Doctor Sleep

by Stephen King

mass market paperback, 499 pages

English language

Published Oct. 29, 2014 by Hodder.

ISBN:: 978-1-4447-8324-7

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FOLLOWING A CHILDHOOD HAUNTED BY TERRIFYING EVENTS AT THE OVERLOOK HOTEL, DANNY TORRANCE HAS BEEN DRIFTING FOR DECADES.

Finally he settles into a job at a nursing home where he draws on his remnant 'shining' power to help people pass on.

then he meets Abra Stone, a young girl with the brightest 'shining' ever seen. But her gift is attracting a tribe of paranormals.. They may look harmless, old and devoted to their Recreational Vehicles, but The True Knot live off the 'steam' that children like Abra produce.

Now Dan must confront his old demons as he battles for Abra's soul and survival...

~from back cover

FOLLOWING A CHILDHOOD HAUNTED BY TERRIFYING EVENTS AT THE OVERLOOK HOTEL, DANNY TORRANCE HAS BEEN DRIFTING FOR DECADES.

Finally he settles into a job at a nursing home where he draws on his remnant 'shining' power to help people pass on.

Now Dan must confront his old demons as he battles for Abra's soul and survival...

~from back cover

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VKZ reviewed Docteur Sleep by Stephen King

Doctor Sueño

5 stars

Stephen King retoma a los personajes que dejó un tanto inconclusos en El Resplandor para explorar la adultez de Danny Torrance que haga lo que haga no puede escapar de su don.

Simplemente Resplandece.

Eso, ni el alcoholismo puede quitarlo. Cuando uno resplandece (pun intended) no puede evitar llamar la atención, y cuando hay alguien que resplandece tanto como uno, nobleza obliga a ayudarle a librarse de atenciones no solicitadas. Entra Rose La Chistera.

Encantador y aterrorizante personaje que nos regala OTRA, sí, una más, persecución del Maestro S. King.

¿Podrá Danny enfrentar esto con los demonios que literalmente cargas encima? ¿La sombra del Hotel Overlook alguna vez lo dejará en paz?

Te invito a averiguarlo porque yo quedé como siempre, muy satisfecho.

Kadomi reviewed Doctor Sleep by Stephen King

Review of 'Doctor Sleep' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

Picking up this book warped me right back in time to 1987, when I was a 16-year old teenager who had just recently discovered Stephen King and read all his books. It was summer, it was hot, and my favorite record was New Order's Substance 1987, which was playing constantly in the background while I read The Shining. Reading about the Overlook Hotel, I can hear Shell Shock in my subconscious.

Anyhow, Doctor Sleep is the book I never knew I wanted, a return to Danny. It's not quite as good as The Shining, but I loved it anyhow.

As quick synopsis, we watch Dan grow up into an alcoholic like his dad to dull his Shining. Eventually he settles in New Hampshire, joins AA and meets Abra Stone, a 13-year old girl with the same powers he had, just stronger. But there's a group of beings called The True Knot who travel the US in campers, traveling around to find children like Abra, to kill and torture them, so their Shining gets absorbed by them as steam. Abra and Dan challenge them, and the showdown is in the HQ of the True Knot, unsurprisingly on the grounds of what formerly used to be the Overlook Hotel...

Was a pageturner for me. It is very different from The Shining in style, but I have to say that I aged along with Mr. King, and really enjoy his books that he has written in the last decade.

Colin Cogle reviewed Doctor Sleep by Stephen King (The Shining, #2)

Review of 'Doctor Sleep' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

Wow. What can be said about one of Stephen King’s iconic families that hasn’t already? Besides, of course, what happens to our new heroine?

tivasyk reviewed Doctor Sleep by Stephen King (The Shining, #2)

Review of 'Doctor Sleep' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

кінґ — чудовий оповідач, і аудіоверсія французького перекладу трапилася якісна. отримав купу задоволення від цієї майстерно викладеної казки для дорослих. шукатиму ще кінґа в перекладі французькою! p.s. до речі, переклад укаїнською цієї книжки також бачив днями у київській «книгарні є». читайте =)