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Title: The Shining by Stephen King ISBN: 0-7434-2442-5 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 28 August, 2001 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.7 (466 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: I wish i never saw the movie.
Comment: I read this book long after I saw the movie. I personally thought that the movie was pretty scary, but reading the book, you realize that Kubrik actually ruined the whole point of the story and turned it into his own thing he wished it to be.
If the movie had never been made, there is no way that you would know early on that Jack would go crazy. You would just think that some ghostly entity was stalking the family in a creepy hotel (after the part with the old ghost lady in bathtub: scariest part of the whole book).
The whole book builds up and gives off little foreshadows and hints at how the problem will be resolved, at how the book would end. The movie does not even have the same ending! In the book, you can tell at the end that King had the whole format of how it would play out and end all thought out in his head. The way it was crafted and carefully plotted reminded me a lot of M. Night Shamylan's film's (The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, Signs) and how every scene and peice from the story is vital for the outcome. If you saw the movie and liked it, it will only make the book ten times better.
Rating: 3
Summary: More about alcoholism than horror.
Comment: This was one of the first Stephen King books I read, and I didn't understand why people found it so horrifying. Sure, there were some scary parts, but personally, I found Pet Semetary to be FAR scarier. Pet Semetary is one damn scary book. The Shining was an interesting, bizarre story, but I just didn't find it all that scary.
Rating: 5
Summary: Here's Johnny!!
Comment: Have you ever read a book that was impossible to stop reading? I have and it was Stephen King's The Shining. The master of horror is good about writing books that you just can't put down. The novel is about a family that goes to take care of a huge hotel during the off-season. They are not informed that the hotel is ahunted until the last person is about to leave. The little boy of the family has the ability to "shine," which is the ability to see and communicate with the people that had been murdered in the hotel. The little boyalso had an imaginary friend by the name of Tony that played a big part later on in the book. The story contains the famous line "Redrum, Redrum, Redrum<"which is murder spelled backwards: aslo it is a sign of bad things to come. The storyline pulled me right in and i could not stop reading.
The suspense of The Shining is intense. King leaves you right on the edge of your seat. There is a chapter in the book where the little boy rides his big wheel past the room that the murders had taken place. He began to hear voices and saw apparitions at the end of the hall. He peddled as fast as his little legs would take him to get away. Even though he peddled as hard as he could, he could not seem to escape the voices. I wondered if the apparitions were actually going to kill him, but they had other things on their minds. I had to keep reading, that night I think I probably read eight to nine chapters. I could not put the book down to save my life.
The storyline and plot were absolutely astounding. King uses the most descriptive words and phrases. This book made me feel like I was the one there. I could picture the very scenes and conversations that were taking place. I love how King ends the chapters, he was able to keep me wandering what would happen next.
The story continues with horror and fear being bestowed into the family's lives away from home. Stephen King definitely knows how to throw you thorough many loops while reading his books. There are many parts to this book that shocked me and at times scared me a little. At one point in time the mother and son are out walking through a hedge maze that was builit behind the massive hotel. The mother turned around and all of a sudden her son was gone. She began screaming his name and going in circles. WEhen all of a sudden he just reappears. His untrustworthy imaginary friend talked him into leavign so they coul dgo have a talk. Yeah I know, it's kind of weird but King makes it so appealing that I felt like he had pulled me into his world. The father is trying to write a novel at the same time he is supposed to be performing keep-ip duties on the vast hotel. The spirits eventually start speaking to him, which ends up being the worst thing that could happen.
The novel seems to just gradually flow to the next sequence, rather that having a great deal of flashbacks, like some of King's other works. He keeps you in the present story. King told the story of the family at the very beginning and kept sequence after sequence going strong throughout the book. This novel was a very interesting tale of the supernatural and how it can possess other people. King has a very proficient mind to come up with some of the books that he has written. The Shining is a book that you need to just take a whole day to read and use a great deal of imagination to allow yourself to be drawn into his writings.
Hang inthere when you first start the book because it starts off rather slow. Once it hits about half way through the third chapter it starts to pick upand gets a little out of the ordinary. If someone is looking for a good book that you can not stop reading I suggest Stephen King's The Shining.
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Title: Carrie by Stephen King ISBN: 0671039725 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Salems Lot by Stephen King ISBN: 0671039741 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: It by Stephen King ISBN: 0451169514 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: June, 1997 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Stand: Complete and Uncut by Stephen King ISBN: 0451169530 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: May, 1991 List Price(USD): $8.50 |
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Title: Pet Sematary by Stephen King ISBN: 0743412273 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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