Doctor Sleep: A Novel

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.

I loved this book!!! His best yet!! Berber to the book the shining. Audio scared me to pieces!!

Awesome book! There is few books that I want as trophies but this one of them.

Amazing as is all his work !!! I’m a huge fan

The Shining is an AMAZING story. Perfectly creepy. This book doesn't come anywhere near it, unfortunately. I'd hoped to be getting something similar but this just fell flat. Good story idea but it just didn't have whatever it is that made Kings earlier books so damn good.

amazing story telling. and as usual amazing work by SK!

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.

Another great story in the books. There are other worlds than this.

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

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

Made it to my top three Stephen King reads. Perfect!

I really loved this book always wondered what happened to little Danny torrence. Great conclusion to a great book

I think this one goes under the radar for a lot of King fans, but it shouldn't. It's a winner!

Phenomenal! Got to say, as always the book was 100 times better then the movie...

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!

Pretty damned good sequel. Need more like this one. A

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.

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.

Brilliant story with overtones of AA recovery language. Thank you ?? And the narrator managed so many distinct accent.

The book was great. Good sequel to the shining, not as good of course.

Very satisfying follow up on Dan Torrance’s life. Loved it.

Great excerpt to the shining loved it! Hopefully he writes more about Abra and Danny!

Brilliant, scary, interesting, loved the Shining, love this follow up!

Great book!! They guy reading it fantastic! A + +

A good sequel. Voice acting was good as well. 4/5.

Love this book. Second time reading it and it was just as good as the first time!

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.

I love a GOOD sequel and this is a rare one. Great read and Steven King holds up in this one!

Excellent story of a family I really needed to know more about.

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