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The Shining: where to start reading

Adapts The Shining by Stephen King. Say how far you watched, and pick the book up exactly there.

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Kubrick's film keeps the setting and premise but reworks the story into a colder, more ambiguous psychological horror, downplaying the novel's themes and changing its ending. Stephen King publicly disliked the adaptation and produced his own more faithful 1997 miniseries. The novel is well worth reading as its own story; its sequel, Doctor Sleep, follows it.

Start reading at The Shining (the original 1977 novel)
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Stanley Kubrick's 1980 film adapts Stephen King's 1977 novel but departs from it substantially; King disliked it and later backed his own more faithful 1997 miniseries.

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