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Post by angelac on Sept 26, 2013 9:28:40 GMT -6
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 spunky twelve-year-old 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 devoted readers of The Shining and satisfy anyone new to this icon in the King canon. Mr. King you have done it again! Well written and impossible to put down. One of the truly great things about a great piece of fiction for me is that the characters, who like real people are both good and bad, come to life and you feel both their pain and triumph. One of my favorite writers! Well worth both your money and your time, 5 stars. Attachments:
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Post by frankerrington on Sept 26, 2013 13:41:08 GMT -6
Nice review!
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Post by angelac on Sept 27, 2013 2:23:33 GMT -6
Thank you!
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Post by BloodyMonkeyZ on Sept 28, 2013 14:11:36 GMT -6
It is no secret that I am not a huge King fan (He has done a TON for the genre, but I feel he needs to trim his works down to more like 400 pages than 1000) but this is the one book of his I am really excited to get and read (err. . . put on my shelf and collect dust while I hope to read, that is)
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Post by angelac on Sept 28, 2013 14:25:34 GMT -6
Not to long on the page count, only around 5 or 6 hours to read this one. The stand came in at around two days lol
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