I really enjoyed The Shining. I have never read any Stephens King or any horror novels, so this certainly expanded my interests which is good. However, I read it all in one day, which I do not recomend to anyone. I could not sleep because I just kept thinking about it. I think the power of Jack's relationship with his father is so interesting. I thought Wendy's character was a little undeveloped and I wonder if that is because she was written by a man. It made it a little interesting though to be able to be more free in my ideas of what she was like and her thoughts during the whole story. I think with all this talk about the movie I will have to go out and rent it.