The Overlook Hotel is the setting of what book?

here's Johnny.....

TRUE CANADIAN Laurel, The "Here's Johnny!" line was ad-libbed by Jack Nicholson. It worked so well that it became a line that characterized The Shining.

The book is much, much better than the movie. King got the setting from the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park Colorado. Being from the area, I've been there a few times. If you go to Rocky Mtn National Park, you'll drive right past it on your way to the entrance. Stop by and go inside, it's beautiful.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy...

A favorite book. Watch the movie every winter. It's fun to watch it when there is lots of snow outside.

The "Dr. Sleep" sequel (book and movie) are as excellent and scary as "The Shining". The story covers the adult life of Danny Torrance. An absolute MUST READ.

Kubrick's film is amazing and I love it. But King's mini-series hews closer to his book. And I honestly think Stephen Weber was a better (closer to the book) Jack Torrance.

smarty pants, Jack Nicholson at his Greatest!! Of course, he was Awesome playing the Joker in “Batman” and in a movie called “The Bucket List” with Morgan Freeman, too!

Deborah , very scary movie!!

Terry, This reminds me of a funny tidbit King shared. As he tells it, he was approached by an elderly woman at a grocery store. The woman recognized him and asked why he didn't write anything NICE. "Like that Shawshank Redemption". He responded that he did, in fact, write that. She wapped him and said "No you did not!" He does write lovely tales. Maybe try the short 'Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption '

I'm not into horror movies or horror anything

Lionessa, 100% true. King is a stellar writer of both horror fiction, thrillers, and non-fiction. Sometimes it’s extra painful to follow him when he personally is not doing well, as he exorcises his demons through writing very very well about them. Like a live wire, it can be difficult to let it go.

Stephen King's book and Kubrick's movie are very different animals. If you only know the movie, you don't know who Jack really is because Kubrick had so little respect for the character of Jack that he allowed Nicholson to write two scenes. And, if you've only seen the movie, you don't know how the story really ends; you just know Kubrick's ending, which is disappointing and anticlimactic to lovers of the book. You can't really say you love an author if you have never read any of his books. All you know from movies is what someone in Hollyweird thought when he read the book.

Player Say what!?, I think I may just drive on past...Jack or no Jack tyvm😯

Snance, The front view of the hotel is that of Timberline lodge on mt hood in Oregon.

Sylvia, If that scared you, watch the sequel!