Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Dr sleep

Dr Sleep by Stephan King 


WARNING
the first paragraph is just a rant skip if you actually want to get to the real review



Dr Sleep was the long awaited sequel to the horror classic The Shining, and can I just say I am pissed at Stephan King. The Shining was published in 1977 and flew off the shelves and was big hit automatic classic, so naturally like a NORMAL author you would write a sequel or a spin off to please the fans and to make more money. WRONG apparently you are expected to wait THIRTY THREE YEARS AND WRITE SOME CRAPPY NOVELS IN BETWEEN. I mean don't get me wrong Stephan King has written some great novels in the last thirty years, but if you are a true King fan like I am you know that he has some great books, but he also has a lot of SAD, GOOD FOR NOTHING, HORRIBLY WRITTEN, PIECES OF CRAP. You see with King his stories either fantastic or awful. There will always be the good books: Misery, Carrie, Fire starter, and of course The Shining, and the there are the bad ones: The cell, Christine, the other stories I would refuse to finish as an act of protest. Mr King why do you wish to torture your fans with horrible writing when it is obvious that you are a much better writer than these stories portray? It saddens us horror fans I breaks our tiny and cruel hearts. Next time please refrain from writing stories that could be written by A MONKEY WITH HALF A BRAIN.

Dr Sleep is fabulous story and I think it might actually be better that The Shining although I would strongly recommend against reading it without reading The Shining first. Dr Sleep is about the main(ish) character from the first book ( although he is not exactly the main character because in The Shining because it is constantly switching perspectives) as a grown up dealing with his gift, his gift again part from the first book is that he can see ghosts and often predict when something is going to happen (bad or good)  this power is called the shining hence the name of the first book. But this time the ghosts from the overlook (haunted hotel from the first book) are back. But this time instead of a series of ghosts haunting him it is one group of… Demons?…Ghosts? haunting him specifically on called Rosie nicknamed the girl in the hat.
I would recommend this too people who don't mind things that are on the darker side, also the are some mature topics.

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