Winner of the 2014 audie award for fiction and finalist for solo narrationmale soon to be a major motion picture starring ewan mcgregor. Before doctor sleep, there was the shining, a classic of modern american horror from the undisputed master, stephen king. His character was one you believe in with your whole heart, you can see that he is the boy you met in the shining all grown up now. 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. Doctor sleep won the 20 bram stoker award for best novel. Im releasing the entire audio book for free via episodic podcast installments. Doctor sleep by stephen king audiobook try our site with free audio books. Kings recent books under the dome, 112263 and joyland have all been superb, amongst the very best he has ever written, and happily doctor sleep continues the trend. She strives to protect her sister, nettie, from a similar fate, and while nettie escapes to a new life as a missionary in africa, celie is left behind without her best friend and confidante, married off to an older suitor, and sentenced to a life alone with a harsh and brutal husband. The narrator, will patton, does a great job of creating voices that are nuanced enough to be separate entities in the performance.
Stephen kings doctor sleep read by will patton fantasy. Celie has grown up poor in rural georgia, despised by society and abused by her own family. Stephen king is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. Will pattons delivery enhances kings prose in ways that make kings work so much more enjoyable in audio than just reading it.
Muller makes these characters comes to life in a way that makes the story even more devastating. Usted is the formal, singular form used to address one person that you do not know well or to whom you would show respect. If you like 1 month unlimited audiobook listening 12. The audiobook was originally scheduled to be released november 20, but the release was cancelled due to audiogos bankruptcy. The audiobook collection is a compilation of courtney peppernells pillow. Stephen king himself chose narrator frank muller for the audiobook, and when listening, its clear to see why. I came to listen to doctor sleep with the advantage of having just recently read the shining.
What made the experience of listening to doctor sleep the most enjoyable. Would you consider the audio edition of doctor sleep to be better than the print version. As a fact, stephen kings specialty is in his way of incorporating his fiction, horror and supernatural story like thoughts into the real lifelike events that have happened to him. The wizard is though i maintained thinking pack it up. But as dan torrance knows, and spunky twelveyearold abra stone learns, the true knot are quasiimmortal, living off.
Get a great way to pass time, whether youre cooking up your favorite dish or out for a long drive. But dannys uneasy peace is disrupted when hes drawn into the battle to protect 12yearold abra. The audiobook collection courtney peppernell pillow thoughts. Doctor sleep is a 20 horror novel by american writer stephen king and the sequel to his 1977 novel the shining. At times i wasnt sure if it was the shining the sequel, or firestarter the sequel. Just finished the doctor sleep audiobook narrated by will patton. Then dan meets the evanescent abra stone, and it is her spectacular gift, the brightest shining ever seen, that reignites dans own demons and summons him to a battle for abras soul and survival. Listen to doctor sleep a novel by stephen king available from rakuten kobo. Cherie hughes, tulsa community college amir hussain, loyola marymount university eugene y.
But the recording will only be shared only with the drafting group, and you may opt to have your remarks excluded. They look harmless mostly old, lots of polyester, and married to their rvs. Editions of doctor sleep by stephen king goodreads. Listen and download full free stephen king audiobook collection. Actually i completely forgot about the readalong until i saw tis post on the first six chapters on her blog, book chatter so, im cheating to catch up and answering. Only know the audio version but the narrator was outstanding. Stephen kings the shining sequel is his best novel yet to the stellar ranks of stephen kings audiobook narrators add will patton, doing justice to kings doctor sleep. Now, dan has finally found some order in the chaos by working in a local hospice, earning the nickname doctor sleep by secretly using his special abilities to comfort the dying and prepare them for the afterlife. In this spectacular new york times bestselling fatherson collaboration that barrels along like a freight train publishers weekly, stephen king and owen king tell the highest of highstakes stories. To celebrate the new release from this bestselling author, we thought wed take a look back at our 10 favorite stephen king books. If youre not normally a fan of horror but still want to give a. Get the audible audiobook for the reduced price of. His recent work includes the institute, elevation, the outsider, sleeping beauties cowritten with his son owen king, and the bill hodges trilogy.
On highways across america, a tribe of people called the true knot travel in search of sustenance. Stream and download audiobooks to your computer, tablet or mobile phone. Doctor sleep by stephen king is an adventure and otherworldly with interesting characters, but there were times during the audio that my mind wandered. Just finished the doctor sleep audiobook narrated by will. Chapters are already up on itunes, spotify and stitcher so you can see if you like it. 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 middleaged dan torrance the boy protagonist of the shining and the very special twelveyearold girl he must save from a tribe of murderous paranormals. Doctor sleep joins danny as a middleaged man working in a hospice, and let me tell you, i adore danny. Doctor sleep, the highly anticipated sequel to the shining was released this week on audio book.
Stream and download these great audiobook series to your computer, tablet or mobile phone. Doctor sleep is more than just a sequel, although it has roots to the shining, this is a story that has its own wings. For a novel containing such a dazzling plot and such memorable characters doctor sleep is actually quite a profound novel when it comes to examining some of lifes darker issues. A list of stephen kings audiobooks, organized alphabetically. Stephen king returns to the characters and territory of one of his most. Doctor sleep by stephen king audio book simply audiobooks.
Stephen king audiobook veteran will patton is the perfect narrator for the horror icons extremely creepy followup to the shining. Winner of the 2014 audie award for fiction and finalist forsolo narrationmale. I raced through the audiobook of doctor sleep, stephen kings followup to the shining, completely forgetting that i was supposed to be tweeting my thoughts as i went along. Leave him, i felt attached to the nameless narrator via the unique as if i was the one in her setting. Doctor sleep audiobook by stephen king 9781442362390. Winner of the 2014 audie award for fiction and finalist for solo narrationmalesoon to be a major motion picture starring ewan mcgregor. Stephen kings the shining sequel is his best novel yet. Really brought the atmosphere to the story and delivered great character differentiation what was one of the most memorable moments of doctor sleep. Will patton narrated audio books at simply audiobooks.
The 10 best stephen king audiobooks, a ranking book riot. Doctor sleep by stephen king read by will patton audiobook. Carrie 1974 king became so frustrated writing this horror stor. Doctor sleep catches up with danny torrance, now a recovering alcoholic coming to terms with the psychic damage he suffered as a boy. Soon to be a major motion picture starring ewan mcgregor.
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