Jack Torrance, his wife Wendy, and his son Danny head to Colorado’s Overlook Hotel for the winter. Whether or not you’ve seen Stanley Kubrick’s iconic film adaptation, The Shining is a fantastic read. This has perhaps never been more true than it is for The Shining, a hard-hitting crescendo of a book that bubbles and boils to an explosive climax. Stephen King’s original work is plenty present in Kubrick’s film, but as we readers know, books just hit different. Mentioning the film verges on necessary in any review of The Shining, because so many people are familiar with “Heeeeeere’s JOHNNY” and the like. But I also read it for my ongoing Screen series with Ian Simmons of Kicking the Seat–look out for our discussion of The Shining next week at the episode will cover both the film and book. I picked it up, naturally, to review it here. Love him or hate him, he’s a force to be reckoned with, and The Shining proves it. Tack on the fact that most readers have settled firmly on one side of the Stephen King fence. Cultural osmosis makes that a near certainty. How does one review a book that everyone knows about already ( oops)? The Shining is so pervasive that you’d be hard-pressed to find someone who hasn’t heard of it.
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