3.09: The Shining (Part 9)

Kingslingers | A Dark Tower Podcast

Doof! Media

Darktower, Stephenking, Books, Arts

4.9 • 680 Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2023

⏱️ 129 minutes

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Summary

This week we reach the end of The Shining, covering chapters 52 through 58. We chat about the explosive ending of the novel including our struggle with the nature of Jack's possession.

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Next week, we take one last look at The Shining

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0:00.0	Long days, pleasant nights, and welcome to Kingslingers, a doof media podcast journeying through Stephen King's Dark Tower series and beyond.
0:24.0	I am your host, Consta Reader Scott Daly, and I'm joined, as always, by my co-host, who always manages to remember what I've forgotten.
0:30.3	It's Matt Freeman.
0:31.0	How's going today, Matt?
0:32.1	I'm doing good, Scott.
0:33.0	Oh, hey, did you remember to do the...
0:34.8	Did you forget what you were supposed to remember?
0:40.6	There was something.
0:42.7	There was something.
0:43.5	It'll come back to me.
0:44.7	Oh, I got to do my taxes, though.
0:48.4	Like, for real.
0:50.5	Oh, yeah, there was that email.
0:52.2	Oh, God, Christ.
0:53.3	Okay.
0:55.7	Well, let's get this over with.
1:06.6	All right. This week on the show, we complete The Shining as we finish reading chapters 52 through 58, which leads us all the way to the end of the book.
1:14.4	Everything at the overlook goes, boom, both metaphorically and literally as a jack fully succumbs to well we'll talk a lot about that um and then the hotel of course explodes due to our
1:20.4	deus x boiler matt what did you think of the ending of the shining well um you know it was it was, it was great. I think we'll talk a lot
1:30.2	about the ways in which it was not as I expected it to be. Because as I've remarked a few times,
1:36.5	you watch 17 adaptations of a thing. You kind of think you know what you're going to get. And then
1:41.3	when you don't quite get that, it can't help it be surprising.
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