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Summary: MUST READ
Review: The Shining is the one of the BEST Steven King thrillers out there! You MUST read this book! Once you start you cant stop! If you have seen the earliest or latest version of the movie they are nothing compared to the book! This book is so frightning you seriously will want to go under the covers! The further you read into the book the more and more a caretaker of a magestic hotel with his wife and 5 yr old son with a special talent goes insane. This book has so many suprises and is just the best!
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Summary: FANTASTIC!
Review: If you are debating over whether to buy this book or not, debate no further! Buy it, sit with your back against a wall and the door in plain sight! This is the best novel of any genre I have ever read. The development of the characters is phenomanal, and the way Stephen King holds together the compelling story with basically only three characters is the most amazing feat of writing I have ever read. The story of the Torrence family and the ordeal they face at the Overlook hotel is not one you will forget. I borrowed the book off my sister and was so impressed I immediately ran out and bought my own copy. The scene with the hedge animals is one of the scariest I have read. Stephen King creates suspense marvellously and scares the pants off anyone who dares to read it. He also understands the power of a person's imagination and uses this knowledge to pull off some terrific terrifying scenes. Buy it and enjoy!
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Summary: Iluminado King
Review: É incrível o clima que SK consegue manter em todos os seus trabalhos, e, em especial, no Iluminado. Quem viu o filme, com Jack Nicholson, sabe do que estou falando, levando em consideração que o livro é SEMPRE melhor que o filme... King mexe conosco pois seu terror é psicológico, ele lida com aquilo que não conhecemos. É um livro fascinante e irresistivelmente assustador. Uma verdadeira obra-prima.
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Summary: Holy Scary!
Review: This book was so scary that it made me poop in my pants!
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Summary: Excellent book
Review: This was a well written suspense thriller from start to finish. Even though I liked the movie, I must say that it doesn't even come close to being as scary or as vivid as the book. Stephen King captures the essence of insanity and suspense perfectly with his detailed style of writing. I definately recommend this book to anyone who wants to read a book with a good scare.
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Summary: Horrifying and Suspensful
Review: Very good book! Horror and plot twists at every turn of the page. Only the best from the best!
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Summary: SK reader from Maine
Review: This is an extremely good read, but I have one problem. Everyone thinks that the "theme" of the book is Jack's alcoholism, and how he abuses Danny, but I don't think that is the real meaning of the book (he hardly abuses him anyway). The meaning of the book? I'm not sure. I think it could be interpreted as many things. Maybe that powers like Danny has can save but also can kill, or maybe only that it's not safe to leave people in a hotel for 5 months! I think this was one of his best books, and if I could finally get through the blasted movie (it's paused before he goes into the bathroom!) it would be better--(the movie focuses on the alcoholism way too much, but other wise it's a fairly good).
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Summary: REDRUM,REDRUM!
Review: this book is one of stephen king's finest masterpieces.in this book a young boy danny,his dad and his mother are stranded in a hotel during winter in colorado.nobody else is in the hotel, well nobody else that's alive anyway! also danny finds out that he has a special power. read the book the shining by stephen king, to find out if the family will make it out of this evil hotel of horror! i would recommend this book for anyone that likes horror and from ages 15 and up.
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Summary: A perfect blend of subtle horror and human drama
Review: If you need blood and guts every few pages to stay interested in a book, you will be dissapointed. If your definition of drama is the murderous villains lengthy monologue before his final, grisly defeat, you will be dissapointed. If you're looking for a clone of the movie in book form, you will be /very/ dissapointed. If, however, you appreciate one of those rare novels that leads you into the story step by step, immersing you with effortless grace into the world in which it occurs, a world that is, on the surface, plain and even non-descript yet brimming just beneath with murky, brooding awareness, then this one might be for you. If you appreciate full and starkly realistic characters painted in bold and brilliant strokes of emotion and personality, you may want to have a look. Finally, if you can accept Steven King as something more than "The Horrormeister", and instead as a natural story-teller who is as capable of capturing the subtles and nuances of terror as the hack and slash aspects, who can blend it perfectly into a familiar yet hauntingly awry world of ghosts darkness and ordinary people struggling against not only such mundane horrors as abuse and acoholism but horrors of a decidedly more supernatural nature, then you might be ready for this book. I was captivated by the plight of Danny, a very unique young boy, struggling against unimaginable forces out of pure, unconditional love for his father. Likewise, Jack Torrence is not merely the bloodlusting maniac of the movie, but a man who is hounded by his alcoholism, all the way into the heart of the Colorado Rockies where he attempts to come to terms with his personal ghosts and heal the rift that is threatening to pull his family apart. Despite his best efforts, however, the sinister awareness that has infested the Overlook, an awareness birthed by years of murder and tragedy, slowly twists him to it's evil ends in a heart-breaking struggle of wills. This book is full of disturbingly memorable imagery, moments of slow and creeping terror that will keep you turning pages deep into the night. The ending is a satisfying as it is tragic, bringing the grisly drama to a gut-wrenching climax and exorcising the tortured prisoners of the Overlook in a curtain of purifying flame. As King books go, this is one of his finest. As far as any book goes, this is one of the scariest I've ever read.
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Summary: Somewhat Boring
Review: The characters were deep in the story and the plot was thick but it could not hold my attention and took weeks to finish. It wasn't fast paced, I guess. It still beats the movie. (Don't see the movie first as I did, it may reveal too much of the plot, even though it lacks much of the book to make the book interesting)
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