'the west'

[thymeoperator]

anyone know if there's any deeper significance to so many SK books involving journeying west for the final showdown? or is it just like...he thought of it for one book, then decided to keep the others matching the theme so they all followed suit?

btw please don't reveal the ending of this book to me, i'm 200 pages from being done!!

[JohnDalglish]

Hi,

Traditionally our species has mostly travelled East to West, following the sun, as in LotR, for example.

Long days and pleasant nights

[thymeoperator]

ah okay. yeah i had been wondering if, in 'the talisman', it was something to do with the europeans settling america from east to west.

[aptpupil]

I think that we're almost subliminally conditioned to see "the West" as the good guys, and in recent history, the secretive and sinister governments of Eastern Europe (and also some in the "far East"), also helped to perpetuate that mind set.

As Robert Plant sang in "Stairway To Heaven"...

"There's a feeling I get, when I look to the West, and my spirit is crying for leaving..."

[giftshoparty]

I too am 200 pages from done...and "The West" is calling again. I've lived in the west, drank in the west and nearly died there...but it calls...
Damn, I love this book...
My younger brother and I often theorized about a single version of us at age 11...what we believe to be the purest age of a young man...Jack Sawyer is so close to this...
This character is making we want to be a better ...well, just better. AC

[Doc Wilson]

It just don't get much better than the Talisman. If all of SK's books were this awesome, I think the universe would explode.

And the best thing, when you are done you still have Black House and much more of Jack to look forward to.

[Bryan James]

"Go West, Young Man!"

The West was opportunity, adventure, and mystery for many American and European writers. King read a lot of them (I'd wager) so something rubbed off. Also, he knows the East Coast better than the West, so he started on one side and wanted to find a good middle.

[GNTLGNT]

"The West" has always evoked for me-images of wide open vistas, heroic adventure and unlimited possibility. Maybe one too many episodes of "Bonanza" as a kid, but that's the way this old kid feels!

[giftshoparty]

I meant me not we...oops..