Finally got around to King's The Shining. Engaging and personal, but also blunt in a way that I'm not sure if it's colored by me having watched the film. I even feel the book is more rewarding as a story than the film (pending a rewatch soon though, since it's been over a decade), but I think I prefer the atmospheric, almost elusively mysterious horror of Kubrick's version more than King's detail-by-detail psychological torment, even if the latter conjures up some memorably freaky imagery in its own right. 4/5