Post by lovelyeri100 on Aug 19, 2013 22:44:48 GMT -6
The Shining is a horrify story about a man that experiences severe cabin fever while secluded in a hotel with his family. However, it being a King book, things can't be so simple.
Jack Torrance is a recovering alcoholic. He has lost his prestigious job as a teacher due to his temper and is now desperate, and thus forced to take a job as a caretaker at a hotel in order to support his wife and child. The job consists of caring for a hotel, that lies in complete isolation from the outside world, for 5 snowy months. Jack thinks that the isolation will help him write the play he has been unable to finish.
Wendy is Jack's wife. She is a devoted mother and wife that has stuck with her drunk husband out of love for him and out of necessity for her child. At the moment she decides to leave her husband, he decides to reform and leave his alcoholism behind. Wendy is apprehensive about spending such a long time in isolation, but she also thinks it will do her little family good.
Danny Torrance is a bright 5 year old child. He has the shine, an ability to see and know things that most people don't. Danny's shine manifests itself through an imaginary friend that Danny names Tony. Days before leaving to the Overlook Hotel, Tony gives Danny a terrifying vision, and as much as Danny doesn't want to go to the Overlook, he understands his parents' thoughts and knows how important this job is for his dad.
Once at the hotel Jack slowly starts losing his mind, while Danny's prophetic episodes become worse and worse. Something evil lies at the Overlook hotel and it wont rest until it destroys the Torrance family.
I read this book about ten years ago and decided to give it another read in preparation for King's new book, Doctor Sleep, which is kind of a part 2 to The Shining. I I didn't remember how good this book was until I reread it. It is definitely one of my favorite works by Stephen King, and I have read everything that man has ever written. My favorite element to this book is the way you can almost see as Jack Torrance slowly loses his mind. You can feel his mind breaking. King does a beautiful job describing Jack's slow descent into madness. He also does a great job describing the horrifying scenes in the book, my favorite being, the hedge animals. I will never walk near a hedge again. Overall, this book demonstrates why King is known as, well, the King of the horror genre. If this isn't a book worthy of 5 stars than I don't know what is.
Jack Torrance is a recovering alcoholic. He has lost his prestigious job as a teacher due to his temper and is now desperate, and thus forced to take a job as a caretaker at a hotel in order to support his wife and child. The job consists of caring for a hotel, that lies in complete isolation from the outside world, for 5 snowy months. Jack thinks that the isolation will help him write the play he has been unable to finish.
Wendy is Jack's wife. She is a devoted mother and wife that has stuck with her drunk husband out of love for him and out of necessity for her child. At the moment she decides to leave her husband, he decides to reform and leave his alcoholism behind. Wendy is apprehensive about spending such a long time in isolation, but she also thinks it will do her little family good.
Danny Torrance is a bright 5 year old child. He has the shine, an ability to see and know things that most people don't. Danny's shine manifests itself through an imaginary friend that Danny names Tony. Days before leaving to the Overlook Hotel, Tony gives Danny a terrifying vision, and as much as Danny doesn't want to go to the Overlook, he understands his parents' thoughts and knows how important this job is for his dad.
Once at the hotel Jack slowly starts losing his mind, while Danny's prophetic episodes become worse and worse. Something evil lies at the Overlook hotel and it wont rest until it destroys the Torrance family.
I read this book about ten years ago and decided to give it another read in preparation for King's new book, Doctor Sleep, which is kind of a part 2 to The Shining. I I didn't remember how good this book was until I reread it. It is definitely one of my favorite works by Stephen King, and I have read everything that man has ever written. My favorite element to this book is the way you can almost see as Jack Torrance slowly loses his mind. You can feel his mind breaking. King does a beautiful job describing Jack's slow descent into madness. He also does a great job describing the horrifying scenes in the book, my favorite being, the hedge animals. I will never walk near a hedge again. Overall, this book demonstrates why King is known as, well, the King of the horror genre. If this isn't a book worthy of 5 stars than I don't know what is.
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