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    Doctor Sleep: A Novel
    Doctor Sleep: A Novel
    Doctor Sleep: A Novel
    Audiobook18 hours

    Doctor Sleep: A Novel

    Written by Stephen King

    Narrated by Will Patton

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    Winner of the 2014 Audie Award for Fiction and Finalist for Solo Narration—Male

    Now a major motion picture starring Ewan McGregor!

    From master storyteller Stephen King, his unforgettable and terrifying sequel to The Shining—an instant #1 New York Times bestseller that is “[a] vivid frightscape” (The New York Times).

    Years ago, the haunting of the Overlook Hotel nearly broke young Dan Torrance’s sanity, as his paranormal gift known as “the shining” opened a door straight into hell. And even though Dan is all grown up, the ghosts of the Overlook—and his father’s legacy of alcoholism and violence—kept him drifting aimlessly for most of his life. Now, Dan has finally found some order in the chaos by working in a local hospice, earning the nickname “Doctor Sleep” by secretly using his special abilities to comfort the dying and prepare them for the afterlife. But when he unexpectedly meets twelve-year-old Abra Stone—who possesses an even more powerful manifestation of the shining—the two find their lives in sudden jeopardy at the hands of the ageless and murderous nomadic tribe known as the True Knot, reigniting Dan’s own demons and summoning him to battle for this young girl’s soul and survival...
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateSep 24, 2013
    ISBN9781442362390
    Author

    Stephen King

    Stephen King was born in Portland, Maine in 1947. In the spring of 1973, Doubleday & Co., accepted the novel Carrie for publication, providing him the means to leave teaching and write full-time. He has since published over 40 books and has become one of the world's most successful writers. Stephen lives in Maine and Florida with his wife, novelist Tabitha King. They are regular contributors to a number of charities including many libraries and have been honored locally for their philanthropic activities.

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    What our readers think

    Readers find this title to be a great follow-up to The Shining, with moments that are both terrifying and heartwarming. The book retains the atmosphere of the original and Stephen King's storytelling shines through. The audiobook narration by Will Patton is highly praised for bringing the story to life. Some readers appreciate the addition of personal experiences and the exploration of Dan Torrance's life. While not as good as The Shining for some, it is still a solid and satisfying sequel. Overall, readers love this book and consider it a winner.

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    • 4/5
      It had been a while since I had read a Stephen King novel. As always, I enjoyed the story a great deal. King has a way of writing and building characters that is second to none, and I can't recall ever reading his work and not coming away entertained. This novel is a sequel of sorts to his famous book The Shining, but it certainly stands along as its own story. I cannot say much that has not already been said about this book, but I would recommend it and I think that it shows King has not lost a step.

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    • 5/5
      amazing story telling. and as usual amazing work by SK!
    • 5/5
      I enjoyed this very much. Related to it in ways I wish I didn’t, and I’m not referring to any tendencies towards violence or abilities to “shine.” Anyway, I loved the story and it had some real creepy moments in it and very much had the feel of the first book. I recommend reading with your ears or eyes, either way, just get into your brain.
    • 3/5
      It pains me to give a Stephen King book only three stars. Bear with me.

      Billed as a sequel to The Shining, I felt this book fell short. I've read the Shining more than once (yes, despite it's awkward at times prose and POV mishaps, it is worth it). Even having read it multiple times and now being in my *ahem* rather late thirties, when I read the Shining last fall in anticipation of this book, I still had times where I got goosebumps and jumped at random noises and shadows in the house. Despite the fact that it's starting to get long in the tooth (HAH, DS readers will chuckle), the Shining still serves as a great book for getting a bit of creepy fright.

      Doctor Sleep, a continuation of that story, held no fright. There was suspense, and even action, but no spine tingling, bone chilling, jump at the shadows because two keys on the piano just started playing and no one's there scare. While a lot of that is due to who King has become as a writer in the last few decades, focussing more on the weaving of a good story over giving his readers the heebie jeebies, in a book that is supposed to be a successor, its absence was noteable. There was a type of urban science fiction (for lack of a better term) that was really popular in the late seventies and early eighties dealing with psychics and ESP. A fine enough topic, and this was a great book in that sub-genre, but without anything to counter balance it I was left wanting. This was a psychic hero explores his life and powers book, not a REDRUM thriller.

      As a sequel, then, I give this three stars. It did not stand up to the bar that was set by its predecessor. The book would have been better suited if the lead character had not been named Danny Torrence - then it would have been just another King affectation of setting one novel in the world of another (Sidewinder). Then the fact that we have a book that obsesses over steam, a purported sequel to a book that obsessed over a steam boiler, but that only once almost made a cross reference wouldn't bother me so much.
    • 5/5
      Stephen King has fulfilled my dreams with this book--it's written as beautifully as his others, and the story-line is amazing!
    • 5/5
      Another great story in the books. There are other worlds than this.
    • 5/5
      Usually, when I watch a movie before I read the book, I’m always flabbergasted by the enormous differences between what gets cut out or just add in stuff that doesn’t even exist in the book exist in the movie and stuff that exist in the movie that doesn’t exist in the book Like reading the book 1st.

      Now with that being said this book was awesome way better than the movie. It has so much more content than the movie does don’t get me wrong. The movie was very good. Dr sleep was a very good movie but the book and I think that you guys would agree the books are always better, in this case, the book was definitely better than the movie. The movie was good. Giving away any spoilers of course if you’ve never read the shining read that book 1st is it the first book in this double feature. There’s also a movie of the shining starring Jack Nicholas And again the book is way better than the movie. In fact the movie was terrible. I used to like the movie until I read the book. I would highly recommend anybody even if you watch the movie to read this book because it is awesome. The narrator was very good, I was not bored for a single minute so definitely read this book. You will not be disappointed, especially if you enjoyed the shining because this is a sequel to it and it kind of shows it goes on from where it stopped shining and it carries on very nicely. It’s not confusing even a person who has never read and or seen the shining Could still read this book and get a rudimentary understanding of what transpired in the shining you won’t get all the details obviously so if you haven’t read the shining or you don’t even know that the shining is part of this the shining first I always recommend read the shining first then read Dr sleep then watch the movies But he already watched the movies everybody’s watched the shining, as it’s been out since the early 80s or late 70s but relatively new so they’re still could be people who haven’t seen that movie yet so if you haven’t seen the movie and you want to hold off on it read the book or listen to it Enjoyed buying the book and then I listen to it and I follow along that fundamental reading skills. I do reading in front of lots of people I can’t be up there stuttering. That definitely would not look good so I usually will read at home real books, but my job. I don’t like taking my books to my job Because they end up getting turned into minced meat. And I love my books I have every Stephen King book he has ever written both in his real name and his fake name is my favourite author. I mean, let’s face it. He’s been writing books right I think Terry was his first book and that came out in the early 70s since then, he has written over 100 novels and pretty much everyone of them went to number one and the New York Times best seller as well as other best seller list the real deal if you enjoy whore, but with characters that have substance. Because most horror, movies and horror books, they don’t really go into a whole lot of character development. King doesn’t King great character development detail. He leaves Easter eggs all through his books that other books together that you would never think would be tied together, kinda like read between the lines he leaves Easter eggs, eggs, and every single book right he has such a unique style that I think that I just picked up a book and it had a blank cover and I just started reading it. I would know with Stephen King probably by the time I finish the first paragraph writing style is unique to that no one writes like him was you like him or don’t like him you can’t say sucks you can but he doesn’t like authors. I don’t really care, but I don’t say they suck because there’s like millions and millions of copies of their novel they sold so obviously they don’t suck. They just suck to myself. But I definitely highly recommend this book and every other Stephen King book and this app has every Stephen King book available pretty much on audio and on e-book pretty much all of them not quite but pretty much. This is the best streaming services for books that exists in my opinion I like Audible because you get your credit every month and you get to keep that book. But in the meantime, this app has so many great books and they let you read all of them. You know it’s not that expensive. I’m just doing it until I work up my collection on Audible and then I’m gonna cancel my subscription to this, but that’s gonna be a long time because there’s always new books coming out that I want, and sometimes I can’t afford them or you’re in between credits on Audible. This is just a fantastic streaming service. I mean you go to some of the other ones you may get some and what you like but this one has everything that I like especially Stephen King read this book. You will not be disappointed. I promise you that if you were Stephen King and you liked the shining, you will like this even more because it was actually better, the sequel did better than original
    • 5/5
      Incredible follow up to The Shining that really honors it without just rehashing the story. Some moments are terrifying and others are heartwarming. One of King's great ones
    • 5/5
      Made it to my top three Stephen King reads. Perfect!
    • 5/5
      I think this one goes under the radar for a lot of King fans, but it shouldn't. It's a winner!
    • 5/5
      I really loved this book always wondered what happened to little Danny torrence. Great conclusion to a great book
    • 5/5
      Phenomenal! Got to say, as always the book was 100 times better then the movie...
    • 5/5
      Th shinning has always been one of my favorite books (didn’t like the movie at all) so it was great to catch up with Danny and see where lives journey took him!
    • 5/5
      Stephen King is one of the best storytellers out there! This book retained the atmosphere of the Shining, the only (until now) one of his books I’ve read.
    • 5/5
      Pretty damned good sequel. Need more like this one. A
    • 5/5
      the reason why stephen king is the king and will always be the king!
    • 5/5
      Brilliant story with overtones of AA recovery language. Thank you ?? And the narrator managed so many distinct accent.
    • 4/5
      Pretty good, as a recovered alcoholic I liked the part King added about his own experiences with that. Kind of missed that in most of his novels, even though some of the characters in the past had a history. Not sure though, if I needed an update on Dan Torrance. But sure, why not. Solid story.
    • 5/5
      Great excerpt to the shining loved it! Hopefully he writes more about Abra and Danny!
    • 5/5
      Very satisfying follow up on Dan Torrance’s life. Loved it.
    • 4/5
      The book was great. Good sequel to the shining, not as good of course.
    • 5/5
      Great book!! They guy reading it fantastic! A + +
    • 5/5
      Brilliant, scary, interesting, loved the Shining, love this follow up!
    • 4/5
      A good sequel. Voice acting was good as well. 4/5.
    • 4/5
      Good book. Terrible recording. There were several parts where the story cuts off and starts at a different place. I dont know if it’s bad editing or what. Also, every time I would close the app and come back the book would be in a different place than where I left off.
    • 5/5
      Love this book. Second time reading it and it was just as good as the first time!
    • 5/5
      Will Patton needs to do more audiobooks, I FELT this book because of him bringing King's words to life and putting tangible weight behind them
    • 5/5
      I love a GOOD sequel and this is a rare one. Great read and Steven King holds up in this one!
    • 5/5
      Excellent story of a family I really needed to know more about.
    • 5/5
      Love the personal connection he had to the book and multiple POVs throughout it!