# "Can you order redrum from room service?" Sequel to The Shining **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 24, 2013, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-order-redrum-from-room-service-sequel-to-the-shining/664390 "2013-07-24T16:54:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2013, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-order-redrum-from-room-service-sequel-to-the-shining/664390/1 "2013-07-24T16:54:44Z")
No, not a movie (not yet, anyway), but a book launch that comes with a promotion at the actual [hotel](http://blog.sfgate.com/getlost/2013/07/24/wheeeeeres-johnny-new-hotel-package-for-the-shining-sequel/). Reportedly, you can even stay in room 217, where Stephen King stayed when he got the idea for the original novel. The new novel is called “Doctor Sleep” and it follows young Danny Torrance’s “haunted journey through adulthood.” Roddy ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2013, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-order-redrum-from-room-service-sequel-to-the-shining/664390/2 "2013-07-24T17:49:48Z")
Want! ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2013, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-order-redrum-from-room-service-sequel-to-the-shining/664390/3 "2013-07-24T17:57:49Z")
Or you can stay where the opening exterior shots were filmed, Timberline Lodge on Mt. Hood, a little outside of Portland, Or. Great skiing, no hedge maze outside though. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/ngztjMYGMh4/maxresdefault.jpg "THE SHINING - filming location Timberline Lodge.") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngztjMYGMh4) ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2013, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-order-redrum-from-room-service-sequel-to-the-shining/664390/4 "2013-07-24T17:59:17Z")
> [@Dallas\_Jones](#): > > Great skiing, no hedge maze outside though. There wasn’t one in the book either, so that’s fine. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2013, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-order-redrum-from-room-service-sequel-to-the-shining/664390/5 "2013-07-24T18:34:16Z")
I’ve stayed at the Stanley before. Not in Room 217, but just down the hall from it. ---
**Author:** ![Neidhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Neidhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neidhart)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2013, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-order-redrum-from-room-service-sequel-to-the-shining/664390/6 "2013-07-27T11:03:01Z")
Given how disappointing the sequel to Talisman was, I’m not buying it until I get a chance to skim it. Wonder if King’s going to fill it with Dark Tower crap like the Talisman sequel who’s name I forget. ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2013, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-order-redrum-from-room-service-sequel-to-the-shining/664390/7 "2013-07-27T11:12:43Z")
**Roddy** apropos of absolutely nothing, I watched _The Old Dark House_ the other night. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2013, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-order-redrum-from-room-service-sequel-to-the-shining/664390/8 "2013-07-28T00:12:17Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > Want! Me too! I’ve really been enjoying Stephen King’s recent work - in my opinion, once he got clean, he stopped just trying to gross us out and started telling really good stories. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2013, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-order-redrum-from-room-service-sequel-to-the-shining/664390/9 "2013-07-28T00:26:56Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > There wasn’t one in the book either, so that’s fine. No, but there _was_ a topiary that came to life. ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2013, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-order-redrum-from-room-service-sequel-to-the-shining/664390/10 "2013-07-28T15:33:41Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Me too! I’ve really been enjoying Stephen King’s recent work - in my opinion, once he got clean, he stopped just trying to gross us out and started telling really good stories. Yes, he’s been on an upswing for the last four or so books. (Man, is he prolific!) I just _raced_ through “Joyland”, and didn’t want it to end. I like it when he sets his stuff in the 70s, for some reason. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2013, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-order-redrum-from-room-service-sequel-to-the-shining/664390/11 "2013-07-28T17:21:15Z")
> [@freckafree](#): > > **Roddy** apropos of absolutely nothing, I watched _The Old Dark House_ the other night. 🙂 Ah, and was my titled namesake still dying in bed? Did you notice that part was actually played by a woman? Roddy ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2013, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-order-redrum-from-room-service-sequel-to-the-shining/664390/12 "2013-07-29T14:25:45Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Me too! I’ve really been enjoying Stephen King’s recent work - in my opinion, once he got clean, he stopped just trying to gross us out and started telling really good stories. Yeah, \*The Shining \*is my favorite of his, so I’m really trepidatious about this new book, but he’s been working on earning my trust back just lately.