This is a pretty damned gook book. I am one of the few who like the book much more than the movie. In fact, I think the movie sucked and should not have veered so far from the excellent source material. If you are only familiar with the incredibly poorly acted movie, do yourself a favor and read the...
Seen the movie? Don't miss the book--it's even better. This is one of those rare books where you feel you must turn each page--and quickly to find out what happens next--but at the same time rather dread to--and you might not want to be alone in the house as you read it. One of the scariest books I'...
Hello BookLikes Bloggers and Readers! Welcome to my Blog and thank you for checking out my very first book review here at BookLikes. My name is Steve Lynn as you can see at the top of this page and I hope you'll join me in my enjoyment of reading and finding more quality works to fan the fire. ...
Ahh, it's October and that means forays into some of the gems of horror. I've read this one a few times, but I think I enjoy it more every time. Well, 'enjoy' - this is a story that really gets under my skin, There's so much imagery that creeps me out - not just the stuff that's outright creepy, t...
bookshelves: published-1977, boo-scary, north-americas, paper-read, families, ghosties-ghoulies, books-about-books-and-book-shops, lifestyles-deathstyles Read in January, 1979 Film was better than the book
Classic King!! I read this 20+ years ago and it was even better this time around. The building dread and menace is palpable and the characters take on a life of their own. It's hard not to picture the movie while reading this because some of the imagery is so powerful, but Kings story is just as pow...
How fucked up can a book be? Read The Shining to find out.This is a remarkably well written book with complex, perfectly developed lifelike characters. The multidimensional way in which this book was written and the skill with which Stephen King lays layer after layer and piece after piece to the st...
After losing his teaching job, Jack Torrance, a recovering alcoholic and writer, gets a job working as a caretaker for the winter at Overlook hotel, an upper scale hotel located on the top of a mountain in Colorado. But when his son, Danny, starts to have visions of a woman attacking from the room 2...
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