The Shining

by: Stephen King
What of the penetrating cold terror of an old hotel, a haunted place of seductive evil with a malevolent will of its own--and a five-year-old boy of innocent beauty whose mind mirrors the nightmarish secrets of its past?
Behind every door of the Overlook's 110 empty rooms there is a chamber of horror. Little Danny knows of these things because he has the terrible power--the shining. {cover copy}
I will admit, I had no idea what I was getting into with this book. Which was actually really fun. All I knew of it was the few little snippets of the movie I had seen floating around in pop culture the way those things seem to do. But wow. It was really good. And scary. And I totally did not expect the shining to be what it was but I actually really love that. I expected it to be something bad. Anyway, very good story. And this cover is so fun. I got it at a used bookstore. It doesn't win an award for coolness but I sorta just love the vintage look of it anyway. 

Jack Torrence thought: Officious little prick. {first line}
"You could be stung, but you could also sting back."

"The tears that heal are also the tears that scald and scourge."

"You're gonna get over this. You don't think you are right now, but you will."