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Summary: Stephen's always great!
Review: Great book. I still haven't read a king novel that i did not enjoy. His brilliant developement of characters is what makes his stories so great and believable. This book is downright spooky! A must-read for any King fan. I'd also recomend reading Bag of Bones and The Stand.
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Summary: Hair-raising; One of King's best!
Review: "THE SHINING" may be long, but it's so good, you just don't want it to end! The thrills and chills never let up-and neither do the enormous words-and the surprises keep on coming! If you loved the 1980 classic film adaptation of this brilliant piece of art, you won't be disappointed!
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Summary: Classic King......
Review: This is a Stephen King classic, and is rendered my many fan's his best work ( i disagree, however, with 'Salems Lot & a few others being his best work IMHO). What is so suspensful about this book is the fact that you don't know when the main character, Jack Torrance, is going to explode and turn into the homocidal maniac Mr. King describes indrirectly in great detail he is. While this is a disturbing and very suspensful, it does tend to drag on and on a bit, sagging the story line - which was the only reason i brought it to 4 stars. Great novel - highly reccomended!
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Summary: Couldn't stop reading this
Review: This has to be Stephen King's masterpiece. I've always loved the movie (the original film with Nicholson) and I just recently bought the book. The print version devotes a lot more time to character development and there are considerable differences between the movie and the book. If you're a fan of the movie, don't deprive yourself of this book!
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Summary: The Shining is #2 on my list
Review: Stephen King is a great author. My two favorite books ever written were done by him. The Stand is the best book that he has ever written. Close behind it is the Shining. The Shining is a clasic that is not a thing like the movie. I think that anyone that likes to read should read this book and thoes that do not like to read should read it even more. This book will make you think alot. It is one of those books that once you pick it up there is no putting it back down. This is a definate read. [...]
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Summary: The Best of King
Review: Personally, it is my favorite of King's works. The complexities of Jack and his son are so intertwined and far out there that I read the book twice to absorb it all. The writing is chilling, and the grotesque horror sequences kept me up late into the night.
One of the few books that scared me, and that is truly saying something. Though the movie is great, I find that the book is certainly better. Don't you even dare watching the mini-series, because it is horrible (even though it's somewhat faithful to the book).
A complex and scary read.
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Summary: Murder at the Over look Hotel
Review: In the Shining the young Danny Torance has an imaginary friend who shows him the future. Danny also has the ability to read other people's minds. Danny's father becomes the winter caretaker in The Overlookd Hotel which is in the mountains miles away from any town. The hotel has been run throught it's history by some very evil people, and the hotel has had very strange deaths occure in it. The Overlook hotel has a life of its own with all the dead souls traped within it.
The hotel trys to control Danny's father so that he can kill his family in order for the hotel to receive the boys unique power.But in ordr to save his family Danny must use his power to call for help.I was amazed at how the author portrayed this seemingly harmless hotel as the souce of so much evil.
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Summary: you can check in.....
Review: a family moves into a haunted hotel! the man is a recovering alcoholic, supposed to take care of the hotel for the winter (it's closed to public). the boy has terrible visions and some telepathic skills. there's a mother too. the hotel lies for itself....... (of course). the hotel lives. the otel tries to posess. it's actually hard to tell more. there are a lot of details and happenings here. but i would say this is more a playful story than a plot-driven. all in all, i wasn't completely satisfied with the plot. i didn't get the facts straight. there was actually quite a lot of unclearity, that's why i've never seen the acclaimed greatness. details, yes. cool happenings, yes. but exactly what/why......? for a man who likes to create plot, this wasn't that great. but it's suspenceful, lovely details, fast-paced.
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Summary: quite possibly my scariest story ever
Review: This book is an all time classic. I'm not even going to try to sell newcomers to this book, because if you haven't read it by now, you need to take a new perspective on your reading entertainment. I was 16 when I read first read this book. I was staying with my brother that summer and he was out partying with friends. I was in his rickety, creaking old house all by myself on a stormy night (I'm not making this up!). I got to the scene when the hedge animals started moving and got so scared I had to put the book down while thunder was shaking the foundation and lightning was flashing in the windows. I was wishing my brother was home and happened to glance down at a review quote that was on the back cover. It said something like "don't read this book alone at home on a stormy night". I thought about that for a moment and ran screaming from the room. Talk about impact. This book SCARED me!
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Summary: Review for The Shining
Review: In my opinion, The Shining is a great book, and it will continue to impress the readers of tomorrow. King has written a classic for all time in The Shining. It all starts with Danny, a child blessed with the Shining. The Shining is kinda like a sixth sense. Things can be sensed, and people can communicate with their minds. It all starts with Danny's father getting a job at the Overlook Hotel. He is to watch over the creepy hotel for the winter. A murder, and a suicide haunt the hotel. Soon, a bunch of creepy events start to plague the family staying at the hotel. A hornet's nest, bombed and dead, regenerates hornets that sting Danny, or Doc. Doc ventures up later on to the room of the lady that committed suicide in the bathtub. While he mutters that everything is a dream, count to ten, and the dream will disappear, the woman's disgusting looking corpse rises out of the bathtub and hurts Doc. Doc runs downstairs with scratches on him, and red marks. The mother, thinking that the father has beat Doc up, tries to keep Doc sheltered. The family situation starts to go downhill until the end of the book. Many other scenes of weirdness happpens, and Doc, fearing for his life, calls the cook of the hotel via the Shining. He starts from Florida and goes all the way to Colorado, where the hotel is.
Doc's father meanwhile, is starting to lose his sanity, and wants to basically kill his family and fall into favor with the spirits of the hotel. The father grows worse and worse, until the end of the book, where he hurts the Mother, and starts after Doc too. The cook arrives and tries to help but gets hurt as well. The father chases after Doc and regains some of his sense and tells Doc to run, then the Dad rebels against the spirits of the hotel and blows it up, with the family escaping with the cook. The book needs a sequel however. I'd personally love to read the next one. If there is a sequel, then I'm an idiot, but I really want this story to continue on.
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