Shining, The Formats: Hardcover/Paperback/Trade/Kindle/Audio/Movie/TV Miniseries/DVD First Edition Release Date: 1977
Synopsis:
Jack Torrance, his wife Wendy, and their young son Danny move into the Overlook Hotel, where Jack has been hired as the winter caretaker. Cut off from civilization for months, Jack hopes to battle alcoholism and uncontrolled rage while writing a play. Evil forces residing in the Overlook – which has a long and violent history – covet young Danny for his precognitive powers and exploit Jack’s weaknesses to try to claim the boy.
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Posted By: Joe - 10/18/2009 - 4:25 PM EST
This book is simply amazing. The Shining has to be the best book I've ever read. I just couldn't put the book down. It was my first Stephen King book I ever read and it really got me hooked. Also the movie starring Jack Nicholson DOES NOT do this book justice at all. It doesn't capture the story at all and the ending is completely different. Please take the time and read the real story..not the movie. (:
Posted By: R. Usher - 09/21/2009 - 1:11 AM EST
I read this for the first time at the age of nine, and easily a hundred times in the eighteen years since. To me, "The Shining" is not simply a story, but a world to which I can escape. The Hotel is as familiar as my own home, the Torrances as if life-long friends. It got me to love reading and to start writing, and it will always be the novel I hold nearest and dearest to my heart.
Posted By: Aidanl - 09/15/2009 - 2:40 PM EST
The best book I ever read. The film is good but the book is far better in my opinion.Absolutly thrilling.
Posted By: Nikolai - 09/11/2009 - 9:31 AM EST
Isnt this a movie?
Posted By: Ilecion - 09/04/2009 - 7:25 AM EST
This was the first Stephen King novel i read. I was 12yrs old at the time and boy was i scared...in a good way. But I sure wasn't going back to those Enid Blyton etc. books after this one. A masterpiece, nothing less.
