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View Poll Results: How Do You Rank The Shining Overall?

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  • I loved it - 5

    33 47.83%

  • It was good - 4

    26 37.68%

  • Average - 3

    3 4.35%

  • Only so-so - 2

    2 2.90%

  • I didnt like it - 1

    1 1.45%

  • Never Read

    4 5.80%
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Thread: The Shining--Bracket 1 Winner!!

  1. 11-14-2008 06:35 AM #26
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    I read the Shining in one long reading while in college. Finished it about 4am on Sunday morning and had a hard time getting to sleep! I loved this story. Def in my top ten of all SK!
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    When I read about Eddie’s widowed bride,
    And something touched me deep inside
    The day the bumbler died.”


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  2. 11-14-2008 06:38 AM #27
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    Such a long book in one day? Holy crap.
  3. 11-14-2008 06:45 AM #28
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    Didn't you have anything to do on a Saturday? O_o I mean, wow! no one bothered you while reading...
  4. 11-15-2008 11:25 PM #29
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    Loved it.
    "...that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little." ~ Ray Bradbury
  5. 11-16-2008 02:36 AM #30
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    Quote Originally Posted by stone, rose, unfound door View Post
    Am I the only one thinking there are some awesome books in the first ones King has written ?
    You definitely are not.
    The Awesomest fled across the desert and The Awesomer followed.

    If you rescue me
    I’ll be your friend forever

    I wish that I could write fiction, but that seems almost an impossibility. -howard phillips lovecraft (1915)


  6. 11-16-2008 06:07 AM #31
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    Quote Originally Posted by Brice View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by stone, rose, unfound door View Post
    Am I the only one thinking there are some awesome books in the first ones King has written ?
    You definitely are not.
    Great minds think alike, don't they ?
  7. 11-18-2008 07:38 AM #32
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    The first post of this thread has been edited to indicate The Shining's final average score, which is 4.353846153. The Shining is the winner of Bracket #1, and will be advancing to Round 2 of the competition.
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