HardLight’s Reviews > The Stand > Status Update

I keep running into something in this spooky month re-read of King's work and it's constant references to other material, whether it's songs -which I really forgot is heavily featured in the Stand - or the other written works. Especially Poe there's always some reference to Poe in anything King writes and while I used to find it charming, it feels insulting to see The Raven mentioned 3 times in this story (the judge)

Another update about Frannie.

"You made me feel like I treated Harold very shabbily" with big crocodile tears on her fucking face.

I'll repeat this, Harold is a bastard asshole, but he's the worse for knowing Frances Goldsmith. Most people who meet her are because she's a user of people. In fact all the survivors are some form of users which is likely deliberate.

Still enjoying this book immensely and it's still probably the best thing King has written but I'm still having one tiny issue.
Frannie Goldsmith. I'll go into it in the review but I'll just give a tiny bit here.

She's incredibly whiny and selfish in every aspect and not a nice person at all. She's partially the reason why Harold goes the way he does and he was always a bastard and unlikable, but she made him worse.

Having given up on the Dark Tower re-read because Stephen King had made too many prograstinating problems with the series by Wolves of the Calla, HardLight had been looking for a horror title to read during spooky Month.

Then he remembered the fact that he's living through a Poor Man's "The Stand" still and thought "Eh, why not?" and began reading.

Still enjoying it, though I have words about Frannie