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written Yes. Good story line Yes. Creative Yes. Worth reading No.

The problem I have with this book and many of the Stephen King books I've attempted to read is that everything in it is presented as being mean, petty, twisted, angry, cruel, etc.


When I read, I'm willing to wade through sad, oppresive, heartwrenching difficulties with the main characters if necessary, but ultimately, I read fiction in the hopes that it is going to help me feel good about life, forget my troubles, forget how awful we can be to each other.
This book takes all the worst of humanity and shoves it bluntly in your face, Finally, I just couldn't stand the thought of picking the book up to be brutalized by Stephen King's and Peter Staub's writing again.
So

I didn't. I'm so glad this was a library book, rather than a purchase, .Stars. Can't classify this one as horror, but THE TALISMAN is one wild and woolly actionpacked fantasy ride!"Traveling" Jack Sawyer is a good kid andyears old when he and his mother flee Los Angeles for New York ultimately ending up in an empty, creepy hotel in New Hampshire and while Jack questions the moves, he knows deep down his mother is not well.
As the days pass and his mother's rest periods become more frequent, a worrisome Jack explores a closed amusement park nearby and is soon befriended by a gnarly old black janitor.
. . Lester Speedy Parker who tells him incredible stories of a parallel world and a magic juice that can transport him to a place where he can acquire the secrets of THE TALISMAN and hopefully save his mother.
His danger infested quest from east coast to west with flips from a world of evil doings and enslavement to one with bizarre creatures beyond your imagination has an unlikely friendship for Jack with a'" Wolf that will break your heart.
. it did mine. For me, THE TALISMAN brought back memories of King's Dark Towers series, and while a chunkster atpages, entices me to reread it in the form of a graphic novel so I can see the creeping tree roots, the evil abusive bar owner, the campschool from hell, and visually experience the train ride through the "blasted land" as a scared, but brave young Jack Sawyer grows up fast to save his friends and mother and complete his mission.
Entertaining and fun read with a youngadult feel to it,.tostars

The Talisman is quite epic and not necessarily for the casual King fan, If you happen to try and make this your first King book ever, you may not want to try anymore and you might not even make it through this one.
But, if you have read several of his "shorter" books, dabbled in some of his bigger offerings The Stand, IT, etc.
, and maybe even taken in a Dark Tower book or two, I think you will be ready to graduate to The Talisman.


It doesn't quite feel like a King book, That makes perfect sense because of his collaboration with Straub, but I can't say I can put my finger on what feels notKing.
I can only say that I can tell it is not all King, It has many elements you find in King's writings horrifying monsters, children doing battle with the supernatural, etc.
But, if you said to me I had to pick out which parts were King and which were Straub, I couldn't do it.


I see some people mention the slow start in their reviews, This is very true and it is why I think you should not start with this one, If you are already gung ho on King I know you will have patience with how slow this book starts because you will be willing to bear the anticipation of getting to the meaty parts and it does get quite meaty!

After it starts to roll, it is a coaster ride of fantasy, horror, supernatural, postapocalyptic mayhem with a series of episodic adventures across America and multiple planes of existence.
Along the way you will meet many characters that will stick with you for a long time, including one that might be the most endearing of any character in any King book.


So, if you are far along in your King readings and haven't tried this one yet, I deem you ready to begin your pursuit of The Talisman! Este es uno de los libros más difíciles de conseguir de King sólo se consigue usado, e incluso así es complicado hacerse con él.
Por suerte llegó a mis manos su más valuada edición: en tapa dura, editorial Plaza y Janés.
Es uno de mis libros más importantes,
Sí, quería presumir,

No piensas a veces que en la vida hay algo más, aparte del orden Miró la cara de Richard, inocente y escéptica.
No te gustaría un poco de magia, Richard

Es una novela de la cual esperaba mucho.
Había leído muchas críticas excelentes, sin embargo, me decepcionó un poco, Pero sólo un poco, Ya que fue mi culpa, porque eran muy altas mis expectativas,

El inicio es bastante lento, hasta en partes inverosímil, Luego la historia se vuelve muy buena y sumamente adictiva empieza la acción,
Con respecto al final, es la conclusión que tenia que ser, la esperada no podía terminar de manera diferente, así que bien.


El libro me gustó muchísimo, Me encanta la aventura y la fantasía, y King, junto con su amigo Straub, lo trataron con soberbia.
Una trama muy original y atrayente, Hay partes que se me quedaron en la memoria como si las hubiera leído ayer,

Es un libro hermoso, que trata sobre sacrificarse por el otro, sobre la amistad y el amor sobre hasta qué punto puede llegar la codicia.
Tiene fragmentos que son muy tristes, y en esos mismos el estilo de narración sello King fue extraordinario imposible no sentir la aflicción de los protagonistas.


En fin, una novela maravillosa, recomendable para todo quien le guste la aventura y la fantasía.
Que te va a dejar una marca profunda en tu corazón,

Un libro inolvidable,
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Book: A book by two or more authors
Stephen King and Peter Straub

Magical adventure


First Sentence: On Septemberth,, a boy named Jack Sawyer stood where the water and land come together, hands in the pockets of his jeans, looking out at the steady Atlantic.


Having read sitelinkThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer and sitelinkThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn just recently it is easy to see what have sparked the idea of Jack Sawyer in the minds of sitelinkKing and sitelinkStraub.

sitelinkThe Talisman is a combination of the original "Tom Sawyer Adventure" and the all known "King Horror".

I haven't read any books by sitelinkStraub, but I'm planning on getting my hands on them very soon.


Even though this book felt liked it dragged on in places, and the pacing felt odd looking back now I see how artful and masterful the weaving of story was setup.

The places this book took me to, the emotions it awoke in me it is the work of master storytellers!

At first I thought of going straight to the next book sitelinkBlack House but then discovered there is graphic novels.
So undoubtedly I will be reading them first, InI'm going to go back and review the King books I love and cherished but never fully reviewed for Goodreads because Goodreads wasn't a thing when I was reading King's work in thes.
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The Talisman is my favorite author collaboration, Two of my favorite authors, Straub amp King, combined their unique storytelling voices to pen one of my all time favorite, dark fantasies.

I first read this on a family vacation to Dillon Beach, CA, We rented a house called, "Wit's End", It was the perfect setting for this story about a young boy who lives with his mother in a seaside town, I'll tell you that much.

I remember being a little confused by the storyline as soon as Jack Swayer enters "The Territories".
I've never been good at that sort of parallel universe thing, But King and Straub did some amazing world building here and I do remember enjoying the journey Jack goes on and all the different characters that were introducedmost memorably, Wolf.

I decided to pull this book down off the shelf and revisit portions of the story to refresh my memory.
I reread PART I: Jack Lights Out pagesand I fell in love all over again with Jack and his mentor, Speedy Parker.
There are SO MANY connections to the Dark Tower in this book that I totally missed the first time around because I hadn't even finished the series back then.
Which just belabors the point that someday, I'm going to have to reread everything just to get the full scope of the Stephen King universe.
I read everything out of order and all the special Easter eggs and tieins would never be discovered like that, you know
So Speedy is actually a gunslinger.
In Jack's worldour world, he's just an old man that teaches Jack how to "flip" back and forth between worlds but in The Territories, Speedy Parker is a GUNSLINGER named Parkus! WHOA! Mind blown.

Also reread portions of PART II: The Road of Trialsespecially the parts with Wolf, I love Wolf. Both Straub and King but more so King have a real zest for writing animals, kids and friendships.

There's a quote in the beginning of the book by Mark Twain from Huckleberry Finn and I think the relationship between Jack amp Wolf was very Huckleberryish.

Also, I had forgotten all about Richard Sloat and now that I have remembered him again, I can safely say that Jake and Richard are one of my favorite friendships.

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And here's the part that really blows my mind: Jack Sawyer reminds me SO MUCH of that little boy in THE WIND THROUGH THE KEYHOLE! So I looked it up!
That protagonist in KEYHOLE was named Tim Ross and on a DARK TOWER Wiki site, I saw lots of people drawing the same conclusionscould Tim Ross be a "Twinner" of Jack We are told that Jack had a Twinner named Jason but he died and it almost killed Jack, right
But read this from the Wiki site:
"Both characters bear major resmbelence in appearance, age and character traits, as well as the circumstances of how their stories play out.
Both characters must go on a great quest in order to find a magical artifact that will heal their mothers from serious ailments The father of each character was murdered by their own step father Jack and Tim are accompanied by a Wolf and a Tyger on their respective quests it is told that Tim grew up to be a Gunslinger known as Tim Stoutheart and it is revealed in "Black House" that Jack grew up to be a Police Officer.
Roland often mistakes Police Officers for Gunslingers, "

I dunno, I just thought it was cool and I could see myself getting way too sucked into WikiFandom theories about Dark Tower connections and Twinners and I just can't do it, guys!!
Anyways, I loved reading portions of this book so much that I really will do a reread of this and BLACK HOUSE someday.

I'm not changing my score, This is still a five star read for me, Maybe I had too high of expectations, but I cant say that I was overly impressed by “The Talisman”.
From the very beginning of the story, I could not get into the plot or even any of the plot devices.
It wasnt that the story was hard to believe, and I dont have a problem with fantasy, its just that the execution and premise of the story was really hard to get in to.


Overall, it felt like a patchwork quilt where a collection of shortstory adventures were sewn together withyear old Jack Sawyer being the single thread.
My main problem with the story could be summed up with the following points: SPOILERS AHEAD

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Jacks Mother: The premise of Jacks mom dying of cancer and letting him leave and travel the country seems a bit farfetched.
If Jacks mother was neardeath and dying of cancer, why would she travel up to a beach house rather than seek medical treatment I never really got this angle, yet most of the story hinged on Jack leaving his mother to find the Talisman to cure her.


. It seems convenient that it takesof the book for Jack to reach the west coast, and on the way back he gets a car ride that takes a couple of pages.
It reminds me of the Eagles from Lord of the Rings which begs the question: why does an adventure story take pages upon pages to tell the quest of a journey, yet the return home has a means that makes it convenient for the characters to reduce travel time by a fraction Why wouldn't that have been your first option!
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I didnt care for Wolf, Seems lazy to have a werewolf as a secondary character and simply name him “Wolf, ”
. Speaking of Wolf, King/Straub took lengths to describe Wolfs fear of driving in a car yet at the end of the tale his litter brother is a chauffeur.

. I couldve done without the sexual references, When characters are described as having foreskin, erections, and jewelry for their genitals, I really dont understand how that adds to the story.
If anything, Im distracted and disgusted,
. The main villains Morgan Sloat/Morgan of Orris and Robert "Sunlight" Gardner/Osmond were not as villainous as expected.
They seemed very cookiecutter and stereotypical,
. Speedy Parker/Parkus was a bit of a confusing character, It was never well explained how he was able to popup in random places, yet Jacks got to travel on foot everywhere he goes.
I guess Jack isnt so special after all, Maybe I missed something in the book, I but it was unclear to me how Speedy was able to show up in all the right places at all the random times.


I feel like maybe I am being a bit harsh with “The Talisman” but after reading The Dark Tower series I end up comparing all of Stephen Kings work to the DT.
His DT series was such an epic piece of work that it really set the bar for any of Kings other fantasy/scifi stories.


Pros: Not manymaybe the sequel will be better,
Cons: Too manythe single most being that its hard to believe a single, dying mother would let heryear old son disappear for an unknown amount of time to an unknown location.

Bottom line: Not the best of King and maybe not the worst, but I probably wouldnt read this one a second time.

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