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Summary: My favorite King
Review: The Shinning is an absolutely terrifying book. It's Stephen King at full strength. You will watch with horror as Jack Torrance goes totally insane, you will feel both pity and irritation at Wendy Torrance and you'll cheer when Dick Halloran starts his rescue mission. Killing a child character "on stage" was something a horror no-no until King broke the "rule" with Cujo and smashed it with Pet Semetary and It! and you will fear for young Danny's life. On a side note, The Shinning was one of the few books written in the 70s that let the black character survive!
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Summary: Best_Book_Ever
Review: I saw the movie before reading the book, and I was really impressed with it. I'd heard the movie wasn't like the book, and in a few ways it isn't, especially the ending, but after reading the book, I like it just as much as the movie. I think both are worth purchasing (or reading/watching). The book was intriguing and I could not put it down after I started reading it. Very good book, BUY IT.
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Summary: The Shining
Review: The Shining is one of the best books I've read of his in a long time. I would say any person who hasn't read The Shining has missed out on a very good novel.It remains has to become a true classic of Stephen King's and should be a mesmerizing book for readers.The ctory is about a caretaker named Jack Torrance and his family(his wife and son).His son has a matter of fact has a unique and rare power that only few people own.The family is snowbound in the hotel for seven mounths.Their communications have been blocked and it seems the caretaker is acting a little crazy.Now Jack Torrance is on a qeast to finsh a duty that may cost him his life.
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Summary: You live the nightmare along with the characters, Awesome.
Review: This is my favorite Stephen King novel. I love the way he lets the reader live the lives of each character, and shares with us the nightmares (than become realities) each one faces. "The Shining" is a story of a haunted hotel entraping a small hometown family. Great horror story, scary, exciting, and mysterious. Keep this one "Out of Reach of Children", very spooky. Never a dull moment.
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Summary: One of my favorites...
Review: This is one of my favorite books of all time. Terrifying as hell, and I couldn't put it down. The story itself is a masterpiece, and the King of Horror uses just the right words to describe every spooky detail. I must warn you; don't expect to be able to fall asleep without the lights on while you're reading this, and for about a week after you've read the last sentence. A true work of art.
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Summary: Where is Shirley Jackson when you need her?
Review: This was not my favorite novel by Mr King and I have always been quite a fan of his. The problem I had was reading in "Dance Macabre" how much King admired Shirley Jackson's "Haunting of Hill House." When writing a similar type of story, however King chose to totally ignore all of the qualities that made Jackson's book one of the most frightening I have ever read. King, in fairness, did say he preferred blood and guts horror to the suggestive horror that Jackson prefered. In any event, The Shining does have some good moments so I will still recomend it.Do yourself a favor though and totally avoid Kubick's attempt at filming this novel. It was a total failure from start to finish. Even King didn't like it for obvious reasons.
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Summary: If I could, I would give this book a hundred stars.
Review: This is the best book ever. Kings analogies with Jacks father and the hotel is excellent. The way he describes the downfall of Jack, Danny and Wendy is superb. Everybody knows what the shining is about, and most everybody has seen the movie. But the book is awesome!! His detail is great and so is his imagination. READ THIS BOOK. I read it when I was 13.
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Summary: Fear and Madness in a book
Review: When taking the Shing out of the shelve and paying for it I almost imagined a year of sleepless nights,that synopsis that cover jumped at me. The first chapter immediatly got to the point,mentioning history of the haunted hotel{Overlook}.For people not knowing the plot a man 'Jack Torrance' with drunken history takes the job as the caretaker and winds up mad when forces and history of balls and past caretakers catch up with him.With Mr Halorann the chef helps Danny{Jacks son] use his telekenisis power the Shining to help create mayhem and scare struggling mother Wendy. Being marked one of the most scary books ever the book won't scare you to death.It does have creepy instances were you won't wan't to be alone and will make you think about 'REDRUM'. Starters will want to read this book however be aware of the foul launguage involved and make sure you are'nt squiemish.A definet 4 out of 5 if not 4.5.Don't expect to die of fear but do be prepeared for looking around suspicously and looking hard under your bed.
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Summary: A Masterpiece of Modern Literature
Review: This book goes far beyond the genre of horror. This book tells of the struggle of one man to overcome his troubled past and support his family. The character development is some of the best I've ever seen in a novel, especially a "horror" novel. Unlike the movie, you truly feel pity for Jack Torrance. He truly feels that he is doing what is right for his family, and how can you argue with him? What would happen if he simply took his wife's advice and left the hotel? His family would continue to struggle. A potential great American writer would be reduced to, at best, a janitor. Jack soon realized that he was indeed in a lose/lose situation. Stephen King has yet to achieve what he did with this book. I have analyzed it beyond belief, trying to find the point in which Jack Torrance truly loses all control and The Overlook takes over. That is another crucial element in the book that most people overlook (no pun intended) probably due to the movie. This isn't the story of a father going crazy and attacking his family at all. And this most CERTAINLY isn't the story of a haunted house. Jack Torrance is indeed a tragic hero for the twentieth century. This book is a must read.
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Summary: Beware the father is in a killing mood
Review: Here Stephen King is reaching a high that is a real acme. An alcoholic teacher is fired from his job. He has a past of violence against his son. His wife is fearful and frightened. But he gets a job as the caretaker of a hotel in the Rocky mountains for the winter. The family is thus isolated in this hotel that was built on an indian cemetary. It is thus haunted and little by little the hotel will take over the sanity of Jack, the caretaker who will identify with all the past dramas that occurred in this hotel and he will little by little become the axe that is supposed to kill his wife and his son. The trick in this book is that the son has some special ESP power and he can communicate with the black cook who will be alerted and will come to the rescue but to no avail. A drama that is poignant because the father wants to kill the son and in the end the son kills the father. This father-son relationship is absolutely unevadable. It has to go to the end of its perspective and this perspective is death for one or the other. King chooses the father and hence reenact his own personal drama : a son, without a father and somewhere feeling guilty for this absence. If you are not afraid of getting claustrophobic by reading this claustrophobic story, please run to it and devour it. You will liberate your deepest guilt : the mythical killing of the father that has pervaded our civilization since the very first moment it came into existence. And you may even think of Jesus, the son, who is put to death by the decision of the father, a decision the son accepts and assumes. Here it is like the revenge of this crime and the search of an exit that will save the son from the claws of the father. Are all fathers invading crushing weights ? No answer can be provided. Please see the psyche of the man who wrote the book. Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, Paris Universities II and IX.
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