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The first (1984) collaboration between horror/fantasy writers King and Straub, this book has been reissued in multiple formats to coincide with the publication of its sequel, Black House. In The Talisman, 12-year-old Jack Sawyer takes on a quest in this and a parallel world, the "Territories," to acquire a mystical talisman that will save the life of his dying mother and her "twinner," the Queen of the Territories. Jack "flips" back and forth between worlds during his journey, finding his way through and past representatives of good and evil in both. Award-winning reader Frank Muller continues his long string of superlative performances. This program will generate lots of demand a must for current fiction collections. Also available in the newer, highly compressed MP3-CD format, which requires a CD player that is MP3-compatible or a computer with CD-ROM drive and MP3 player software loaded. Kristen L. Smith, Loras Coll. Lib., Dubuque, IA
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Did I Read the Same Talisman as Everyone Else??,
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This review is from: The Talisman (Mass Market Paperback)
When Stephen King collaborated with horror legend Peter Straub early in his career to create a combined horror novel, The Talisman was the dubious result. While written past King's early prime and long before his recent literary explosion, The Talisman is still awful compared to his other works around this era - and any of Straub's books. The plot will seem familiar to King and Straub readers - a young boy, Jack, must travel through an alternate fantasy reality to recover an object called the talisman to restore life to the queen of that land - who happens to be his mother's "twinner," or spiritually-connected mirror image in the fantasy world. Therefore, saving the queen will save his mother's life as well. After that, the book becomes a road trip novel with some horror elements as Jack makes his way from the East to the West coast, experiencing the horrors of our world and the alternate world, from real physical dangers to corrupt, hypocritical preachers, to abusive, pedophile cops. While The Talisman's premise is a good one, it never takes off like King's great books (and Straub's, too). The reader can, in fact, tell which passages King wrote and which ones Straub wrote (they seemed to have alternated 1-for-1), and this uneven quality contributes to the book's downfall. The reader can never quite get into the story - 200 pages from the end, I had no desire to finish. I didn't really care what happened to the characters, and the story had bored me so much at that point, I just put it down and never came back. If you're looking for good King, good Straub, good horror, or good fantasy, look elsewhere. Let this one sit on the shelves as a footnote to these two author's great literary careers.
4.0 out of 5 stars
A Tale of Fantasy,
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This review is from: The Talisman (Mass Market Paperback)
What a great book, I did think however it was quite longer than it could have been with all the little obsticles Jack has to overcome, but I guess it just adds to his quest. It was a great story, check it out if you want something to keep u busy for a while and for a great book.
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Who Plays these Changes?,
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This review is from: The Talisman (Mass Market Paperback)
Of all of King's books, including the Dark Tower series, this one is my favorite. Once I got through the first few chapters, I was captivated. Something about the mythic atmosphere of this book, and the beautiful eeriness of the Territories world, did something to me. Jack Sawyer is half Tom Sawyer and half Frodo Baggins, a boy traveling across America because he must, even though he's afraid. My favorite character in this story was Wolf, an innocent and simple-minded teenage werewolf who accompanies Jack on part of his journey, and who is symbolic of what our world is capable of doing to the good world that we have left behind.This book is good for everyone. Even if you are not a big King (or Straub) fan, I am sure that many people will consider this to be the exception.
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