 Hello everybody E here welcome back to another book review today. We're in front of the Stephen King shows so you know what that means I'm sorry. I know this I told you it was gonna be Thursday theorists this week But I need a little more time to try and connect some dots I got to go back and reread like the last couple of chapters of another book to make sure that I can actually Connect this one to it like I want to because I I seem to remember a connection And I don't want to spoil anything so I'm not gonna say it here because this is a spoiler-free review of Black House the second in the talisman series or the Jake Sawyer series or the territory series Whatever you want to call it Every single site I go to has a different one. I think Goodreads has it as the talisman book too. So in this one We come across Jack Sawyer Decades after the events of the talisman like I said, there's gonna be no spoilers here It takes a little while for him to show up. It's kind of like Not end of watch it's kind of like finders keepers in that regard And I think that's one of the things that made me enjoy this one that much more because if I'm honest I didn't really care for Jack Sawyer in the talisman. He was not a character In fact, I I didn't really care for any of the characters in the talisman except for maybe speedy Parker or Parkus You know, that's probably the only person that I had any connection with whatsoever. Wolf was fine But I think out of everybody that I think that's one of the reasons why now that I'm saying it out loud It's one of the reasons why I didn't care much for that book. He has written much better Child characters Peter Straub, I don't know that I've ever read a story where Peter Straub wrote kids I'm not sure. I'm maybe misremembering. I don't know Trying to run through it. I don't think so if I'm wrong Let me know down there in the doobly-doo if you have a for instance of Peter Straub writing children character You have to be a good example. Just let me know but in this one It it's a completely different story can completely different build completely different engine delivery system Everything this book has almost nothing to do with the talisman aside from the connection with Jack Sawyer I'm very interested to know if this was a Peter Straub thriller that turned into a Stephen King Collaboration into the next Jack Sawyer novel. I am very interested if I could in fact I'm so tempted to ask Peter Straub, but he seems a bit Standoffish when it comes to talking about this series because so many people have given him so much shit about you know They just completely it's an erasure of him from both books They always think it's a Stephen King book and I have a tendency to do that too It's a crappy thing to do But unfortunately we do it because most of the people who read this book read it because it is a Stephen King book And in this one you're playing in Stephen King's universe. You're not playing a Peter Straub's universe So there's even more Connection to Stephen King in this one than even the last one the last one deals with the territories in here It may or may not be I don't want to spoil it here, but do we return to the territories? Do we not I will let you guys discuss that in the Thursday theorist and the spoiler review that I do for it I want to give a quick shout out and thank you to my good friend Angela who read this with me I had just got through reading the talisman She said she had bought both books and I was like hey You wonder because I thought I was gonna hate this after coming off the talisman I honestly thought I was gonna hate this the first time I read it was when it was first released and I was Utterly destroyed on heroin at that time In fact, if I recall properly, which I probably don't junkie memory I seem to recall me being in rehab or not being in I never actually went and Stated a rehab facility but going through withdrawals and rehab that kind of thing on my own time on my own merits While reading this book, so I remember absolutely nothing about this book There's some scenes. I remember that I thought were in here Sorry that are not in here at all, so I don't know where they are Hopefully eventually I'll find the scenes or maybe I just made them up in my head But this one is such a like I said, it's such a completely different experience I read it with Angela. Thank you for reading it with I want to finish that other thought. Sorry Thank you for reading it with me Angela. I had a blast. We caught some things together There was things that she caught that I hadn't in fact confused I completely confused one character who is four different characters. You'll know when you read the book I completely confused that character right off the bat and had I and had I not been reading with Angela Probably would have complete because I was taking some pretty strong pain medicine at the time I might have given some wrong information in either the spoiler discussion that's coming or the Thursday series So thank you so much. Angela. You saved my ass It's also a funny Circular thing that the first time I read this I was withdrawing from heroin and the second time I tried to read it the first I think 200 pages of me reading the book I was completely fucked on Narcotics because of my back injuries. Well, I mean I have chronic back I've had five back back pain because I've had five back surgery since 2005 So I wasn't just you know messing around with opiates or anything, but uh Anyways, I'm getting off on a tangent the the point of what I'm getting at it I think it's funny, you know that that these things go in cycles It seems it seems to be a a theme with me in this book and you know opiate Oh, oh, you know that type of stuff. I thought that was funny to mention. So I mentioned it The book is written in a completely different style We're gonna start talking about the differences and again no spoilers the book is written in a first note third-person Mission which means that King and Straub are literally they are the ones telling the story In fact at one point in time they reference themselves. They don't give each other names, but they reference themselves So you're you got this godlike See you got godlike scenes where we pan up in a way we fly away Sometimes we're a bird Sometimes we're a collective group of people that the that the authors call we you know We float above it all we see this we see that we think this we think that We feel that all that so if you don't like those kind of books It's imagine this if you've read needful things or if you want a really quick example go read the very first Like prologue bit the very first introduction part of needful things if you would if you would dig that and You want an entire book that's written like that. This is the book for you The talisman was written in third-person close Perspective and not omniscient it was written. I think there was some omniscient parts But pretty much we were with Jack the entire time except for the the little bits with a well, yeah, I won't spoil that one for you here, but uh That this one you're dealing with an entire cast of people you got the group of bikers You have the radio DJ you have the main character Jack Sawyer You have Dale Gilbert Gilbertson the chief of police these characters are so flesh and blood alive I remember each and every one of them of course. I just finished it But I tend not to remember characters after Right after reading it takes me it takes me a while to get to get to know them And I usually have to read a book several times before it gets to the point where I can name like the whole cast You know, I remember even the small characters like Doc and uh, I just said I remember to name it Beezer. I'm sorry Beezer St. Pierre I think is the name so I mean I can remember the names of people the names that weren't even used that much because he's referred to as Beezer These characters were so alive for me The only one oddly enough that was not very alive for me was Tyler and Tyler is a very very important character in this book Chut the character of Charles Burnside is a fantastic character. I loved every minute of that I remember somebody saying I Remember somebody saying on Goodreads when I had posted that I was reading this somebody said I couldn't stand this book because all it is Is an old man dreaming about eating ass Know what they were talking about until I got into it and I started reading it And it's funny what people latch on to with stories like this Because it's the there's only the I mean, it's a 650 page book. There's probably five or six mentions about Eating ass, but it's not eating ass is in the you know, you gotta eat the booty like groceries. It's nothing like that The I don't got the giggles. Yeah, I'm sorry. Hang on. Oh Okay, all right back to it Maybe not hold up. Okay. Now we're back But it's it's funny that that's what this individual latched on to you know 650 pages Maybe five pages act the most out of the entire thing discussed that But the and some other people said that they they absolutely hated this book And then you have some people that love this book But the the theme the recurring theme that I found the popular consensus is If you like even I said this in the talisman video if you loved the talisman You're probably gonna hate this book because it is a completely different experience I'm not a huge fan of fantasy. So I didn't like the talisman This one is it's not rooted in the real world. Well, it is rooted in the real world But it's more of a magical realism there for a while Whereas the talisman is full-blown fantasy. I mean you've got knights and guards and queens and all different kinds of shit You don't have any of that in here. If that's a slight spoiler for you. I apologize, but I want you to know It's completely different book Now if you hated the talisman if you didn't like the talisman, you'll probably end up loving black house This is the majority of people I talked to that is the case now. Are there people who love both? Yes, are there people who hated both? Yes, but the majority of the community Says you're either gonna if you love one you're gonna hate the other. It's just that simple. So If you read black house, what did you think leave your comments down there in the doobly-doo, but until next time I have been E you've been you this been another Stephen King book review. I'll talk to you guys later. Bye. Bye