The Shining (Book Review)

Stephen King is a great author who writes many horror books. The Shining is a very good book by King, and it is science-fiction/horror of course and is considered one of the greatest horror books of all time. The themes of the book are psychic abilities, confined, writer's life, and evil. The problem in the book is how 2 parents try to figure out what is going on with their son and how they are going to survive the long COLD winter in the hotel. I wanted to read this book because I thought it was going to be interesting because it was a horror book.

The book tells the fictional story of a struggling tempered mental writer, Jack Torrance, and his wife Wendy and son Danny, who move into a hotel named the Overlook in Colorado as caretaker. Jack has been trying to rebuild his life after what happened one time when he was very drunk. He was an alcoholic and because of this he hurt his 3 year old son very badly. While Jack plans to write his new novel he gets distracted by mysterious occurrences in the hotel and slowly goes crazy. One thing that makes him go crazy is one of the hotel rooms, room 217. This room is forbidden to go in. Danny also has problems of his own, he always has a seizure or convulsion and he also has an imaginary friend named Tony. He is also a gifted child; he is telepathic, but sensitive to supernatural forces.

The hotel is both a personality in its own way and it manipulates both the living and the dead for its own purpose. It also expands the psychic powers of any living person who resides there, giving them the power to resist its will. Danny, who has had premonitions of the hotel's danger to his family, begins seeing ghosts and frightening visions from the hotel's past. But he ignores it and hopes that they are not dangerous in the present. The problem is that he does not tell his parents about his visions because he senses how important the job of caretaker is to his father and his family's future. However, Danny realizes that being in the hotel is making him more powerful and enabling him to make the things that normally cannot be dangerous become dangerous. The hotel begins to posses Jack and eventually he starts to do crazy things that you will find out in the book by reading it.

I thought that the book was so awesome. It was very interesting, crazy and the book was definitely entertaining, I could not put it down. I had to know what happened next! I am going to remember this book forever; no one can forget a really good book. I really like how Stephen King’s style is; he is really creative in his work. He makes things sound more interesting, you can just imagine things that he writes. Reading it will make your heart race with fear and make a chill run down your spine. What I did not like was when he would sometimes ramble on about things that were a little pointless. It got a little boring, but I read it anyways. If you do not like horror books, than you might not want to read this book. It is actually not that bad of a book.

The Shining is a very good book that you should recommend reading. You will enjoy finding out what happens next. If you like horror books, than you will like reading this one, or any other books that Stephen King wrote.