Title: Doctor Sleep Pdf A Novel
Audie Award Winner, Fiction, 2014
Audie Award Nominee, Solo Narration - Male, 2014
Stephen King returns to the characters and territory of one of his most popular novels ever, The Shining, in this instantly riveting novel about the now middle-aged Dan Torrance (the boy protagonist of The Shining) and the very special 12-year-old girl he must save from a tribe of murderous paranormals.
On highways across America, a tribe of people called The True Knot travel in search of sustenance. They look harmless - mostly old, lots of polyester, and married to their RVs. But as Dan Torrance knows, and spunky 12-year-old Abra Stone learns, The True Knot are quasi-immortal, living off the "steam" that children with the "shining" produce when they are slowly tortured to death.
Haunted by the inhabitants of the Overlook Hotel where he spent one horrific childhood year, Dan has been drifting for decades, desperate to shed his father's legacy of despair, alcoholism, and violence. Finally, he settles in a New Hampshire town, an AA community that sustains him, and a job at a nursing home where his remnant "shining" power provides the crucial final comfort to the dying. Aided by a prescient cat, he becomes "Doctor Sleep."
Then Dan meets the evanescent Abra Stone, and it is her spectacular gift, the brightest shining ever seen, that reignites Dan's own demons and summons him to a battle for Abra's soul and survival. This is an epic war between good and evil, a gory, glorious story that will thrill the millions of hyper-devoted fans of The Shining and wildly satisfy anyone new to the territory of this icon in the King canon.
Imaginative, thrilling and a pure reading addiction. I’m going to throw myself under the bus by admitting I never read the original Shining or what Kubricks version but I thoroughly enjoyed the mini-series version and have read clips and exciting nuggets from the original book.Why did I grab Doctor Sleep? Because I read You by Caroline Kepnes and until then I was not even away a sequel had been released...yes I know..bad reader. Trust me I have smacked my own hands plenty.Danny Torrence needed this! After surviving the Overlook his life needed documented. Now that being said and despite my 5 glowing stars ...WTF is up with the ending? No spoilers here but AHHH! Maybe it’s my years of reading HEA in the romance genre and how everyone’s future is known with the final parting words but come on Master King....don’t leave a girl wanting like that!Unique, informative, a true-King thriller with marvelously enthralling characters and all the Shining you could ever hope for all while Dan picks up the discarded pieces remaining from his life of living with psychic issues. I truly fell in love with all his broken parts even though I grew up too with a parent who could never use the advantages of AA and fell into the bottle until it swallowed her.Enticing and addicting I couldn’t stop reading or filling my head with each explanation and new character. Another King masterpiece I can’t wait to see play out on the big screen.I am sadly through the adventures of Doc and back into dull reality. The last ten percent of the book ... No Sleeping Here!Three days after starting this honey by King, I am sadly through the adventures of Doc and back into dull reality. The last ten percent of the book was read while standing up in the kitchen with the Kindle on the bar so false moves would not endanger the process.Its that good. King as usual does not forget a detail from The Shining and intersects the old and new tales seamlessly. A last farewell from an earlier character was the perfect touch. King never wallows in sentimentality or plays the old cards too often. He spices the new work with a bit of the past but precisely and artfully. Reading King here is putting yourself in the hands of a master again. Its familiar, its expected and one is ever disappointed. The remarkable talent which makes this book float and soar through ones mind is one of our gifts for living at this time. Other problems and current events melt away as one volunteers to be part of the book and struggle until the end.As one who has attended some meetings and read the Big Book there was even more for me to recognize and appreciate in this work.King has empathy for folks with addictions but also knows that nothing but hard work, prayer and strength changes this situation. In addition to suggesting this book to a general readership, I also highly recommend it to our friends in AA and similar groups. If one is successful in this realm, the book is celebratory and if one needs more work, this book could help. Praise to King can never be overstated no matter what subject catches his fancy.Disappointed I have been a King fan since the 70s. That's right. I'm a fossil. I got hooked with his first novel, Carrie. Then had to wait for a couple of years for Salem's Lot to come out. And so it went...I would read novels and short stories as soon as they were published. My favorite King's works are: The Dead Zone; The Stand; Misery; Pet Sematary; The Green Mile; The Shawshank Redemption and of course THE SHINING! Some of his more recent works have lacked something...I don't know what exactly. Perhaps passion. Maybe he's tired - - who could blame him after all this time, really. ANYWAY, I truly wanted to like this sequel to The Shining, however, it lacked the same HORROR and originality. The character development was flimsy, in my option, and closely resembled a number of other characters from his former novels. The villains were laughable and cartoonish. The storyline was predictable and dragged horribly during the middle HALF of the book. It was hardly worthy of it's predecessor. Let's face it, THE SHINING was a stand-alone masterpiece. How could a sequel possibly live up to that?
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