THREE THICK BOOKS?! Good God! I can't read HALF of one in 12 hours! That's cool! Anyway, about The Shining...it's not called "The Shining Book", it's called "The Shining". It's about how an ex-teacher, who turns into a writer, takes his wife and claravoyent son up to a hotel in the mountains for the winter. The owners of the hotel name him the caretaker, and he is supposed to look after The Overlook Hotel from like November to May the 1st. The man, Jack Torrence, was told the tale about a man in 1970 who was also named caretaker of the hotel. He took his wife and two daughters (about ages 8 and 10) up to the hotel. But at some point during the winter, he suffered what the old-timers used to call cabin-fever: the after-effects of long periods of time spent in sef-issolation and suclusion. He went mad, ran amuck, and chopped his wife and kids up with an axe. He then pilled the bodies in a space in the west wing of the hotel, and then put both barrels of a shot-gun in his mouth. But Jack doesn't want to worry about that, because that was what he was looking for: a quiet time to do his writing for his book. But, when they reach the hotel, they discover that it is haunted by ghosts. The hotel was told to be possibly buried on an indian burial ground. Jack discovers one ghost named Delbert Grady, the man who killed his family at the hotel in 1970. He tells Jack that he must kill his family, and Jack listens. He grabs an axe, and tries to plow down the room where the wife, Wendy, and son, Danny, are at. Danny escapes through a window in the bathroom. But Wendy can't fit through the window, so she holds back the door on Jack. But just when he is about to get in, the hotel cook, a black man named Dick Halloran, comes up in a Snowcat. Jack then kills him in the lobby with the axe. He then chases Danny through the hedge maze out in the grounds, where Danny looses him by covering his tracks in the snow. Jack gets lost in the maze, while Danny follows his footsteps back to the entrance, where Wendy finds him. Then they leave in the Snowcat, while Jack stays in the maze. He eventually dies of cold and hunger. The movie is excellent! If you want to find it, look in Sam's Club or Best Buy.
Like I said, I have the movie, just not the book.
-Do you guys have any Garfield?
-Sorry. What's 'Garfield'?
-It's crap in a can.
The Glass House
reply
share