Is Dr. Sleep Really A Sequel?

I'm seeing a lot of news and internet activity suggesitng King will again use Danny Torrance in a novel titled Dr. Sleep.

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Already in the writing?

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James Grainger at books.torontoist.com says that King said he began writing the book last summer.

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Sequel?

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"King remarked that though he ended his 1977 novel on a positive note, the Overlook was bound to have left young Danny with a lifetime’s worth of emotional scars. What Danny made of those traumatic experiences, and with the psychic powers that saved him from his father at the Overlook, is a question that King believes might make a damn fine sequel."

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Though Danny returns, the story itself looks pretty unique. Of course, the Shining itself centered on the family as much as on Danny alone. Usually a sequel continues the precious story. Will the overlook play any part? What about Jack's ghost?

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A Kubrick Slam?

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Of course, Danny has taken up horse betting, something he learned from. . . Dick Hallorann. WAIT A MINUTE! Dick Hallorann is dead, right? We all saw it on screen. He's quite dead, in Kubrick's version of The Shining. But in King's novel, Hallorann comes to the rescue just in time as the family escapes the big explosion.

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Actually, it should be a lesson to movie makers: Stick with the book, or the writer might get the last laugh when he wrties the sequal.

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Dark Tower?

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With King writing a sequal to the Shining and a new Dark Tower book in a close time frame makes me wonder if he might connect the two. He certainly didwith Salem's Lot. Of course, I really no idea, but I'm just sayin'. . .

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Thank You Mr. King!

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A word of thanks to Mr. King. Before he went on this talking tour, sharing all these ideas and leaving us all breathless with anticipation, he at least gave us a thousand page novel to sift through. Nice. That does ease the waiting. Well, not really. And they're killer ideas, aren't they! I mean, a dark tower novel, a Danny Torrance novel, cool.

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http://books.torontoist.com/2009/11/stephen-king-planning-possible-sequel-to-the-shining/

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also: http://www.liljas-library.com/