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A review by livsinbooks
The Talisman by Peter Straub, Stephen King
5.0
Read this in jail and I don’t mind the memories of it. There were two chapters missing and it came in 4 pieces.
This book is insane. If you think you know what is going on, you absolutely do not. There is no way you can follow this and predict what is happening. It’s the book Lucas was reading to Max after season 4 of stranger things and I am pretty sure of which elements will be used. It is well worth the read.
There are the typical King warnings: child abuse, child labor, underage drinking, drugs, sex, sexual abuse, physical and mental abuse, abandonment, etc. That being said, I don’t know if this is before or after the coke days or if Straub made all of it make more sense but this is quite a fantastical story but it feels the most grounded of King’s works that I have read. It felt like there weren’t a lot of unnecessary tangents that did nothing for the story. Each extreme element played into the next or one in the future.
In ‘It’ it felt like most of those one off weird and extreme scenes were entirely one night of 4 AM typing. I would have hated to have to edit those books back then. This one did not feel like that to me at any point.
This book is insane. If you think you know what is going on, you absolutely do not. There is no way you can follow this and predict what is happening. It’s the book Lucas was reading to Max after season 4 of stranger things and I am pretty sure of which elements will be used. It is well worth the read.
There are the typical King warnings: child abuse, child labor, underage drinking, drugs, sex, sexual abuse, physical and mental abuse, abandonment, etc. That being said, I don’t know if this is before or after the coke days or if Straub made all of it make more sense but this is quite a fantastical story but it feels the most grounded of King’s works that I have read. It felt like there weren’t a lot of unnecessary tangents that did nothing for the story. Each extreme element played into the next or one in the future.
In ‘It’ it felt like most of those one off weird and extreme scenes were entirely one night of 4 AM typing. I would have hated to have to edit those books back then. This one did not feel like that to me at any point.