Stephen King - The Shining

I'm reading all of Stephen King's fiction in publication order. I've read this before but long enough ago that I didn't remember much of it. I'm not really a fan of Kubrick's film version - I'm not much of a Kubrick fan at all,.truth be told - and I remember liking the book more than the film. That's still true, but of King's first three novels this is my least favourite. There's something off with the pacing here, and I found it to be a bit of a slog in places. There are sections in the final act where it's very dull at the point when things should be ramping up, and I never really cared about what was happening all that much. Usually when King is getting lost in the weeds of his stories I enjoy the trip anyway, because I generally find his prose very readable and compelling, but this is a little slow and stilted, hampered by some jarring perspective shifts and clumsy language in places. That's not to say I don't think this is a good book. It is, and it's still fun to see King…

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