Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site cbscc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbsck!cbscc!rsu From: rsu@cbscc.UUCP (Rick Urban) Newsgroups: net.books Subject: "Nocturne" and "The Talisman" Message-ID: <4513@cbscc.UUCP> Date: Wed, 2-Jan-85 11:43:18 EST Article-I.D.: cbscc.4513 Posted: Wed Jan 2 11:43:18 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 3-Jan-85 04:20:50 EST Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus Lines: 14 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 ...ihnp4!cbscc!rsu