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Stephen Kingcast

Episode 11-The Ending of The Shining

Stephen Kingcast

Constant Reader

Books, Arts:books, Arts, Tv & Film

4.7680 Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2014

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

In this week, we look at the conclusion of The Shining to determine whether or not Stephen King deserves his reputation for having an inability to successfully land his endings. So let's focus on the conclusion and figure this out together! As always, write in at stephenkingcast@yahoo.com Follow me on Instagram, Tik Tok, Facebook and Bluesky. Stay organized and up to date with all things Stephen King at stephenkingcast.com Check out bonus material, early episodes and reviews of all things pop culture over at patreon.com/stephenkingcast

Transcript

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0:00.8

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

0:05.4

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

0:11.3

And just a note on this episode, I am currently recording this introduction in January of 2006.

0:20.6

I'm in the midst of

0:22.4

reordering all of the

0:24.6

podcast episodes in a new chronological

0:26.8

order. Just to

0:28.5

if you have been making

0:30.5

your way from the beginning

0:32.6

of the podcast and you are a new listener,

0:34.5

you'll have heard this a little spiel before.

0:37.0

So I do apologize, but you, but Stanley always said that everyone's...

0:41.3

Every issue of a new comic book was someone's first comic book,

0:45.5

and everyone's new episode of Stephen Kingcast is their first.

0:50.4

So I just wanted to be able to contextualize this a little bit for everyone.

0:54.0

So at the conclusion of every... first. So I just wanted to be able to contextualize this a little bit for everyone. So

0:54.2

at the conclusion of every review of the novel of Stephen King and the chronological

1:04.7

publication, you will also get a deep dive into the reviews of the endings of the works

1:10.7

of that particular novel.

1:12.9

So I just wanted to give you a heads up on that.

1:16.1

This original episode first came out in 2020, and the original review of The Shining came out in 2014.

1:25.8

So as you can see, there is some time when you are listening from one episode to the next,

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