From the book jacket:
The Overlook Hotel claimed the most beautiful physical setting of any resort in the world; but Jack Torrance, the new winter caretaker, with his wife Wendy and their five-year-old son Danny, saw much more than its splendor.
Jack saw the Overlook as an opportunity, a desperate way back from failure and despair; Wendy saw this lonely sanctuary as a frail chance to preserve their family; and Danny?...Danny, who was blessed or cursed with a shining, precognitive gift, saw visions hideously beyond the comprehension of a small boy. He sensed the evil coiled within the Overlook's 110 empty rooms; an evil that was waiting just for them.
Moe's Review
Ahhh, here is a real classic. The early King books really have a special place in my heart and the Shining is a "shining" example of why. This is a good chance you have seen the movie on this one but you should be aware that Kubrik changed the book a lot. So don't think the book will be spoiled for you by having seen the movie. I don't know what else to say other than this King when he was still young and hungry. His writing style is still lean and mean and much more raw, King's books tended to balloon up in later years but that is not the case here.
Read this book, you won't be disappointed. |
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