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Doctor Sleep – Stephen King

03 vendredi Jan 2014

Posted by Aurélie in En VO, Romans étrangers

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Critique de livre, Doctor Sleep, Hodder & Stoughton, roman, Stephen King, The Shining

Stephen King - Doctor SleepLes premières phrases

«  On the second day of December in a year when a Georgia peanut farmer was doing business in the White House, one of Colorado’s great resort hotels burned to the ground. The Overlook was declared a total loss. After an investigation, the fire marshal of Jicarilla County ruled the cause had been a defective boiler. The hotel was closed for the winter when the accident occurred, and only four people were present. Three survived. The hotel’s off-season caretaker, John Torrance, was killed during an unsuccessful (and heroic) effort to dump the boiler’s steam pressure, which had mounted to disastrously high levels due to an inoperative relief valve.

Two of the survivors were the caretaker’s wife and young son. The third was the Overlook’s chef, Richard Hallorann, who had left his seasonal job in Florida and come to check on the Torrances because of what he called « a powerful hunch » that the family was in trouble. Both surviving adults were quite badly injured in the explosion. Only the child was unhurt.

Physically, at least. »

Circonstances de lecture

Acheté à Londres chez Hatchards. Parce que c’est la suite de « The Shining » !

Impressions

C’est avec plaisir que l’on retrouve le petit garçon de « The Shining », devenu adulte. Succombera-t-il aux mêmes maux que son père, à commencer par son problème d’alcoolisme ? Parviendra-t-il à vivre avec son don ? Et qu’arrivera-t-il lorsqu’il rencontrera une petite fille encore plus douée que lui ? « Doctor Sleep » n’est pas aussi angoissant que « The Shining ». C’est plutôt un roman fantastique où le mal n’est jamais bien loin…  Une bonne suite cependant, qui se lit d’une traite.

Un passage parmi d’autres

 Two years later, on the day before the Thanksgiving break, halfway up a deserted stairwell in Alafia Elementary, Horace Derwent appeared to Danny Torrance. There was confetti on the shoulders of his suit. A little black mask hung from one decaying hand. He reeked of the grave. « Great party, isn’t it? » he asked.

Danny turned and walked away, very quickly.

When school was over, he called Dick long-distance at the restaurant where Dick worked in Key West. « Another one of the Overlook People found me. How many boxes can I have, Dick? In my head, I mean. »

Dick chuckled. « As many as you need, honey. That’s the beauty of the shining. You think my Black Grampa’s the only one I ever had to lock away? »

« Do they die in there? »

This time there was no chuckle. This time there was a coldness in Dick’s voice the boy had never heard before. « Do you care? »

Danny didn’t.

When the onetime owner of the Overlook showed up again shortly after New Year’s – this time in Danny’s bedroom closet – Danny was ready. He went into the closet and closed the door. Shortly afterward, a second mental lockbox went up on the high mental shelf beside the one that held Mrs Massey. There was more pounding, and some inventive cursing that Danny saved for his own later use. Pretty soon it stopped. There was silence from the Derwent lockbox as well as the Massey lockbox. Whether or not they were alive (in their undead fashion) no longer mattered.

What mattered was they were never getting out. He was safe.

That was what he thought then. Of course, he also thought he would never take a drink, not after seeing what it had done to his father.

Sometimes we just get it wrong.

Doctor Sleep – Stephen King – 2013 (Hodder & Stoughton)

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The Shining – Stephen King

29 dimanche Jan 2012

Posted by Aurélie in En VO

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Les premières phrases

«  Jack Torrance thought: Officious little prick. 

Ullman stood five-five, and when he moved, it was with the prissly speed that seems to be the exclusive domain of all small plump men. The part in his hair was exact, and his dark suit was sober but comforting. I am a man you can bring your problems to, that suit said to the paying customer. To the hired help it spoke more curtly: This had better be good, you. There was a red carnation in the lapel, perhaps so that no one on the street would mistake Stuart Ullman for the local undertaker.

As he listened to Ullman speak, Jack admitted to himself that he probably could not have liked any man on that side of the desk – under the circumstances.

Ullman had asked a question that he hadn’t caught. That was bad; Ullman was the type of man who would file such lapses away in a mental Rolodex for later consideration.

« I’m sorry? »

« I asked if your wife fully understood what you would be taking on here. And there’s your son, of course. » He glanced down at the application in front of him. « Daniel. Your wife isn’t a bit intimidated by the idea? »

« Wendy is an extraordinary woman. »

« And your son is also extraordinary? »

Jack smiled, a big wide PR smile. « We like to think so, I suppose. He’s quite self-reliant for a five-year-old. »

Circonstances de lecture

Lu il y a plus de dix ans… Le meilleur Stephen King à mon goût.

Impressions

Jack et sa femme Wendy s’installent avec leur petit garçon de 5 ans, Danny, dans un hôtel à l’écart de tout… Un enfant loin d’être ordinaire… Car c’est un « shiner » et il a un compagnon de jeu imaginaire. Dans ce lieu coupé du monde extérieur,  son don devient un enfer. L’hôtel vide semble prendre vie, pour le pire… Flippant.

Un passage parmi d’autres

 The first time he had been out in the back yard and nothing much had happened. Just Tony beckoning and then darkness and a few minutes later he had come back to real things with a few vague fragments of memory, like a jumbled dream. The second time, two weeks ago, had been more interesting. Tony, beckoning, calling from four yards over: « Danny… come see… » It seemed that he was getting up, then falling into a deep hole, like Alice into Wonderland. Then he had been in the basement of the apartment house and Tony had been beside him, pointing into the shadows at the trunk his daddy carried all his important papers in, especially « THE PLAY. »

« See? » Tony had said in his distant, musical voice. « It’s under the stairs. Right under the stairs. The movers put it right… under… the stairs. »

Danny had stepped forward to look more closely at this marvel and then he was falling again, this time out of the backyard swing, where he had been sitting all along. He had gotten the wind knocked out of himself, too.

Three or four days later his daddy had been stomping around, telling Mommy furiously that he had been all over the goddam basement and the trunk wasn’t there and he was going to sue the goddam movers who had left it somewhere between Vermont and Colorado. How was he supposed to be able to finish « THE PLAY » if things like this kept cropping up?

Danny said, « No, Daddy. It’s under the stairs. The movers put it right under the stairs. »

Daddy had given him a strange look and had gone down to see. The trunk had been there, just where Tony had shown him.

The Shining – Stephen King – 1977

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