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Summary: Steven King is my book candy!
Review: I read this 464 page book in FOUR DAYS! This is a VERY fast paced, easy to read, in your face thriller. The Shining is a cordial invitation into King's superbly terrifying imagination. The plot: intriguing, the characters: stellar, the imagery: wasps, blood, the hotel, everything was perfect. Have You ever felt yourself shine? Don't read this one at night, unless you LIKE feeling "zero at the bone".My only critcisms would be that the begining is somewhat slow, and WHAT was with the last chapter? It was out of the blue and wholly unnecessary. Cut that chapter out and the ending is perfect.
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Summary: Deffinate must read!
Review: The Shining will sweep you up and wont let you down until you finish it.You will find it gripping and hard to put down .King does a great job in this book.His descriptions of the characters and the hotel.I would hate to spoil this book for the readers so I'm just going to tell you read this.You really need to go and buy it or go to your library and read it.You don't want to pass this one up.
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Summary: COME AND PLAY WITH ME
Review: I couldn't put this book down until I got to the last page. A fantastic read. This is Stephen King's best
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Summary: An eerie novel full of surprises
Review: This novel is 1 of the best I have read so far. Every moment was terrifying. It had alot of twists and turns and was filled with surprises. Horrifying, pure terror!
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Summary: This book is GREAT
Review: This book is about a family of 3 who goes to live isolated in the mountains for an entire season because the dad has a new job as a hotel caretaker . Everyone in the family senses, hears and sees strange things although it is mainly the 5 year old son.
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Summary: Second time reading was better than the first
Review: I just finished this book for the second time and oh my god, I forgot just how good this book was. I read it for the first time about 5 years ago and I guess I just blocked out how frightened this book made me. On top of all the horror, King just weaves us a fantastic story with characters we can all relate to on one level or another (whether we admit it or not). If you liked this movie, read this to see just how good the story really really is. WOW.... just wow
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Summary: King's masterpiece -- and one of my favorite books
Review: I first read this book in 1980, at the recommendation of a coworker. I'd stayed away from Stephen King ... too popular for my advanced tastes. Anyway, I decided to take a look at the book about 10 PM (on a work night). Finished it about 7 AM the next morning. No book has ever taken over my imagination like this, before or since. Since then, I've read all of King's work, and consider him the contemporary Dickens. But having just reread the Shining for, perhaps, the fourth time, it remains my favorite, and a modern masterpiece, in my opinion. But I recognize this is essentially personal. I've not identified with any other character is literature as I do with Jack Torrance. I'm now more than ten years into sobriety and recovery, and I've often recommended this book to men that I sponsor. The depiction of the alcoholic personality, the combination of fear and resentment and self-pity, at war with Jack's very real love for his family and desire for goodness, is expressed in a way that makes it clear that King is writing of something he knows all too well on a personal level. Jack Torrance is one of literature's great tragic figures. I can only say, "There but for the grace of God go I." [By the way, this is why I can't abide by Kubrick's interpretation. There's no tragedy or complexity in Nickleson's portrayal of Torrance. Kubrick's detachment from the human delemma ultimately doesn't work for me.] I do believe that there is a coherent force/power of evil/darkness in the world, though it is not as powerful that the force/power of good/light. But I think one of King's most basic points (in all his work) is that we ignore the power of darkness at our own risk, that this is one of the real problems in the contemporary Age of Therapy. Central to the Shining is the way the force of the evil in the Hotel is able to utilize Jack's weaknesses ultimately to turn him to its purposes--to destroy what he love the most. I find this very, very realistic (viewing the supernatural stuff as kind of window dressing). Having reached out for help in a way that the Torrance character couldn't, I'm now blessed with a life happier than I could imagine. But this book now reminds me of how much Divine Grace is involved for anyone blessed with the ability to build healthy loving relationships with those around him/her, especially family members, one day at a time.
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Summary: terrifying
Review: In my humble opinion this along with IT is Stephen King's masterpiece. The story is pretty simple. In it Jack Torrance, a recovering alcoholic, moves to the Overlook Hotel to be its caretaker over the winter. He takes his wife Wendy and his five year old Danny. He is in King's own words a shiner i.e. someone who is full of psychic energy. During the cause of the book the family gets cut off and Jack becomes frightening attached to the hotel. We also learn about the Overlook's unsavoury history. King manages to weave some truly terrifying experiences in to the story. He manages to rise the hair on the back of your hair again and again. The high point for me occurs when Danny goes to room 217. Don't read this one alone. It was made in to a film starring Jack Nicholson and directed by Stanley Kubrick.
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Summary: You Will Want To Go To Bed With The Light On
Review: I just re-read this book after several years. With nothing better to do I started reading it on a rainy Sunday morning and read the entire book. It is probably the best book ever written by Stephen King. It's my favorite and I have read most of them. There are many scenes in this book that will get you jumping at the least little sound. Unfortunately, having seen the movie (I watch it whenever it's on) I kept picturing the characters as they are in the movie. However, it did help when trying to create a mental picture of the Overlook Hotel. If you want to read a good Stephen King book this is the one for you. WARNING: Like others have said, keep your back to the wall when reading it or read it on the beach on a sunny day.
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Summary: Another masterpiece!
Review: When innocence recognize the evil, then you are in the world of Stephen King. You can only resist this tale if you have nerves like iron. The film has not much in common with the book. I'd first see the film before reading the novel otherwise you'll get disappointed of the film, which is not bad. You ask why I've given the book five stars? Because there aren't more stars to give! You ask yourself what REDRUM is? READ THIS NOVEL or you'll never find the solution.
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