The Shining – A book review
Books are not only a great way to pass time but they also manage to take our minds of day to day worries such as where to find a dealer of red diesel Gloucestershire or the rising cost of living. However, it should be noted that not all books are great reads. Here, we bring you the review of an all time favorite book, The Shining by Stephen King.
It is really the King novel that should be placed first in the minds of the literary and film-going public rather than the very popular Stanley Kubrick film of 1980. It is thanks to Stephen King for the original themes of isolation, alcoholism, and mental illness that made the film adaption of the senses and experiences a marvellous example of horror filmmaking.
The story is about Jack Torrance, a writer, who is moody, and an alcoholic and trying to rebuild his family after he has been expelled from a prestigious English prep school. The job of a winter caretaker of the Overlook Hotel in an isolated area in Colorado is what he decides to take up for earning his livelihood. The hotel is supposed to have been built on an Indian burial ground and his son gets disturbing visions of the hotel and its grounds. There is the character named Danny in the book that has the ability to view the future even before it actually occurs. This is the “shining” object and the title of the book and movie also.
The characters inter lock with each other in various engrossing and thrilling sequences that lead to murderous intentions also at times. The Shining effect of Danny plays its role in the story line to forewarn such incidents and it is to be seen how the main player of the story is able to reach and retract the situation before any fatality occurs.
The end of the novel and the movie have been on the same lines and not deviated much in its telling through video. How alcohol can have its effect and the limit of its effect has been depicted quite clearly by the author of the book through the character of Jack. An engrossing book this one has been, and therefore rightly so transcribed on the movie screen with good results.
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