r/AskReddit • u/Vanshika_vgh04 • 14h ago

What's the best book you've ever read?

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u/b0wie88 13h ago

The Shining

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u/holdonwhileipoop 12h ago

It was the first horror - and first King novel I read. I was 12 and it scared the shit outta me and I loved it.

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u/Temixbs 5h ago

Omg same! I was still very young when I read it the first time and I was so scared everytime I heard the clock on our wall tick and it was near midnight lol

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u/Clavis_Apocalypticae 11h ago edited 8h ago

I read it in a single day while serving in-school suspension in like 7th or 8th grade. That was just a few years after it was first published.

A fantastic book and a fantastic movie, though I understand why SK King didn't like the film.

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u/lus1d 9h ago

SK, I guess that’s not Stanley Kubrick. SK didn’t like the film because it took a book the wasn’t critically well received and turned it into a masterpiece of cinema?

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u/Clavis_Apocalypticae 8h ago

Yes, King, sorry. If I were a thinking person, it would have occurred to me that they share initials. I’ll edit above.

But yes, King didn’t like it because he felt it strayed too far from the source work.

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u/Adventurous-Cook5717 7h ago

Did you see the miniseries of Stephen King’s The Shining? I just love how Rebecca DeMornay played the Mom as a stronger character, and it was truer to the book.

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u/Fabeastt 10h ago

Great one. I enjoyed "It" more, I think it's King's Magnum opus. Currently reading The Stand, enjoying it a lot!

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u/Kieranam0 10h ago

I remember reading it the first time and being like "Yeah I see why King didn't like the movie adaptation"

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u/Figgywithit 2h ago

Only book that kept me up at night.

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u/Actual-Percentage489 3h ago

Any suggestions like that novel?