Reviews

• Best book I've ever read

  Thrilling, chilling in every way. A book that will scare the heck out of you and yet will draw you in so brilliantly that you feel you are right there in the notorious Overlook Hotel.

• SOME EVIL EVERYBODY HAVE

  I HIGHY RECOMMEND YOU THIS BOOK. I ALSO PERFER IT THAN THE MOVIE OF IT. BUT I CANT DEFINE WHICH IS BETTER. I THINK IT IS UP TO YOU THAT DECIDE WHICH IS BETTER AFTER YOU READ IT

• キューブリックとの比較

  キューブリック「シャイニング」との比較から買い求めたが、これが随分とちがうことがわかり、興味深かった。 総じてわかりやすい英語で、人気作家となる秘訣がこの一作でわかる。

• Nice book

  Nice book

• 原書ならではの趣き

  日本語版・深町眞理子氏の訳は上手い！ しかし原書で読むとまた違った趣きがあってオススメです。 30年以上前とは装丁が変わっていますが、まぁペーパバックだし仕方ないか…若しかしてハードカヴァでも出ているのかも知れないが、横になって読むのにはペーパバックの方がラク。 (もうシャイニングは古典だからアレだけど『Everything's eventual』だっけかな？それハードカヴァで買ったけどそこに収録されてる『1408』の方が怖さで言えば怖い・でも映画はダメだ)

• 小説も映画も甲乙つけがたい

  映画の中のいくつかのシーン（バーテンが出てくるシーン、ジャックが加わった集合写真など）の説明を求めて、中古ペーパーバックを購入したのは３年前でしたが、ヤケがひどくて文字も小さく読む気になれずに放置していました。最近、この続編のDr.Sleepを購入したので、急ぎ読みました。前半は映画では描かれなかった夫婦のバックグラウンドにさすがに原作はいいなと思いました。ところが後半は原作はまるでホーンテッドマンションじみて、映画のじわじわ迫る狂気が感じられませんでした。（象徴的なタイプライターのシーンは原作にはない）。たぶん原作をそのまま映画化したら、冗長な幽霊屋敷物になったと思います。ラストはかなり違いますが、どちらも甲乙つけがたい作品です。（映画のメンズルームのスタイリッシュなアールデコスタイルは印象的でした。）

• 家族の物語

  じわじわくる怖さ・心臓をわしづかみにするような怖さ両方ありますが、家族の物語でもあり、子供の気持ちが切ないです。

• コスパ 5/5

  超自然的すぎて怖くないでおなじみのキングさん。 ミステリーにもサブカテゴリーが色々ありますので怖くないほうのミステリーが欲しい時に読んでいます。（オバケが怖いかたはこっちが怖い方に来るか？私は例えばオバケと惨殺だったら後者の方がこええです） 同著者で、電子版だけ何故かやたら安くなってる作品が、本作含め何本かあります。すべてではなく一部。古いから？お試し的な意味？有名作家ゆえ物理書店で紙版も見かけますがそっちに値引きは無いです。フォーマットにこだわりのない情強ならばお得な電子版で！

• Just read :)

  Excellent book, I recommend it even more than the movie itself, which I love!

• A must read if you are going to read Dr. Sleep

  I downloaded the sample of Dr. Sleep, having only watched the movie version of The Shining, and on the very first page I new I would have to go back to where the story of Danny Torrence started if I was going to read Dr. Sleep. Many people say "the book was so much better" and that line can be no truer for The Shining. Immediately, the characters elicit strong emotions from the reader. Jack Torrence, both protagonist and antagonist, compells the reader to feel sympathetic for his plight. As a "dry drunk" who has fallen on hard times after a short bit of success as a writer, he is desperate to straighten out his life for his family and feels that his last chance to do so is to take the caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel during the winter season. The reader can relate to this desire to provide for one's family. Jack's indecision - to stay at the Hotel and guarantee financial support or to leave the Hotel for the safety of his son - is very palpable. Jack's desire to be a good father plucks at the reader's heartstrings. Wendy, Jack's wife, was not as likeable as her husband, in my opinion. She is very timid, having suffered her mother's psychological and mental abuse for years. It's obvious that she has traded her mother's abuse for Jack's quick temper and (at times) violent outbursts. She is only strong enough to stand up to Jack when their son's safety is concerned. Any other time, she dances around the issues that have plagued her marriage and is outright skittish whenever Jack's mood sours. I felt that her inability to stand up for herself made her unlikeable. Danny, the five-year-old boy of the Torrence clan, was by far the most interesting character. He is very gifted with psychic abilities such as telepathy, empathy, precognition, and mediumship. As a child, he has very little understanding of these abilities and of the adult subject matter that he is inadvertently subjected to due to his abilities. This struggle is captured very well as it is described through his young and innocent point of view. The reader feels afraid for him as his abilities draw the attention of the malevolent spirits dwelling in the Overlook Hotel. King does an amazing job bringing his characters to life. The reader is captivated by the Torrence family chemistry via an in-depth look into their histories, their lifes' experiences, and their struggles. These elements become crucial to the events that transpire inside the Overlook Hotel and they become fuel for the spirits that are preying upon the Torrence family, thus entwining events of the past with those of the present. As always, Kind does an excellent job with description. Not only can the reader visualize the Hotel's various locations (the lobby, kitchen, different floors, the basement, the outdoors) but he also does an amazing job capturing the emotions and thoughts of the main characters. The reader knows what the characters are experiencing, knows what they are feeling, knows what they are hoping to accomplish. The story moves along at a very steady pace. Told through a limited third person point of view, the present is interspersed with tidbits from each characters' pasts that bring relevancy to the current situation. As tension between family members rise and as the danger of the hotel becomes more evident, the pace steadily grows faster and faster, making it very difficult to put the book down. The Shining was a very enjoyable book, full of human emotion and supernatural phenomena. With characters that are compelling and well-rounded and a story that captivates, this is a book that I highly recommend.

• Good looking and durable but with weird proportions

  * This review is of the edition, not the story of the novel It is a relatively nice paperback, I really like the cover and the pages are really white. The book is weirdly narrow for its height, it's almost as if it had been chopped to small by in production but the text looks fine inside. It does however make it slightly uncomfortable to read, especially since the font size is rather small. The pages are a really nice, bright white and the font easy to read. The spine is somewhat durable, it not break or crease when I read it.

• Masterpiece

  Leggere i lavori del maestro nella lingua in cui sono stati pensati e messi nero su bianco è tutta un'altra cosa. È l'autentico King. Ogni opera è un capolavoro, uno specchio dell'animo umano, una storia di crescita. Penso che It continui a essere il mio preferito in assoluto, ma sono estremamente grata di aver aggiunto questa perla alla collana di lavori del maestro che ho letto in lingua originale.

• ¡Terrorífico!

  Es un libro magnífico, quizá exige un nivel de inglés alto para poder comprenderlo bien.Es mil veces mejor que la película,sin ninguna duda. Ahonda muchísimo en la historia de los personajes principales, se podría decir que la película es un vago resumen del libro, con un final completamente distinto además. Vas viendo como Jack se vuelve completamente loco, y además le entiendes a la vez que le odias. Entiendes por qué han llegado al hotel, todo lo que va pasando allí, etc. No he leído nada más de Stephen King,pero es sin duda de los libros que más he disfrutado!

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