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I just finished reading this book for the second time. I started to read Doctor Sleep but as I started it made me want to revisit The Overlook Hotel. So that is what I did. I put down Doctor Sleep in the meantime. I loved reading this story for the second time and it is a story that really holds up.
For the longest time I refused to read this book because of the movie. The Shining movie was so boring and not scary at all. Plus I wasn't interested in a man going crazy because of cabin fever. The ...more
For the longest time I refused to read this book because of the movie. The Shining movie was so boring and not scary at all. Plus I wasn't interested in a man going crazy because of cabin fever. The ...more

Jack Torrance takes a job as caretaker of the Overlook hotel for the winter. The Overlook is an isolated hotel in Colorado and once the snow comes it is cut off from the rest of the world. Jack is accompanied by his wife Wendy and his son Danny who has the gift of shining. Danny can sometimes see the future and can read peoples thoughts. Trouble begins when it becomes apparent that strange events are occurring in the hotel and that the hotel really likes that Danny shines.
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I think this is probably one of the top 3 Stephen King books for me. It fits together nicely, all the pieces make sense and nothing bad happens to anyone I like. (That’s a lie, but it’s a nice one).
Audio version is good. I read the print version years and years ago in the little purple paperback form and I have the Omnibus with Carrie and something else, in hardback.
5/5 would listen again.
Audio version is good. I read the print version years and years ago in the little purple paperback form and I have the Omnibus with Carrie and something else, in hardback.
5/5 would listen again.

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