Awesome! The first job I had out of college was at a research library. I briefly considered pursuing a career in library sciences - there are actually several librarians in my family - but ultimately decided on something else. Not sure how I feel about my decision. 

You say “Wendy in the book had her own agency” - do you mean this to say that Wendy in the movie had none, or less?

Apologies, I noticed a poorly (moreso than normal) written sentence in my last comment. “In then movie, the escalation occurs because of the hotel” should have been “In the book, the escalation occurs because of the hotel.”

Yeah, there is definitely this weird space at 2/3 where they are able to mostly use the older kids’ equipment, but run a high risk of injury - this goes double if your child has little fear. Going to the playground, especially when crowded, is a real test of what little remains of my youth. 

Redirection used to work for my two year old. Unfortunately, she - like myself - is unable to let her immediate fixations go. Her focus and determination to have her question, request, issue, or observation resolved is nearly unlimited. FWIW, “no” rarely works without a full scale meltdown either.

This is what I was afraid of, and now having seen it confirmed I’ll just pass on this album. 

Apologies, I thought you were adopting King’s opinion. I misread, and over thought all of this. 

Thanks! I really appreciate the honesty, if I had a dollar for every time I started to write something up and instead thought “fuck it, I don’t want to follow up on this” I might have a couple hundred.

In the book, Jack becomes a creature who regains his humanity and stops trying to smash Danny with a mallet. Jack the human doesn’t want to smash Danny, Jack the creature does. The redemption, such as it is, is that everyone knows it’s not Jack trying to smash them it’s the creature. In the movie, the escalation of…

I’m aware of King’s hot takes. He reveals a very misogynistic opinion that women can’t be scared, can’t look like Ms. Duvall, can’t struggle to juggle or escape an abusive relationship. Like, I am aware that people complain about Wendy in the film (King included), but I have not heard one criticism that can’t help but…

I will have to reread. Firstly, because you are right he did not die saving them. Secondly, it’s been like 20 years. But also, because the first time I wasn’t reading with a judgment of king in mind- I was unaware of the particulars of his life when reading- I only became aware of the analogy between the two much…

Are those your thoughts too? I am not sure whose opinions I am debating. If you are adopting King’s opinions, I would hope that you would put more thought into them than he did. Here’s another one of his quotes about the film version of Wendy “[a]nd it’s so misogynistic. I mean, Wendy Torrance is just presented as…

Sorry, I meant King was blaming his alcoholism/addiction for his treatment of his friends and family in real life. In the story the ghosts are analogous to his addiction. Why I called any apology - and I would retract calling it an apology, it’s more of an attempt to grasp an excuse - that could be gleaned from the…

I found the movie unsettling, because we are dropped into the middle of an abusive relationship. At the start of the movie Jack has already clearly beaten Danny more than once. They were scared even before the hotel, and became more so when the abuse turned into attempted murder.

Why do you hate what Kubrik did to Wendy?

The application of Bill Denbrough’s quote is a bit lost on me in this context. “Politics... culture... history” are natural ingredients to both the book and the film. The movie is littered with allusions to dark parts of world history, and any book of the length of the Shinning requires at least a passing knowledge of…

I can get on board with this. Calling it an apology is an incorrect assessment on my part - no doubt a consequence of projection on my part.

It is pretty impossible to stay true to both stories. The actual presence of ghosts is not entirely clear in the movie. The movie is, among other things, a meditation on the nature of spousal abuse and the lengths someone has to go through to survive it. Whereas the book is an author’s halfhearted apology for the…

Fuck. In addition to the articles, your comments (and those of a few others) are one of the reasons I kept coming back.