

The Talisman
Author: Peter Straub
Narrator: Frank Muller
Unabridged: 28 hr 41 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Published: 09/01/2001
Author: Peter Straub
Narrator: Frank Muller
Unabridged: 28 hr 41 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Published: 09/01/2001
Peter Straub is the award-winning author of more than fifteen novels, including Dark Matter and In the Night Room. He is also the editor of several anthologies.
My favorite book of all time! To me, it is just the perfect epic hero's journey story. I love that it takes place in the early 80s; I love the grittiness and ugliness of what happens to Jack as he travels back and forth between this world and The Territories, and I LOVE the character of Wolf. The fi......more
I wish King would have more often cooperated with other authors, this one is in some parts so different than his general work and I would really like to know who wrote which parts and how it must generally be to have the honor of working together with the King. You lucky person, Mr. Straub, you luck......more
4.5 to 5 stars 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......more
A 12 year old boy has to cross the United States from East to West coasts to hopefully save his dying mother's life. He can go by the conventional route or via the alternate world of the American Territories(!). Not only must he find the Talisman to save her life, but also to subvert an emerging and......more
A really bad book. Strange, because it belongs to the "old" King, the one pre-2000, the one who still wrote because he liked it, not just to make money. And yet this book is really bad; slow, not very incisive, not very intriguing, with zero inventiveness. King probably has to write alone, because w......more