11:21 pm - 03/01/2013
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 tween 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 readers of The Shining and wildly satisfy anyone new to the territory of this icon in the King canon.
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Cover for Doctor Sleep, Stephen King's sequel to The Shining
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 tween 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 readers of The Shining and wildly satisfy anyone new to the territory of this icon in the King canon.
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FUCK I MEANT TMS
Edited at 2013-03-02 05:21 am (UTC)
According to Stephen King, he never expected to write a sequel, but the idea just came to him.
Edited at 2013-03-02 03:56 pm (UTC)
I'm just saying most people don't wait that long, lol.
So ready for this.
I'm reading How To Get Over Your Ex by Nikki Logan because I'm in the mood for romance.
its alright, so far.
Just finished reading Dark Places (same author). Pretty good, although I felt a little underwhelmed by the end. We'll see if Sharp Objects is any better.
Edited at 2013-03-02 05:41 am (UTC)
I'm thinking of reading Maze Runner.
I'm reading Just One Day by Gayle Forman.
World History: The Story Of Mankind from Prehistory to the Present (Hugh Thomas)
The Creative License (Danny Gregory)
The Stuff of Legend, Book 1: The Dark (Mike Raicht) (do graphic novels count?)
I was reading Jo's Boys by Louisa May Alcott, but I just finished both Little Women and Little Men and I'm kind of sick of her rn.
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson
Stephen Colbert's latest book. I forget the name, but he's only written 2 so easy to find.
And, Emperor Mollusk Versus The Sinister Brain by A. Lee Martinez. I love him. Go read him. Gil's All Fright Diner was epic.
So since I dropped that I just started reading 'Deathless' by Catherynne M. Valente & I'm really enjoying it thus far.
It's good, really good. But it's just so... epic. Very long and you have to memorize the lore it gives you in order to really understand the story which can be tough. And I think there are more books in the series???
Factoid: it's one of the series that inspired George R R Martin in writing. There is even a character named Melisande.
Before this I read the Farseer Trilogy which is also a series that inspired GRRM.
I'm in the middle of:
Life After Death by Damien Echols
The Lucifer Effect by Philip Zimbardo
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls &
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
I'm going to guess the reason I haven't finished any of these is because I need to pick a single book and stick with it instead of bouncing around and reading multiple books at a time. I end up putting them all down and spending too much time on facebook :/
I've put that book down SO many times, so now I'm forcing myself to only read that book until it's finished. I'm regretting that decision. The book is SO dense that I get maybe 10 pages in and I'm like, "And...I'm done."
Edited at 2013-03-02 04:02 pm (UTC)
I am so happy to be done school because I can finally read for pleasure again! The only problem is I'm having trouble thinking of books I want to read
Edited at 2013-03-02 05:05 am (UTC)
I like his short stories. Sometimes I'm hesitant to read his stuff because I'm a little chicken baby but I recently read the short story The Mangler and I was kinda lol-ing through it.
Also, your abbreviations are annoying.
Although I think his books are better when he's talking about people and relationships and the human condition rather than when he's breaking out the monsters and ghoulies etc. (EG I must be one of the very few people who LOVE Rose Madder, he thinks he was being too pretentious with this book but I can relate to Rose's wish fulfilment and the terror Norman puts her through, I love the relationships between the kids in It and poor Beverly and her asshole dad and husband, etc.) Hopefully this makes some sense.
It was a shit movie, especially compared to the book. Basically any movie adaptation was shit with the exception of The Green Mile.
I found the book really suspenseful and couldn't put it down for a week but I also felt like I could guess everything that was going to happen. like maybe the foreshadowing was laid on a little too thick? I mean I've seen the movie like 50 times so in fairness it could be because of that, but even the first time the boiler was mentioned, I knew exactly what would happen.
When they did this with Talisman/Black House it was okay but this is going to be crap.
Right now I am reading "Dark Places" by Gillian Flynn. It's so good.
I like his later works a lot. Lisey's Story, 11/22/63, Under the Dome were all actually good! I didn't like Cell much, but eh, it was okay.
My other favorites are The Stand, It, and Different Seasons. Different Seasons is actually 4 short stories, 3 of which were made into movies (Stand By Me, The Shawshank Redemption and Apt Pupil). Even if you know those movies by heart, they're so much nicer to read.
eta: I also have a soft spot for Needful Things.
Edited at 2013-03-02 08:28 am (UTC)
Carrie is his first published novel and it's scary and brilliant and sad...one of my favorites. Misery is cringe-inducing in a good way. Cujo is an amazing book and the movie barely scratched the surface with what was happening. If you feel like something more recent, I loved Dreamcatchers (which is surprisingly not on a lot of people's lists...maybe it's because the movie adaptation was such a POS?).
The Stand, The Shining, and Misery are musts. IT is supposed to be good too, although I haven't read it yet. I also loved 11/22/63
Not super popular, but I also loved The Long Walk which is under the name Richard Bachman