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Review: I loved it! Almost perfect. - First off: I promise, NO SPOILERS. I apologize if there is some vagueness as a result. I'd like to write two reviews for Dr. Sleep: one on its stand-alone merits, and as a continuation of the story of the Shining, and one on its success as a continuation of the brilliance of The Shining. I'd give the first 5 stars, but the second only...3. Which is unfair, I guess, especially in light of Stephen King's afterward ("...people change. The man who wrote Doctor Sleep is very different from the well-meaning alcoholic who wrote The Shining, but both remain interested in the same thing: telling a kickass story. I enjoyed finding Danny Torrance again and following his adventures. I hope you did, too. If that's the case, Constant Reader, we're all good.")--which seems to say that my first 5 star review is the one King would care about, if I were to presume he cares what I have to say. And since I love Stephen King, that's what I gave it, officially, and that's the one I'll start with. This book is SUCH a fun read! The best kind of King book, the kind that leaves you hungover in the morning because you were up much too late reading, and almost makes you miss your bus to work because you get engrossed in it again while you brush your teeth. Several times I got a big giddy grin on my face and even laughed aloud with ridiculous delight at a super stephenkingy turn of phrase, words I imagined gave him a similar satisfaction as they left his fingers for the page. Some of these were even scary-creepy things, but they were so perfectly done, they were thrilling on that second level, too. It felt to me like King had a lot of fun with a lot of this book, just reveling in his own GoodAtItNess, long passages spooling out with gleeful sprezzatura. The story runs smoothly along, suspenseful questions answered with perfect timing, never leaving so much unknown at once that the complications are impossible to follow. The central characters are excellent. Grownup Dan surprisingly unlike 5 year old Dan in the way my own grownup children are surprisingly unlike their 5 year old selves--something of the little boy remains, but he didn't just stretch to man-size, he's a fully realized person, very changed. Abra is a great character on her own, and her relationships with Dan, her parents, and her friends, are all truthful and nuanced. Good on whoever talked King through the markers of early adolescent girlness that pepper her believability. The scary creepy horrors are scary, creepy, and horrible; turning off the light when I finally forced myself every night was just as unpleasant as it had been when I read The Shining. Loose strings of the original plot are nicely knotted up. I'd have maybe liked to know more about Wendy, but real grown men--as Dan is, in this novel--don't have the kind of insight or, frankly, interest, in their mothers' inner lives. Even if they're psychic. So it works, as a function of Grownup Dan being well done. Less likely, I thought, was the way Dick was written out of Dan's life, but I have to admit that works too, in the sense that Dan grew up in ways that were unpredictable when he was five. Expository backstory from the first book doesn't get the clumsy treatment it normally does in sequels, but is dropped in usefully and gracefully throughout the plot. It was very satisfying to have some things I thought I understood about the Overlook, and Dan, and Jack, confirmed, and equally satisfying to have some new details mixed in to deepen and thicken that foundation of the story. The final revisitation from The Shining gets a muted, subtle treatment in the narrative, and I hope it's not just sentimental over-imagination on my part to think King let it be so simple because it might have been unbearably moving otherwise. Five stars! Buy it, read it, you'll enjoy it! Now then. The Shining is one of my all-time favorite books. It's the one I wax rhapsodic about when I'm making an obnoxiously over-thought case for Stephen King as an underrated capital G genius of American capital L literature. It's the one I compare to Dickens and the one I compare to Steinbeck and the one I say doesn't need to lean on those comparisons because it's capital G greatness all by itself. I like to make people listen to me say that the only reason The Shining is not a genuine masterpiece, recognized or not, is that King was young and still growing as a writer. And still not so market-proven that his (now routinely over-indulgent) editors gave him free reign. I have always assumed those factors caused the flaws (I apologize for my cheek, Mr. King; I know I'm unworthy, but for lack of a better, more obsequious term, I have to go with flaws) in The Shining, and I was unrestrainedly thrilled to hear a sequel unaffected by those was in the works. I refused to entertain fears that I wouldn't like it as much as the original, the way absolutely everyone likes the sequel less than the original; when the first reviews came out and I read that Barbara Kingsolver loved Dr. Sleep, I went directly to Kindle, did not pass go, and desertcart collected my seven dollars. And it was, as I've already said, money well and unregrettedly spent. But this book isn't anything like The Shining. Not as a literary feat. Both books tell, as King says he intended, kickass stories. The Shining, though, spent its first half telling a fascinatingly ambiguous story, too. The Shining is about a man with demons we all recognize, and a lot of us live with intimately. For a good chunk of the beginning of the book, it is impossible to determine from the text alone whether or not those demons are the only demons in the Torrance family's life. The interplay between Jack and his family and the things in Jack's head is fantastic, and the aforementioned flaw is that the transition between "Is This Real or Is Jack Just Crazy" to "Oh, yeah, it's real. Jack's crazy, too, but that's secondary" is less smoothly done than the writing on either side of the divide. And Dr. Sleep has nothing at all like that. The kickass story is all out in the open and straightforwardly linear, as is the development of all the characters and the reader's understanding of who they are and what they're doing. Dr. Sleep is extragood pop culture writing. The Shining was that, with unrecognized actual literature icing its cake. Without the icing, I give it three stars.
Review: Great Story, Fun Read - I would give this great story 4.5 stars. I savored the book throughout and didn't want it to end. I actually rationed it so that I wouldn't finish it too quickly! I love Stephen King, but not everything he writes. I adore his early and mid-career horror novels, but I got turned off by a lot of his newer works starting with The Green Mile. Under the Dome gave me renewed hope, and Dr. Sleep shows that he's definitely still got it after all these years. This is a very different book than The Shining. While there is some overlap, this has nothing much to do with what happened when Dan was a little boy at the Overlook Hotel (even though the Overlook ruins feature prominently here, as do some memories about the malevolent creatures that lurked inside). This is instead a story about Dan and a new, charming main character, a young girl named Abra. Abra has "the shining" even more strongly than Dan ever did. Unfortunately, we come to learn that there is a group of very evil vampire-like creatures called The True Knot that murders children with the shining to "suck out their steam" (their shining) after slowly torturing them to death (torturing them "purified the steam"). Disguised as benevolent senior citizens in RVs, the True Knot wanders America's highways looking for "steamhead" children to kill. They use their steam as a fountain of youth, keeping themselves alive for thousands of years. Led by a stunningly beautiful woman called Rose the Hat (the members of the tribe use mobster names), these villains are very interesting and scary. As I said, I loved this book. The ending, however, slightly disappointed me. The book builds up to a spectacular showdown between Abra and Dan versus the True Knot. I was so excited for it, turning the pages on my Kindle with great anticipation. I was looking forward to a huge good vs. evil battle that King does so well (as in The Stand, for example, which had an ending I loved). I won't write any spoilers here, but I was disappointed. It wasn't terrible by any means, but it did leave me saying "That's it? Seriously?" At the same time, I went back and re-read the climax several times, proving it was still enjoyable. I also would have liked more history about the True Knot members. The story about their murder of the baseball boy was horrific and terrifying. It almost crossed the line into being "too much" (I am not a fan of torture porn horror stories), but in the end it thankfully gave us a break from that. Still, I wanted more! I wanted to know about each member of the tribe, where they came from, their history, and more stories about their murders and their victims. Aside from the baseball boy and their desire to harm Abra, however, we didn't get to know very much. Some people say in their reviews that they thought the True Knot members were too hammy. I disagree. I enjoyed their quips and didn't mind them being a little bit over the top sometimes. These weren't crude caricatures of villains. They had a softer side although it was never really explored. They loved each other and sometimes tried to justify their murders by saying they have to do it to live. I would have liked learning more about them. I guess something had to be cut from this already quite lengthy novel, but I absolutely didn't find the book too long as it was at all. I do agree with some of the reviews that say they got tired of all the AA sayings and focus on alcohol abuse and sobriety. Honestly, it got old. That said, I recognize this came from King's personal experience and heart, so I didn't mind it as much as I otherwise might. I just don't want to hear about it again in future King novels. All in all, I highly recommend the book without any hesitation. It isn't King's best, but in my opinion it is in his top 5. That's quite a compliment. I sincerely hope King keeps on writing these horror novels. If you're looking for a scary story, get ready for Dr. Sleep.

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I loved it! Almost perfect.
*by L***R on October 4, 2013*

First off: I promise, NO SPOILERS. I apologize if there is some vagueness as a result. I'd like to write two reviews for Dr. Sleep: one on its stand-alone merits, and as a continuation of the story of the Shining, and one on its success as a continuation of the brilliance of The Shining. I'd give the first 5 stars, but the second only...3. Which is unfair, I guess, especially in light of Stephen King's afterward ("...people change. The man who wrote Doctor Sleep is very different from the well-meaning alcoholic who wrote The Shining, but both remain interested in the same thing: telling a kickass story. I enjoyed finding Danny Torrance again and following his adventures. I hope you did, too. If that's the case, Constant Reader, we're all good.")--which seems to say that my first 5 star review is the one King would care about, if I were to presume he cares what I have to say. And since I love Stephen King, that's what I gave it, officially, and that's the one I'll start with. This book is SUCH a fun read! The best kind of King book, the kind that leaves you hungover in the morning because you were up much too late reading, and almost makes you miss your bus to work because you get engrossed in it again while you brush your teeth. Several times I got a big giddy grin on my face and even laughed aloud with ridiculous delight at a super stephenkingy turn of phrase, words I imagined gave him a similar satisfaction as they left his fingers for the page. Some of these were even scary-creepy things, but they were so perfectly done, they were thrilling on that second level, too. It felt to me like King had a lot of fun with a lot of this book, just reveling in his own GoodAtItNess, long passages spooling out with gleeful sprezzatura. The story runs smoothly along, suspenseful questions answered with perfect timing, never leaving so much unknown at once that the complications are impossible to follow. The central characters are excellent. Grownup Dan surprisingly unlike 5 year old Dan in the way my own grownup children are surprisingly unlike their 5 year old selves--something of the little boy remains, but he didn't just stretch to man-size, he's a fully realized person, very changed. Abra is a great character on her own, and her relationships with Dan, her parents, and her friends, are all truthful and nuanced. Good on whoever talked King through the markers of early adolescent girlness that pepper her believability. The scary creepy horrors are scary, creepy, and horrible; turning off the light when I finally forced myself every night was just as unpleasant as it had been when I read The Shining. Loose strings of the original plot are nicely knotted up. I'd have maybe liked to know more about Wendy, but real grown men--as Dan is, in this novel--don't have the kind of insight or, frankly, interest, in their mothers' inner lives. Even if they're psychic. So it works, as a function of Grownup Dan being well done. Less likely, I thought, was the way Dick was written out of Dan's life, but I have to admit that works too, in the sense that Dan grew up in ways that were unpredictable when he was five. Expository backstory from the first book doesn't get the clumsy treatment it normally does in sequels, but is dropped in usefully and gracefully throughout the plot. It was very satisfying to have some things I thought I understood about the Overlook, and Dan, and Jack, confirmed, and equally satisfying to have some new details mixed in to deepen and thicken that foundation of the story. The final revisitation from The Shining gets a muted, subtle treatment in the narrative, and I hope it's not just sentimental over-imagination on my part to think King let it be so simple because it might have been unbearably moving otherwise. Five stars! Buy it, read it, you'll enjoy it! Now then. The Shining is one of my all-time favorite books. It's the one I wax rhapsodic about when I'm making an obnoxiously over-thought case for Stephen King as an underrated capital G genius of American capital L literature. It's the one I compare to Dickens and the one I compare to Steinbeck and the one I say doesn't need to lean on those comparisons because it's capital G greatness all by itself. I like to make people listen to me say that the only reason The Shining is not a genuine masterpiece, recognized or not, is that King was young and still growing as a writer. And still not so market-proven that his (now routinely over-indulgent) editors gave him free reign. I have always assumed those factors caused the flaws (I apologize for my cheek, Mr. King; I know I'm unworthy, but for lack of a better, more obsequious term, I have to go with flaws) in The Shining, and I was unrestrainedly thrilled to hear a sequel unaffected by those was in the works. I refused to entertain fears that I wouldn't like it as much as the original, the way absolutely everyone likes the sequel less than the original; when the first reviews came out and I read that Barbara Kingsolver loved Dr. Sleep, I went directly to Kindle, did not pass go, and Amazon collected my seven dollars. And it was, as I've already said, money well and unregrettedly spent. But this book isn't anything like The Shining. Not as a literary feat. Both books tell, as King says he intended, kickass stories. The Shining, though, spent its first half telling a fascinatingly ambiguous story, too. The Shining is about a man with demons we all recognize, and a lot of us live with intimately. For a good chunk of the beginning of the book, it is impossible to determine from the text alone whether or not those demons are the only demons in the Torrance family's life. The interplay between Jack and his family and the things in Jack's head is fantastic, and the aforementioned flaw is that the transition between "Is This Real or Is Jack Just Crazy" to "Oh, yeah, it's real. Jack's crazy, too, but that's secondary" is less smoothly done than the writing on either side of the divide. And Dr. Sleep has nothing at all like that. The kickass story is all out in the open and straightforwardly linear, as is the development of all the characters and the reader's understanding of who they are and what they're doing. Dr. Sleep is extragood pop culture writing. The Shining was that, with unrecognized actual literature icing its cake. Without the icing, I give it three stars.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great Story, Fun Read
*by J***. on October 14, 2013*

I would give this great story 4.5 stars. I savored the book throughout and didn't want it to end. I actually rationed it so that I wouldn't finish it too quickly! I love Stephen King, but not everything he writes. I adore his early and mid-career horror novels, but I got turned off by a lot of his newer works starting with The Green Mile. Under the Dome gave me renewed hope, and Dr. Sleep shows that he's definitely still got it after all these years. This is a very different book than The Shining. While there is some overlap, this has nothing much to do with what happened when Dan was a little boy at the Overlook Hotel (even though the Overlook ruins feature prominently here, as do some memories about the malevolent creatures that lurked inside). This is instead a story about Dan and a new, charming main character, a young girl named Abra. Abra has "the shining" even more strongly than Dan ever did. Unfortunately, we come to learn that there is a group of very evil vampire-like creatures called The True Knot that murders children with the shining to "suck out their steam" (their shining) after slowly torturing them to death (torturing them "purified the steam"). Disguised as benevolent senior citizens in RVs, the True Knot wanders America's highways looking for "steamhead" children to kill. They use their steam as a fountain of youth, keeping themselves alive for thousands of years. Led by a stunningly beautiful woman called Rose the Hat (the members of the tribe use mobster names), these villains are very interesting and scary. As I said, I loved this book. The ending, however, slightly disappointed me. The book builds up to a spectacular showdown between Abra and Dan versus the True Knot. I was so excited for it, turning the pages on my Kindle with great anticipation. I was looking forward to a huge good vs. evil battle that King does so well (as in The Stand, for example, which had an ending I loved). I won't write any spoilers here, but I was disappointed. It wasn't terrible by any means, but it did leave me saying "That's it? Seriously?" At the same time, I went back and re-read the climax several times, proving it was still enjoyable. I also would have liked more history about the True Knot members. The story about their murder of the baseball boy was horrific and terrifying. It almost crossed the line into being "too much" (I am not a fan of torture porn horror stories), but in the end it thankfully gave us a break from that. Still, I wanted more! I wanted to know about each member of the tribe, where they came from, their history, and more stories about their murders and their victims. Aside from the baseball boy and their desire to harm Abra, however, we didn't get to know very much. Some people say in their reviews that they thought the True Knot members were too hammy. I disagree. I enjoyed their quips and didn't mind them being a little bit over the top sometimes. These weren't crude caricatures of villains. They had a softer side although it was never really explored. They loved each other and sometimes tried to justify their murders by saying they have to do it to live. I would have liked learning more about them. I guess something had to be cut from this already quite lengthy novel, but I absolutely didn't find the book too long as it was at all. I do agree with some of the reviews that say they got tired of all the AA sayings and focus on alcohol abuse and sobriety. Honestly, it got old. That said, I recognize this came from King's personal experience and heart, so I didn't mind it as much as I otherwise might. I just don't want to hear about it again in future King novels. All in all, I highly recommend the book without any hesitation. It isn't King's best, but in my opinion it is in his top 5. That's quite a compliment. I sincerely hope King keeps on writing these horror novels. If you're looking for a scary story, get ready for Dr. Sleep.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Not King's Very Best But Still An Entertaining, Fun Read
*by T***Y on January 22, 2014*

One warm, clear fall afternoon in 1977 in the far northern `super boonies' of Chicago, a friend--my next door neighbor--sat with me on my deck enjoying a beer. One thing we had in common was that we both enjoyed reading, and so as we sat there relaxing we shared some of our tastes in books and authors. As a boy, I always liked horror and science fiction, and cut my reading teeth on the likes of Edgar Allen Poe, Ambrose Bierce, Algernon Blackwood, and HP Lovecraft. Then, as a young adult, I graduated to Robert Bloch, Richard Matheson, Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, Fredric Brown and William Peter Blatty. My friend inquired if I had ever read any books by a guy named Stephen King. No, I replied, Stephen King wasn't familiar to me. He spoke a little about Stephen King's first book, `Carrie,' and then launched into a glowing description of King's then latest book `The Shining,' which he had just finished. He offered to lend me his copy. I accepted, and thus began my on-again off- again relationship with the works of Stephen King that has lasted from 1977 to this present day. I liked `The Shining' so much that I immediately started reading everything Stephen King I could get my hands on. That lasted for several years, until, in 1983, King published `Pet Sematary', a book I did not enjoy at all. After that I was more `off' with Stephen King than I was on. However, `The Shining' along with `The Stand' are the two Stephen King books that I enjoyed the most and consider to be his `best.' I give those two books five stars. Every other Stephen King book that I have read--including `Doctor Sleep'--will of necessity receive fewer stars from me than those two. `Doctor Sleep' is a `sequel' to `The Shining' in a narrow sense: the little boy Danny Torrance featured in the earlier book has grown up to be an, forty-something Dan Torrance, who is still psychically gifted, but is now carrying around a head full of haunting, scary memories and some very adult appurtenant problems. `Doctor Sleep' picks up many years after the end of the earlier book, and the story line and theme is entirely new. King keeps the pace a little slow in the beginning of the book as he lays down the setup for the story. We see little Danny Torrance back in the Overlook Hotel, where his father is going homicidally insane, and we briefly see his terrified mother Wendy and--oh yes--the malevolent spirits that inhabit the Overlook. Then we jump to grownup Dan, haunted now by his past and his memories, drinking alcoholically in a vain effort to medicate them away . After that we meet the True Knot, a group of flesh and blood but almost immortal psychic vampires who travel around in RV's. While these folk look like harmless retirees, most of them are actually hundreds of years old. They avoid aging by preying on psychically gifted children whom they abduct, torture, and murder in order to release and consume their psychic energy or, as the True Knot people call it, `steam.' Then we meet a very young girl named Abra who `shines' bigger and brighter than Dan/Danny ever has. Abra is both telepathic and telekinetic--a composite of younger Danny and King's famous character `Carrie'--and at a very young age, she `finds' Dan telepathically and connects to him by telekinetically writing on a blackboard. As the story line unspools, Abra reaches adolescence, and her powerful `shine' permits her to psychically witness, over a great distance, the True Knot in nefarious action. Of course, this gets Abra on the True Knot's radar screen, with just the kind of looming menace for Abra that readers of Stephen King expect. This is when `Doctor Sleep' really hits its stride as a page turner. One of the joys of reading Stephen King for me is how well he lays out and develops his characters. Dan is very believable as a grown up Danny. He still has `the shining' but it has matured and changed texture. I liked how Dan had learned from his old mentor from `The Shining'--Dick Halloran--to cope with the spirits and visions that his shining brings him. Also, King, himself a recovering alcoholic, goes into some very descriptive nitty-gritty's of just how bad Dan's alcoholism became, and how Alcoholics Anonymous helped turn him around. Some may find that part of the story a bit of a digression, but it does make Dan's character seem much more human and real, and some of the characters from Dan's AA group play key roles later in the book. The character of Abra is well developed and appealing. Her youthful exuberance and self confidence--indeed over confidence in her own ability--made her character come alive and also serve to put her increasingly in harms way as the story unfolds. Abra's overprotective parents, and her elderly grandmother were great foils for Abra as well. Unfortunately, the `True Knot' characters fell a little short, and were neither as vivid or as menacing as some of the villains King has conjured up in other books. Just recall Randall Flagg and Trashcan Man in `The Stand,' Jack Torrance in `The Shining,' and Annie Wilkes in `Misery.' The True Knot's bunch of older, gray haired retirees in Hawaiian shirts driving big expensive motor homes are a bit of a stretch to imagine transforming into creepy, vampire-like child murderers. The best of the True Knot characters is their leader, Rose, and King does make her memorable, but like the rest of the Knots, she needed a booster shot when it comes to creepiness and menace. Even with the shortcomings of the True Knot, the story line of `Doctor Sleep' holds together. The tension in the story is generated by the Knot's hot pursuit of young Abra and her `big steam' and Dan's battle with his alcoholic tendencies. There is room for improvement--the story would have been better if King had let the True Knot's evil have more of a romp--but he keeps the story rolling right up until the book's end in fine Dan Brown page turning fashion. Some other reviews I have read complained that King telegraphs the ending of the story early on. I mostly agree with that criticism but it didn't detract bother me, because the way the book needed to end was obvious to me. King delivered the ending in a dramatically satisfying way, and tied up the loose ends quite nicely, leaving little on the table story-wise to serve as a jumping off point for any future book. Somehow, I doubt that King, now sixty-six years old, intends to revisit Abra thirty odd years later like he did with Danny/Dan. To sum up, Doctor Sleep is not King's very best book--maybe not even in his top ten--but it is an entertaining and fun read, and well worth what I paid for the Kindle edition.

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