To: Scott from the Left Coast
That's the King-Straub collaboration book, isn't it? I have read that book (20 years ago), but I'm not placing it in memory (it wasn't as memorable as The Stand). I think it was before the K-S collaboration, but I enjoyed it, the Stand was great but I loved Talisman,("My laws" was from Talisman I believe,(Wolf)).
89 posted on
03/15/2003 5:42:19 PM PST by
X-FID
To: X-FID
Preferred The Stand to The Talisman (a King/Straub collaboration). The Talisman was good and very original in it's way...but The Stand was King's magnum opus. The SUB PLOTS in the book - the movie could come nowhere close - were incredible. We had devastating plague, human kindness and cruelty, human ingenuity for the sake of survival and typical human frailties ALL overlaid with a monumental battle of Good against Evil.
I either sold at a flea market of loaned out The Talisman...The Stand is in my book case. It's a keeper.
112 posted on
03/15/2003 6:42:25 PM PST by
cake_crumb
(UN Resolutions = VERY expensive, very SCRATCHY toilet paper.)
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