In a terrifying trip across America, young Jack Sawyer is searching for the Talisman, the only thing that can save his dying mother. His quest takes him into the menacing Territories where violence, surprise, and the titanic struggle between good and evil reach across a mythic landscape.

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28 hours
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Stephen King
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Frank Muller
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18 February 2008
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English
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Hodder Headline Limited
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Listening Length	28 hours
Author	Stephen King
Narrator	Frank Muller
Whispersync for Voice	Ready
Audible.com.au Release Date	18 February 2008
Publisher	Hodder Headline Limited
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B06XGF872Q
Best Sellers Rank	720 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) 111 in Military Fantasy (Books) 145 in Fantasy (Audible Books & Originals) 437 in Teen & Young Adult (Books)

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Bobbie

Surprisngly good

Reviewed in Australia on 6 March 2015

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I remember trying to read this years ago & didn't like it. I've decided to re read all my Stephen King books in chronological order. This came up so I thought I'd give it another go. I went in negatively, believing I wouldn't be able to read it again. My tastes must have changed as I really enjoyed it & couldn't wait to pick it up each day. This brave boy travelling along a journey on which to find the Talisman to cure his mother's health issues & the challenges he meets along the way, isn't a particularly scary novel but entertaining & hard to put down. The characters feel real & endearing or evil. I enjoyed it so much I am now tempted to buy a book by Peter Straub as I haven't read his work before. I need to finish the rest of my Stephen King collection first......

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Jess

Beware Small Towns

Reviewed in Australia on 2 November 2016

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Talisman is a modern-day "epic quest" type of tale which blends the real world with a dark overlay of fantasy. I really liked it.

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Tristan

Fast delivery. Epic Storytelling.

Reviewed in Australia on 23 June 2021

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Arrived fast. Definitely a Classic.

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Five Stars

Reviewed in Australia on 6 February 2016

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Top book one of his best xo

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Samrosie

Great fantasy collaboration

Reviewed in Australia on 8 April 2015

One of my first fantasy reads as an early teen and still enjoyable now

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Mshell

Double Delight!

Reviewed in Australia on 1 June 2020

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Loved this story. Such a good mix of authors leads to such a great read! I highly recommend this novel to anyone wanting to escape to a world much like this one, only better:)

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Fantastic. One of Stephen King's very best.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 November 2018

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If you enjoy Stephen King, buy this book. If you enjoy fantasy, buy this book. If you enjoy the magic of storytelling in any form, buy this book. I promise you won't be disappointed. I'm not familiar with Peter Straub's other work, but after reading this, I'm eager to dive in.

This book is a rich blend of compelling adventure, heartfelt longing, savage darkness, wild surrealism, and vicious humour, with stunning prose throughout. Also, it's around 250,000 words long, so you're getting an entire trilogy's worth of story material for the price of one book.

This book is brilliant. Buy it.

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Linslade Blade

Not Great

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 March 2019

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Still plodding through this. Clumsy sentences. Ideas from other books which are even referenced in case you are not up to speed with Tolkien, C.S Lewis or Lewis Carroll and others. The premise is exciting. Parallel worlds with parallel characters. Good versus evil. But there are long descriptions of character, landscape and appearance that clunk along and do little for the story or to ramp up any tension. You could skip a few pages and still pick up where you left off. This is not The Stand by a long way and I am not sure how the two writers collaborated on this. If it is Stephen King adding a name to a friends book to give it sales then he should have read it first.

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J. R. Mcloughlin

Brilliant

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 November 2018

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A story of a young boy's journey from a timid child to a confident man as he traverses America and the twin world of the Territories to save his dying mother. I've now read this three times, still brilliant! Give it a read, you'll enjoy it!

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1st book by Stephen King that I haven't really enjoyed & I've read most of his books

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 March 2019

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769 pages with a lot of repetition. I hadn't realised it was written in 1984 and published in 1985. I felt the book was trying to be similar to King's Gunslinger series, which I adored, but failing. Whether it was Peter Straub's influence, I don't know, but I found the story to be too meandering. Stephen King is usually very succinct, as in no extra words if they don't add to the story. I can easily read a book a day but this took me over a week. It didn't hold my attention and it felt like it was a chore rather than a treat. Disappointing really as I love Stephen King.

I wouldn't discourage someone from reading this book as they might enjoy it more than I did but for me, I felt it was not Stephen King's best writing.

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Farhad Shawkat

Mixed feelings. Too lengthy, and I never say that about a Stephen King book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 April 2021

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I have mostly mixed feelings about this book. For the most part, it fluctuated between 3-4 stars, and it’s definitely not one of my favourite Stephen King books. More fantasy than horror, though that wasn’t a problem for me, as I loved books 2 and 3 of his Dark Tower series, as well as Eyes of the Dragon. Not sure what the Dark Tower connection was here, maybe Blasted Lands = Waste Lands, but apparently it’ll be a lot clearer once I read Black House. Which will be towards the end of my Dark Tower run.

A couple of characters just annoyed me more than they should’ve, maybe I just wasn’t in a sympathetic enough mood. One of them, in particular, seems to be a huge fan favourite! I think I would have enjoyed this book a lot more if more of it was set in The Territories.

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