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Summary: My Heart Beat Pretty Fast-The Further I Read!
Review: This is a true horror story of a family where the father is a recovered alcoholic, and he loses his job to his problem with alcohol, and bad temper that seems to run with it. So he's offered to take a job in this hotel managing it for the winter.
His son Danny, who has the ability to almost foretell what happens, is scared for some reason. He has an imaginary friend, Tony, who is telling him very clearly that something is wrong here at this hotel. His parents don't really believe him, and think Tony is being silly, intil things REALLY do begin to happen. There was trouble from day one with the bees, and it goes on from there.
Room 217 at the hotel is a horror story in itself. I don't want to tell too much in this review, but little Danny became curious as to what did happen. He was told not to go in there at the first, but curiosity got the better of the boy, and one day he did. More trouble starts after this with the family. The hotel, and the spirit of it, wants something. Read this and find out! But as you read more into the book, your heart will race wildly until the near ending. Very well developed.
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Summary: Creepy!
Review: This book was so good (and yes I have read all 700 or so pages of this complex thriller) The author writes with a distinctive style and describes things to perfection. His characters are extremely well developed, and he manages to make the fine line between hating the "bad guy" (Jack Torrance) and feeling compulsion for him. It's one of those books that you can't put down until you find out what happens in the end - and you're not disappointed. I also saw the movie - it was a lot different but REALLY creepy, and the ABC Channel 7 three part miniseries is in the middle of the story right now and it's a much more accurate portrayal of the book (it actually has the hedge animals). This is an excellent summer vacation book or something to take on long airplane trips. Just don't miss out.
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Summary: Scariest Book On Earth
Review: Now here we have a literary horror classic like Dracula. This is definitely gonna thrill you from beginning to end. This book is much like the haunting. This is my favorite book of all time and is very interesting in the fact that he uses character developement over having the action right away. This book has a shocker of an ending. The last 10 chapters are just one huge fright fest. One thing that is very interesting is the fact that this book also is about child abuse. In this book there is more psychological fear rather than thriller fear but there is a decent ammount of that to.
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Summary: READ THE BOOK PEOPLE
Review: I am amazed at how many people put reviews here of this book and DID NOT read it. THERE WAS NO MAZE OF SHRUBS IN THE BOOK!!! The movie [disappointed]! It was the worst. As SK himself said Jack Nicholson was horrible in the movie. He was too old and everyone knows he's already crazy so who would be surprised to see him go crazy. READ THE BOOK. Someone said the book took them away fora few hours and that the maze of shrubs was chilling. HE DIDN'T READ THE BOOK! What happens in the book is far more scary than in the movie. READ THE BOOK!! A hundred years from now this will still be around and still be a classic. WONDERFUL!!!
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Summary: Perfection!
Review: Master Horror writer shows himself in top form with "THE SHINING" his third book, and one of his best. (I personally think BAG OF BONES, THE SHINING and CARRIE define him--of course, those are the only ones I've actually read...)
This novel is about a hotel called the OVERLOOK, and with the large hotel comes its large and bizzare history. Many murders and deaths have occured there, but nevertheless recovering alcoholic Jack Torrance accepts the job of being the Overlook's caretaker over the winter. He needs money, and desperately after he lost his job from an incident that occured when he was drunk. Moving into the hotel with him is his wife, Wendy and his son, Danny. Danny sees scary visions of what's at the Overlook, namely REDRUM, but he still goes there.
Creepy occurances follow in this highly suspenseful, you-can't-put-it-down novel. I read it over a spanning of about two weeks, but someone easily could pick this up in the morning and read it through. I'd reccommend this book for ages thirteen and up. Lots of sexual content and terms that some smaller readers might not be able to comprehend.
This book did give me one or two nights where visions of a dead lady in a bathtub and a man in a dog suit danced around my brain. You will never forget this book, but-- you'll remember the Overlook and its spirits even more.
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Summary: Truely horrific
Review: This is a disturbing book. But I can honestly say that I enjoyed the movie more. But still the book was great. it is the unltimate set up for a horror story with a fantastic setting and the characters struggle with sanity and surroundings is epic. It is the first Stephen King book that I have read and I was impressed with flippant aproach to the macabre. It is truely disturbing in an enjoyable fashion.
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Summary: hotel-staying will never be the same again
Review: this book reveals the terrible history of the Overlook Hotel.The Torrance family,jack, his wife, wendy, and their son, danny had been asked to be the caretaker while it's still on snow season. They would mind the whole hotel, which included the heater in the basement. They thought it wiil give them a more comfortable life. jack had more time to write, while his family can have fun of the hotel. but suddenly, the mystery of the hotel haunted them one by one, and their son, danny, who happens to have a third eye, could see the angry ghosts revealing the secrets of the hotel, which included crime, violence, greediness and other bad secrets. wendy and danny could feel that the Overlook hotel will give them danger, but jack believes that the hotel is a perfect place for them. this belief has turned him into a different person, a very dangerous person. The ghosts have successfully convinced jack that the hotel is a good place to stayed in. wendy and danny could no longer do anything about him, there's no place to run or hide, to the fact that it's the middle of a snow season. af friend has helped them to escape, but jack wouldnt allow it. he's gone mad, and he could kill his family for it. finally, jack has become a very different person, he tried to kill his family, hit his wife w/ a roquet, but she still survived. danny and their friend was able to escape and waited for wendy to come out. w/ all the chasing around the hotel, jack forgot about the heater in the basement, and it was too late to turn it off. after a few minutes, the heater blew up which caused a one big explosion, and the hotel was eaten by a big blaze of inferno. the hotel was burned up, together w/ its bad history. wendy was able to escape just before the blow up. she, danny and their friend grieved so much for the death of jack, but they were so much relieved that the hotel had finally laid to rest. this book will make ur stay in hotel a very different experience, coz we wont know, every hotel has its own little secrets, and it's up to us, wether we want to find it out or not.
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Summary: Took me out of my world for a while.
Review: I've been to places as remote as this hotel, and some situations could easily drive a man over the edge of sanity -- particularly if he is the compulsive type. The maze, that was chilling.
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Summary: Awesome...Perfect
Review: I've read a lot of books and this has to be one of the best. Very gripping, you can read for hours on end before you have to put it down, but only because your hands get sore holding the book! Mainly about a kid at the age of 5 who has a power to see into the future and/or read peoples thoughts, called The Shining. He starts getting visions of evil, murder, and (the classic word of the book) REDRUM. The evil comes, letting go a mighty wrath.
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Summary: Still King's Best, After All These Years
Review: King has written several fine novels, but The Shining is really his masterpiece.Jack Torrance is the quintessential screw-up. He just can't seem to get anything in his life on track - ever since he broke his infant son's arm, while on one of his many alcoholic benders. Jack can't hold a job, what with the booze and his unmanageable temper. And with all these problems, Jack can't concentrate sufficiently to write the play he's wanted to write for years. Colorado's historic Overlook Hotel gives him just the chance he needs to redeem himself. The hotel needs a caretaker through the winter months. Jack could use the privacy for his writing, his wife Wendy looks forward to the cozy surroundings, and his son Danny has more than enough room to play in. Neither Jack nor his family are concerned about the rumors that the Overlook is haunted - or that the former caretaker, Mr. Grady, went mad and bashed his wife and children to death with a roque mallet. No, they're not concerned - but they should be. Because little Danny has an unusual psychic power, a special "shine" to him. The kind of power that could manifest the Overlook's many violently-demised ghosts back into the world, to wreak even more mayhem than they did when they were alive, if they could just kill Danny so they could use it. But with someone as emotionally unstable as Jack spending the winter with them, the disturbed spirits have hands to make that job just a little bit easier... The only flaw with this great novel is an occasional tendency to go over-the-top, but King does that far less here than in most of his other books, and not sufficiently for it to become a nuisance. His writing is in peak form, and these are among the best and most realistic characters he's ever written. The plot and the suspense never flag, building relentlessly. There are fewer than a handful of great ghost stories written in this century, but this is one of them. If you've never read a King book in your life, but want to see what all the hoopla is about him, this is the one you want to read. Don't miss it. And don't assume it's at all like the Stanley Kubrick movie, because they're worlds apart.
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