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Summary: THE WORLDS GREASTEST EVER HORROR NOVEL!!!!
Review: Stephen Kings best ever masterpiece is enough to make any one frightened from their skin. King uses his own wit with some amazing suspense with extravagent metaphors.Former alcholic Jack Torrance is a violent man triying to prove to wife Wendy and Danny he can get a honest job.However how are we to know that little danny Torrance is telapathic and has frequent nightmares and adventres with his psychotic fantasy friend. Jack takes the caretakers job with one thing on his mind.The past care takers have been mutilated by dad 'Grady' who kills himself.The silence of winter makes the urge for a drink over powering, and when the spirit of Grady promises a drink for his family's blood things get better and better.Adapted well this book gets right to the action in the first paragraph with the interview for the job.A wonderful five star book for begginer King readers or experienced novelists this book will have you wondering what or who 'REDRUM' means.Happy reading!!!
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Summary: Shine On!
Review: Graet book. really scary and greatly told. pleease dont overlook this book!
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Summary: Reminders of the past
Review: This is by far one of my favorite books of all time. I can't find a single thing about it that I don't like. It's well written, the characters take on a life of their own, and is creepy as Hell. The atmosphere Stephen King creates and the tension he builds is spectacular. The scares are powerful to the imaginative mind, and the characters are realistically tragic. I don't want to give anything away about the book (although with the amount of other reviews I doubt my silence hides anything), you should read it, if you haven't already. If you have, well, read it again.
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Summary: REDRUM
Review: This very good book is about a man named Jack Torrance who takes a job as caretaker at the Overlook hotel. His son Danny has the ability to "shine" or ESP. Jack is a recovering alcoholic who also is trying to write a book at the hotel. About halfway through the book, Jack goes crazy and tries to kill his wife and son. But, his plans go horribly wrong. I would reccomend this to anyone who liked "Carrie" or "Misery".
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Summary: A MASTERPIECE OF HORROR
Review: The first time I read this book was four years ago, in the eighth grade. I can still remember reading it now. My room is in the basement and I vividly remember the way I kept looking over my shoulder while reading the scene where Jack is stalked by the hedge animals and the way I jumped when the heater went on all of a sudden. I remember the way I almost wanted to stop reading and go to sleep because it was scaring the (...) out of me but I couldn't put it down. I remember thinking after I finished it that it was the scariest book I have ever read.
Now, four years later, I was in the library of my high school (as I am now, as I write this review) walking through the aisles of books until I came upon the Stephen King section. I saw the shining there and suddenly felt compelled to read it again. It took it off the shelf, went over to a chair, sat down and started reading. I had just about finished the job interview section when the bell rang. Quickly, I checked out the book and left for my next class. As I reread the book over a course of 2 days I went through the same things as the first time-staying up late reading, getting scared, finishing it and wishing that it was longer so that I could keep reading... That's when I realized that this is not only an extremely good tale of horror, it is a masterpiece of fiction. It is just as good as the first time everytime you read it. This book is undoubtedly worth buying. I suggest buying The Stand at the same time (I am currently rereading that book also) because once you finish the Shining, you will be hungry for more of SK's masterpieces.
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Summary: Movie couldn't touch it
Review: My whole life I've endured friends talk about "redrum" or describe Jack Nicholson's eyebrows during the famous "Here's Johnny" monologue. But purely on principle, I never sat in front of the movie. I promised myself I would read the book first, so I could further appreciate a film everyone but I had seen.So after finishing King's nearly 700 pages during three nights in an ancient apartment in early December, I sauntered over to the video store.Three hours later, I wondered what the big deal was. While reading the book, I shuddered every time the phone rang in my bedroom or the heater awoke copper pipes in my building. After stretches of 200 pages or more, I held the book closed in my lap for 20 minutes before I could sleep, convincing myself that I was not Jack, that I was not Danny. In the book, the ghosts are spooky and the tension is startling. But what is most chilling, what kept me turning at 4 and 5 a.m., were images such as Jack's mother on the kitchen floor, wasps under burning leaves, a mangled bike tire in the rear-view mirror and the bitter taste lingering during an Excedrin buzz. Save the two pale twins in the movie, I was unaffected. Bored. I wondered why 217 was 237, why a gin martini was bourbon on the rocks, why Danny's broken arm was a dislocated shoulder. It was, at best, annoying. I suppose a lot is determined on what is experienced first: the movie or the novel. Still, I will forever remember reading The Shining. I have already forgotten Jack Nicholson.
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Summary: Brilliant piece of Gothic Horror
Review: My whole reason for reading this book was to find out how much Kubrick diverged from the novel in making his film. And I was thoroughly shocked at how different the two are and yet how brilliant each is. King succeeds in writing a brilliant piece of Gothic Horror in the vein of Edgar Allan Poe, whose Masque of the Red Death is quoted in King's Preface to The Shining. It's definitely not a book for the squeemish or afraid of wasps (this is the only warning I'm giving you). I was astounded at the psychology and depth of each character, which is necessary in sustaining such a long book with so few people. Length is however, not an issue as the family tension is enough to keep pages turning at an alarming rate. I'm in no way a Stephen King fan, but this book is a masterpiece of any genre.
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Summary: An acknowledged masterpiece
Review: 'The Shining' is now acknowledged to be a true horror masterpiece. Sadly, very few SK books can claim that. Like other SK books, 'The Shining' is also extremely verbose, but then brevity is not SK's strong point.
A very strong storyline more than makes up for the piles of words. A must-read. Just make sure you are alone in a semi-dark room ;-)
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Summary: One of the most amazing horrors I've read yet
Review: I love this book, there, quick and to the point. I really love this book, the story, the characters, the setting, everything. The first time I read it, I was engrossed from the first word. The slow descent into madness, the way the house was affecting Jack, the ghosts, or were they ghosts? Everything about the story is great. I've read it eight times now, each time as good as the last. I've watched the film and the made-for-TV movie, the first movie is good, the new one is okay, but the book is the best. Great detail, characters that seem real and a story that keeps you going to the very last word, and then maybe rereading it all over again, just in case you missed anything. If you're new to horror, then this is the book to start with, if you've read it before, read it again. But you could never be a reader if you miss this book out, it really is a classic.
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Summary: Brilliant and Cunning!!
Review: This book is a masterpiece! One of Stephen King's best. In this book, Jack and his family (his wife and son) get hired to look over a hotel resort located high in the mountains of Maine. The hotel has a gruesome history that all three of the characters soon learn. There is a huge blizzard that has them all trapped, and then things start to go wrong. Terribly wrong. If you like Stephen King, this book is one you'll definatly want to read. It reaches deep into your mind and will have you questioning what sanity really is. This book is a must read!
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