The Stand

It would be King's best book, hands down, if it wasn't for that ending. I felt completely betrayed by the ending of the book. I know it's King's weak point (go read the reviews for the Watchtower series - there are a lot of crabby readers who felt that he had wasted years of their lives on how he ended that one), but this one really felt like “well, I've got all my characters to this point, I've really built this plot up, now what?” At least there weren't any giant spiders......