Stephen King and Dick Cheney: Together at last?
So, Stephen King is thinking about a sequel to one of his most famous books, The Shining:
“Jack Torrance’s little boy Danny was last seen recuperating in Maine after escaping the insane evil of the Overlook Hotel, but Stephen King is now plotting a sequel to The Shining which would age the clairvoyant boy to 40 and transport him to a New York hospice.”
Nothing new in writers revisiting old haunts, so to speak and I have a lot of faith in King’s story telling abilities, so I’m sure that, if he will write the book, I will have as much fun devouring that one as I’ve done with most of his other work.
It can be a bit tricky though, picking up a story more than 30 years after the fact. Would we be much interested to read about Tom Sawyer, at 40 – or about Alice, Dorothy & Wendy as grown-ups?
Well, okay, I admit I did enjoy meeting up with those last three again, in Alan Moore’s Lost Girls.
Of course, sometimes, people go the other route. Like the adventures of a young Sherlock Holmes, the young Indiana Jones, et cetera, et cetera. Most of those trips are as nauseating as they are saccharine…
… and yet, what fun could you have with such a concept!
I’d love to see a Stephen King write a book about the young Dick Cheney – or have Alan Moore do for the Kennedy clan what he did for Alice, Dorothy and Wendy.
Now, those would be projects worthy of both these craftsmen and the intended prey.
So, please, Messrs King & Moore, go and sharpen your pencils & claws and do your worst.
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