THE SHINING (Stephen King) - October 31/13

The Shining is, I think, the first grown-up book I read as a kid and so I remembered enjoying it very much. I would often cite it as my favorite book ever, too. But rereading it the past couple of weeks, I can't say I was as impressed as I thought I would be. There are still a lot of very memorable sequences and the characters are extremely vivid, but the book is just overwritten to an extreme degree. Like certain other King novels, the book is longer than it has any right to be and I have to admit there were some stretches here where my eyes were kind of glazing over. It's good, definitely, but I prefer Under the Dome and 11/22/63, both of which are longer, ironically enough, for example. *** out of ****