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A ragyogás by Stephen King

285 reviews

kleaf's review against another edition

4.5

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

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Content Warnings

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

vivireads99's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Violence, Blood, Murder, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

luinthezu's review against another edition

1.0

dark sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Car accident, Injury/Injury detail

aeronek's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This book is very well written. That is both a good and a very very bad thing. This book took me 2 months, and I mean that in the best possible way. It at times made me sick to my stomach. The movie did no justice on the trauma that both Danny and Wendy went through. In the movie  it was like a light switch, bam they got there, bam he turned crazy .but no in reality of the slow process of him going insane. And that’s the thing they could even see that “this isn’t my dad it’s the hotel”. I don’t know how people write like this. Would recommend to anyone who can stomach gore. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Racial slurs, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Schizophrenia/Psychosis

miss_granger07's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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As usual, King's writing style is absolutely incredible; however, I believe that my expectations were set a little too high for this novel. I found it interesting that scenes in which the 1980 film adaptation adaptation was known for were not in the book. It took almost half of the book, it seemed, to actually get to the Overlook hotel and have some action. Also, I think that King have too many scenes describing womens' breasts: they had their nipples were showing, clutched their chest, touched themselves, etc.; it was too excessive for my taste. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cursing, Death, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Violence, Blood

Minor: Sexual content

emisbooks's review against another edition

3.75

dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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well written, thrilling and i liked the characters and their dynamic, however the racism and racial slurs constantly used against hallorann was very offputting to me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Gore, Violence

Moderate: Racial slurs, Racism

bailee_c's review against another edition

3.25

dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury

ninah17's review against another edition

3.0

dark slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Suicide, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting

he_slaughtered's review against another edition

1.0

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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this was unnecessarily racist and sexually explicit. uncomfortable in the way that it didn’t have to be, and shouldn’t have been. i hated the use of white characters saying racial slurs, or even anyone in the book for that matter, seeing as stephen king is a white guy. there’s some sexually explicit scenes which where wholly unnecessary, as well as perverted descriptions that don’t add anything to the story. why are there graphic descriptions of the male characters genitals (including the child’s)?? why is every male character commenting on the female characters bodies? it’s just uncomfortably sexual and perverted and racist. i’m sure there’s better horror out there that doesn’t do this. this is the first and only stephen king book i’m gonna read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Alcohol

Moderate: Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Religious bigotry

rosesofthespring's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

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

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

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

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.