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        The Stand


        setting

        Colorado/Nebraska

        time

        1980s

        language

        English

        region

        North America

        year published

        1978

        page count

        823

        difficulty

        Difficult

        main characters

        Stuart Redman, Larry Underwood, Harold Lauder, Mother Abagail, Randall Flagg

        Rip's impressions

        Reserved for Guest Editor

        first line

        Hapscomb's Texaco sat on Number 93 just north of Arnette, a puissant four-street burg about 110 miles from Houston. Tonight the regulars were there, sitting by the cash register, drinking beer, talking idly, watching the bugs fly into the big lighted sign.

        last lines

        (spoiler alert)