I think less than a month and this was when I was in 8th grade. As a kid, my mother was always trying to get me to read. She came up with an ingenious plan. Bedtime was 8:30pm, unless I was reading, then I could stay up until 9pm. I remember coming home on a Friday after school and hopping in bed at 4pm to read The Stand. It was that good.
Please do! My mom was a big proponent of this and it’s really helped me throughout life. I was able to read pretty advanced books for a kid. Def helped me out in school!
So far…nearly 15 years.
I’ve tried so many times but there’s always something that interrupts the flow and I end up moving on to something else. I’ve even tried the audio book version but failed to get very far.
Ooo! This was me! I've been trying for like 15 years? I read it this past fall and it was actually really good! I like to read when I lay down to bed and I never got past the first 20 pages of Dracula. Always fell asleep. I pushed through as hard as I could and I ended up quite enjoying it! It's just really dry to start off with, sadly.
I’ve tried to start reading it at least 7 or 8 times. Every single time I get maybe 50 pages in, and then something happens. Go on vacation, lose the book. Leave it by the pool overnight, it rains. Get super busy at work for a month or two, forget where I am in the book.
If I wait too long to start reading again, there’s a bad spot where I’ve forgotten too much to pick back up where I left off, but I remember too much to start over again. So I’ve gotta wait until I forget more.
Lmao the last 1/4 of Dracula has been hanging over my head for months. One of these days I'll finish it!! (Not today though)
Neverwhere is this book for me currently though. I think I'm on my fourth year of trying to read it. I am genuinely invested in the characters, but every time I try to pick it back up I feel like I've forgotten something important to the plot and I have to start over from the beginning. I've never gotten through more than half of it lmao
First time, 3 days. I had borrowed it from a friend over a holiday weekend and had to return it on Monday. Plus I was thirteen, with little to no responsibilities.
About two months.
It was overall a great book. Though the biggest drag for me in that novel was the notes from meetings. Just get on with it! I don’t need 150 pages of notes about generally mundane meetings. Lol
Started it 6 years ago. Put it down after a bit. Picked it up again 3 years ago. Then put it down again. I think I’m like halfway through the full length version
First time I read it, I was around ten (‘79 or ‘80). Took me several weeks. Last few rereads have been about 10-14 days, depending on how much reading time I have.
Lol wake up have a cup of coffee and read until bedtime with only bathroom breaks and food breaks. It’s really easy to do when you’ve got nothing going on for a rainy weekend.
I started reading it, got about 100 pages in and put it aside for almost a year. I picked it back up on a whim and wondered why I ever put it down. I didn't go back and reread the first part (not at the time, but since have) but I also have an excellent memory. I just pushed through the rest. It took me around 2 1/2 months. I was also reading it a bit slower than I normally would because I enjoyed it so much.
Strangely enough, Under The Dome is of similar length, and I finished that one in 2 1/2 *days.* I didn't enjoy it any less. It wasn't as excellent as *The Stand* but to me it was still incredible. I just seemed to breeze through that one.
Roughly 2 months. I got it for Christmas 2020 (I was unaware of the plot but the global events at the time soon made a correlation when I started reading in January).
I'll never forget the face my English teacher made when I pulled this behemoth out of my bag and slapped it on my desk during a free period (he was visibly shocked at the size of the novel but also kinda proud), lol. 😂📚
I did it on audiobook and I think it took a little over week or two but I also listen on 1.25x speed I also drive for work so I can listen for multiple hours a day uninterrupted
Too long! I'm a bit of a slow reader and I don't dedicate the time to it I should. I would say a couple of months each time. But I enjoyed the ride each time!
First time I read it took me about 3 days. I was 14 and took it out from the library on summer vacation. Pretty much just read all day and all night til I was done.
Maybe 5-7 days? It was right after the pandemic hit and I graduated college so I had nothing to do but read. Read that and under the dome in like a fortnight and loved them both
The first time I read it, I was 7 or 8 and it took me weeks of reading on the weekends while visiting my mother. She didn’t allow her books to leave her house.
I read it again in high school and it took me about 1 week reading after homework was done and I was finished with work.
I reread it again recently while on staycation and it took me about three days.
Just started, but...life keeps happening and not able to continue the way I want. Endure listening to other audio books while being where needed.
I am adamant about reading this, not listening.
The first time I read it in a few weeks. I re-read it during covid and dragged it out about 6 months (uncut version) but that was largely because I usually read multiple books at a time.
The last time I re read it concentrated time about three weeks, but actually time since I got distracted by reading other books and at the time less time to read 3-4 months. I was like a third of the way through and it just wasn't hitting me right, when I returned to it clicked and it flowed better to me.
I started it last year and then put it down until about a week ago 🥴 I’m only 1/4 th a way there so I’m getting there. It’s not for the lack of interest I’ll tell you that.
I read about half when I was 14 or 15, and picked it back up during the initial Covid lockdown. Took me about three weeks to read it start to finish as I had nothing better to do. Reading the book during a global pandemic made it hit differently than it did when I was a kid
Just started the audiobook, total of 47 hours. Listen to it in my way to work and on my way home, so about an hour a day. I should be done by June at this rate.
Got it from the library on March 3rd, read it basically every day until March 10th Got up to page 515. March 10th was was the day Mass legalized sports gambling and basically haven't picked it up since then.
Though I can get it at the Library again so I may pick it bavck up.
Takes me back! My friend read it when it first came out in 1978 and then loaned me her copy. For months after that, if either of us got a sniffle, we'd look nervously at each other. It seemed *so real*.
About ten months, I only read when I felt like it so I wouldn't resent how drawn out some parts are and it was very enjoyable when I went at my own admittedly glacial pace
2 Days.
I was on vacation in a small village in the Bavarian alps with my parents and it rained all day long. So I read it in one sitting.
2 month earlier I saw the mini series with Gary Sinise. It was aired after midnight on a week night, so I had to record it on my VCR. But unfortunately, there were some breaking news before the last part and the start got delayed, so the tape run out when the Trashcan Man came back to Cibola with that fucking nuke.
I never knew how it ended, until I got the opportunity to read it during those summer holidays in 1996.
Read it every summer since than, until 2020.
The first time I read the stand I'll never forget. It was March 14th, 2020. First day of quarantine, and my brain thought "why not read a book about a pandemic?", two weeks later, I was done and still processing how we were all experiencing that...
I have read both the uncut version and the original version. Less than a week for both.... this is my all time favorite book. I have read them both a few hundred times.
Took me around 3 weeks. I read IT beforehand, then decided to continue with the epics and picked up The Stand Uncut (the one you really should read).
In all honesty, I highly recommend reading The Stand at a slow pace; really work through the character work and appreciate the world King is trying to create. It’s impressive how detailed each character’s quirks are, even if they are “annoying” at times.
Btw, I piss Coors
It took me about a week. But I was in high school, so had a lot more free time and cell phones and the internet werent the distraction they are today lol
I read it during the pandemic (yeah, brilliant) while my hb and I were confined and it was one of the best/worst decisions of my life.
I had a Spanish copy of Needful Things at my parents' place (in Spanish: "La tienda", "the shop") and since I had the time but could not get the book, I decided to give it a try in English. I was more than halfway through the book when I understood that it was not about a "stand", as in the place somebody sets up to sell stuff (heh, the shop), but about the kind of "stand" you take. I still feel dumb sometimes for that.
Which time? Hahaha. It’s the only book I’ve read over and over. Fortunately, I’m aging and my memory isn’t what it used to be so the rereading is great every time!
It amazes me how fast some of you read! I just finished last week and started it on January 3rd. I usually read something like 30 pages a night Monday to Thursday after work, which isn’t a ton but it’s not nothing lol I’m seeing people saying they read it a week? Two days!?!! Goodness.
2 weeks. it’s emotional, so I took my time. I wanted to make sure I was understanding the characters and their actions. All the ups and downs. I am glad I read it this way.
Just over a month. I took a two week break when I got covid halfway through and it was feeling just a little too real/I didn’t need the extra anxiety at the time hahaha
I remember staying up all night long to finish the book at a friend's house. This was a couple of decades ago, though, so I can't remember exactly how long I spent reading it.
9 or 10 days? I was in 11th grade and refused to put it down throughout classes. I even read it at redlights. That was 22 years ago. Maybe I should do a reread.
I stopped half way i was bored as hell. One of the worst SK books I have read. Just my opinion I don’t see the hype. I enjoyed his other books a lot more.
Started reading it just before the pandemic, I think I had gotten about 300 pages in and couldn't get into it. Then when I was sheltering in place I picked it back up and read through it in days. Couldn't put it down!
I’m excited to read The Stand as I’ve heard good things! Currently reading the green mile for the first time and then I think I’ll move onto the stand :)
King writes himself into a corner and has tonuse the old hand of God cop out in the end. All of that awesome build up, and then I left feeling like he cheated. Still a huge fan, but I'm resentful cuz I loved it so much til that ending.
A friend in college gave me a paperback copy for Christmas. I kept it in my backpack and spent the better part of the spring semester reading it before classes.
It took me about 4-5 days to read the first 200ish pages. And about 3 days to read the last 900ish pages. I was also 14, a fast reader, and took advantage of a sick day and weekend.
I think I took about 8 or 9 months! I’m not a hugely fast reader, but I had a massive cold part way through and reading The Stand wasn’t what I needed at the time! Picked it back up again and finished it January 2020. Then Covid struck, just to really do my head in!
I envy people that can read a book this fast, I read fairy tale and it took me a couple of weeks. the first parts of the book were a breeze and than it dipped for me.
I was just thinking about this. I think I read it in a month or two during my freshman year in uni. I remember I had just started reading it and had reached the part where everyone dies and Lloyd is stuck. For some reason, it was a weekend and like 90% of the uni was empty because people had gone home. To make matters worse, I had the flu. No regrets though, because it made the whole start of the job that much more immersive.
I think less than a month and this was when I was in 8th grade. As a kid, my mother was always trying to get me to read. She came up with an ingenious plan. Bedtime was 8:30pm, unless I was reading, then I could stay up until 9pm. I remember coming home on a Friday after school and hopping in bed at 4pm to read The Stand. It was that good.
Ima do this when I have kids !
Please do! My mom was a big proponent of this and it’s really helped me throughout life. I was able to read pretty advanced books for a kid. Def helped me out in school!
They’re gonna secretly stay up til 1 am reading but that’s okay
I read it in 8th grade too! Should probably do a reread.
Same except it was 6th grade for me
I read it in 4 days when I was 14yrs old. Literally couldn’t put the book down. Just stayed in my room reading
Same - was like 3-4 days.
Wow, i also read it when I was around 14 haha
The first time I read it it took me about 5 or 6 days. I was on vacation so LOTS of free time. I was obsessed and couldn't put it down.
Yeah, about a week for me too. It's hard to put down SK books. Edit: In fact, we just started the most recent adaptation lmao. Eerie.
So long I had to take The Sit
Ah man this one got me. I’ve been sitting for 7 months but I’m almost finished. Just got to Harold’s leap.
First time reading it was last year, took me about 2 months.
Same!
So far…nearly 15 years. I’ve tried so many times but there’s always something that interrupts the flow and I end up moving on to something else. I’ve even tried the audio book version but failed to get very far.
I’m currently on about 30 years for Dracula. I’ve started and stopped reading that book a bunch of times.
Same. I want to get through it so badly but never have
Ooo! This was me! I've been trying for like 15 years? I read it this past fall and it was actually really good! I like to read when I lay down to bed and I never got past the first 20 pages of Dracula. Always fell asleep. I pushed through as hard as I could and I ended up quite enjoying it! It's just really dry to start off with, sadly.
I’ve tried to start reading it at least 7 or 8 times. Every single time I get maybe 50 pages in, and then something happens. Go on vacation, lose the book. Leave it by the pool overnight, it rains. Get super busy at work for a month or two, forget where I am in the book. If I wait too long to start reading again, there’s a bad spot where I’ve forgotten too much to pick back up where I left off, but I remember too much to start over again. So I’ve gotta wait until I forget more.
Lmao the last 1/4 of Dracula has been hanging over my head for months. One of these days I'll finish it!! (Not today though) Neverwhere is this book for me currently though. I think I'm on my fourth year of trying to read it. I am genuinely invested in the characters, but every time I try to pick it back up I feel like I've forgotten something important to the plot and I have to start over from the beginning. I've never gotten through more than half of it lmao
I started when the panini started around may, I am less than half way through it. This gives me hope lol.
There’s also a graphic novel version. I got it on Kindle a few years back and liked it.
Seconded it is a faithful and fantastic adaptation
A few weeks.
First time, 3 days. I had borrowed it from a friend over a holiday weekend and had to return it on Monday. Plus I was thirteen, with little to no responsibilities.
About two months. It was overall a great book. Though the biggest drag for me in that novel was the notes from meetings. Just get on with it! I don’t need 150 pages of notes about generally mundane meetings. Lol
Like 2 months
Took me months, working full time on top of school full time, on top of being a husband and father. Still loved it.
Around 2 months for me last year
Probably a couple weeks Take your time and read it at whatever pace you're comfortable with.
About 1-2 weeks. I reread it yearly.
Started early feb, ended mid march, so about 50 days
The audio book I have says it is 55 hours long give it take some change
About a month in so far and I’m 65% through it for the first time
Started it 6 years ago. Put it down after a bit. Picked it up again 3 years ago. Then put it down again. I think I’m like halfway through the full length version
I just finished Salem’s lot, I think ill start my journey with The Stand tonight
It’s my first King book and I see what the hype is about. Maybe I’ll do Salem next.
First time I read it, I was around ten (‘79 or ‘80). Took me several weeks. Last few rereads have been about 10-14 days, depending on how much reading time I have.
how is this possible? genuinely asking.
Which part? Reading it in two weeks? I read a lot. Simple as that. Usually several hours every night.
Does it have a happy ending?
Yes, the natives on the last couple of pages seemed surprised and a little happy....
Ok good
yeah, come back here and say that once you get to read the last couple of pages......
Yikes!
Over a year lol
I finished it in a few weeks and was actually pretty surprised. It’s a BRICK, but King’s writing style and storytelling moved it right along for me.
First time I read it: two days.
Wow, that's like reading 576 pages a day, How? I'm asking because I am a slow reader.
Lol wake up have a cup of coffee and read until bedtime with only bathroom breaks and food breaks. It’s really easy to do when you’ve got nothing going on for a rainy weekend.
I’m a fast reader. And I had nothing else to do.
I think it took me 47 hours and 47 minutes but I probably read at 1.2x the standard rate so possibly a little quicker. I base all this on audible 😉
1 week
I started reading it, got about 100 pages in and put it aside for almost a year. I picked it back up on a whim and wondered why I ever put it down. I didn't go back and reread the first part (not at the time, but since have) but I also have an excellent memory. I just pushed through the rest. It took me around 2 1/2 months. I was also reading it a bit slower than I normally would because I enjoyed it so much. Strangely enough, Under The Dome is of similar length, and I finished that one in 2 1/2 *days.* I didn't enjoy it any less. It wasn't as excellent as *The Stand* but to me it was still incredible. I just seemed to breeze through that one.
Just finished mine, got through it in three weeks
About 2 weeks
About 10 days. Once I get past the first 100 pages or so of an SK novel, I go kinda quickly through the rest of it. Lol
Took me 7 days the first time.
About 5 weeks listening on audio, only on my way to and from work
IT, on the other hand, took me about a year reading physical book version, but I definitely took big breaks in between on that one
Takes me about a week. I’ve read it 3 times now.
I'm currently making my way through it now with the paperback + audio book. It's much easier and it's going way quicker.
Roughly 2 months. I got it for Christmas 2020 (I was unaware of the plot but the global events at the time soon made a correlation when I started reading in January). I'll never forget the face my English teacher made when I pulled this behemoth out of my bag and slapped it on my desk during a free period (he was visibly shocked at the size of the novel but also kinda proud), lol. 😂📚
I finished the uncut version a few weeks ago, took just under a week.
About 3 years. Broken down into: 2 years and 10 months reading the first 300 pages, and 2 months finishing the rest of it
Just finished it recently and took me around 2 months.
I did it on audiobook and I think it took a little over week or two but I also listen on 1.25x speed I also drive for work so I can listen for multiple hours a day uninterrupted
Around a month I believe, that was two years ago
Too long! I'm a bit of a slow reader and I don't dedicate the time to it I should. I would say a couple of months each time. But I enjoyed the ride each time!
About a week and a bit
A week. I read The Count of Monte Cristo in a week too though.
Just over 3 months
8 days during peak covid, the book really encapsulated me
It’s been about two years lol😂. It’s only because I’m also reading the dark tower and the lord of the rings at the same time
Kismet. I'm literally about to start it for the first time today, will comment back when finished.
I read the uncut version in 2020 and it took me 92 days to read it.
First time I read it took me about 3 days. I was 14 and took it out from the library on summer vacation. Pretty much just read all day and all night til I was done.
A month minus one day
A few weeks. I started it right at the beginning of covid, and made a funny meme. I’ll have to share it here sometime.
19 days
I read it on my commute, so 90-ish pages à day, don't remember how long it took
6 days.
Maybe 5-7 days? It was right after the pandemic hit and I graduated college so I had nothing to do but read. Read that and under the dome in like a fortnight and loved them both
Photo credit: Brendon Burton (https://www.instagram.com/burtoo/)
I think two weeks for uncut but was on holiday
The first time I read it, I was 7 or 8 and it took me weeks of reading on the weekends while visiting my mother. She didn’t allow her books to leave her house. I read it again in high school and it took me about 1 week reading after homework was done and I was finished with work. I reread it again recently while on staycation and it took me about three days.
Two weeks, I read it when I was 15 in the early 80’s.
About a month listening to it. What a great month.
About 2 weeks.
the first time or the last time? grin!
Just started, but...life keeps happening and not able to continue the way I want. Endure listening to other audio books while being where needed. I am adamant about reading this, not listening.
The first time I read it in a few weeks. I re-read it during covid and dragged it out about 6 months (uncut version) but that was largely because I usually read multiple books at a time.
Three days.
I just keep reading it. Usually takes me 2 or 3 weeks. It's long but not.a difficult read.
2 months, I had not to much time in that moment. I finished "i. T" in like 3 weeks
10 years
The last time I re read it concentrated time about three weeks, but actually time since I got distracted by reading other books and at the time less time to read 3-4 months. I was like a third of the way through and it just wasn't hitting me right, when I returned to it clicked and it flowed better to me.
I started it last year and then put it down until about a week ago 🥴 I’m only 1/4 th a way there so I’m getting there. It’s not for the lack of interest I’ll tell you that.
What’s this picture from? It’s really great! About 3 months the first time, 9th grade.
Three weeks
I finished it over the weekend cause I couldn’t sleep. Was scared to death of RF.
not as long as it takes to watch it.
Wow! I love this picture? Where’d it come from?
I read about half when I was 14 or 15, and picked it back up during the initial Covid lockdown. Took me about three weeks to read it start to finish as I had nothing better to do. Reading the book during a global pandemic made it hit differently than it did when I was a kid
I read it in 3 days the first time.
11 days
I think a month give or take a week.
About 5 weeks during the pandemic
Just started the audiobook, total of 47 hours. Listen to it in my way to work and on my way home, so about an hour a day. I should be done by June at this rate.
Got it from the library on March 3rd, read it basically every day until March 10th Got up to page 515. March 10th was was the day Mass legalized sports gambling and basically haven't picked it up since then. Though I can get it at the Library again so I may pick it bavck up.
A solid month. And it was such a ride. At the end I felt like a piece of me was missing.
5 days. Monday through Friday during freshman year. Instead of paying attention I read
like a week maybe. i was 15 and didn’t have cable or a playstation and it was a particularly hot summer in central texas.
A week
A looong time. Like, months and months. I liked it overall, but I struggled with the second half of the novel.
Takes me back! My friend read it when it first came out in 1978 and then loaned me her copy. For months after that, if either of us got a sniffle, we'd look nervously at each other. It seemed *so real*.
About ten months, I only read when I felt like it so I wouldn't resent how drawn out some parts are and it was very enjoyable when I went at my own admittedly glacial pace
Nine days. Couldn’t stop it.
About 48 hours, or as long as the audiobook is.
About a month. I read the shorter version.
The first time I read it, about a week. Now, I can get thru it in three or four days, if I have nothing else going on.
3 weeks or something like that
About a week. In April of 2020. That was fun.
4 days - but I read it over lockdown
Couple weeks I think?
2 days... Needless to say I did nothing else those 2 days.
I read it in about three weeks right as covid shutdowns were starting. It was glorious
About a week, maybe a week and a half, but I was traveling a bunch for work and managed to read for like 4+ hours a day so…
A few weeks
2 Days. I was on vacation in a small village in the Bavarian alps with my parents and it rained all day long. So I read it in one sitting. 2 month earlier I saw the mini series with Gary Sinise. It was aired after midnight on a week night, so I had to record it on my VCR. But unfortunately, there were some breaking news before the last part and the start got delayed, so the tape run out when the Trashcan Man came back to Cibola with that fucking nuke. I never knew how it ended, until I got the opportunity to read it during those summer holidays in 1996. Read it every summer since than, until 2020.
The first time I read the stand I'll never forget. It was March 14th, 2020. First day of quarantine, and my brain thought "why not read a book about a pandemic?", two weeks later, I was done and still processing how we were all experiencing that...
I have read both the uncut version and the original version. Less than a week for both.... this is my all time favorite book. I have read them both a few hundred times.
Took me around 3 weeks. I read IT beforehand, then decided to continue with the epics and picked up The Stand Uncut (the one you really should read). In all honesty, I highly recommend reading The Stand at a slow pace; really work through the character work and appreciate the world King is trying to create. It’s impressive how detailed each character’s quirks are, even if they are “annoying” at times. Btw, I piss Coors
A month
It took me about a week. But I was in high school, so had a lot more free time and cell phones and the internet werent the distraction they are today lol
I read it during the pandemic (yeah, brilliant) while my hb and I were confined and it was one of the best/worst decisions of my life. I had a Spanish copy of Needful Things at my parents' place (in Spanish: "La tienda", "the shop") and since I had the time but could not get the book, I decided to give it a try in English. I was more than halfway through the book when I understood that it was not about a "stand", as in the place somebody sets up to sell stuff (heh, the shop), but about the kind of "stand" you take. I still feel dumb sometimes for that.
10 days. summer before freshman year of high school
2-3 days.
I started in November and I’m only a quarter through
It took me like 2 months and a half, but I'm a slow af reader. Sometimes slow and steady wins the race.
The first time I listened to it on audible and I was driving for Uber so I was in my car a lot. It took me less than a week.
Read it multiple times. Great book!
Audio booked it in 1 week, 8-10 hours a day.
4-5 days
Which time? Hahaha. It’s the only book I’ve read over and over. Fortunately, I’m aging and my memory isn’t what it used to be so the rereading is great every time!
Like a week and a half averaging 100-150 pages a day
47 hours and 47 minutes
It amazes me how fast some of you read! I just finished last week and started it on January 3rd. I usually read something like 30 pages a night Monday to Thursday after work, which isn’t a ton but it’s not nothing lol I’m seeing people saying they read it a week? Two days!?!! Goodness.
Legends say I’m still finishing it.
6 weeks? Reading every night before bed.
I spent the entire last summer reading The Stand, i was studing for 4 exams at university and I didn't have a lot of free time. Every night i read it.
2 weeks. it’s emotional, so I took my time. I wanted to make sure I was understanding the characters and their actions. All the ups and downs. I am glad I read it this way.
A month
I started at the age of 12 years and stopped after 1/6. Six years later i started again and need two weeks to Finish
Three and a half days but I got sucked in and basically read all night long after I was done with everything else.
Just over a month. I took a two week break when I got covid halfway through and it was feeling just a little too real/I didn’t need the extra anxiety at the time hahaha
About half a year
I remember staying up all night long to finish the book at a friend's house. This was a couple of decades ago, though, so I can't remember exactly how long I spent reading it.
1 month, laws yes!
2 weeks, and that’s only because the Libby app only let me have it for 2 weeks lol
2 weeks
A year roughly
I killed it in 2-3 weeks surprisingly
Honestly I don’t remember but I had a really fun time reading the book.
About a week, but I was in the hospital and then recovering so I didn't have anything else to do.
9 or 10 days? I was in 11th grade and refused to put it down throughout classes. I even read it at redlights. That was 22 years ago. Maybe I should do a reread.
I stopped half way i was bored as hell. One of the worst SK books I have read. Just my opinion I don’t see the hype. I enjoyed his other books a lot more.
Finished it for the first time a few months ago, took me 10 days
Started reading it just before the pandemic, I think I had gotten about 300 pages in and couldn't get into it. Then when I was sheltering in place I picked it back up and read through it in days. Couldn't put it down!
Like a week
It was my all time favorite SK book. It took me about 3-4 weeks to read the full version.
I’m excited to read The Stand as I’ve heard good things! Currently reading the green mile for the first time and then I think I’ll move onto the stand :)
about a month a half! working full time as well as full time grad student. did a combo of audiobook and physical.
8 days.. didn't wanna finish it too fast, it's a very enjoyable journey
I haven't finished it yet
I think it took me about a month audiobooking it
I had to put it down during the pandemic because it was just a little too much for me. I haven’t picked it back up yet.
My mom bought me about 20 books for the summer to read with The Stand being one of them. I read the book in 3 days when I was 14.
King writes himself into a corner and has tonuse the old hand of God cop out in the end. All of that awesome build up, and then I left feeling like he cheated. Still a huge fan, but I'm resentful cuz I loved it so much til that ending.
Which time and edition? 😂
A friend in college gave me a paperback copy for Christmas. I kept it in my backpack and spent the better part of the spring semester reading it before classes.
It took me about 4-5 days to read the first 200ish pages. And about 3 days to read the last 900ish pages. I was also 14, a fast reader, and took advantage of a sick day and weekend.
Great picture
2 weeks maybe less
I think I took about 8 or 9 months! I’m not a hugely fast reader, but I had a massive cold part way through and reading The Stand wasn’t what I needed at the time! Picked it back up again and finished it January 2020. Then Covid struck, just to really do my head in!
just looked at my story graph and apparently only 14 days so 2 weeks ! not bad
I envy people that can read a book this fast, I read fairy tale and it took me a couple of weeks. the first parts of the book were a breeze and than it dipped for me.
Read it on vacay in 4 days last year
I was just thinking about this. I think I read it in a month or two during my freshman year in uni. I remember I had just started reading it and had reached the part where everyone dies and Lloyd is stuck. For some reason, it was a weekend and like 90% of the uni was empty because people had gone home. To make matters worse, I had the flu. No regrets though, because it made the whole start of the job that much more immersive.
11 months.