Chris' Review

The Shining by Stephen King

Review by Christopher Gaammelgaard

This was his first hardback bestseller and the only book I've ever really wanted to read. It's mainly based on a rather special young kid named Danny Torrance, his parents Wendy and Jack, Dick the cook and an eerie supernatural hotel. It's about Jack who gives himself another chance to fix his life after breaking his three year old son's arm caused by his alcoholism and assaulting a pupil at a school where he was a teacher. What I think makes you change your thought about his character is that he accepts a new job in Colorado as a winter caretaker, forcing him to move his family and him to the Overlook Hotel. This is where you really get hooked on. The meaning of 'the Shining' is revealed, it's an ability which both Danny and the cook share. Just like you have read in other books or seen in movies, there is always a secret place. The place in this book is a hotel room. Room no. 237. Reading further shows you just how abnormal and rare the hotel and the room really is. I think is really great how he tried to create a different kind of ability. Just Danny's being there in the hotel makes things that normally cannot be dangerous become dangerous.

For sure, as soon as you are done reading the book you are going to name him the 'King' of the horror genre.