This is a very famous book. Most likely one of the most well known Stephen King books.
The book is about a family (Jack, Wendy, and their son Danny) who move to a hotel so that Jack can be the winter caretaker. The hotel has many secrets from its past including the previous caretaker, who killed his entire family. Danny (who has a special gift to see the future) knows that there is something about the hotel that will be very dangerous to his family. The book is a mix of never-ending parties, a bloody mallet, mysterious hedges, a secret scrapbook, a boiler that creeps, and undead spirits crawling through the hotel. The question that everyone is wondering is 'Will everything go to pieces in this isolated hotel before the spring comes?'.
For fair warning, this book has very bad language. It is also might scare some people. (It has the tendancy.) Truth be told? It is not meant for someone below high school, but if you, like me, have an alright filter and don't get insanely freaked out by scary things, you will love it. I know I did.
I also want to point out that the movie is an almost completely different story than the book. They didn't even get right who lived and who died. So if that affects your opinion whether or not to read it, they are completely different, in a good way.
I really liked The Shining. I wish I could write more in the description, but, like so many other good books, it builds on itself and I don't want to ruin anything. I will say that half of the best parts occurs in the last 100 pages (out of a little less than 700). This book will make you cry with despare, rant to someone is frustration, or make your eyes widen with pure shock. (I know that sounds overly dramatic, but it's true!) If you read it, you will really enjoy it.
I will be posting a lot soon, so I can cover the books I got for Christmas.
Hope you all had happy holidays!
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