I bought "The Stand" (Complete and Uncut Edition) at Amazon. What is going on? How can anybody consider it one of King's best novels?The story is slow-moving, long, boring, depressing and it doesn't make any sense. It took me almost a month to read it.I'll try to comment the story without being a spoiler. King's heroine is even more detestable than the Bad Dude. In the first 50 pages, Frannie is introduced as a silly girl that got pregnant because she forgot to take the pill. Her reaction was to get mad at her boyfried. Frannie can't listen to poetry reading without giggling incontrollably. While everybody is fighting for their lives, she finds time to write a stupid diary. Folks, this is how King introduces this saga's heroine. Unbelievable!The end of this "epic" adds a new dimension to the term "off-the-wall". This is a terrible mix of religion and science fiction.