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It's been said that reading the book is much better than the movie. Books allow the reader to use their imagination, to play their own movie and see it all within their own mind. A good book will also be an avenue for the scariest nightmares one could ever imagine. The Shining is a perfect example of this. If being scared so much you close all the curtains and turn lights on before entering a room, and leaving every light on in the house for weeks after reading it, this book is for you. Mr King did not let us down with this very scary, suspenseful story. The movie couldn't have been better but don't let having seen the movie rob you of the experience of reading the book. This is definitely a classic, one to pull down off the shelf and read again on a snow-stormy night with a fire roaring in front of you. I'd be sure you weren't alone while reading this book or when watching the movie by the same name. If you have any doubts about liking The Shining, I promise you...

First off I just want to start by saying I used to have a BIG fear of clowns. And it was all because of the 1990 IT. I was 6 years old when i first saw that movie and it scared me for life. I had an irrational fear of clowns. When the 2017 and 2019 IT movies came out, it was even worse. It was during Covid that I ordered the book. And after reading it I thought to myself: this is a pretty good book. Stephen King put some much thought into building the characters and the amount of imagery he used amazes me. I actually found myself laughing at some of Pennywise's lines. ( messed up, I know) but the book, goes into so much detail that the movies couldn't. This book is my number one favorite horror book.. Also if you love Pennywise, read some of Stephen Kings other books, there are some crazy references: 11/22/63, Dreamcatcher, The Tommyknockers, etc (Spoiler Alert: those who have read Pet Sematary, then you probably remember Jud and Lewis talking about the children murders in Derry)

I want to start by saying that I read this book completely because the movie version from my childhood haunted me well into young adulthood and I felt the need to face my fears. Now that I've read it, I'm so very glad I did. King does the amazing job of telling a story about the childhood fear that we've all felt, but turned up to the nth degree. It's turned up so much that he damn near broke the knob clean off (beep beep). When you're a kid adults tend to nod a lot, smile and wave you off assuring that your problems are trivial. In any normal town this might be true. You might have an overdue library book or perhaps a bully knocked your books out of your hands in the hall. In Derry, Maine the problems are much more severe. Children go missing, people are murdered, a mad man might chase you in broad daylight, but the adults of Derry are content to just fold up their newspapers, walk in from the front porch and close the door. In this bleak and scary small town, that is also so quaint and inviting, there is an evil laying underneath that feeds off of this horrible apathy and the children that are so easily lost track of. However, after a lifetime of doing as it pleased a very special group of outcasts has found themselves set on a direct collision course with IT. This is my first time reading Stephen King and I found this book to favor a general feeling of Lovecraftian styled horror with George R.R. Martin character development and pacing. All in all a really good read that pretty much overtook all my spare time for about 2 weeks.