I don’t remember how old I was when I first saw The Shining. I’m guessing I wasn’t that much older than little Danny Torrance from the film. When I got older, and I got into Stephen King books for the second time, I went back and listened to (I’m a huge audio book fan) The Shining, and while it was a very different book from the movie, it was still really good. I’m not sure which I prefer better, but they were both excellent in their respective ways.
Most Stephen King books end with me wanting more. I usually want to know what happened to the characters after they’ve endured the madness the author subjects them to. Both versions of The Shining left me wondering what happened to young Danny Torrance after all that he experienced at The Overlook Hotel. Over the years Stephen King thought about that same question, and he came up with a pretty good answer in Doctor Sleep.
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