![]() ![]() He doesn’t outwardly hate her, but neither does he love or care for her, he just seems to accept her as necessary inconveniences he simply has to put up with in order to appear normal. ![]() ![]() Like all psychopaths, Jack sees the world in relation to himself and sees his son and wife as mere extensions of himself, living in his world and expected to follow the rules as he sees them. Like Misery’s troubled nurse Annie Wilkes, Jack is a highly complicated man who seems uncomfortable with the world around him, his high opinion of himself and intelligence at odds with his inability to see, or even just, his own deep self to accept, and ultimately fatal personal mistakes. Stephen King’s fantastic supernatural novel introduces us from page one to one of his greatest creations, the truly terrifying Jack Torrence. Maybe he can write the great American novel, maybe he can finish his long play, or maybe he’s just trying to murder his family! Huntingtonįive months of caretaking in a supposedly haunted and extremely empty Colorado hotel cut off from the outside world by deep snow sounds pretty good. He must forget that he was fired from his teaching job for a violent attack, forget that he drank excessively, forget that he broke his young son’s arm in a fit of uncontrolled anger, and at least try to contain his seething and uncontrollable resentment to bury deep because his wife knows exactly what he really is, a violent drunken thug with a temper! Jack Torrance has to go, anywhere is fine as long as he can find some peace and quiet. If you love Stephen King, you must read The Shining. It’s so masterfully written, the whole book is wonderfully spooky, spooky, suspenseful and terrifying. read men), and I’m currently working on The Institute, but The Shining is my absolute favorite. Mercedes trilogy (all 3 are great), Sleeping Beauties (it was nice, interesting that such a story was written by two). I revisited Needful Things, The Stand, Under The Dome, Desperation and The Regulators, Mr. I’m on an SK reading frenzy this summer and am going through all his books, he has so many I haven’t read in years. You can feel it, the fear and tension just keep building and the way to the top is so exciting, scary and terrifying that it will be hard to put this book down even if you are so scared that you feel like your own home is watching you. His descent into madness is so perfectly timed and described. So much detail about the inner workings of Jack and his struggle with his addiction. Jack’s struggle to stay sane for the sake of his family is so well written that King brings so much depth to his characters. I’ve never read any other author I like as much as he does and I’m a total bookworm nerd, from literary fiction to biography to non-fiction to the back of shampoo bottles lol. Removed Tts_version 5.See also Download The First Death By Kendra Elliot O元4646914W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 94.59 Pages 298 Pdf_module_version 0.0.22 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20230404151128 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 356 Scandate 20230404031027 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog bwb Scribe3_search_id O8-BRT-678 Source Urn:lcp:revival0000step:lcpdf:602e8fb1-1d78-4a05-b371-59d7e9f8eb1c Foldoutcount 0 Identifier revival0000step Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s2q34j605c4 Invoice 1652 Isbn 9789024566334 Metasource_catalog openlibrary Ocr tesseract 5.3.0-3-g9920 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9793 Ocr_module_version 0.0.20 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-1200635 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 09:12:55 Autocrop_version 0.0.14_books-20220331-0.2 Bookplateleaf 0010 Boxid IA40895224 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier
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