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...Talisman, King and Straub (1 last week...
...TALISMAN by Stephen King and Peter Straub Viking; 646 pages...
...movie rights for a pot of money. Surely, by the way, this explains the dual authorship. The story's weight and complexity are not such that it is necessary to have one author shoveling coal while the other steers. But the combined constituencies of King (Pet Sematary) and Straub (Ghost Story) are a big part of what Spielberg paid...
...real trouble comes with the mechanical series of adventures King and Straub have invented for Jack to battle through on his way to the talisman. The hoodoos encountered in a rancid roadhouse in New York, a corrupt orphanage in Ohio, and a nuclear-wasted parallel-Nevada in the Territories are maggoty and colorful, but also wearisomely repetitive. The horrors there on the page are visually ingenious, but they never echo in the mind. Jack Sawyer has two unvarying reactions, fearfulness and pluck. The co-written sentences are so gaudy and muscular they seem phony, like the deltoids of a bodybuilder...
...Talisman, King and Straub...