Finished Reading Stephen King's Doctor Sleep

Earlier today I finished reading Stephen King's latest novel Doctor Sleep.  It also happened to the first book I finished on my new Kindle e-reader.  I'm not sure yet whether it was because reading on the Kindle is so much easier than with paper books, or because Stephen King is such an easy author for me to read...but I flew through it with very little effort.  Doctor Sleep was typical King: a geographical focus in New England (with the slight variance of New Hampshire instead of Maine), a largely Biblically allegorical view of evil, guilt, repentance, and a (albeit impersonal) divine brand of justice and mercy.  It centers around Dan Torrance, the child protagonist of one of King's famous early works, The Shining, who is now grown up and dealing with the consequences of his own failings with alcohol, which ended up destroying his father in the first story.  Dan encounters a girl named Abra who, liked him, is blessed (or cursed, depending on one's point of view) with the "shining", a special psychic ability spread very thinly across the population in varying degrees.  That Abra is very strong with it poses a danger in that, in this same Stephen King "universe", are a group of people/monsters who band together and feed off the "steam" these psychically gifted children give off when they die.  Once they are aware of Abra, the story progresses to see who survives and who perishes.  There are two subplots to Doctor Sleep: the recovery process from addiction, in Dan's case alcoholism, and the inevitability of death, focusing on those in hospices on the brink of dying.  King treats these topics with great compassion and insight.  Still, for those with squeamish natures, this novel may not be appropriate as some pretty gory language is presented.  But that's also Stephen King!

I managed to get hold of an audio version of King's next-to-last novel Joyland and plan to start it very soon...