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Carregando... Dr. sleep (original: 2013; edição: 2014)de Stephen King, Annemarie Lodewijk
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Cuenta Stephen King que durante una firma de autógrafos en 1998, un seguidor le preguntó: “Oiga, ¿alguna idea de qué pasó con el chico de El resplandor (1977)?” Desde entonces, a King le rondaba por la mente la posibilidad de una secuela para su terrorífica historia. Sería hasta 2009, durante una gira promocional en Toronto, en un evento moderado por David Cronenberg, cuando el autor describió para la audiencia la trama que se convertiría en Doctor Sueño (2013): Dan Torrance ahora ronda los cuarenta años y vive atribulado entre el alcohol y los fantasmas del pasado; el destino lo lleva a cruzarse con Abra Stone, niña de doce años que posee un enérgico resplandor. Juntos se enfrentarán al Nudo Verdadero, una siniestra secta de viajeros inmortales que se alimentan de niños que resplandecen. La prosa de Stephen King es ágil, adictiva, mientras describe escenarios y situaciones que van de la sordidez a la ternura. Dan carga con la culpa de los estragos de su alcoholismo, pero encuentra un atisbo de esperanza en un asilo de ancianos, donde ayuda a moribundos a descansar en paz. Abra, por su parte, sufre al no entender el don de la que es dueña y que atemoriza a sus padres. Ambos personajes deciden embarcarse en una aventura que los llevará por lugares bien conocidos, como las ruinas del Hotel Overlook. La tensión va en aumento con cada página, hasta una apoteosis en todo el estilo explosivo del horror de Stephen King. En 2019, Warner Bros. presentó la adaptación de la novela, en una cinta dirigida por el norteamericano Mike Flanagan, con Ewan McGregor y Rebecca Ferguson encabezando el reparto. La película presentaba diferencias importantes respecto al libro, al ser más una secuela del trabajo de Stanley Kubrick que del universo de King. Sin embargo, cuando el escritor leyó el guion, dijo sentir que los elementos de la película de Kubrick que no le gustaban, fueron un tanto redimidos en la versión fílmica de Doctor Sueño. Más que simplemente responder a la pregunta, ¿Qué fue de Danny Torrance, después de los eventos del Overlook?, la novela profundiza en el dolor de un hombre incapaz de superar los traumas del pasado, y que, inesperadamente, empieza a convertirse en el monstruo que venció en la infancia: su padre. Al final, el protagonista encuentra sentido a su existencia dando luz a las personas que con miedo, se acercan a la muerte. Dan, el Doctor Sueño los tranquiliza: “calma, no hay nada de que asustarse”. La muerte, es solo el inicio de algo más. ( ) Oh how I love Stephen King’s writing! This was, yet again, another fantastic book by Mr. King and a perfect sequel to The Shinning. I know the movie won’t live up, but I do look forward to seeing it as well. Another amazing story...only sad that I will have to wait until next spring for another one of his books. I found this to be an enjoyable supernatural adventure story but not not especially scary. It had very little of the annoying over the top gore / shock stuff that often bothers me with Stephen King and it didn't seem to be overly wordy either. I enjoyed seeing a follow up on Danny and I thought the enemy he and Abra faced (the True Knot) was a great concept. As usual, the finale was a *bit* of a letdown for me but overall the book was good and worth reading if you are a King fan. Bottom line for me is if I think about and want to get back to reading a book when I am away from it and this definitely delivered on that score. I loved The Shining and was a bit scared to read this follow up book, scared to be disappointed. At first, I didn't like the new characters and also didn't like what Dan Torrence had become, however, after the first 100 or so pages, things started to change and I really started to enjoy this book. In the end, this was really a fun and exciting read, very glad I picked it up.
What are those virtues? First, King is a well-trusted guide to the underworld. His readers will follow him through any door marked “Danger: Keep Out” (or, in more literary terms, “Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here”), because they know that not only will he give them a thorough tour of the inferno — no gore left unspilled, no shriek left unshrieked — he will also get them out alive. As the Sibyl of Cumae puts it to Aeneas, it’s easy to go to hell, but returning from it is the hard part. She can say that because she’s been there; and, in a manner of speaking — our intuition tells us — so has King. Second, King is right at the center of an American literary taproot that goes all the way down: to the Puritans and their belief in witches, to Hawthorne, to Poe, to Melville, to the Henry James of “The Turn of the Screw,” and then to later exemplars like Ray Bradbury. In the future, I predict, theses will be written on such subjects as “American Puritan Neo-Surrealism in ‘The Scarlet Letter’ and ‘The Shining,’ ” and “Melville’s Pequod and King’s Overlook Hotel as Structures That Encapsulate American History.” Tem a adaptaçãoPrêmiosDistinctions
The now middle-aged Dan Torrance (the boy protagonist of The Shining) must save a very special twelve-year-old girl from a tribe of murderous paranormals. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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