Hello everyone and welcome to the Stephen King cast, One Man's Musings on the Works of Stephen King.

Each week I will review one entry in the bibliography of Stephen King and the chronological order of publication.

And this week brings us to 1977's publication of Stephen King's third novel, the classic The Shining.

So I'm really excited to talk about The Shining this week, and I'm very excited about

next week where I discuss the book versus the movie.

And just so you know, I do believe that there is a definitive winner in this particular

argument.

Stay tuned next week to find out.

In the meantime, stick around for my review of the book

that made you think twice before checking into a hotel.

This is now a third time, maybe fourth time,

that I've read The Shining.

It's the same edition that I've always read,

and it just brings me back to that first time.

And it's just, it's interesting going back and reading this particular novel at different

periods of my life, how I just, as I get older and I understand things a little bit more,

I just, I look at the novel differently.

I definitely looked at at Jack Torrance a lot differently now. And what's interesting to me is that I, I first read it in between the

summer of my sixth and seventh grade school years. And now as I record this I am older than uh jack's age in the book

which just wow it just really threw me off because when I'm a kid he's an adult and you know

he's a dad and you know I just expect him to be just that that dad age you know and then now i'm i'm older

than him and i judged him a lot more than i had before because i expected more of him um

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