As I mentioned a few days ago, I bought Hannah Azerang's A Clockwork Reader Reading Journal. In the "What to Read Next" section, I placed Stephen King's The Shining under the heading of "read a book with a movie adaptation." Soon after, I borrowed it from Libby as an audiobook and began listening.
I tend to not read books within the horror genre. It's not that I dislike the genre, it's simply that there hasn't been anything to grab my attention within that genre. However, the A Clockwork Reader Reading Journal gave me the opportunity to delve into the genre without committing to buying any format of a book within the genre.
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| Stephen King's The Shining |
So, what are my thoughts? It's an interesting book. I'm glad I read it as an audiobook, but I had to actively not read it during my nightly routine before bed. (Yes, I'm jumpy that way.) The book took some interesting twists and turns, and it kept me on my toes as I listened to it.
Some of my favorite quotes:
"Sometimes human places create inhuman monsters."
"Monsters are real. Ghosts are too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win."
"We sometimes need to create unreal monsters and bogies to stand in for all the things we fear in our real lives."
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