Stephen King Audio Books - The Talisman Revisited

Recently I discovered that Sir Leslie Stephen King and DreamWorks are working on a television mini series of "The Talisman" for release in 2008. I had to attain back manner into my memory to retrieve what this book was about. I was quickly reunited with this terrific narrative while hearing to the audio book version.

The Talisman, as written by Sir Leslie Stephen King and Simon Peter Straub, takes us through the antic journeying of Jack Sawyer. He is a immature adult male that human faces a big undertaking of helping save his female parent from the clasps of cancer. A cryptic artefact known as The Amulet throws the powerfulness to assist his mother, but it lies in a analogue existence on the antonym side of the United States. The Amulet chronicles Jack's escapades through the dark, yet sensational every other existence envisioned by King and Straub.

Although not a typical horror narrative in the traditional mode of Sir Leslie Stephen King or Simon Peter Straub, it is still a absorbing narrative of escapade and suspense. Much of the narrative takes topographic point mostly within the "Territories" of Jack Sawyer's every other world. Troubles and victories are constantly establish between both worlds, which maintain this phantasy narrative intriguing.

Although I bask them sometime, I am not large fan of movies made from novels. Partially this is owed from the inquiry of how make you condense a 400+ page book into a two hr show or three portion mini series. Usually these watered down versions go forth one defeated or defeated with the adaptation.

A perfect illustration of this is the version of Sir Leslie Stephen King's "The Stand". This mini series condensed a monstrous novel into a two or three nighttime telecasting story. Many of the fictional characters were either concerted or set in topographic points or states of affairs that they never were to get with. Even though King himself wrote the telecasting version, so many fantastic fictional characters were not able to stand up out and completely flesh the story.

Before you lose out on a big portion of the narrative why not listen to The Amulet on audio? The great thing about audio books is that you can listen almost anywhere. The 2nd best thing about audio books is that you can usually listen while doing other things like driving, exercising, or relaxing. With the great handiness of audio books these days, you no longer have got the alibi of not being able to read a great book.