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The Shining

Madison M. | July 14, 2010 | Comments (1)

The SHINING…

The Shining is about a 5 going on 6 year old boy named Danny who is gifted with the "shining" The "shining" is like mind reading, but worse. He can see visions of the past and future. and read peoples feelings and minds. Pretty cool huh?

Well, His father, Jack Torrance is a alcoholic with an ugly temper. Because of this, he lost his job as a teacher. A good friend of his named Al found him a job to be the caretaker of an old hotel in Colorado called the Overlook. Unfortunately, the Overlook has a dirty past. It turns out that people were murdered there and many other things. With Danny's gift, he can see all of these things from the past as if they were real. Dead people, crime scenes etc. As the Overlook slowly eats at Danny and Jack's  brains, Wendy, the wife, has to protect Danny from the slowly returning temper of Jack Torrance….

Soon, Danny's power gives these things from the past strength to return. That's when they realize that, well, they can't leave. :O

Real quick I need to make a comment about the author, Steven King. I've also read IT from him, and these books have a huge reputation of being really scary, so did "The Shining" but honestly, I wasn't scared that much at all… Granted, it was a GREAT book, but to me, it just wasn't that scary. I have to say, I was honestly kind of disappointed… It was a really good book, but if your looking for a really good scare, look elsewhere.

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Brian
on Thursday, July 15, 2010

Too bad it wasn't as scary as the movie! I never find Stephen King books that scary anyway.

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