A month ago I started reading The Talisman By Stephen King & Peter Straub . I lost interest after the first couple of chapters and put it away . Earlier this week I picked it back up and started reading again and geeeze this is an awesome book . I've been reading slowly and just got to chapter 32 tonight . I had to stop reading because this is getting into nightmare material .
You should definetly read this book if your a Stephen King fan .


What have you been reading ?

I read it years ago and LOVED it!!!Stephen King is my favorite author... Peter Straub is pretty good too... I just read Glass Castle a true story it was really good.. I don't recall the author's name... It was about a very dysfunctional family.. Sad but good story..

I started going through the Kurt Vonnegut catalogue.

He is godlike.

But Bradbury is my all time favorite because his short stories are mindblowing.

Bradbury is not bad (i couldnt stand the martian chronicles though, loved farenheit 451)
ummmm, if you want some good short stories Oscar Wilde wrote a collection of what seems like children's bed time stories (for adults)called the happy prince and other tales

right now i'm reading the best short stories of Fydor Dostoevsky which is really really good (but you have to be into that kind of thing, the oscar wilde is more entertaing and the dostoevsky is more...pensive)

also great novels i highly recomend:

"the trial" Franz Kafka
"franny and zooey" JD Salenger

I'm a huge ****ens fan, right now reading Our Mutual Friend and also reading Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy.

Dostoyevski's an excellent writer, but for me anyway, it's slow going. I can generally read a book in a day when I have the time but his stuff takes me weeks, in part, because the Russian language does not translate easily into English and the rhythm's off, so I have to be completely left alone. Any distraction knocks me off

I haven't read anything recent lately, wouldn't mind some recommendations, though. I have a huge Amazon gift certificate from one of my bosses and don't know what to do with it

Try reading Dean Koontz, rarely will you ever be bored again,

door to december was good.

Oh I defo agree with you on that one Scorpio......I enjoy Dean Koontz immensely. When I start reading, I can't put the book down again....have to finish it first.

I have finished reading Brother Odd about 3 weeks ago and I can't help but to wonder if there's gonna be a follow-up on this...

I am currently reading the Curious George series of books again...I like reading to my nephew. He is 5..We have a good time. I also get away with watching Sesame Street again.Awwwwwwww yes, I am enjoying my second childhood, even though, I have never outgrew my first. Glad to have brought a smile to your faces. Have a good day everyone ...Hey, we all need a flower in our life, now and then.

That's wonderful! My son's 12 but I remember reading him my favorites, now they're his as well.

I recently started reading "Diseases and Human Evolution" by Ethane Barnes .... anyone read that one lately?

Talisman was a great book. I just finished Michener's Poland...very educational and not too dry like alot of Michener is. I just started michener's Texas...so far it is a yawn...

I finally gave up on Michener halfway through "Space" -- managed to slog through "Hawaii" and a few others, but jeez, enough is enough!

Michener and Jean Auel (how many times can you wade through a 43-page description of the grass in a valley?) are the only authors I have completely abandoned.

"The Talisman" was excellent, but I like most of Stephen King's work, anyway -- not too long ago, I read his "From a Buick 8" which no one seems to be familiar with (it certainly didn't get the publicity a lot of his others have had), but it turned out to be one of my favorites.

Im into stepen kings dark tower stories (the talisman and its equal black house r part of it) the way some people r into star trek lol

But the best book ive read lately is by ron currie jr called God is Dead, its based on the idea that god comes to earth as a young african girl (sorta like that movie dogma) and dies (but doesnt go back to heaven), worldwide chaos ensues when wilddogs eat her flesh and become semi divine and the world realizes god is dead, its a kind of insane book, its all short storys based on the above situation, my favorite is a war between the "post modern evolutionists" and the "evolutionary psycholigists"
Its like Vonnegut for a new cenury!

Ha! This is brilliant. Suz-Did you see the censor software changed the name of the author?

Rereading some old Pat Conroy. In a beachy coastal mood. Must be the weather.

And don't forget my Series 7 stuff. Snooze...

What?!

You, my dear, are gravely misguided.

The Martian Chronicles is amazing, and Bradbury himself is the best living writer by a long shot.

The Talisman and Black House are part of The Dark Tower series ?
Im not sure about that i've read almost all 7 of the series .
The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger
The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three
The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands
The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass
The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla
The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah
The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower

The Talisman does have a Dark Tower feel to it but I don't think either are actually part of the series . Maybe i'm wrong . Who knows ?

the talisman is SLightly connected to the dark tower but black house (its sequal) is Certainly connected 2 the tower no ifs ands or but about it, the crimson king and the low men r the villains