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The Shining (平装)
by Stephen King
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Horror fiction, Bestsellers, Original books |
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A complete isolated hotel, a family on the verge of destruction, a survival fighting against the demon of mind. |
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Max Funkhammer (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-31 00:00>
I read this many years ago but still vividly remember a lot of it because of the great story. This really is one of King's best if not the best. Just fantastic!!
The setting, the Overlook Hotel, an old hotel/resort abandoned for the winter, is perfect for what King does, giving people the creeps. He slowly builds the suspense as Jack, the main character, slowly goes crazy and we as the readers get to watch this unfold. I was never quite sure whether all that Jack sees is really happening, as in ghostly voices, or just his slowly eroding mind losing its grip.
As the story continues, King draws it out just enough to keep the pace moving while you wait for the other shoe to drop on this unsuspecting caretaker family. I dont want to give away too much of the story but suffice it to say that every page has the potential to make you clench up just a little more and a little more.
The background story of the Overlook is storytelling at its best, creepy and disturbing. The characters are well done, which is typical for King, and the ending was great. Overall I consider one of the best examples of horror-writing that I'ver read. Recommended for anyone who likes disturbing, provocative fiction written by a master.
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Kasey James (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-31 00:00>
I had never read a Stephen King book until I read The Shining. Without a doubt it is one of the best books I have ever read. I really enjoyed the movie, yet the book is better by far. The movie is what made me want to read the book. The movie is good, but if I had read the book and then watched the movie, I would have been disappointed. The book is far greater than the movie.
The book was hard to put down from the get go. I could picture everything in my mind. I pictured the life of the Torrance's and the struggles that they had been through in the recent past. I pictured the Overlook Hotel where Jack Torrance and his family stayed while he was the caretaker over the winter.
Slowly throughout their stay at the Overlook, Jack uncovers a lot of strange happenings that occurred in the Overlook. The more he uncovers, the more the hotel gets to him, as if it were alive itself... He begins to lose his cool, as well as his mind.
There are many things that haunt the Overlook, and Jack's son, Danny, is able to see all of it. He can see all of the horrible things that happened in the past, as well as get dreadful hints of the future. He can see the hotel get to his father, yet he has no power to stop it.
I highly recommend this book. King makes it so real that you start to question whether it is really fiction or not.
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A. Munoz (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-31 00:00>
Finishing and putting this book away was the hardest thing for me to do. The book is written with details so clearly it's as though you're there. The overall story is unforgettable and suspenseful; it is about a recovering alcoholic name Jack Torrance who's family is in need of money. It is because of this desperation that he finds a job as a caretaker for the Overlook Hotel, a hotel closed during the winter due to the snow. So he takes his wife, Wendy, and his son, Danny (who is blessed with the Shining; a gift of precognition) to live inside the hotel for the winter as he performs his task. And the winter they spend in there is a horrifying one; Danny begins to see the ghosts of the hotel's horrid past, and the hotel is starting to work over Jack as he slowly becomes more and more desperate for a drink. The hotel wants Danny's power, needing Jack to kill him and his mother to do so. It works over him slowly, bringing him to insanity.
I enjoyed every page of this story and finished it very quickly. I would reccomend this book to anyone who enjoys chilling and suspenseful tales.
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Ellie Reasoner (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-31 00:00>
Forget for a moment that The Shining is one of the greatest horror novels ever written, the inspiration for a classic movie and a fine TV miniseries, a scary, scary tale of a haunted hotel, and a fun piece of work by the Charles Dickens of our time. What is often forgotten about Stephen King's best book is that nowhere else in fiction is an alcoholic portrayed more realistically, and nowhere else is life for those who love that alcoholic shown with such gutsy, poignant, dead-on, hideous perfection. Those facts and those characters wed with a spectacular story of ghosts and evil, and that is why The Shining will outlive its contemporaries and still be read in a thousand years. The characters here live and breathe within our minds.
Ten-thousand "serious" writers in more literary fields wish they had the skill Maine's greatest writer does. No matter what genre he is writing in on any given day, King is one of the best writers ever to tell a tale. So read The Shining for whatever reason you wish, it's too great a book not to make your introduction, but keep an eye open for what I said about its characters. The story of a family and alcoholism is what raises this eerie novel to levels of surpassing greatness.
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Roger Page Lennon (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-31 00:00>
I have to admit that I picked up the book after seeing the movie. As I picked opened the book I remembered thinking there is no way the book can top the movie. Boy was I wrong. 'The Shining' is without a doubt one of the ten greatest books I've ever read. Probably the the thing I loved most about this book was the tragic character of Jack Torrence. I couldn't help but feel sorry for him as the hotel slowly destroyed him. The plot was well developed, and moved along, at a great pace, and King writes in a style that is perfect for the book. In all honesty I can't find a single flaw in the novel. I definately recomend it.
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