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Welcome to this months #BuddyRead episode. What's a Buddy Read? Co-host Classy and I select a title that we'll either read, listen to, or a combination of both. Afterwards we come together to chat about it on the podcast! This is a candid and spoiler-filled convo. We talk about this book during a live chat at in the Shelf Addiction Official Facebook group, so you'll want to join us there!
In this episode, we're discussing Doctor Sleep by Stephen King. We are also comparing it to the movie adaptation! Both Classy and I listened to the audiobook and read the book. Which was a fun experience on top of watching the movie. If you haven't read the book and still want to know what we thought about the movie, then you'll still want to listen!
Be sure to check out the video version of this pod and watch the After Show on Patreon.
In this episode, we're discussing Doctor Sleep by Stephen King. We are also comparing it to the movie adaptation! Both Classy and I listened to the audiobook and read the book. Which was a fun experience on top of watching the movie. If you haven't read the book and still want to know what we thought about the movie, then you'll still want to listen!
Be sure to check out the video version of this pod and watch the After Show on Patreon.
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Publisher: Scribner | Simon & Schuster Audio
Release Date: Sept 24, 2013
Format: MP3 Download
Audio Length: 18 hrs and 34 mins
Narrator: Will Patton
Genre: Thriller, Suspense
Rating: 4 bookmarks - Tamara | 4 bookmarks - Classy
Synopsis: Stephen King returns to the characters and territory of one of his most popular novels ever, The Shining, in this instantly riveting novel about the now middle-aged Dan Torrance (the boy protagonist of The Shining) and the very special 12-year-old girl he must save from a tribe of murderous paranormals.
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 12-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 hyper-devoted fans of The Shining and wildly satisfy anyone new to the territory of this icon in the King canon.
Release Date: Sept 24, 2013
Format: MP3 Download
Audio Length: 18 hrs and 34 mins
Narrator: Will Patton
Genre: Thriller, Suspense
Rating: 4 bookmarks - Tamara | 4 bookmarks - Classy
Synopsis: Stephen King returns to the characters and territory of one of his most popular novels ever, The Shining, in this instantly riveting novel about the now middle-aged Dan Torrance (the boy protagonist of The Shining) and the very special 12-year-old girl he must save from a tribe of murderous paranormals.
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 12-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 hyper-devoted fans of The Shining and wildly satisfy anyone new to the territory of this icon in the King canon.
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