Stephen King: The Shining

Stephen King: The Shining     - 497 oldal                     

szerintem:  ★★★★★

The Overlook Hotel is more than just a home-away-from-home for the Torrance family. For Jack, Wendy, and their young son, Danny, it is a place where past horrors come to life. And where those gifted with the shining do battle with the darkest evils. Stephen King's classic thriller is one of the most powerfully imagined novels of our time.

"For aren't memories the true ghosts of our lives? Do they not drive all of us to words and acts we regret from time to time?"


"The truth is that monsters are real, and ghosts are real, too. They live inside us, and sometimes they win."


"He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in the end it always comes out."


"That's your job in this world, to keep your love alive and see that you get on, no matter what. Pull your act together and just go on."


" Children have to grow into their imaginations like a pair of oversized shoes."


"skizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It's accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are lunatics. They have invisible friends. They may go and sit in the closet when they're depressed, withdrawing from the world. They attach talismanic importance to a special blanket, or a taddy bear, or a stuffed tiger. They suck their thumbs. When an adult sees things that aren't there, we consider him ready for the rubber room. When a child says he's seen a troll in his bedroom or a vampire outside the window, we simply smile indulgently. We have a one-sentence explanation that explains the whole range of such phenomena in children-'


'He'll grow out of it,'