Others: Overwhelmingly positive The Shining is a 1977 horror novel by American author Stephen King. It is King's third published novel and first hardback bestseller; its success firmly established King as a preeminent author in the horror genre. The setting and characters are influenced by King's personal experiences, including both his visit to The Stanley Hotel in 1974 and his struggle with alcoholism. The book was followed by a sequel, Doctor Sleep, published in 2013. The Shining centers on the life of Jack Torrance, a struggling writer and recovering alcoholic who accepts a position as the off-season caretaker of the historic Overlook Hotel in the Colorado Rockies. His family accompanies him on this job, including his young son Danny Torrance, who possesses "the shining", an array of psychic abilities that allow Danny to see the hotel's horrific past. Soon, after a winter storm leaves them snowbound, the supernatural forces inhabiting the hotel influence Jack's sanity, leaving his wife and son in incredible danger.
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Stephen King
1983 · 416 pages · 15 reviews
Others: Overwhelmingly positivePet Sematary is a 1983 horror novel by American writer Stephen King. The novel was nominated for a World Fantasy Award for Best Novel in 1986
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Bret Easton Ellis
1991 · 399 pages · 5 reviews
Others: Overwhelmingly positiveAmerican Psycho is a novel by Bret Easton Ellis, published in 1991. The story is told in the first person by Patrick Bateman, a serial killer and Manhattan investment banker. Alison Kelly of The Observer notes that while "some countries [deem it] so potentially disturbing that it can only be sold shrink-wrapped", "critics rave about it" and "academics revel in its transgressive and postmodern qualities".
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Stephen King
1978 · 352 pages · 17 reviews
Others: Mostly positiveNovelist Paul Sheldon has plans to make the difficult transition from writing historical romances featuring heroine Misery Chastain to publishing literary fiction. Annie Wilkes, Sheldon's number one fan, rescues the author from the scene of a car accident. The former nurse takes care of him in her remote house, but becomes irate when she discovers that the author has killed Misery off in his latest book. Annie keeps Sheldon prisoner while forcing him to write a book that brings Misery back to life.
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Peter Benchley
1973 · 309 pages · 2 reviews
Others: Overwhelmingly positiveJaws is a 1974 novel by American writer Peter Benchley. It tells the story of a great white shark that preys upon a small resort town and the voyage of three men trying to kill it. The novel grew out of Benchley's interest in shark attacks after he learned about the exploits of Montauk, New York shark fisherman Frank Mundus in 1964. Doubleday commissioned him to write the novel in 1971, a period when Benchley worked as a freelance journalist.
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Jack Ketchum
1981 · 211 pages · 1 review
Others: PositiveSeptember. A beautiful New York editor retreats to a lonely cabin on a hill in the quiet Maine beach town of Dead River—off season—awaiting her sister and friends. Nearby, a savage human family with a taste for flesh lurks in the darkening woods, watching, waiting for the moon to rise and night to fall... And before too many hours pass, five civilized, sophisticated people and one tired old country sheriff will learn just how primitive we all are beneath the surface...and that there are no limits at all to the will to survive.
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Tananarive Due
2003 · 482 pages · 9 reviews
Others: Overwhelmingly positiveAngela hoped her grandmother's famous "healing magic" could save her failing marriage while she and her family lived in the old house the summer of 2001. Instead, an unexpected tragedy ripped Angela's family apart. Two years later, Angela is moving past her grief and is finally ready to revisit the rural house she loved so much as a child. But back in Sacajawea, she discovers she hasn't been the only one to suffer a shocking loss. Since she left, there have been more senseless tragedies, and Angela wonders whether they are related somehow. Could the events be linked to a terrifying entity her grandmother battled in 1929? Did her teenage son, Corey, reawaken something that should have been left sleeping? With the help of Myles Fisher, her high school boyfriend, and clues from beyond the grave, Angela races to solve a deadly puzzle that has followed her family for generations. She must summon her own hidden gifts to face the timeless adversary stalking her in her grandmother's house--and in the Washington woods.
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Loved itI love The Shining. I read The Shining in college and I just I s it's been over God when was college? It's been about 18 years and I still have vivid memories of sitting down, walking around, reading this book, and experiencing those scenes for the first time.
Loved itI did recently read The Shining. I liked that.
Loved itthere's horror we both love The Shining a DIY of blood we used to live here I was a teenage slasher
Loved itthe haunted hotel The Overlook Hotel and The Shining again a coming-of-age story again a little bit of Eugene O'Neill's theme of us paying for the sins of our fathers it was all put together to such amazing effect and I think one of the best haunted stories I've ever read and I absolutely adored it
Loved itthe thing that's most interesting here to me is that Jack Torrance wants to be a good father he really does you can tell it from his character you can tell it in the things he tells himself but he gets lost he gets lost in himself
Loved itthis is a great book even if you've seen the movie the book has a different conclusion i won't say it's better or worse it's just different but it's one of king's most suspenseful novels
Loved itthis one ended up working a lot better than i thought i love the sun's perspective and his paranormal abilities i really connected with that story
Loved itit's a classic I loved it for a reason it was one of the first Stephen King novels I've read and it is still one of my favorites
Not a fanI wouldn't even be able to kind of recommend this. I just found it so tedious and drawn out. And I was just waiting and waiting for something to happen.
Loved itif they checked out The Shining I liked it but I think a lot of people would get bored and then maybe never pick up Stephen King again
