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A review by therivingtonreader
The Shining by Stephen King
3.5
Jack Torrance is hired as the off-season caretaker for The Overlook Hotel during the winter, where he and his family will essentially be cut off from the world for months due to the extreme winter weather. There are strange, and some evil, forces at work at The Overlook, that only Jack's five year old son Danny can see through his unique gift.
I really wanted this book to live up to the hype, and while I did enjoy it, there were also parts that seemed slow and to drag on for too long. The more of King's work I read, the more I've noticed that all of his story concepts are great, but there's a lot of meandering around until we get to the end. There were just so many unnecessary details, and I think this would have made a much better short story than a full 600+ page book.
I did really enjoy all the creepy elements surrounding the hotel, and the idea of that type of isolation is scary on it's own. Not being able to leave even if you wanted to, and on top of that there were ghosts or some kind of evil at work that doesn't want to let the characters leave.
I really wanted this book to live up to the hype, and while I did enjoy it, there were also parts that seemed slow and to drag on for too long. The more of King's work I read, the more I've noticed that all of his story concepts are great, but there's a lot of meandering around until we get to the end. There were just so many unnecessary details, and I think this would have made a much better short story than a full 600+ page book.
I did really enjoy all the creepy elements surrounding the hotel, and the idea of that type of isolation is scary on it's own. Not being able to leave even if you wanted to, and on top of that there were ghosts or some kind of evil at work that doesn't want to let the characters leave.