The Shining (The Shining, #1)

by Stephen King

She found herself wishing they could get back in the VW and go back to Boulder…or anywhere else.

“You shine on, boy. Harder than anyone I ever met in my life.

“You got a knack,” Hallorann said, turning to him. “Me, I’ve always called it shining.

Even at this distance that small head had a set to it that she recognized—it

“How hard can you hit, doc?” “Huh?” “Give me a blast. Think at me.

Smile

Drinking!

“With me it’s smellin oranges.

Those things don’t always come true.

she’d seen something in one of the rooms where…well, where a bad thing happened.

Room 217,

Bluebeard

it seems that all the bad things that ever happened here, there’s little pieces of those things still layin around like fingernail clippins

I don’t know why it should just be here, there’s bad goings-on in just about every hotel in the world,

Jack Torrance had something—something—that he was hiding. Or something he was holding in so deeply submerged in himself that it was impossible to get to.

I don’t think there’s anything here that can hurt you.

that thing in the bathtub of Room 217.

P. 47

It was as if the Overlook had swallowed them.

Simile

Simile

Her - grammar

Simile

Haha

Simile!

a surrealistic jungle scene full of ropes and vines and trees filled with exotic birds.

an iron scream behind his lips,

Haha

Simile

Haha

Haha

“Mr. Hallorann

Mr. Nevers.”

Haha

Haha

Knock the press down a couple of times a day. She creeps.” She creeps, Danny thought, and the words echoed down a long and silent corridor in his mind, a corridor lined with mirrors where people seldom looked.

Jack could almost read

I bet Danny could clearly read

Simile creepy

Where is page 145?

almost preternaturally

Confusing - it’s either extraordinary or it’s not - what does *almost* extraordinary mean?

On the roof he felt himself healing from the troubled wounds of the last three years.

Simile - unsuccessful

Question?

Nice metaphor simile

Giving whiskey and car keys to teenaged boys

an unconscious desire to be free

I.e., the need for a spiritual awakening - without it the alcoholism is untreated

the security he felt was stifling whatever creative urge he had.

“foo crashes”

it seemed to him that it could serve as both a workable symbol for what he had been through (and what he had dragged his hostages to fortune through) and an omen for a better future.

He had not done things; things had been done to him.

Such a typically alcoholic thing to say.

It had nothing to do with willpower, or the morality of drinking, or the weakness or strength of his own character.

There was a broken switch somewhere inside, or a circuit breaker that didn’t work, and he had been propelled down the chute willy-nilly,