The Shining | 
I was surprised with a late birthday gift from my sister and couldn't stop laughing. This just may be the best thing I have ever been given and the perfect addition to my King shelf.
Linsy 😂 love it! 1d
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I was surprised with a late birthday gift from my sister and couldn't stop laughing. This just may be the best thing I have ever been given and the perfect addition to my King shelf.
This one looks like a fun one!
1. Hmmmmm...I tend to go to the forest when I want to get away from everyone so I say the forest.
2. Tagged (been meaning to read it for years)
3. The thought that you are all alone and not know if you are ever going to get help or see another friendly face again.
@ozma.of.oz #sundayfunday
pickWho doesn't love The Shining? Reread for me and where I left off last time I attempted to #ReadKing
Already got the next book in queue so I'm ready! This one will always be a favourite and I always find the audio absolutely fantastic when it gets to the hard scenes 😱
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The Shining is the kind of book where you love that it‘s popular, because it means you can talk to people about it, but you also hate that it‘s popular because it‘s so good you want to brag about the fact that you found it before other people did.
“Monsters are real. Ghosts are too. They live inside of us, and sometimes, they win.”
“The tears that heal are also the tears that scald and scourge.”
“We sometimes need to create unreal monsters and bogies to stand in for all the things we fear in our real lives.”
“Small children are great accepters. They don‘t understand shame, or the need to hide things.”
pickScary! 😳
Danny Torrance has something called the shining. When his dad gets a job at the hotel during the winter, they learn that the hotel has some secrets of its own.
March 12 #SavvySettings Haunted House. I've never read the book, the movie was enough! @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
#BookCoverChallenge
Day 204.
Here I will note 365 books (or as many as I will have before I get tired) that have shaped my taste in literature. No explanations, no reviews. Just the cover of the book.
I do not challenge anyone. You are all welcome to take part.
pickHaunting, terrifying, and a horrible insight into the unravelling of a mind, falling into insanity.
The hotel is creepy, filled with horrors around every corner, I felt so sorry for Danny and everything he had to face and overcome.
Jacks battle with the hotel was raw, hard to read, and as one of his final acts to tell his son how much he loved him - you knew the hotel did not win.
Another enjoyable novel from SK.
1. I love them
2. Anna from Anna Dressed in Blood
3. Does a Haunted Hotel count?
Thanks for the tag @Yuki_Onna
#SundayFunday
@ozma.of.oz
A slow burning terror-ific novel that beautifully yet tragically depicts the degradation of human mind.
"Thoughts are our thread to sanity but they are also the evil demons that severe the same thread to rot in an insane drudgery."
picka surprisingly quick read. more suspenseful than scary but still very good. definitely better than pet semetary imo.
Late to this one, but now's the time... 😊
❄Tagged.
❄ One very personal goal regarding my loves
❄This nice sunny day and four people in my life
#WondrousWednesday @Eggs
Tagging everybody who hasn't played this one yet and wants to! 😊
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pickI‘m not a fast reader, but the #losersclub has inspired me to read King in order. I seem to recall that there is more to Danny and Hallorann than just this story, right? Next up, The Night Shift.
The Shining is the perfect winter book to creep you out this holiday! 🖤🎄🖤
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I still remember the first time I read The Shining a few years ago. Alone, in my house, during a 6ft dump of snow. I've never been so creeped out by a book in my life. The atmosphere was just so spot on I even had anxiety throughout my read. It was so perfect. So now to me it will always be a holiday book.
For some reason my family finds this bookend that was on my holiday wishlist….disturbing. 🤷♂️😂
pickI just currently ended reading The shining😂and hell this book played with my head. This book is creepy more than scary. It's a slow pace book but very captivating and the ending just gave me goosebumps when the hotels get blow-up the description as if I could just feel it.
The book showcases the evil inside us.
It‘s kind of cool when you get room 217 at a lodge that you are staying at.
“Monsters are real. Ghosts are too. They live inside of us, and sometimes, they win.”
so-soJag har nu läst klart the shining.
Mina tankar kring boken finns här:
https://bookreviewbyjohanna.wordpress.com/2021/10/30/halloweenmys-med-stephen-ki...
I‘m a little ashamed to say I‘ve never read this, nor have I seen the movie. Time to rectify that I guess 🙈
#TeamSlaughter
I am currently reading the shining but having trouble getting in to it...
pickYep…. Horror is NOT my genre. I know this, but I had to buy it and give it a try, as this copy had such a superb cover.
I put off reading it and it took me a lot longer than is normal for me to get through.
The first 3/4 dragged for me, but it redeemed itself in the end. It had a very dramatic conclusion.
I hated Jack (a lot), even before the s**t hit the fan. What a dick.
pickMy shock & horror at this book was hurt by the fact that I KNEW TOO MUCH. Sucked the air out of it just a tad. The atmosphere is great & the creep factor was majorly high. The character writing was really well done & the plot moved really well. Some language choices were offensive, cringy, & unnecessary, but otherwise I have few complaints. If you're on the fence about this one, I say go for it. The less you know beforehand, the better.
pickWow, considering I hadn‘t even seen the movie until last month I‘m sorry I waited to read the book! That last half was action packed and really enjoyable!
Because every time I turned on the television this weekend, “The Shining” was on 😂
My mood this week is Jack heckling Wendy as she swings a bat at him and it‘s only Monday.
#Scarathlon #TeamSlaughter #TheShining #HeyDoc #WhyIDontHaveKids #ImnotgoingtohurtyouWendy #Imjustgoingtobashyoureffingbrainsin #Sweettalk #HeresJohnny #TheOverlookHotel
More movies watched from AMC's Stephen King marathon. Silver Bullet, Christine, and The Shining.
#Scarathlon2021 #TeamSlaughter
As long as she‘s not typing, “All work and no play makes Shirley a dull girl…” #typewriter #rescuekitten #Shirleykitten
I grew up watching this movie and loving it but like the very legitimate cliche, the book was better. There was so much more going on that the movie didn‘t touch on and while maybe some parts were a little slow, I almost didn‘t want the book to be finished. I finished listening to The Shining last week on my library app and I only wish I had read this sooner.
pickMuch more of a horror story than The Stand, but I didn't enjoy it quite as much. Still a great book to listen to as an audiobook! I'm a fan of Stephen King and all of his brilliance. I give it 4 stars.
so-soJust eh. I wish I wouldve read it first before seeing the movie. I know King's books are typically long but man this couldve used some editing. I didnt feel the suspense or fear that I thought I wouldve. I wanted to bail so many times.
Chugging along....I hate this small print!
Yes. I saw this. And I thought I absolutely need this for my Stephen King shrine. Which is in my front entryway.
Kinda sets the tone for any guests visiting, don‘t you think.
Books are mandatory when your riding in the backseat
Finally read The Shining. Did not disappoint, and I‘ve just ordered Doctor Sleep. Having not (yet) seen the 1997 mini series I was glad for a story that differed to the movie. And so powerful having the thoughts, feelings and history of the characters.
Happy July 4th from the Overlook 🎆🍾
Did the Stanley Hotel tour today. Maybe I‘ll read The Shining now.
Potential unpopular opinion: I found the middle part near the end of It🎈 & of The Shining🪓 boring. I actually skipped a few chapters. I loved the rest of the books though. There‘s no denying it, King is a phenomenal storyteller. #losersclub
pickFinished the shining gave it a four star on good reads. Good story kept me turning pages the whole time.
Finished The midnight Library Tonight and loved it. Now Lets see if I can finish The shining tonight as well.
pickMuch better than the movie but I didn‘t find it scary. I like that the hotel was its own character and the danger felt much more real in the book than in the movie. I would have liked to have seen more of the ghosts throughout the novel but I think King did a great job showing Jack‘s descent into madness.
