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: Anonymous - 11/07/2009 - 10:01 PM EST
Stephen King -In The Shining, it says that the old caretaker killed himself and his family. If he did, wouldn't the boiler have exploded? Or did I miss something?
Posted By: Erik - 11/06/2009 - 11:51 AM EST
I have read Carrie, Cujo, Christine, It, The Girl who loved Tom Gordon, The Talisman, and 'Salems Lot, and The Shining tops them all
Posted By: Stfunie - 11/01/2009 - 12:49 PM EST
One of the best books I've ever read!! I agree with everything the person below me said. The movie adaptation is hokey enough, but once you read the book, it's very irritating to know that such a great movie could have been made from The Shining!! I was really sad for the book to come to an end, but I plan on reading it many more times!
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.
