Sequel To The Shining?
This article is kind of old news, but it's the fist I've heard of it. So...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/nov/25/stephenking
Speaking to an audience of fans in Toronto about his new novel Under the Dome, King divulged that he'd begun working on a tentative idea for a follow-up to The Shining – first published in 1977 – last summer.
Danny, he said, was certain to have been left "with a lifetime's worth of emotional scars" after his experiences at the Overlook, where his father was possessed by the hotel, tried to kill him and his mother and eventually died.
How Danny deals with both his nightmarish experiences and the clairvoyance, or "shining", which saved him, might make "a damn fine sequel", King said, according to local Toronto news website the Torontoist. His vision of the book – tentatively called Doctor Sleep - sees Danny now aged 40, working at a hospice for the terminally ill in upstate New York. He is apparently an orderly at the hospice, but his real work is to help make death a little easier for the dying patients with his psychic powers – while making a little money on the side by betting on the horses.
King attempted to calm expectations about the sequel, telling the Toronto audience that he wasn't "completely committed" to it, and adding: "Maybe if I keep talking about it I won't have to write it." The Shining was made into a film in 1980 by Stanley Kubrick, starring Jack Nicholson as Danny's father Jack Torrance and Shelley Duvall as his mother Wendy.
King also revealed this month that he has an idea for a new book in his epic Dark Tower fantasy series, which follows the adventures of the gunslinger Roland based on Robert Browning's poem "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came". The working title for the eighth book in the series, King announced on his website, would be The Wind Through the Keyhole, but he added that he hadn't yet begun writing it and it would be "a minimum of eight months" before he did.
It's my favorite, too! (really, I love The Dark Tower, but The Shining is my favorite King book outside of those).
I'd read this, even if it turned out not to be all that great.
for some reason, i always associated the guy in The Dead Zone with Danny of The Shining. i know they're different people but eh.
If I remember correctly, didn't the made-for-TV version skip ahead in time a bit? (Not quite to 40, but far enough to ruin the ending.)
AGH!!!! Awesome news!!!! Right now I have 200 pages to go in The Dark Tower 3. Its my second time reading it!
Im so happy King is still planning new novels. When he toures for Under The Dome I kinda thought it was his goodbye tour.
It is also my favorite book.
Thanks so much for sharing your link,PGoutis01.
Thanks a gain.
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I just finished the Dead Zone (Finally got around to it Derek). The reason you may have thought of that is because he refers to the characters ability as "shining" a couple times in the book.
that's true, i remember now.
i feel like this isn't a good idea. The Shining was about the hotel, not Danny.
That's pretty much exactly why I think it's a pretty good idea. It doesn't sound like he's going to sell it as The Shining II, just taking a character from a previous book and using them in another, which he's really done numerous times with his other stuff.
What I find interesting is him saying he's thinking of doing an 8th book for the Dark Tower series. I guess everyone complaining about the last one, he didn't want to end it on a sour note or something.
what can I say, the man is prolific.
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That's pretty much exactly why I think it's a pretty good idea. It doesn't sound like he's going to sell it as The Shining II, just taking a character from a previous book and using them in another, which he's really done numerous times with his other stuff.
What I find interesting is him saying he's thinking of doing an 8th book for the Dark Tower series. I guess everyone complaining about the last one, he didn't want to end it on a sour note or something.
i dont trust him since he said he was going to stop writing but didn't.
Well, that's a completely different argument from your first one as to why you didn't like the idea.
Maybe he has quit writing and just hires people to write his books now and just puts his name on them?
I loved The Shinning. But I didn't find Danny to be overly interesting, a rather melancholy character. I much prefered Jack and the cook guy (I caan't freeking remember his name damnit)
It might be interesting to read a story with Danny's character grown up and see how he might have changed with a childhood like that behind him. I wouldn't expect it to be anything like The Shinning, that would just be a set up for disappointment.
Danny was only five in The Shining. If King can display the same complexity as he did Jack Torrence in a grown-up Danny, count me in.
Also, it'd be nice if King wrote an 8th DT book, but I don't really know what he could do with it. The last book sucked. I was OK with the ending, but everything leading up to that in book seven was mediocre and unfulfilling to me.
edit: Pepper, the cook was Dick Halloran.
The Shining is my favorite Stephen King book. So I'm kinda stoked if this is gonna happen.