The Talisman

Great book Could not put it down! The characters are so great and engaging!

Loved it , just wish it lead into the sequel to the next book . Was great though . Definitely would recommend

Only complaint was it started out slow and was so long. Good ending. Worth reading if you have the time.

Jack’s adventures are captivating, scary as heck, and in that charming friendly fiend voice of Mr King and Mr Straub. So much to enjoy in all the scenes, the characters are wild and woolly, surprises abound.

Love this book so much! Probably one of my all-time favorites and one I have given as a gift many, many times! It's huge, so when I give it to people who claim not to enjoy reading, they always think I'm crazy. Then they start and get captured by the great storytelling... as a teacher, a reader, a writer, a friend... in every way, a definite yes!

This is my second reading of this book and I liked it just the same as the first. Forty eight years later.

The Talisman by King and Straub tells the story of a adolescent boy named Jack who embarks on a cross country journey to retrieve a magical talisman to save his dying mother. Taking into consideration the two guys writing this tale, you would be correct in assuming it isn't a simple journey. It is a perilous and tedious quest that involves flipping back and forth between this world and an alternate reality while dealing with all kinds of unpleasantness in both realms. I found it hard to finish this book. The writing at times great and other times awful, many parts of the book are either memorable or cheesy or both... and this book starts off very very slow. By way of example, Jack needs to make it from New England to California. So naturally, he sets off on foot. 400 pages later he is in Indiana. Then the book shifts at about the 500 page mark and really goes of the rails. At this point Jack goes from being Tom Sawyer-lite to Rambo... Armed to the teeth with explosives, several uzis and many rounds of ammo, unleashing death on the inhabitants of the blasted lands ... at least when he isn’t catering to the needs of his fragile friend or pausing to muse about highbrow stuff like potentially renaming a comic play by Noël Coward. I don't want to spoil the book for anyone but reading stuff like that seemed a bit unfair after having already invested so much time with this book. As the story plodded along, I kept wondering why someone as resourceful as Jack never thought to book a round trip flight to California and as I read on, I kept wondering if Jack would take a train on the way back or walk, Talisman in hand. I guess a plane ride would have made for shorter book but who knows, it might have been better? Anyway this is getting long winded and I know when to stop. 3/5

Even though his story is a little dated, set in 1981, it is still enthralling and filled with characters that you learn to love or hate. I love King's leaning to the gory and Straub's dark landscapes that together make their worlds real to the reader.

Interesting concept, but slow paced in parts!

I first read this book as a teenager more than 30 years ago, and I loved it then. I love it now. The character of Wolf has stayed with me (haunted me?) for my entire life.

A mi parcours, je trouve l'histoire très bien amenée et les personnages extrêmement bien travaillés. Le début est assez déroutant car on sait demande s'il ne s'agit pas d'un livre pour enfant avec une histoire assez bateau et pas très captivante. Mais plus l'histoire se développe et plus on se retrouve happé avec le héro et son univers. Je vous le recommande, c'est un très bon moment à passer en perspective!

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good book and in perfect condition, keep up the good service as I expect nothing less