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  • The Talisman

    24 70.59%

  • The Shining

    7 20.59%

  • Never Read one or both titles

    3 8.82%
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Thread: The Talisman VS The Shining

  1. 02-17-2009 11:39 AM #1
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    Which book would you rather re-read: The Talisman or The Shining?

    This is the third and final round of our Constant Reader Awards. The top ten books advancing from the first two rounds will be competing in a series of polls against each other, based on re-readability. Every book will face-off with each of the other nine books in the top ten. Polls will last one week.

    The winner of each poll will have 0.1 points added to its overall score. At the end of the round the scores will be compiled, giving us our true top ten listing and the winning title for the Best Stephen King Book Ever Published.

    Please be sure to vote solely based on which book you would rather re-read in each face/off. If you have not read one or both of the titles, please select he "Never Read" option.
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  2. 02-17-2009 11:44 AM #2
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    The Shining

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    The Talisman



    "People, especially children, aren't measured by their IQ. What's important about them is whether they're good or bad, and these children are bad." ~ Alan Bernard


    "You needn't die happy when your day comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from beginning to end and ka is always served." ~ Roland Deschain
  4. 02-17-2009 11:53 AM #4
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    Need to read The Talisman. Before these awards commenced I had no idea that book was so highly regarded. Since it was a collaboration I always thought (mistakenly, I guess) it was a second-tier work.
  5. 02-17-2009 01:17 PM #5
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    Talisman

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  6. 02-17-2009 01:44 PM #6
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    Talisman, I enjoyed the Shining but not as much as The Talisman
  7. 02-17-2009 02:12 PM #7
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    The Shining may be good, but the talisman is Epic
  9. 02-17-2009 05:13 PM #9
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    Never read Talisman.
    Margaret Emmie Mackey Catoe, you are, have been, and always will be my soulmate, and I love you.
    Con todo mi corazon, por todo de mis dias. And I always will, in this life and into the next.

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  10. 02-17-2009 05:51 PM #10
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    The Shining
    I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. - Edgar Allan Poe

    Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity. - H.P. Lovecraft
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    Der Talisman!
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  12. 02-20-2009 12:41 AM #12
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    this is hard!! loved both books, but the shining is the only book i have read while hiding behind a cushion (lol).
  15. 02-23-2009 10:18 AM #15
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    The Shining without any hesitations.
  16. 02-28-2009 01:31 AM #16
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    Wow!!! I find this surprising!!! The Talisman is great but, I consider The Shining as probably King's best overall work!! Just MHO, but I would of thought this to be closer.

    Hmmmmmm
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  17. 02-28-2009 06:15 AM #17
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    Quote Originally Posted by Merlin1958 View Post
    Wow!!! I find this surprising!!! The Talisman is great but, I consider The Shining as probably King's best overall work!! Just MHO, but I would of thought this to be closer.

    Hmmmmmm
    The Shining hasn't been faring very well in these polls in Round 3.
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