I need you.

Soothe my head.

Turn my blue.

Heart to red.

Doctor, doctor, give me the news.

I got a bad case for loving you. No pills don't to kill my heel. I got a bad case for loving you. No bills going to kill my head.

I've got a bad case to love with you.

Hello everyone and welcome to the Stephen King cast, one man's musings on the works of Stephen King.

Each week I'll review one entry in the bibliography of Stephen King and the chronological order of publication.

And this week I'm talking about 2013's much-anticipated sequel to not only one of his most legendary novels,

but the source of an adaptation that has gone on to become one of the most influential movies of all time, The Shining,

the sequel being the continuing adventures of Danny Torrance, the now grown-up victim of the Overlook,

ghosts, and domestic abuse, who by the end of this novel will have journeyed from

helpless young boy, dr. man, to the hero known as Doctor Sleep.

Now this is a big moment in King's career. It takes a brave man to go back and revisit

characters that have been immortalized on page and on film.

So, I mean, this isn't, I mean, it's one thing for him to co-author a sequel like he did with Peter Straub when they revisited the world of the talisman. All right?

The talisman doesn't have that pop culture connection or baggage or legacy, if you will, that The Shining does.

And, you know, I mean, for everyone that liked the continuing adventures adventures of rolling the gunsinger, I mean, the

gunsinger, I mean, so the shine, everybody knows the shining. Everybody knows the shining.

Stephen King fans, non-Steven King fans, everybody knows the shining. But I mean, with something

like the Dark Tower, I mean, even Stephen King fans don't know or don't care about the Dark Tower.

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