Book Review: The Shining by Stephen King “Monsters are real. Ghosts are too. They live inside of us, and sometimes, they win.” ― Stephen King, The Shining I am halfway through "The Shining" written by Stephen King, and that is probably why it is hard to create my rational opinion. Therefore, this review is focused primarily on those things I have read so far. In a few words, this book is about a man hired as the caretaker of a hotel called the Overlook; a man who is supposed to spend the whole off-season winter months with his wife and son. And after a while, the whole family is isolated from the outside world during a severe snowstorm. Then strange and horrific things start happening inside the hotel and the main character, Jack Torrance, slowly goes insane and intends to kill his wife and son. Jack Torrance is characterized as an aspiring writer, who is trying to put his life back together. What we also know about him is that he is a recovering alcoholic with anger issues and he has a short temper as well, which obviously wrecked his career as an English teacher. I would like to single out one more character as well and this is Jack’s young son, Danny Torrance, who does not know he has a gift to read minds and to see ghosts inhabiting the hotel and its horrific past. It is safe to say that “The Shining” is my first proper horror novel, and actually, the best one I have ever read. I heard that most of Stephen King's books suck you in and once you read into them, they do not let you free to the very end and especially after. Basically, I cannot but agree with this point of view. I cannot wait to finish that book and to review an opinion in the right way.