'Black House' ('The Talisman' #2) by Stephen King and Peter Straub (Review)

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[FakePlissken]

To follow up on your point, yeah, this book is a tragedy relative to The Talisman. Page for page it being locked up with the Dark Tower cycle and forcing us to go through the slow awakening to what happened before (and the complicated relationship between Jack and Sophie and her twinner Judy Marshall). The best thing I can say is that it, uh, it's a book? It proves how difficult it is to go home again? It came out after King had been nearly killed and he went on kind of a strange tear in his work around then - like the overly gratuitous Harry Potter homages in 5, 6, 7 of the Dark Tower books. I understand why newer readers would have a harder time with The Talisman; it's sort of like the Goonies - if you saw it as a kid it's great, if not, it's kind of a shrug or a time capsule. My biggest attachment to The Talisman is that my last name is Sawyer, and my mom was dying of cancer when I read the talisman for the first time, at the same age as Jack was. So there's a lot to unpack there, ha.