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The Shining (The Shining #1)

Stephen King

Paperback | Pages: 659 pages

Rating: 4.22 | 1053714 Users | 22284 Reviews

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Original Title:	The Shining
ISBN:	0450040186 (ISBN13: 9780450040184)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The Shining #1
Characters:	Wendy Torrance, Danny Torrance, Dick Halloran, Horace Derwent, Stuart Ullman, Albert Shockley, Delberg Grady, Watson, Bill Edmonds, Charles Grondin, Sylvia Hunter Derwent, Howard Cottrell, Larry Durkin, Jack Torrance
Setting:	Colorado(United States)
Literary Awards:	Locus Award Nominee for Best Fantasy Novel (1978), Gandalf Award Nominee (1978)

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Jack Torrance's new job at the Overlook Hotel is the perfect chance for a fresh start. As the off-season caretaker at the atmospheric old hotel, he'll have plenty of time to spend reconnecting with his family and working on his writing. But as the harsh winter weather sets in, the idyllic location feels ever more remote...and more sinister. And the only one to notice the strange and terrible forces gathering around the Overlook is Danny Torrance, a uniquely gifted five-year-old.

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Title	:	The Shining (The Shining #1)
Author	:	Stephen King
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 659 pages
Published	:	July 1st 1980 by New English Library (Hodder & Stoughton) (first published January 28th 1977)
Categories	:	Romance. Fiction. Womens Fiction. Chick Lit. Contemporary. Adult. Adult Fiction

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Quite simply put, The Shining is the best horror story I have ever read. It scared the hell out of me.Over a period of time, I have noticed certain standard "motifs" in horror stories. One of these I call "The Lost Child". Such stories will typically involve a child, who can see what the silly grownups cannot see (or, even if they do see, don't acknowledge because it goes against reason and logic): and who fights, however high the odds stacked against him/ her are. Danny Torrance is such a boy.

October 2016*2.5/5* Soooo I wasn't a huge fan of this. There were a few things about it that I enjoyed, but overall I found it to be boring and overly drawn out. Also not scary AT ALL which was my biggest disappointment. October 2015I'll probably pick this up again someday, but I'm really not in the mood for this right now. Reading Harry Potter alongside this kind of ruined it for me.... Oops.

I'm not sure why I only saw the movie and never read the book. I loved the movie so much it makes no sense, but back in the day, not many things make sense to me. I will have to go back and watch the movie again to see all of the different little changes. Now I know why some things happened. You know those things, the little things that are only in the head, written in the book, but doesn't show up in the movie part. Wow! I know the book messed with my head but I didn't realize it would make me

Another Stephen King re-read complete!I have had this book marked at 4 stars since I added it a few years ago. It has probably been 20 years since I last read the book and, in that time, I have watched the Kubrick movie a few times. Honestly, I am not a huge fan of the Kubrick movie (and I hear King wasnt either). I think my thoughts on the movie combined with being a couple of decades removed from reading it skewed my rating a bit low.This time, though, with the refresher 5 stars all the way!

Even though the film version of this one from Stanley Kubrick is generally considered a horror classic, Stephen King has never been shy about making his dislike of it known. He hates it so much that he was heavily involved in making a more faithful adaptation of it as TV mini-series in 1997. (This inferior version invited comparisons of Stephen Weber from Wings to one of Jack Nicholsons most iconic performances. So that worked well.) Considering Uncle Stevies longstanding grudge about it, I was

About as perfect a haunted house story as can be, King was at his best here. It's as though he built a haunted house and then filled every nook and cranny with detail. King is also at his best in regard to characterization, all well rounded and complete, we know family relationships, group dynamics, all the old hidden buried fears. King touches base with psychological elements, theological, metaphysical, spiritual, and cryptic aspects of a ghost story to wrap the reader in a blanket of horror.**

This was most excellent; I can 100% see why this is many readers favorite Stephen King novel. Heck, it's my favorite novel of his to date, although I have a good number of his books to catch up on. I've found myself overly critical of his work in the past, possibly due to the fact that he's so well known, but I feel it's more been a fault on my end. Previously I've picked up one of his doorstops at a time I wasn't prepared to fully invest in the time and energy it takes to immerse oneself into