I read The Shining and Doctor Sleep back-to-back. I was shocked to find that I liked Doctor Sleep more than The Shining--which I loved.
So far my favorite parts were the tie in with Joe Hill's NOS4A2 and Dick's childhood. I think I would have enjoyed a whole book about Dick more than one about Danny at this point.
Think its a love it or hate it number!
Perhaps you should have read The Shining as I did -- sitting by the fire, alone in a ski lodge closed for interim (between summer and winter seasons) with the only access road closed by an early snowstorm and the electricity threatening to go out at any moment.That seems to be true of a lot of King's books. Of those I've read, I like The Gunslinger best. The rest of that series deterioriated, for me as reader. I was defeated by The Shining. Just couldn't get through it, for reasons I can't exactly articulate. But maybe I need to give it another go, and read Dr. Sleep after.
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The last big flaw was Abra. King continues to insist on writing about children even though he's terrible at it. I can almost picture him writing that character thinking, "what should Abra do now? How about if she cries? Little girls cry all the time write? Yeah that works."