Doctor Sleep
Stephen King, 2013
Horror Mystery, thriller & crimeFantasyContemporary fiction
Danny Torrance, the boy from The Shining, is now a drifting alcoholic—until a girl with the same gift pulls him into a fight against something that feeds on children.
Feels like dread and hope. About death.
A page from the book
A grand hotel burns, and the year hides in a president.
On the second day of December in a year when a Georgia peanut farmer was doing business in the White House, one of Colorado’s great resort hotels burned to the ground. The Overlook was declared a total loss. Stephen King.King's sequel to The Shining arrived 36 years after the original; he wrote it to find out what happened to Danny Torrance as an adult.
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Questions readers ask
- What is Doctor Sleep like?
- Feels like dread and hope. About death.
- What should I read after Doctor Sleep?
- If you liked Doctor Sleep, try An Ember in the Ashes (Sabaa Tahir), The Long Walk (Richard Bachman) and Verity (Colleen Hoover).
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The difference between guilt that crushes you and guilt that steers you.
There are two kinds of guilt. The kind that’s a burden and the kind that gives you purpose. Let your guilt be your fuel. Let it remind you of who you want to be. Draw a line in your mind. Never cross it again. You have a soul. It’s damaged but it’s there. Don’t let them take it from you.
An Ember in the Ashes · Sabaa Tahir
The seductive idea of death as a silent library where nothing is asked of you.
Garraty wondered how it would be, to lie in the biggest, dustiest library silence of all, dreaming endless, thoughtless dreams behind your gummed-down eyelids, dressed forever in your Sunday suit. No worries about money, success, fear, joy, pain, sorrow, sex, or love. Absolute zero. No father, mother, girlfriend, lover. The dead are orphans. No company but the silence like a moth’s wing. An end to the agony of movement, to the long nightmare of going down the road. The body in peace, stillness, and order. The perfect darkness of death. How would that be? Just how would that be?
The Long Walk · Richard Bachman
Some people keep a darker world on hand so the real one stays bearable.
I needed for the imaginary version of my world to be darker than my real world. Otherwise, I would have wanted to leave them both.
Verity · Colleen Hoover
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