by Peter Straub, Stephen King
This is a weird one to review. I absolutely hated it at first and struggled to keep reading. The use of plural first person pronouns "we" and "us" took me out of the story and made me angry at the expulsion. Thankfully two things happened about a third of the way through. The narrative became focuse...
From page one, through to the final sentence, this book had me Hooked! Jack sawyer is now a man, and a sexy one at that. "Black House" is the second collaboration between King and Straub, and is the sequel to their first novel, "The Talisman".If you've read Talisman and if you're one of King's Const...
Audio version. I remember the first time I read this, I found the style of the narration incredibly irritating. If this had not been a Stephen King story, I'd have abandoned it before finishing the first chapter. But it *is* SK, and more importantly, the sequel to The Talisman. So I had to finish it...
Audio version. I remember the first time I read this, I found the style of the narration incredibly irritating. If this had not been a Stephen King story, I'd have abandoned it before finishing the first chapter. But it *is* SK, and more importantly, the sequel to The Talisman. So I had to finish it...
Much better as a collaborative effort than the Talisman, and in my opinion eclipses the original. This story is much darker and more grounded in our world. As a result, it feels less like fantasy, though it has elements, and more like a crime-story. And a frightening one at that. Charles Burnsid...
I own this.
I read "The Talisman" 20 years ago. That was vintage King trying his hand at fantasy, and it worked. Not having read King in quite a few years (I was coming to feel he'd lost his edge when editors no longer dared to edit him), I nonetheless picked up "Black House" to revisit the "Territories" that 1...
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