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Doctor Sleep: A Novel by Stephen King
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Doctor Sleep: A Novel (original 2013; edition 2013)

by Stephen King (Author)

Series: The Shining (2)

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The now middle-aged Dan Torrance (the boy protagonist of The Shining) must save a very special twelve-year-old girl from a tribe of murderous paranormals.
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Title:Doctor Sleep: A Novel
Authors:Stephen King (Author)
Info:Scribner (2013), Edition: 1st, 531 pages
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Tags:alcoholism, fiction, horror, paranormal, stephen-king, supernatural

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Doctor Sleep by Stephen King (2013)

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Oh how I love Stephen King’s writing! This was, yet again, another fantastic book by Mr. King and a perfect sequel to The Shinning. I know the movie won’t live up, but I do look forward to seeing it as well. Another amazing story...only sad that I will have to wait until next spring for another one of his books. ( )
  jbrownleo | Mar 27, 2024 |
no notes. PERFECTION. delicious. 10s, 10s, 10s. ( )
  gojosatoru98 | Mar 1, 2024 |
I found this to be an enjoyable supernatural adventure story but not not especially scary. It had very little of the annoying over the top gore / shock stuff that often bothers me with Stephen King and it didn't seem to be overly wordy either.

I enjoyed seeing a follow up on Danny and I thought the enemy he and Abra faced (the True Knot) was a great concept. As usual, the finale was a *bit* of a letdown for me but overall the book was good and worth reading if you are a King fan.

Bottom line for me is if I think about and want to get back to reading a book when I am away from it and this definitely delivered on that score. ( )
  hmonkeyreads | Jan 25, 2024 |
I loved The Shining and was a bit scared to read this follow up book, scared to be disappointed. At first, I didn't like the new characters and also didn't like what Dan Torrence had become, however, after the first 100 or so pages, things started to change and I really started to enjoy this book. In the end, this was really a fun and exciting read, very glad I picked it up. ( )
  ilsevr1977 | Jan 9, 2024 |
I have been trying to read this book for over a month. I recently read the shining for the simple fact it was one of the Stephen king books I wanted to reread. I actually think I liked this one better then the first. ( )
  b00kdarling87 | Jan 7, 2024 |
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What are those virtues? First, King is a well-trusted guide to the underworld. His readers will follow him through any door marked “Danger: Keep Out” (or, in more literary terms, “Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here”), because they know that not only will he give them a thorough tour of the inferno — no gore left unspilled, no shriek left unshrieked — he will also get them out alive. As the Sibyl of Cumae puts it to Aeneas, it’s easy to go to hell, but returning from it is the hard part. She can say that because she’s been there; and, in a manner of speaking — our intuition tells us — so has King.

Second, King is right at the center of an American literary taproot that goes all the way down: to the Puritans and their belief in witches, to Hawthorne, to Poe, to Melville, to the Henry James of “The Turn of the Screw,” and then to later exemplars like Ray Bradbury. In the future, I predict, theses will be written on such subjects as “American Puritan Neo-Surrealism in ‘The Scarlet Letter’ and ‘The Shining,’ ” and “Melville’s Pequod and King’s Overlook Hotel as Structures That Encapsulate American History.”
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Stephen Kingprimary authorall editionscalculated
Levinsen, JakobTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Patton, WillNarratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Rekiaro, IlkkaTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Wells, Erin S.Illustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed

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We stood at the turning point. Half-measures availed us nothing.
- The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous
If we were to live, we had to be free of anger. [It is] the dubious luxury of normal men and women.
- The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous
Dedication
When I was playing my primitive band of rhythm guitar with a group called the Rock Bottom Remainders, Warren Zevon used to gig with us. Warren loved gray t-shirts and movies like Kingdom of the Spiders. He insisted I sing lead on his signature tune, "Werewolves of London", during the encore portion of our shows. I said I was not worthy. He insisted that I was. "Key of G", Warren told me, "and howl like you mean it. Most important of all, play like Keith."
I'll never be able to play like Keith Richards, but I always did my best, and with Warren beside me, matching me note for note and laughing his fool head off, I always had a blast.
Warren, this howl is for you, wherever you are. I miss you, buddy.
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On the second day of December in a year when a Georgia peanut farmer was doing business in the White House, one of Colorado's great resort hotels burned to the ground.
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The True's towns, with colorful names like Dry Bend, Jerusalem's Lot, Oree, and Sidewinder, were safe havens, but they never stayed in those places for long; mostly they were migratory.
"There are other worlds than these."
The one thing of which Dan was sure was that there were no coincidences.
Life was a wheel, its only job was to turn, and it always came back to where it had started.
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Please distinguish Stephen King's novel, Doctor Sleep (2013), from Madison Smartt Bell's novel of the same title (1991).
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