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  <read_at>Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the few books I've read more than twice, simply because it is so flat-out great: the plot, dialogue, writing technique, and characterization are all first-rate. I use this book as the best example of why books are almost ALWAYS better than the movies made from them. Kubrick's film is excellent in many ways (particularly visually), but the pathos and tragedy of a man's slow but inexorable descent into madness is completely lost in Jack Nicholson's demented portrayal. You genuinely feel bad for the literary Jack Torrance, a terribly flawed but well-meaning man who is at the end of his rope. Caretaking the Overlook Hotel in Colorado over the winter is his last chance and he knows it. Desperately, he makes the best of humiliating circumstances, but his psyche cannot withstand the onslaught of the creaking skeletons in the Overland's many closets. The characters are well-drawn and we see King -- still a relative novice as a writer -- inventing some fascinating methodology to reveal inner, fleeting thoughts: <em>( ! DICK OH DICK PLEASE COME PLEASE COME NOW !)</em>. The ending is a page-turner where &quot;that which was forgotten&quot; provides us with the thrill we have been expecting, as well as a much-desired denouement, which we sorely need. Four stars.]]></body>
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