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Shining by Stephen King

23 reviews

onyxem's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Well, this is my first Stephen King novel as well as the first book I've read this year (yes, I am much behind on my reading goal..) and it was an unsettling delight! At first, I was quite overwhelmed at the prospect of reading something that is over 600 pages and that being my first read of the year. However, the way that King writes made it easy to keep my pace up, it was always either fast or medium paced. 

I loved the characterization, the use of foreshadowing, and the claustrophobic nature of the book itself. The mystery at hand of what The Overlook was hiding and its past secrets kept me wanting to read more and subsequently had me dreading what was going to take place. It gave me that feeling that I seek after when I consume thriller/horror genres, I felt creeped out and off-put in the best way.

If I had to ask for anything, I really wish I knew more about the history of the Overlook and its inhabitants. What caused them to be so bitter? I want to dive deeper into each character's backstory and the hauntings of this place. 

I do have Doctor Sleep to look forward to, and I'll definitely be reading it in the future after I take a lil' breather/break! A solid 4 stars overall :)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, and Alcoholism

Minor: Vomit

uranaishi's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Death, Physical abuse, Violence, Addiction, Alcoholism, Blood, Bullying, Confinement, Car accident, Child abuse, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Racial slurs, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Self harm

Moderate: Alcohol, Death of parent, Mental illness, Sexism, Dementia, Grief, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Murder, Sexual content, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Cancer, Excrement, Homophobia, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, Medical content, Pregnancy, and Vomit

pizzaisjesus98's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Medical content, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Blood, Car accident, and Gore

Minor: Cannibalism, Pedophilia, Grief, Homophobia, Suicidal thoughts, and Vomit

zombiezami's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced

5.0

A well crafted novel. They aren’t made quite like this anymore

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Cursing, Alcohol, Fire/Fire injury, Body horror, Alcoholism, Confinement, Blood, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Child abuse, Ableism, Murder, Death, Violence, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Addiction

Moderate: Car accident, Racial slurs, Racism, Vomit, Suicide, Sexual content, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Cannibalism, Colonisation, Slavery, Genocide, Child death, and War

msradiosilence's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.5

Tldr; King is blatantly misogynistic and racist in this one, I don’t fucking care if it’s a classic.

Read my full review at: https://www.rainyreader.com/single-post/the-shining/.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Blood, Body horror, Car accident, Child abuse, Excrement, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Murder, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, Racism, Animal death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Self harm, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Body shaming, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Sexual content, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Vomit

bumble_abi's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

I so wanted to love this, and I did find it reasonably enjoyable but I do feel it could have been 200 pages shorter and been just... better. I saw the film first and I definitely prefer the more in depth character study the book gives us, and I also enjoyed that the nature of the haunting of the Overlook was less abstract and more coherent, and the symbolism is much tighter, but during the last 100 pages I found myself skimming through the padding (which I think is King trying to build tension with limited success) to get to the real meat. Not enough dense emotion for my taste in horror, verbose with too much mundane filler between the scares. It was fine but if this is among King's best regarded works then I'll be sticking to other writers. Also super male gazey (Wendy is a well rounded character but her breasts are not relevant to the story, Stephen) and racist as hell.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Murder, Child abuse, Violence, Gore, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Car accident, Racial slurs, Suicide, Emotional abuse, Racism, Gaslighting, Drug abuse, Addiction, and Alcoholism

Minor: Vomit, Sexual content, Sexism, and Misogyny

erenrinren's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Violence, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Racial slurs, Racism, Physical abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, and Gore

Moderate: Child abuse, Addiction, Murder, Suicide, Medical content, Cannibalism, Car accident, Death, Drug use, and Forced institutionalization

Minor: Vomit and War

kleaf's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Addiction, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Self harm, Sexism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Violence, and Vomit

rosesofthespring's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Racism, Violence, Death, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Death of parent

Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Ableism, Child death, Drug abuse, and Classism

Minor: Body shaming, Gun violence, Sexual content, Vomit, and Homophobia

As usual, Stephen King is very weird about stuttering, so watch out for that. No one (as far as I can tell) is actually psychotic, but the content heavily revolves around hallucinations and questioning reality.

mo_moana_k's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

The amount of racial slurs in this book are incredible,  at some points there's one on every page. It's annoying and completely unnecessary.  A white man has no business using the n word that many times.  It's not even to make the reader dislike the character that says them, they're said by the protagonists too. Other than that the book was good but that really got under my skin.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Addiction, Alcoholism, Blood, Child abuse, Cursing, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Gore, Murder, Physical abuse, Torture, and Violence

Minor: Antisemitism, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Racism, and Vomit