Stephen King: Doctor Sleep

Stephen King : Doctor Sleep    - 485 oldal

értékelés, szerintem: ★★★★★

Stephen ​King returns to the characters and territory of one of his most popular novels ever, The Shining, in this instantly riveting novel about the now middle-aged Dan Torrance (the boy protagonist of The Shining) and the very special twelve-year-old girl he must save from a tribe of murderous paranormals.

On highways across America, a tribe of people called The True Knot travel in search of sustenance. They look harmless—mostly old, lots of polyester, and married to their RVs. But as Dan Torrance knows, and tween Abra Stone learns, The True Knot are quasi-immortal, living off the “steam” that children with the “shining” produce when they are slowly tortured to death.

Haunted by the inhabitants of the Overlook Hotel where he spent one horrific childhood year, Dan has been drifting for decades, desperate to shed his father’s legacy of despair, alcoholism, and violence. Finally, he settles in a New Hampshire town, an AA community that sustains him, and a job at a nursing home where his remnant “shining” power provides the crucial final comfort to the dying. Aided by a prescient cat, he becomes “Doctor Sleep.”

Then Dan meets the evanescent Abra Stone, and it is her spectacular gift, the brightest shining ever seen, that reignites Dan’s own demons and summons him to a battle for Abra’s soul and survival. This is an epic war between good and evil, a gory, glorious story that will thrill the millions of hyper-devoted readers of The Shining and wildly satisfy anyone new to the territory of this icon in the King canon.

"He had always thought the story of Bluebeard was the scariest of all time, the scariest there ever could be, but this one was worse. Because it was true."

"No, honey. Maybe you can put the things from the Overlook away in lockboxes, but not memories. Never those. They're the real ghosts."


"The only one who can put on the breaks is you. (...) You don't have to live this way if you don't want to. You can, of course ... but you don't have to."


"There came a time when you realized that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went."


"Because if suicide was the only option, you could at least choose your weapon."


"The mind was a blackboard. Booze was the eraser."


"the good thing about being old is that you don't have to worry about dying young"


"Life was a wheel, its only job was to turn, and it always came back to where it had started."

Stephen King: The Shining

Stephen King: The Shining     - 497 oldal                     

szerintem:  ★★★★★

The Overlook Hotel is more than just a home-away-from-home for the Torrance family. For Jack, Wendy, and their young son, Danny, it is a place where past horrors come to life. And where those gifted with the shining do battle with the darkest evils. Stephen King's classic thriller is one of the most powerfully imagined novels of our time.

"For aren't memories the true ghosts of our lives? Do they not drive all of us to words and acts we regret from time to time?"


"The truth is that monsters are real, and ghosts are real, too. They live inside us, and sometimes they win."


"He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in the end it always comes out."


"That's your job in this world, to keep your love alive and see that you get on, no matter what. Pull your act together and just go on."


" Children have to grow into their imaginations like a pair of oversized shoes."


"skizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It's accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are lunatics. They have invisible friends. They may go and sit in the closet when they're depressed, withdrawing from the world. They attach talismanic importance to a special blanket, or a taddy bear, or a stuffed tiger. They suck their thumbs. When an adult sees things that aren't there, we consider him ready for the rubber room. When a child says he's seen a troll in his bedroom or a vampire outside the window, we simply smile indulgently. We have a one-sentence explanation that explains the whole range of such phenomena in children-'


'He'll grow out of it,'

J. K. Rowling : The Harry Potter series

J. K. Rowling : The Harry Potter series            - 3407 oldal

értékelés, szerintem: ★★★★★

"Is is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."

"it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be"

"we are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided"

"Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open."

"Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young "

"Indiference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike."

" people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right"

"Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth."

"It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more."