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Books like The Stand 1978
Matched on how they feel, not on genre or who made them: the same pull on fourteen measures of character (tone, pace, scale, ambiguity and the rest), read from each title on Taste Buds. About The Stand
Books closest to The Stand
The Passage 2010Also epic, grave and earnest
The Queen of the Damned 1988Also epic, grave and earnest
Rhythm of War 2011Also epic, earnest and classical in form
The Walking Dead, Compendium One 2009Also classical in form, epic and earnest
Lucifer's Hammer 1977Also epic, earnest and classical in form
The City of Mirrors 2015Also epic, grave and earnest
The Illearth war 1977Also epic, grave and earnest
Dune Messiah 1969Also epic, grave and earnest
Novels (Black House / Talisman) 2002Also epic, classical in form and earnest
The Reality Dysfunction 1996Also epic, classical in form and earnest
The great and secret show 1989Also epic, grave and earnest
Children of Time 2015Also epic, grave and earnest
The same feel, in other forms
Games
XCOM 2 2016Also epic, grave and classical in form
Gears of War 2 2008Also epic, grave and contemporary
Fuga: Melodies of Steel 3 2025Also grave, epic and earnest
Films
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 2010Also epic, earnest and classical in form
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice 2016Also epic, contemporary and grave
Avatar: Fire and Ash 2025Also epic, earnest and classical in form
Series
The Stand 1994Also epic, earnest and classical in form
The Strain 2014Also epic, classical in form and contemporary
Black Knight 2023Also epic, contemporary and earnest
Albums
- Betrayal, Justice, Revenge 2010Also grave, earnest and epic
- Hell on Earth 1996Also grave, earnest and classical in form
- Life After Death 1997Also classical in form, grave and contemporary
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