I prefer the new Dark Tower book, but I loved "The Shining" and I think that King will make a nice new story with some old characters! And it's not like Stephen woke up one morning and thought "Hey, I have nothing to do, so I'll make a sequel to The Shining!". I think, that the idea and the story was in his head for a long time, and after he figured out some of the most important things, he decided that it will be e good story to tell!
Looking forward to see it done!
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Didn't happen to see a thread about this, or anything like it (I checked, I promise--and unless my neglecting to double check leaves me looking like a moving target for hazing and berating, this has not been posted) but I read an interview with King where he talks about having thought about what happened to Danny after the end of the book.
Here ya go:
http://books.torontoist.com/2009/11/...o-the-shining/
The Thread is titled "Dr. Sleep" which is the proposed working title of the "Shining" sequel.
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63 in '23!!!!!!!!!!
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I never knew about this. I hate it when creators tease us with this stuff though. It just makes me want to read it now. LOL! I am a Star Wars toy collector to (yeah throw in your insults now!). I hate it when the toy companies show pictures of a toy or an action figure and then announce later they are not going to make it afterall. It drives me nuts! After reading the links it seems like Mr King keeps dropping hints about this. It is obviously on his mind a lot to keep bringing it up. I say just go for it then. If people don't like it them fine. To me it sounds interesting enough for me to want to pick it up. Then again I want him to finish his Dark Tower book first and foremost
http://www.liljas-library.com/article.php?id=2545
I got this very interesting news from The Mason Award Event that took place last night. It appears King is almost finished writing a sequel to The Shining, Dr. Sleep. It will be about Danny Torrence as an adult and some sort of vampire like people called "The Tribe" that drive around in mobile homes and feed on psychic energy.
King read a chapter from it at the event and the nice part of it is that there is a clip of it on YouTube!
King also signed books after the event for almost 3 hours. He signed any book that people brought but only 1 book each.
Yay, me like Funny though - The Tribe is also the name of the bikers in Throttle.
That was great, Pablo!!!!
Thanks a heap!!!!
28 in 23 (?)!!!!
63 in '23!!!!!!!!!!
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The Houston Astros cheated Major League Baseball from 2017-18!!!! Is that how we teach our kids to play the game now?????
Lilja has two more videos from the event where King talks about his writing and the two upcoming novels, 11/22/63 and Doctor Sleep.
28 in 23 (?)!!!!
63 in '23!!!!!!!!!!
My Collection: https://www.thedarktower.org/palaver...ion-Merlin1958
The Houston Astros cheated Major League Baseball from 2017-18!!!! Is that how we teach our kids to play the game now?????
Another vid, in HD, courtesy of Randall Flagg:
From Marsha at sk.com
I've posted a News Story about this including the info that GMU had already agreed to share their taping of the event with us and as soon as we have their file we'll post it in the Multimedia section so you should have an audio/video to watch and listen to his reading for yourselves.
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King reads from Dr. Sleep:
Really nice!
Thanks for posting! And please keep the stories comin'!
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The synopsis to this book sounds similar to Carrion Comfort.
i just saw this today. i can't wait until it comes out. ya know he's right, i've always wondered what the hell happend to ole "Danny" to be honest,
he as you all know talks about what happpend to this character or that character in this book or that one. even if it's just a passing reference
mind you. but he's never mentioned at least to my knowlege "Danny Torrence" or his mom. so i think this will be a fun read. & i can't wait to read it. i hope it comes out next year. along with the NEW "DT" novel
I am...worried. Somehow. Mr. King has taught me to be worried about updated or continuing his old books.
Coincidentally, the character of Danny Torrence, I must admit, does not interest me too much.
However, curiously enough, I just gave the film version of "The Shining" another shot, and it was...better than I recalled. And that literally happened last night. And I heard about this today when someone at work compared someone else at work to one of the girls from "The Shining." Funny how that all worked together.
I'm confident that Dr. Sleep will be its very own novel, and it's not a sequel per se. Danny is adult now and different and the plot is not like The Shining. Of course, there'll be flashbacks and references to the events at The Overlook, but I'll take it them as neat memories and small revisits.
I think this will be a "sequel" in the same sense that DT5 was a sequel to Salem's Lot.
Stephen King is probably the only author who could ask in late 2009, "Do you want a new Dark Tower book, or a sequel to The Shining?" and then say, "Screw it, I'm going to publish them both in 2012, but only after I publish an 800 page book on a time traveler out to save JFK."
Somehow I doubt we'll see Dr. Sleep in 2012. Seems too early, if it's at first draft now. But who knows, maybe it'll get the annual early November King-slot after all
Yeah, I wonder if that's why they moved Wind Through the Keyhole up a month -- to give it a window before a fall 2012 book.