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I was let down with the ending. The Outsider was too easily overpowered. I expected it to be deadlier and more formidable than how King portrayed it. I deducted a star for that (maybe half a star if I could in Goodreads). The ending in the HBO series was much better.
The rest of the book was very well-written and fast-paced.

I would've given it 4 stars had it not been for the twist in the end. It starts off a bit slow but picks up pace afterwards. Certainly a page turner...

It was boring, except for the last 15 chapters. The setting and premise were intriguing for a horror novel, but I wish King had made it much shorter.

The moving hedges, chapters dedicated to wasps, the drawn-out history of the Overlook, and the really slow build-up were aspects that I found boring and disliked about the book. It was my first Stephen King read, and I was absolutely disappointed.

This was my first Agatha Christie experience. What a masterpiece! It had me hooked from the very first page (containing the author's note) to the last and why not?!! it's the best selling crime novel of all time.

This is the story that made Agatha Christie the best-selling novelist of all time. “It was so difficult to do,” she writes, “that the idea had fascinated me.” It was an idea which is now the basis for many Hollywood horror films and has become a cliché to modern audiences, but it was Agatha Christie who was the first to do it and so successfully that the story has become her most adapted piece.

This is my favourite Stephen King book till now!