Glen Bateman was right all along

[ACM2579]

On a whim I read this book for the very first time and just finished it today.

What a phenomenal book. The last part is what really tied it together for me and I owe it to Glen Bateman's character. His theories on people and how they change the more there are is just spot on.

It's funny how society is. One day during a peak of secret military research, not thinking anything will go wrong, it does indeed go wrong. After almost the whole world is depleted, people just want to mutually coexist and survive. Then after the crisis is over and there's large numbers they revert back to the way it was. The way in which led to the plague to begin with.

The added theological aspect just made it a bonus. It added to the thrill and awe of the book to make the story truly phenomenal.

RF will always exist, because humans will always repeat the same cycle. If society was like the original 400 people living harmoniously in the Free Zone (minus Nadine and Harold) RF couldn't exist. But it doesn't, because it can't.

 

[GNTLGNT]

...hiya kiddo!....

 

[Tery]

Welcome! Glen is a big favorite among the SKMB crowd

 

[Spideyman]

 

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[Edgar David Ross]

I just finished reading The Stand a few days ago, and Glen was definitely my favorite character. Although I didn't expect him to make it to the end of the book with so many characters dying, his abrupt end shocked me. He was very smart though, and there were several occasions where I stopped reading just to think about his theories-especially the idea that when rationality is gone, irrationality takes over, making anything possible. I especially liked that theory. He was also right when it came to Harold and Nadine. Earlier in the story, he explained that the more people there are, the more problems will arise due to the growing population. When Boulder grew, Harold became the outcast Glen had talked about. I thought that was great foreshadowing.

 

[Dana Jean]

I just finished reading The Stand a few days ago, and Glen was definitely my favorite character. Although I didn't expect him to make it to the end of the book with so many characters dying, his abrupt end shocked me. He was very smart though, and there were several occasions where I stopped reading just to think about his theories-especially the idea that when rationality is gone, irrationality takes over, making anything possible. I especially liked that theory. He was also right when it came to Harold and Nadine. Earlier in the story, he explained that the more people there are, the more problems will arise due to the growing population. When Boulder grew, Harold became the outcast Glen had talked about. I thought that was great foreshadowing.

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