very near the end of the seventh… 1
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“oddly enough i've just been reading stephen king's dark tower series yeah very near the end of the seventh volume of that”
Jack Carr I certainly have an amazing book What a great book an autobiographical nature of it is even crazier like ge… 1
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“I certainly have an amazing book What a great book an autobiographical nature of it is even crazier like getting hit by that van and then waking up and looking up and seeing this person I think sitting on a rock that just hit him with his van and thinking I just got killed by somebody in one of my”
James Stout Uh, and I I think this panic was an equal mix of PTSD from COVID and quite frankly the enduring popularity… 1
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“Uh, and I I think this panic was an equal mix of PTSD from COVID and quite frankly the enduring popularity of Stephen King's best novel, The Stand. I bring up The Stand because I can't lie, I initially got a little worried because the way in which this started is exactly how the world ending plague and The Stand”
John Williams you know it probably is the stand I would have to say 1
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“you know it probably is the stand I would have to say”
Mark Hamill you have the life of Chuck coming out on Netflix which looks so good ... based on a Stephen King Nolla and… 1
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“you have the life of Chuck coming out on Netflix which looks so good ... based on a Stephen King Nolla and there's a part for you in it and blah blah blah ... it's based on a Stephen King novella ... it's called the life of Chuck”
Robert Evans Stephen King's the stand for like focuses on I I think it's basically a base that's meant to stand in for F… 1
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“Stephen King's the stand for like focuses on I I think it's basically a base that's meant to stand in for Fort Dietrich. I forget exactly what it's called in that, but that's that's how the virus that kills the whole world gets out”
Sean Fennessey He was not considering publishing the stand under the Bachman. Absolutely not. Absolutely not. 1
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“He was not considering publishing the stand under the Bachman. Absolutely not. Absolutely not.”
Stephen King I can remember in the stand I thought to myself I have too many characters doing too many things what am I… 1
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“I can remember in the stand I thought to myself I have too many characters doing too many things what am I going to do about that”
Tina Jordan oh the stand 1
Mentioned on the show without a named speaker4
Discussed
“I was in between my freshman in sophomore years of college and picked up a Stephen King novel The Stand I had never ever read a book for pleasure boy was I hooked hooked to pleasure reading”
Speaker The Book Review From the Archives: Colson Whitehead and Jeffrey Toobin 2024-07-18 Listen at 20:37
Discussed
“I was in between my freshman and sophomore years of college and picked up a Stephen King novel The Stand”
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“If you like Stephen King's The Stand you might like swan song by Robert McCammon even more”
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“Did you read the stand Yes Remember that See that was one of the things he talks about is how is there going down the highway They would hit like herds of deer so thick”
Also mentioned in the same episodes
Other mentions (16: passing, ad reads, own books)
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“The old Gish Gallup, right? Uh there are the running man, another good example. Shout out Stephen King. Um via his pseudonym.”
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“It's a Stephen King book that or maybe it might have been a short story. It was a short story in one of his adapted skeleton crew.”
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“I mean not for nothing did Stephen King pick influenza as as the big bad of the stand. Its mutation is unpredictable.”
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“You mentioned in the podcast that mandate for leadership the conservative promise was about as long as the unabridged version of the stand and guess what my current audio book is you guessed it the uncut version of the stand it's a nearly 48 hour listen”
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“spoiler it's about as long as the unabridged copy of The Stand by Stephen King”
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“The one people are referencing when they talk to you about Project 2025 is a thing called Mandate for Leadership: A Conservative Promise. Spoiler alert: it's about as long as the unabridged copy of The Stand by Stephen King!”
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“and I feel like with King you have the Blazing Earth years when he was on the come up and you have books like The Shining and the stand”
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“I think a book like Revival or 112263 or girl who love Tom Gordon or these late career very recent in terms books I'd stack any of them up against carry The Shining the stand”
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“I'm thinking naturally of The Shining I'm thinking of Carrie of course it Misery the stand sha Shank Redemption”
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“that's why the stand the stand just opens with Stephen King talking about his taxes for 1968 really laying out his deductions um then they get into that plague”
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“civilization as you dear reader know it will plummet just like the Stephen King book The Stand”
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“And also was in the stand I was in the scene series The Stand playing Harold louder”
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“Are we going to be bleeding out of our eyes like the stand and we weren't like this”
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“Max Reid says skipping crowder livestream to watch my favorite trio if you like Stephen King's The Stand you might like swan song by Robert McCammon”
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“like you know ever since I think reading Stephen King's The Stand in high school”
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“It was a The Dark Tower series. There's also the stand is really thick.”