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U.S. publication date for Doctor Sleep has been tentatively set for January 15, 2013
May 8th, 2012 9:08:34 am

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.

цитата Gorekulikoff

Стивен Кинг: "Обложите меня вашим гребаным налогом, ради всего святого!"

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цитата groundhog

Тут поднимался вопрос нового перевода книги "Пляска смерти". Если всё же такой проект начнётся, очень советую за основу взять текст нового издания 2010-го года. Там, во-первых, исправлен сам текст, и к тому же добавлено новое длинное предисловие, вдобавок к двум предидущим:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danse_Macabr...

цитата Hell-lie

Имхо, как говорится)

цитата Виктор Вебер

"11/22/63 — фантастически сильный роман и, опять же, чистый реализм, который мне у Мастера больше всего и нравится.

цитата Александр Кенсин

Поэтому несмотря на всю красоту и качество исполнения (не говоря уже о запахе бумажных страниц), книгу покупать не стал.

цитата RoofDancer

Это по оригинальной истории? Меня смущает надпись "book by".

цитата Dart Hydra

интересно, но написано в расчете на американцев

цитата Гришка

Был же вариант: "Без света звездного, в кромешной темноте".

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There's a domestic note in those criticisms of the pronunication "eye-rack," too. A lot of people see the pronunciation as an symptom of redneck ignorance -- columnists have suggested that it's somehow tied to Americans' general fuzziness about geographical detail and our insensitivity to the complexities of world politics. As a columnist for the Baltimore Sun wrote not long ago, "If you can't pronounce it, don't try to invade it."

But the idea that "eye-rack" is incorrect is mostly a sign of our own linguistic prejudices. The pronunciation has two things working against it. The first syllable fits in with that pattern of saying certain foreign words with a long vowel -- not just "eye-rack" and "eye-ran," but words like "ay-rab" and "eye-talian," pronunciations that educated people tend to associate with red-state yahoos. And then there's the flat fronted vowel of the second syllable -- "rack" instead of "rock." That runs afoul of the principle that the letter "a" in foreign names should always be pronounced as "ah." That has become article of faith among well-traveled Americans, to the point where the time-honored English name "milann" has been replaced by the pretentious parvenus "milahn" and "milano."

цитата Кадавр

Уже да. Но поискать можно на др. сайтах, правда, будет дороже.