The Shining

SCARY AF

I am the type of person that laughs while watching horror movies because they don't tend to scare me, but dam did this book scare me.
I usually read before going to sleep, so there is little light in my room and I swear that while reading this book the shadows in my room were moving. Hence, I've been sleeping with a light on while reading this book.

This is a great book, with incredible settings and descriptions making you be in the Overlook yourself. I must admit sometimes these excessive descriptions, although necessary, feel a little drawn out. This is especially the case in the first part. Once they move into the Overlook and weird things start happening, you will be so drawn in that you won't mind the excessive descriptions.
As said the beginning although a little dull is necessary because it presents us with our characters and how they tick, which is very important for the third act.

I find it fascinating the ability of Stephen King to convey so many emotions through text. As mentioned above I got scared the hell out through this novel and even in the tense scenes, my heart was pounding like crazy.
This may be because King is exploring psychological horror in this book, instead of creating a monster he shows us the journey of a broken family losing their mind.

All in all, a must-read horror book, it has been my entire point on this genre and it won't be the last one. So go and read it, if you have the guts for it...