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The Shining (The Shining, #1)

Stephen King

Start date: October 1, 2015

Finish date: October 31, 2015

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Apr 12, 2015 Cecily rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Shelves: landscape-location-protagonist, miscellaneous-fiction, ghosts-and-mysteries, overrated, usa-and-canada, did-not-finish, horror

King describes my relationship with this book very well:
" His relationship with his father had been like the unfurling of some flower of beautiful potential, which, when wholly opened, turned out to be blighted inside ."

My first Stephen King, and my first proper horror novel will be my last. I certainly didn't expect to be bored, but I was. After 338 pages / two thirds of the book, I decided life's too short to waste on a book I'm not enjoying.

If you want sinister snow, I suggest Kafka's The ...more

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Dec 26, 2013 Cheryl Murray rated it really liked it

I wouldn't necessarily say that this is Stephen King at his best….but it's pretty close. I watched the movie a long time ago…it made enough of an impression that I remember it 25 or 30 years later. While I think the movie was scarier, the novel is a MUCH better story.

King handles the character of Jack Torrance brilliantly. Unlike the movie, which paints Jack as a villain spiraling into madness, King does not let the reader off quite so easily. Jack Torrance IS a villain. He is an alcoholic who ...more

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Nov 05, 2013 Mark rated it it was ok

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I have only read two other King books (The Dark Half and It). While I like most things supernatural, it was hard to enjoy this story which has a really good plot--a haunted hotel that wants to take in a little boy's soul--because it was so long. I was almost tempted to drive to the store for the hard copy (I read the ebook) just so I could line through the excess. Throughout the book, there was a lot of revisiting of information, which was boring in several places. The last 100 pages or so are w ...more

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