The Shining

So fair warning this book does drop the hard R like 8 times and calls the black man a coon and junglebunny. I had to look up what a junglebunny was according to urban dictionary he is not that. Naturally when the hard R is used in a book it takes me aback a bit. I’ve never seen the movie or read the book before so I was thrown off. If that wasn’t apart of the book the book would be 5 stars. I felt so sad for the son throughout the book. I don’t think I would want the shining.

An absolute classic. I was in high school when I read this the first time. Don’t think the movie is the complete story. Everyone wants to go to a haunted hotel but they don’t want to stay long.

Not a bad book, but not as good as Carrie, in my opinion. The first four parts of the book were great, but the last part got a little too silly for my tastes. It seemed to me that the story was going in the direction of a man who was simply going insane and that would have been a good way to conclude it without bringing in supernatural aspects of the hotel. It would have been interesting to see how everything was explained through Jack's insanity. But that's not how it was done. The story was well told, regardless, and King's attention to detail in his writing gets better with each book I read.

I'm kind of a big baby so reading anything labeled as 'horror' made me a little wary. But from the moment I started reading this, I was hooked. It's not more horror, at least to me, as much as a thriller. A thriller with a really good character study of how someone goes over the edge. This is honestly the first King novel I've read, but after reading this, it certainly won't be my last.

This was my first Stephen King book. It was a very good read!