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From: rsu@cbscc.UUCP (Rick Urban)
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Subject: "Nocturne" and "The Talisman"
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Date: Wed, 2-Jan-85 11:43:18 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan  2 11:43:18 1985
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	Didn't Edmund WHITE write "Nocturnes for the King of Naples"?

	As for "The Talisman", I finished it a few weeks ago, and was too
disappointed. I wouldn't say it was a complete failure, however...I found
the middle of the book, with Wolf and the Sunlight Home, to be the most
inteesting. And although I thought of this primarily as a Stephen King book,
I found the ending smacked of the sort of aimless, out-of-control exposition
of Straub's folly, "Floating Dragon". But cheer up, King fans: His new book
of short stories, "Skeleton Crew", is coming from Putnam in April or May. I
hear it contains a novella, "the Mist", which is a great little gem.       

						Rick Urban
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