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    The document provides summaries of the book and film versions of The Shining by Stephen King. It also shares four interesting facts about the book: 1) It was the first to introduce King's concept of "the shine" and psychic abilities. 2) It was adapted into an opera. 3) The hotel that inspired the story, the Stanley Hotel, is reportedly haunted. 4) King disliked Stanley Kubrick's film adaptation despite its success.

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    THE SHINING

    BY STEPHEN KING AND STANLEY KUBRICK


    BOOK PLOT
    •JACK TORRANCE IS A WRITER WHO HOPES TO FINISH A PLAY OVER THE WINTER. HE
    RECEIVES A JOB AS A CARETAKER AT THE OVERLOOK HOTEL IN COLORADO AS AN ACT OF
    CHARITY FROM HIS FRIEND AL SHOCKLEY. SHOCKLEY IS A NEAR-MAJORITY STAKEHOLDER IN
    THE OVERLOOK. JACK AND AL WERE DRINKING FRIENDS, BUT BOTH ARE NOW SOBER. HIS
    TEMPER—AND ALCOHOLISM—HAVE PLAGUED JACK’S LIFE. ONCE, WHEN HIS SON DANNY
    SPILLED BEER ON HIS PAPERS, JACK ACCIDENTALLY BROKE DANNY’S ARM WHILE PULLING HIM
    AWAY. THIS BROUGHT WENDY TO THE BRINK OF DIVORCING JACK AND LEAVING WITH DANNY.
    MOVIE PLOT
    •JACK TORRANCE BECOMES A WINTER CARETAKER AT THE OVERLOOK HOTEL IN
    COLORADO, HOPING TO OVERCOME HIS WRITING BLOCK. HE SETTLES THERE WITH HIS
    WIFE, WENDY, AND THEIR SON, DANNY, WHO IS PLAGUED BY PSYCHIC PREMONITIONS. AS
    JACK'S WRITING DOESN'T FLOW AND DANNY'S VISIONS GROW MORE TROUBLING, JACK
    UNCOVERS THE HOTEL'S DARK SECRETS AND BEGINS TO BECOME A HOMICIDAL MANIAC,
    HELL-BENT ON TERRORIZING HIS FAMILY.
    IN T E R E ST I N G
    FA C T S O F T H E
    BOOK
    1. ‘THE SHINING’ WAS THE FIRST OF KING’S BOOK TO INTRODUCE THE
    SUPERNATURAL ABILITY OF THE SAME NAME
    IF YOU’RE A FAN OF THE STEPHEN KING MACROVERSE (WHICH I EXPLAIN
    IN-DEPTH HERE), THEN YOU KNOW HOW PREVALENT “THE SHINE” IS IN
    HIS BOOKS. WHILE THE ABILITIES OF THOSE THAT POSSESS THE SHINE
    RANGE FROM PYROKINESIS TO PRECOGNITION, IN THE SHINING IT’S
    EXPLAINED AS TELEPHONY, AND IT’S THE FIRST OF KING’S NOVELS THAT
    INTRODUCES IT TO HIS WORLD. SINCE THEN, DOZENS OF CHARACTERS
    HAVE BEEN THEORIZED TO POSES THE SHINE, FROM JOHN COFFEY IN THE
    GREEN MILE TO MOTHER ABIGAIL IN THE STAND, AND WHILE CARRIE
    WAS WRITTEN BEFORE THE SHINING, IT’S BEEN RETCONNED (AT LEAST
    BY THE READERS) THAT HER TELEKINESIS WAS ALSO A RESULT OF THE
    SHINE.
    2. THE NOVEL WAS ADAPTED INTO AN OPERA
    WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT THAT A SUPERNATURAL HORROR NOVEL WOULD BE
    INSPIRATION FOR AN OPERA? AND WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT THAT THE
    PERFORMANCE WOULD HAVE RECEIVED LARGELY FAVORABLE REVIEWS? DIRECTED
    BY ERIC SIMONSON AND PREMIERING AT THE ORDWAY MUSIC THEATER IN SAINT
    PAUL, MINNESOTA, THE OPERA WAS, ACCORDING TO CRITICS, “AN UNQUALIFIED
    SUCCESS.”
    3. THE HOTEL THAT KING USED AS INSPIRATION IS ALSO HAUNTED
    MANY BELIEVE THE STANLEY HOTEL IS HAUNTED, HAVING REPORTED A NUMBER OF
    CASES OF GHOSTLY ACTIVITY. KITCHEN STAFF HAVE REPORTED TO HAVE HEARD A
    PARTY GOING ON IN THE BALLROOM, ONLY TO FIND IT EMPTY. PATRONS IN THE
    LOBBY HAVE ALLEGEDLY HEARD SOMEONE PLAYING THE BALLROOM’S PIANO;
    EMPLOYEES INVESTIGATING THE MUSIC PURPORTEDLY FOUND NOBODY SITTING
    THERE. EMPLOYEES BELIEVE THAT PARTICULAR GHOST IS OF FREELAN O. STANLEY’S
    WIFE, FLORA, WHO USED TO BE A PIANO PLAYER. IN ONE GUEST ROOM, PEOPLE
    CLAIM TO HAVE SEEN A MAN STANDING OVER THE BED BEFORE RUNNING INTO THE
    CLOSET. THIS SAME APPARITION IS ALLEGEDLY RESPONSIBLE FOR STEALING
    GUESTS’ JEWELRY, WATCHES, AND LUGGAGE. OTHERS REPORTED TO HAVE SEEN
    GHOSTS IN THEIR ROOMS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, SIMPLY STANDING IN
    THEIR ROOM BEFORE DISAPPEARING. ARE THESE REAL GHOSTS OR SIMPLY THE
    IMAGINATIONS OF THE INHABITANTS HIJACKED BY THE NOVEL’S REPUTATION?
    4. KING HATED THE KUBRICK FILM
    THIS ONE MAY NOT BE AS UNKNOWN TO FANS OF STEPHEN KING, BUT TO THIS DAY
    HE CLAIMS HE WAS DISAPPOINTED BY THE 1980 FILM ADAPTATION BY STANLEY
    KUBRICK, DESPITE IT BEING REGARDED AS ONE OF THE GREATEST HORROR MOVIES
    OF ALL TIME. HIS CRITICISMS MOSTLY STEM FROM HOW POORLY KUBRICK
    ADAPTED THE NOVEL’S THEMES, AS WELL AS HOW LITTLE THE ORIGINAL SOURCE
    MATERIAL WAS FOLLOWED. I, FOR ONE, HAVE TO AGREE THAT, AS AN ADAPTATION,
    THE 1980 THE SHINING IS SUBPAR.
    THE END

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