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    <body><![CDATA[This scene from Friends pretty much sums up my feelings about this book:<br/><br/><em><br/>&quot;<strong>Rachel:</strong> Hmm. (she opens the freezer) Umm, why do you have a copy of The Shining in your freezer?<br/><br/><strong>Joey:</strong>  Oh, I was reading it last night, and I got scared, so.<br/><br/><strong>Rachel:</strong>  But ah, you’...</em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10855889">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of those books that I'm glad I read after seeing the film adaptation. I wouldn't have enjoyed Stanley Kubrick's movie version nearly as much had I read the book first.<br/><br/>Stephen King, you may know, was not too pleased with Kubrick's adaptation. For one, he thought Jack Nicholson...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10921342">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Personally, I feel that Stephen King is a so-so writer, vastly overrated, and far from deserving the large following he seems to have (another example of the all too frequent phenomenon where if something is wildly popular in American mass culture it can be counted on to most likely be mediocre).  M...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7319347">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I hadn't really realized just how deeply this story is embedded in the collective unconscious until I mentioned to a friend a few years back that my now husband and I were considering getting married at The Stanley Hotel, the Colorado landmark where the movie version of this book was set.<br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31079981">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[His best book is 'The Green Mile,' but since it doesn't quite fall under the horror category, it is either 'Shining' or 'Carrie' which take top prize.<br/><br/>There is not one single detriment to this well-known tale of the disintegration of the American family within the realm of the undead. Kin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41034217">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book sucked. The ideas and themes were interesting sometimes, but the writing was awful. Let me give one short example.<br/><br/>&quot;Whimpering with fear, she began to pull herself upwards again. Ten steps, a dozen, a baker's dozen.&quot;<br/><br/>Let me ask you, what the hell do a dozen ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41341765">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of those books that I've read multiple times, and I consider it to be my favourite book of all time.<br/><br/>I know that many people consider Stephen King to be a horror writer, but I have to say I have not found most of the books I've read from him to be &quot;horror&quot;. They are ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12867457">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was an excellent book.  In Stephen King greats it ranks behind The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile.  In my mind, it's next to the Dead Zone among King masterpieces.<br/><br/>The character development was fantastic.  In fact, King himself has said that the movie did not live up to the es...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10236037">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am a huge Stephen King fan, and I had somehow put off reading this book for a long time.  I was not disappointed!<br/><br/>People say that King's writing is clunky and that his endings suck, but I can't agree with that.  Yes, this is an early book and he falls into the occasional cliche or bad m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47480471">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of those rare books that I feel holds it's own against a movie that is a cult classic if not just straight up a classic. It is hard to read the book and not visualize the movie in your head as you read along - but I think that is true for so many of the bigger than life movies. I love th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46312708">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Continuing in my adventures in the worlds of Stephen King! This time: The Shining. I liked this a lot, overall. Bits of the actual style annoyed me, but the story sucked me right in. The central concept of &quot;the shine&quot; itself interests me, because, well, I'm not sure it's all that fictional...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34752588">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Sep 22 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book failed to scare me. Hardcore SK fans can clock out now, but I had great expectations which weren't reached. So why? Firstly, I think it must have been a groundbreaker in its day, (which was just over 30 years ago now), and perhaps the world has come to accept some of the things which might...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27502180">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this book so much I was in 8th grade when I read this book. It was the very 1st SK book I ever read and I have been a fan ever since. I could not put this page turning book down even when it got the scary parts. It was a thrill to read this book and every so often I reread it. It was that go...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22259389">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Shining was my first introduction to Stephen King. It was the film, actually just the scene of chase through the maze, that I saw first. The clip was part of a group math project in high school.<br/><br/>Anyone who has read the book knows that the hedge maze isn't in the book. Instead, the gar...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8320065">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="49049676">
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    <body><![CDATA[I am fan of Stephen King's. Some of his books are fantastic (like the Stand, The Green Mile, Bag of Bones) and some are just middling. I tell people when reading King to give it 100-200 pages to let the story really warm up, but what I really enjoyed about the The Shining- jumped right in with both ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49049676">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="9203947">
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    <body><![CDATA[Like most Stephen King books, this had a completely stupid ending. However, the rest of it was so scary I peed in my bed, and was afraid to get out of it to change the sheets. So then I had to lie there for hours in cold, moist wakefulness, desperately waiting for the sun to come up. Maybe I shouldn...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9203947">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If Stephen King had a &quot;classic era&quot; this and &quot;Christine&quot; would certainly top it as my favorites. <br/><br/>I think what I like most about this book, and a similar type of character that King reuses over and over is of the child (usually) with budding or slight psychic powers. I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3021536">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="23864017">
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    <body><![CDATA[The quintessential Stephen King is right here.  The movie was totally awesome, and it still wasn't as good as the book.  I like that he based it on one of my local landmark hotels, which, by the way, IS haunted (the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, CO).  What I liked most about this book is that it show...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23864017">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you judge Stephen King's books by character development, plot development, and story telling ability, there are none better, although this is not the type of writing that wins awards. <br/>The wisdom of the book lies in its recognition of the subjective/ metaphysical, in its understanding that t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28134196">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is my absolute favorite book by Stephen King. And the scariest, in my opinion. I could not read this book at night, I couldn't even read it when I was home by myself. His way of describing all of the details for the hotel and Jack Torrance's fall back into alcoholism are done with such skill th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4828490">more...</a>]]></body>
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