I didn't love Stephen King's The Shining
I listened to the audiobook narrated by Campbell Scott who did an excellent job doing so, but I'm talking about the actual content within the book. I'll say that the build up and middle segments do a really good job of painting the Overlook as this foreboding presence that overshadows everything; not just Jack but Wendy, Danny, and Hallorann as well. The worst parts of the novel were Jack's inner monologues which mostly consisted of him remembering his abusive father, his weak willed mother, and the various bad things he's done to people including his son and a student at the school he worked for. The major issue with Kings writing is that he goes on tangents and that's where the Kubrick film succeeds in my opinion. You didn't need to know every single thought, memory or feeling that Jack was going through in order to get that the hotel was changing him and manipulating him for its own nefarious purposes. King's novels tend to over explain everything thus ...