--- product_id: 4084228 title: "Doctor Sleep: A Novel" price: "€ 3.10" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.be/products/4084228-doctor-sleep-a-novel store_origin: BE region: Belgium --- # Doctor Sleep: A Novel **Price:** € 3.10 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Doctor Sleep: A Novel - **How much does it cost?** € 3.10 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.be](https://www.desertcart.be/products/4084228-doctor-sleep-a-novel) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Winner of the 2014 Audie Award for Fiction and Finalist forSolo Narration—Male From master storyteller Stephen King, his unforgettable and terrifying sequel to The Shining —an instant #1 New York Times bestseller that is “[a] vivid frightscape” ( The New York Times )—also a major motion picture starring Ewan McGregor! Years ago, the haunting of the Overlook Hotel nearly broke young Dan Torrance’s sanity, as his paranormal gift known as “the shining” opened a door straight into hell. And even though Dan is all grown up, the ghosts of the Overlook—and his father’s legacy of alcoholism and violence—kept him drifting aimlessly for most of his life. 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. But when he unexpectedly meets twelve-year-old Abra Stone—who possesses an even more powerful manifestation of the shining—the two find their lives in sudden jeopardy at the hands of the ageless and murderous nomadic tribe known as the True Knot, reigniting Dan’s own demons and summoning him to battle for this young girl’s soul and survival... Review: I loved it! Almost perfect. - First off: I promise, NO SPOILERS. I apologize if there is some vagueness as a result. I'd like to write two reviews for Dr. Sleep: one on its stand-alone merits, and as a continuation of the story of the Shining, and one on its success as a continuation of the brilliance of The Shining. I'd give the first 5 stars, but the second only...3. Which is unfair, I guess, especially in light of Stephen King's afterward ("...people change. The man who wrote Doctor Sleep is very different from the well-meaning alcoholic who wrote The Shining, but both remain interested in the same thing: telling a kickass story. I enjoyed finding Danny Torrance again and following his adventures. I hope you did, too. If that's the case, Constant Reader, we're all good.")--which seems to say that my first 5 star review is the one King would care about, if I were to presume he cares what I have to say. And since I love Stephen King, that's what I gave it, officially, and that's the one I'll start with. This book is SUCH a fun read! The best kind of King book, the kind that leaves you hungover in the morning because you were up much too late reading, and almost makes you miss your bus to work because you get engrossed in it again while you brush your teeth. Several times I got a big giddy grin on my face and even laughed aloud with ridiculous delight at a super stephenkingy turn of phrase, words I imagined gave him a similar satisfaction as they left his fingers for the page. Some of these were even scary-creepy things, but they were so perfectly done, they were thrilling on that second level, too. It felt to me like King had a lot of fun with a lot of this book, just reveling in his own GoodAtItNess, long passages spooling out with gleeful sprezzatura. The story runs smoothly along, suspenseful questions answered with perfect timing, never leaving so much unknown at once that the complications are impossible to follow. The central characters are excellent. Grownup Dan surprisingly unlike 5 year old Dan in the way my own grownup children are surprisingly unlike their 5 year old selves--something of the little boy remains, but he didn't just stretch to man-size, he's a fully realized person, very changed. Abra is a great character on her own, and her relationships with Dan, her parents, and her friends, are all truthful and nuanced. Good on whoever talked King through the markers of early adolescent girlness that pepper her believability. The scary creepy horrors are scary, creepy, and horrible; turning off the light when I finally forced myself every night was just as unpleasant as it had been when I read The Shining. Loose strings of the original plot are nicely knotted up. I'd have maybe liked to know more about Wendy, but real grown men--as Dan is, in this novel--don't have the kind of insight or, frankly, interest, in their mothers' inner lives. Even if they're psychic. So it works, as a function of Grownup Dan being well done. Less likely, I thought, was the way Dick was written out of Dan's life, but I have to admit that works too, in the sense that Dan grew up in ways that were unpredictable when he was five. Expository backstory from the first book doesn't get the clumsy treatment it normally does in sequels, but is dropped in usefully and gracefully throughout the plot. It was very satisfying to have some things I thought I understood about the Overlook, and Dan, and Jack, confirmed, and equally satisfying to have some new details mixed in to deepen and thicken that foundation of the story. The final revisitation from The Shining gets a muted, subtle treatment in the narrative, and I hope it's not just sentimental over-imagination on my part to think King let it be so simple because it might have been unbearably moving otherwise. Five stars! Buy it, read it, you'll enjoy it! Now then. The Shining is one of my all-time favorite books. It's the one I wax rhapsodic about when I'm making an obnoxiously over-thought case for Stephen King as an underrated capital G genius of American capital L literature. It's the one I compare to Dickens and the one I compare to Steinbeck and the one I say doesn't need to lean on those comparisons because it's capital G greatness all by itself. I like to make people listen to me say that the only reason The Shining is not a genuine masterpiece, recognized or not, is that King was young and still growing as a writer. And still not so market-proven that his (now routinely over-indulgent) editors gave him free reign. I have always assumed those factors caused the flaws (I apologize for my cheek, Mr. King; I know I'm unworthy, but for lack of a better, more obsequious term, I have to go with flaws) in The Shining, and I was unrestrainedly thrilled to hear a sequel unaffected by those was in the works. I refused to entertain fears that I wouldn't like it as much as the original, the way absolutely everyone likes the sequel less than the original; when the first reviews came out and I read that Barbara Kingsolver loved Dr. Sleep, I went directly to Kindle, did not pass go, and desertcart collected my seven dollars. And it was, as I've already said, money well and unregrettedly spent. But this book isn't anything like The Shining. Not as a literary feat. Both books tell, as King says he intended, kickass stories. The Shining, though, spent its first half telling a fascinatingly ambiguous story, too. The Shining is about a man with demons we all recognize, and a lot of us live with intimately. For a good chunk of the beginning of the book, it is impossible to determine from the text alone whether or not those demons are the only demons in the Torrance family's life. The interplay between Jack and his family and the things in Jack's head is fantastic, and the aforementioned flaw is that the transition between "Is This Real or Is Jack Just Crazy" to "Oh, yeah, it's real. Jack's crazy, too, but that's secondary" is less smoothly done than the writing on either side of the divide. And Dr. Sleep has nothing at all like that. The kickass story is all out in the open and straightforwardly linear, as is the development of all the characters and the reader's understanding of who they are and what they're doing. Dr. Sleep is extragood pop culture writing. The Shining was that, with unrecognized actual literature icing its cake. Without the icing, I give it three stars. Review: Another masterpiece from the Scarlet Scribe - Stephen King has done it again with this fascinating, new tale that reunites an old hero with new ones, who have to face a traveling band of creatures that only King could think up. This story involves a now grown Danny Torrance, one of the survivors of the ill-fate Overlook Hotel in Sidewinder, Colorado, and a band of monster hunters on the trail of supernatural RV folks known as “The True Knot.” These horrific creatures we have seen before traveling the highways and byways when we’re on the road. They have those all too familiar motor homes, truck campers and what have you vehicles designed for cross-country jaunts. They stay in those all too-familiar, and quite creepy-in-their-own-way locales where these seemingly ordinary vacationers stay. But, beware, these folks are true monsters in search of the life essence we all have; our life force if you will -- Our “steam,” as it were. Now, Dan, who has been battling his own demons of alcoholism for years has met a young girl who also has the “shine” to her, far more than even Dan has. The teen girl, named Abra Stone is very powerful, as well as desirable to The True Knot; who has made it a habit of killing hundreds; if not thousands of children over the centuries for their “steam,” and they want her badly. With Abra, however, the wicked band of traveling monsters are in for a surprise… This book pays homage to King’s great work, and one of my personal favorites: “The Shining,” and returns to it for some reference, though does not over use the past success of the novel to take over this story. Instead, the psychic events experienced by Dan earlier in his life, as well as the haunts at the Overlook are put into perspective, and as a source for explanation, offering the reader a foundation as to why some things happened, and how his father’s issues visited him. It also brings closure to the past characters and their fates. Dan chooses sobriety, and leads a life of helping those ready to pass on, offering them a chance to do so with dignity and compassion, the source of his true power and strength…A strength that will be put to the test. Now, Dan ultimately teams up with others to hunt down the band of monsters, giving a similar feel to a much older team of English monster hunters such as Dr. Van Helsing, Dr. Seward and Jonathan Harker, or perhaps a more recent team of American monster hunters like Ben Mears, Jason Burke and Mark Petrie in our own little Jerusalem’s Lot. To be sure though, the hunt won’t be easy. The audio book is great for those on the run like myself, and certainly makes the driving time go by faster, and certainly more entertaining. Read by one of my favorite actors Will Patton (Falling Skies), who acts out every character like a true thespian, this 15 CD set, or other delivery systems, and of course the book, will delight you in a way only Stephen King can: 10% intrigue, 10% levity and 80% terror, all delivered in strangely believable settings. An excellent story read by an excellent actor. I give it as many stars allowed by law…Can’t wait for the film. If made for TV, maybe they can consider hiring Mr. Patton to play a part. As he can play good as well as evil with apparent ease, we might consider him for the part of “David Stone” (Abra’s father) or if playing the baddy, he would make a great “Crow Daddy.” For “Rose the Hat,” I get an image of Lucy Lawless (of Xena: Warrior Princess fame…God I love her), and when she turns into the monster that she really is; I would consider either Rosie O’Donnell or Nancy Pelosi…We need really evil women for that part. The other parts could vary depending on many things. The only other request is that if to made for TV, maybe it could be made on a better-than-average cable station like AMC, where you can show all the blood and guts that other stations won’t allow, as well as the proper language in order to reflect the book faithfully. If you add too much fluff to a King story, it takes away from the true girth that it was meant to be, kind a like drinking alcohol-free beer – What’s the point? ## Images ![Doctor Sleep: A Novel - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81MWo0i2TLL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I loved it! Almost perfect. *by L***R on October 4, 2013* First off: I promise, NO SPOILERS. I apologize if there is some vagueness as a result. I'd like to write two reviews for Dr. Sleep: one on its stand-alone merits, and as a continuation of the story of the Shining, and one on its success as a continuation of the brilliance of The Shining. I'd give the first 5 stars, but the second only...3. Which is unfair, I guess, especially in light of Stephen King's afterward ("...people change. The man who wrote Doctor Sleep is very different from the well-meaning alcoholic who wrote The Shining, but both remain interested in the same thing: telling a kickass story. I enjoyed finding Danny Torrance again and following his adventures. I hope you did, too. If that's the case, Constant Reader, we're all good.")--which seems to say that my first 5 star review is the one King would care about, if I were to presume he cares what I have to say. And since I love Stephen King, that's what I gave it, officially, and that's the one I'll start with. This book is SUCH a fun read! The best kind of King book, the kind that leaves you hungover in the morning because you were up much too late reading, and almost makes you miss your bus to work because you get engrossed in it again while you brush your teeth. Several times I got a big giddy grin on my face and even laughed aloud with ridiculous delight at a super stephenkingy turn of phrase, words I imagined gave him a similar satisfaction as they left his fingers for the page. Some of these were even scary-creepy things, but they were so perfectly done, they were thrilling on that second level, too. It felt to me like King had a lot of fun with a lot of this book, just reveling in his own GoodAtItNess, long passages spooling out with gleeful sprezzatura. The story runs smoothly along, suspenseful questions answered with perfect timing, never leaving so much unknown at once that the complications are impossible to follow. The central characters are excellent. Grownup Dan surprisingly unlike 5 year old Dan in the way my own grownup children are surprisingly unlike their 5 year old selves--something of the little boy remains, but he didn't just stretch to man-size, he's a fully realized person, very changed. Abra is a great character on her own, and her relationships with Dan, her parents, and her friends, are all truthful and nuanced. Good on whoever talked King through the markers of early adolescent girlness that pepper her believability. The scary creepy horrors are scary, creepy, and horrible; turning off the light when I finally forced myself every night was just as unpleasant as it had been when I read The Shining. Loose strings of the original plot are nicely knotted up. I'd have maybe liked to know more about Wendy, but real grown men--as Dan is, in this novel--don't have the kind of insight or, frankly, interest, in their mothers' inner lives. Even if they're psychic. So it works, as a function of Grownup Dan being well done. Less likely, I thought, was the way Dick was written out of Dan's life, but I have to admit that works too, in the sense that Dan grew up in ways that were unpredictable when he was five. Expository backstory from the first book doesn't get the clumsy treatment it normally does in sequels, but is dropped in usefully and gracefully throughout the plot. It was very satisfying to have some things I thought I understood about the Overlook, and Dan, and Jack, confirmed, and equally satisfying to have some new details mixed in to deepen and thicken that foundation of the story. The final revisitation from The Shining gets a muted, subtle treatment in the narrative, and I hope it's not just sentimental over-imagination on my part to think King let it be so simple because it might have been unbearably moving otherwise. Five stars! Buy it, read it, you'll enjoy it! Now then. The Shining is one of my all-time favorite books. It's the one I wax rhapsodic about when I'm making an obnoxiously over-thought case for Stephen King as an underrated capital G genius of American capital L literature. It's the one I compare to Dickens and the one I compare to Steinbeck and the one I say doesn't need to lean on those comparisons because it's capital G greatness all by itself. I like to make people listen to me say that the only reason The Shining is not a genuine masterpiece, recognized or not, is that King was young and still growing as a writer. And still not so market-proven that his (now routinely over-indulgent) editors gave him free reign. I have always assumed those factors caused the flaws (I apologize for my cheek, Mr. King; I know I'm unworthy, but for lack of a better, more obsequious term, I have to go with flaws) in The Shining, and I was unrestrainedly thrilled to hear a sequel unaffected by those was in the works. I refused to entertain fears that I wouldn't like it as much as the original, the way absolutely everyone likes the sequel less than the original; when the first reviews came out and I read that Barbara Kingsolver loved Dr. Sleep, I went directly to Kindle, did not pass go, and Amazon collected my seven dollars. And it was, as I've already said, money well and unregrettedly spent. But this book isn't anything like The Shining. Not as a literary feat. Both books tell, as King says he intended, kickass stories. The Shining, though, spent its first half telling a fascinatingly ambiguous story, too. The Shining is about a man with demons we all recognize, and a lot of us live with intimately. For a good chunk of the beginning of the book, it is impossible to determine from the text alone whether or not those demons are the only demons in the Torrance family's life. The interplay between Jack and his family and the things in Jack's head is fantastic, and the aforementioned flaw is that the transition between "Is This Real or Is Jack Just Crazy" to "Oh, yeah, it's real. Jack's crazy, too, but that's secondary" is less smoothly done than the writing on either side of the divide. And Dr. Sleep has nothing at all like that. The kickass story is all out in the open and straightforwardly linear, as is the development of all the characters and the reader's understanding of who they are and what they're doing. Dr. Sleep is extragood pop culture writing. The Shining was that, with unrecognized actual literature icing its cake. Without the icing, I give it three stars. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Another masterpiece from the Scarlet Scribe *by C***S on September 22, 2014* Stephen King has done it again with this fascinating, new tale that reunites an old hero with new ones, who have to face a traveling band of creatures that only King could think up. This story involves a now grown Danny Torrance, one of the survivors of the ill-fate Overlook Hotel in Sidewinder, Colorado, and a band of monster hunters on the trail of supernatural RV folks known as “The True Knot.” These horrific creatures we have seen before traveling the highways and byways when we’re on the road. They have those all too familiar motor homes, truck campers and what have you vehicles designed for cross-country jaunts. They stay in those all too-familiar, and quite creepy-in-their-own-way locales where these seemingly ordinary vacationers stay. But, beware, these folks are true monsters in search of the life essence we all have; our life force if you will -- Our “steam,” as it were. Now, Dan, who has been battling his own demons of alcoholism for years has met a young girl who also has the “shine” to her, far more than even Dan has. The teen girl, named Abra Stone is very powerful, as well as desirable to The True Knot; who has made it a habit of killing hundreds; if not thousands of children over the centuries for their “steam,” and they want her badly. With Abra, however, the wicked band of traveling monsters are in for a surprise… This book pays homage to King’s great work, and one of my personal favorites: “The Shining,” and returns to it for some reference, though does not over use the past success of the novel to take over this story. Instead, the psychic events experienced by Dan earlier in his life, as well as the haunts at the Overlook are put into perspective, and as a source for explanation, offering the reader a foundation as to why some things happened, and how his father’s issues visited him. It also brings closure to the past characters and their fates. Dan chooses sobriety, and leads a life of helping those ready to pass on, offering them a chance to do so with dignity and compassion, the source of his true power and strength…A strength that will be put to the test. Now, Dan ultimately teams up with others to hunt down the band of monsters, giving a similar feel to a much older team of English monster hunters such as Dr. Van Helsing, Dr. Seward and Jonathan Harker, or perhaps a more recent team of American monster hunters like Ben Mears, Jason Burke and Mark Petrie in our own little Jerusalem’s Lot. To be sure though, the hunt won’t be easy. The audio book is great for those on the run like myself, and certainly makes the driving time go by faster, and certainly more entertaining. Read by one of my favorite actors Will Patton (Falling Skies), who acts out every character like a true thespian, this 15 CD set, or other delivery systems, and of course the book, will delight you in a way only Stephen King can: 10% intrigue, 10% levity and 80% terror, all delivered in strangely believable settings. An excellent story read by an excellent actor. I give it as many stars allowed by law…Can’t wait for the film. If made for TV, maybe they can consider hiring Mr. Patton to play a part. As he can play good as well as evil with apparent ease, we might consider him for the part of “David Stone” (Abra’s father) or if playing the baddy, he would make a great “Crow Daddy.” For “Rose the Hat,” I get an image of Lucy Lawless (of Xena: Warrior Princess fame…God I love her), and when she turns into the monster that she really is; I would consider either Rosie O’Donnell or Nancy Pelosi…We need really evil women for that part. The other parts could vary depending on many things. The only other request is that if to made for TV, maybe it could be made on a better-than-average cable station like AMC, where you can show all the blood and guts that other stations won’t allow, as well as the proper language in order to reflect the book faithfully. If you add too much fluff to a King story, it takes away from the true girth that it was meant to be, kind a like drinking alcohol-free beer – What’s the point? ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Good sequel for those what want to know what happened to Danny Torrance *by D***O on September 25, 2013* I really enjoyed this book, but perhaps I enjoyed it because I had different expectations than it seems some readers did. First, I'm not particularly a King fan anymore. I loved his early work, and I believe The Shining is my favorite of his novels (followed closely by The Stand), but I haven't followed him much since, and some of his later books I have not enjoyed. I reread The Shining last year, and I think I maybe enjoyed even more than I did on previous reads, when I was younger and read it for horror rather than for what I now think of as the subtleties of the book. Like another reviewer here, I see The Shining as a novel of psychological horror even more than being a ghost story: to me the scariest parts were the ways in which Jack Torrance's rage and alcoholism destroyed himself and almost destroyed his family. That was a real horror to me. While I love the rest of the story, especially the scary hotel itself, it is the characterization and the portrayals of an alcoholic that really stuck with me. So I was actually quite pleased to see that Dr. Sleep does the same thing: it dwells on characterization, especially of Dan Torrance. Another thing about me as a reader is while I enjoy some horror, I much prefer atmospheric, gothic horror to gore, and I tend to also be a reader of literary fiction. So I was not going into this novel looking for shocks or a certain kind of horror. I do see that this book is, perhaps, not typical of most horror novels, though, which was fine with me. That said, I found much to enjoy in this book. What this book does well is characterization, and Dan Torrance was a complex character. As some readers have noted, the early chapters hit on tough subjects: child sexual abuse, extreme alcoholism, etc. Dan, like his father, Jack, was not likeable when he was drinking. I will say I was a bit worried by those first chapters: I thought that if the book had to much about child sexual abuse, I didn't want to read it. But that was one character's history, and while certainly what the True Knot did to children with the Shining was awful, it was not in that realm, and also, it was not so explicitly described that I felt it was too much. Once I got past the opening, though, and once Dan found stopped drinking, it improved. While some reviewers here said Dan was boring, I didn't think he was at all; I actually felt invested him in a character, and so I was also invested in his sobriety. I felt the same about the AA parts--it's not a world I'm familiar with, but I found it interesting, and believable and it made him more of a compelling character to me, and I liked to think that this might also be the writer's experience, and I like to see the way writers integrate their personal history and experiences into fiction. As for his role as "Dr. Sleep," that was one of my favorite parts of all; I found Dan's work as psychopomp moving and intriguing, especially because it was the dead who had caused him so much trouble as a child. For me, reading this book was much like it seems King meant it: I was getting to find out what happened to a character that was almost like an old friend, and for me it was wonderful to see what had happened to that brilliant, wounded child, and to see the man he grew into, even with his flaws. But then again, unlike some readers, I always have found Danny the more compelling character of The Shining; I never found Jack Torrance that sympathetic. And as for villains, Rose and the True Knot were as good of villains as you may find, scary and rapacious. I do wish we could have found a bit more about their history through time, though. and I did love how King played with the idea of them being RVers....that was a witty touch. There were other witty touches too: references to other books and characters, and even authors--yes, we see their names. I'll always think of Eliot's "Hurry up Please, it's Time" in a different way now! There were some things I had problems with though. I wanted to love Abra, but.....I had to make an effort. She was a bit too much: too perfect, too beautiful, smart, the warrior queen. Could she have had one flaw other than the temper, something which she actually needed? She was not as complex to me as some of the other characters, even as some of the more minor characters. I also found the plot a bit.....slack? It seemed in some ways not enough was on the line, and while I didn't know the specifics of the ending before reading it, the outcome seemed a bit obvious. I didn't need great chills and gore, but a bit more narrative tension would have improved things. And there was also one rather major plot detail that was just too much of a coincidence for my taste. I won't say what it is, but it's related to Abra's "theory of relativity." And finally, while Dan's "secret" was not something to be proud of, it didn't seem quite as horrible as he played it up. Of course that's part of the point; the shame he carries is a weight somewhat unrelated to the long past action. However, I still found it not as interesting as it could have been. Some people have suggested it wasn't a sequel, which just puzzles me. Of course it was. It had many of the same characters, and knowing the first book (NOT the movie! You need to read the book!) makes this book much more powerful and resonant. No, we don't get some of the same characters/settings, but, um, the Overlook Hotel is gone, and of course it can't be the same. Anyway, while it wasn't the best book I've ever read, and not as good as The Shining itself, it is still a novel worth reading if you enjoyed the first one, and for me it was wonderful to spend a day or two with Danny, who seemed like an old friend, and old friend who'd been through terrible hardship (some of his own making), but had come through it older and wiser, a flawed man who still had something to give. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.be/products/4084228-doctor-sleep-a-novel](https://www.desertcart.be/products/4084228-doctor-sleep-a-novel) --- *Product available on Desertcart Belgium* *Store origin: BE* *Last updated: 2026-07-28*