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Community Thoughts:  Posted By: Angei - May 4th, 2012 6:12:03 am EDT the shining is a great book. i don't know any bad stephen king book, but my favrourite has to be cell. Posted By: Smich - April 18th, 2012 6:37:06 pm EDT I discovered and devoured this book in 1979 (pretty sure) as a paperback. I had never heard of "Stephen King" but I noticed that he had written Carrie and I was familiar with the movie; although I hadn't seen it. Everyone told me about the prom scene and I felt that I had no reason to see it, thus preserving my first John Travolta MOVIE experience: Saturday Night Fever. But I digress! I loved the character Jack Torrance, who I imagined I would grow to become. I had a similar personal life in the US Army as an intelligence officer. I drink myself to oblivion, I saw shit that may or may not have been there, I was a self-loathing, egotistical abuser (in every sense of the word). I blame Stephen King and his character Jack Torrance (later played by Batman's nemesis, The Joker) for further hewing my fragile excuse of a personality. Stephen became my alternative drug of choice and I caught up with his books. I subsequently bought hardback copies of his books. After Insomnia, I couldn't keep up with reading at a maniacal pace, i.e. at a pace as fast as SK could write. Oh by the way, the movie was a shock compared to the book with its directorial choices and screenplay distortions, including a shock near the climax. Regardless, I believe it's one of the best realizations of King's works. Great novel, Stephen! Hope you have a successful career... Posted By: Anonymous - April 17th, 2012 2:33:21 pm EDT I like this book, but I don't understand a lot about the shining as a special human ability. Was it really mentioned in the Bible? Posted By: Len Magno - April 10th, 2012 6:08:54 pm EDT My favorite Stephen King book. Read it like a 100 times and I never got tired of it. Can't wait for the sequel! :-) Posted By: Gabe Herrera - March 31st, 2012 4:15:26 pm EDT Hello! Stephen King, you are my idol! I am obsessed with your books. The Mist was the first one I read. It was truely like an incredible journey! The second one I read was The Shining. It was amazing! It is my favorite book in the world! The third book that i read was Cell. Oh my god, you must also be a computer genius to write a book like Cell! I couldn't understand half the things Jordan said (of course i am only 12 years old. 13 on April 4th!!!!)! Now I am reading Pet Semetary. I saw the movie when I was five years old, and I got so scared that I had to sleep in my older sister's room for like 6 months! The book though, now thats something not to be able to sleep about! Next I'm gonna read 'Salem's Lot! I'm not gonna see the movie until I finish it! I imagined that after he put the cell against his son's ear, that it didn't work, so he went looking for Tom, Jordan, Denise, and Dan. He was succesful! When Alice died in the book, I felt like Annie Wilkes in Misery! YOU KILLED ALICE!!!! YOU KILLED HER!!!! YOU WILL PAY!!!! I was practically in love with Alice! One day I really plan to meet you! Hope you keep writing the terrifying nevels that have stunned the whole earth! Also the short story books (I have read Just After Sunset and Everything's eventual)! Well, again, I don't mean to be an Annie Wilkes, but I'm your #1 fan! --Gabe Herrera, 12 More Thoughts » |
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