For those of you who have read "The Talisman" by Stephen King

[Rocknrule]

Remember the section of the book that took place in the Sunlight Home? Did anyone else see similarities between Sunlight Gardener and real-life religiously insane leaders like W and Pat Robertson? I also thought Sonny Singer, Heck Bast, and the rest of Gardener's teenage minions perfectly captured the personality of the Christian conservatives of today. The only question is, who's going to be Wolf and save us from them?

BTW, the movie rendition of this book will be coming out next year. Can't wait to see it.

[SteppingRazor]

1. My favorite Stephen King book...

Can't wait for the movie either. Given the track record of King novels made into films, though, I look forward to the movie with a bit of apprehension -- I'm really afraid they'll screw it up as they have with most of his work that makes it to the silver screen

[Minnesota Libra]

2. The one and only Stephen King book I read was "The Stand" and.............

....I had to skip over some of the more gruesome parts. How does this book compare to "The Stand" in story line, characters, comparison to today's real life, etc??????? Might have to read it.

[mtnester]

4. You should...King does his best writing when the main character is a kid

IMO..and this is one of his earliest.

[mtnester]

3. Some of the best reading I ever did

I have read that book so much I had to repurchase because it fell apart.

Did any of you read Black House, and were any of you PISSED about where you thought we all would see Jack next, and did NOT?

[mtnester]

5. How, with a book with so many subplots and so much depth

can they make it inot a movie?

Will anyone be able to understand it?

Parker/Parkus
Wolf

etc etc

[Beaverhausen]

8. I know what you mean

But I always wanted to see a movie version anyway.

I wonder who is directing? IMDB doesn't say.

I always thought...and I'm sure I'll get flamed for this...that Speilberg could do a good job with this story!

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[revree]

6. "Black House" scarred me for life...

some of those images still haunt me. If I already read this one, will I be bored if I go back and read "Talisman?"

"The Stand" was my fave book...still is. King is amazing at detail, and including powerful social commentary in his books. Not to mention killer characters and dead-on dialog.

[mtnester]

12. No, Talisman was a better book...and it will help you understand

Black House and Jack better

[harlinchi]

7. Protect the herd!

I can't imagine how they'll do the movie! I sure would like to see a director's vision of the good parts of the territories. I'm picturing bright, sunny days, sweet smelling grass and hay, a good cut of meat sizzling and sticks as money.

On the other hand, I guess the bad parts of the territories are easily imagined: fire and brimstone, smoky depths, whips cracking and lost ones screaming, something like a Halliburton work site in Iraq for, say, poor Filipinos.

[Aristus]

9. Don't forget, "The Talisman" was co-written by Peter Straub.

King and Straub would deliberately imitate each other's writing style, so readers would have difficulty telling who wrote what. With that in mind, it would be tough to say what aspects of the book and the Territories were the brainchild of which writer.

[tom_paine]

10. Unquestionably, the semi-homosexual religious S&M eroticism

practiced in The Talisman is felt by many Busheviks, combined with the moral bankruptcy and evil in their souls, this is a brutlly potent combination.

As those children who had broomsticks shoved up their asses by that Arizona Bushevik Senator's son (who is, of course, going free) must have realized.

Oh my yes, those people in The Talisman wer modeled after the most prominent Busheviks.

[Fridays Child]

11. Been so long since I read that one...

...maybe it's time for a re-read.

[porphyrian]

13. M-O-O-N, that spells exactly! - n/t