Title: See the movie instead.
Product review: As with many of Steven King's books he starts out with a brilliant idea for a book and somehow ends up ruining it. Instead of focusing on the Overlook Hotel and all of ghosts and with the kid's special powers, he mostly deals with the father's alcoholism and tries to explain why he's acting the way he is, not what I would consider to be scary. You should only read the book to compare it to the movie, which was rewritten by Stanley Kubrick and Diane Johnson, to see how lame and unfrightening the movie would have been if it was written directly from the book. I would recommend Carrie instead, it is scary well written book by King.
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