Book · 2025 · Fiction
The Shining
'Salem's Lot ; Night Shift ; Carrie
#150 of 15,605 books, ranked by how many different people bring it up on podcasts
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- 5
- episodes
- 25
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If you you read The Shining and tell me it's not an amazing book.
Joe Rogan · The Joe Rogan Experience · Mar 2013 Listen at 26:23 What they say about it
- Movie adaptation differences and author reaction“he didn't like the movie”6
- Intense and scary reading experience3
The best things said about it
The Shining is I think the scariest movie probably ever but and I know people very tough people who read the book and couldn't sleep.
I've read The Shining I don't know probably 10 times I love that novel.
The book is even more intense than the movie.
The Shining was about an author that was losing his mind in a haunted house.
Joe Rogan The Joe Rogan Experience · Jun 2024 The Shining, you know, it's another one where he was like deep in the throes of addiction just writing this captivating book.
Joe Rogan The Joe Rogan Experience · Aug 2024 Where and when it comes up
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How it comes up
Most mentions, by podcast
15 people who brought it up
Why people recommend it
The Shining by Stephen King is a classic horror novel that follows a struggling writer descending into madness while caretaking an isolated, snowbound resort. On The Book Review, Grady Hendrix described the novel as the quintessential Stephen King experience, offering a massive rush of his signature storytelling. Pamela Paul similarly shared on the same podcast that she considers the book terrifying, noting that even very tough readers struggled to sleep after finishing it. Joe Rogan also praised the book on The Joe Rogan Experience as an unquestionably amazing piece of fiction. The novel frequently surfaces in broader literary discussions as well. On The Joe Rogan Experience, Tim Robbins recalled that the book was a significant read for him during his youth. Victor LaValle referenced the story on The Book Review when analyzing haunted house tropes and supernatural entities, while Sean Fennessey discussed the title while speculating on the alternative trajectories of King's early literary adaptations. Furthermore, Joe Rogan and guests reviewed King's early bibliography, touching upon the book's themes of alcohol withdrawal and its place alongside other major early works by the author. Throughout these podcast episodes, speakers consistently celebrated the chilling atmosphere, enduring cultural impact, and psychological depth of King's iconic masterpiece.
Every mention
Joe Rogan If you you read The Shining and tell me it's not an amazing book. 12
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“Oh, [ __ ] It's um I can't remember the shining. The shining book, whatever you would call it, bibliography.”
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“Oh, [ __ ] It's um I can't remember the shining. The shining book,”
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“Carrie's number one and then it's like Carrie Salem's Lot The Shining a couple other it like and then Christine”
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“um so is The Shining you know it's another one where he was like deep in the throws of addiction and just writing this [ __ ] captivating book”
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“Um, so is The Shining, you know, it's another one where he was like deep in the throes of addiction just writing this captivating book.”
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“read the shining you read cujo like that was his wildest [ __ ] man”
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“it's like that kind of stuff like when you go back and you read the shining i mean the shining was about an author that was losing his [ __ ] mind in a haunted house”
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“Stephen King is my one of my favorite authors this earlier work MH Carrie and The Shining the I mean amazing”
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“The book is even The book is insane. Unbelievable. He didn't like the movie.”
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“The book is unbelievable!”
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“I just read Dr sleep you know the sequel of The Shining and uh yeah sweet really”
Recommended
“If you you read The Shining and tell me it's not an amazing book.”
Grady Hendrix The Shining I always think is sort of like the big rush of full that full Sten King experience 1
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“The Shining I always think is sort of like the big rush of full that full Sten King experience”
Pamela Paul The Shining is I think the scariest movie probably ever but and I I know people very tough people who read… 1
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“The Shining is I think the scariest movie probably ever but and I I know people very tough people who read the book and couldn't sleep”
Victor LaValle uh I don't know how anyone can take Stephen King's side other than the people in his family he is absolutel… 3
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“And then the other thing that she does that to me is even more rarified within the haunted house field, although certainly anyone who's read The Shining will understand it is that a lot of haunted house stories turn out to be that there's an entity there that is the cause.”
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“uh I don't know how anyone can take Stephen King's side other than the people in his family he is absolutely wrong”
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“and then the other thing that she does that to me is even more rarified within the haunted house field although certainly anyone who's read The Shining will understand it”
Shane Gillis did he do The Shining mhm yeah he rules oh he wrote The Shining he rules the book is even more intense than… 2
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“did he do The Shining mhm yeah he rules oh he wrote The Shining he rules the book is even more intense than the the movie he didn't like the movie which is crazy”
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“did he do The Shining mhm yeah he rules oh he wrote The Shining he rules the book is even more intense than the the movie he didn't like the movie”
Alex Stein and you know they say in The Shining that you know he left Clues like you know the little kids wearing an A… 1
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“and you know they say in The Shining that you know he left Clues like you know the little kids wearing an Apollo 11 shirt”
Ben Bowlin you might be familiar with it from stories like The Shining you know let's go ahead and spoil the shining 1
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“you might be familiar with it from stories like The Shining you know let's go ahead and spoil the shining”
Dwight Garner and The Shining which is kind of a famous one because Stephen King I forget why exactly but he doesn't like… 1
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“and The Shining which is kind of a famous one because Stephen King I forget why exactly but he doesn't like the movie but I think it's obviously one of the great horror movies”
Gilbert Cruz Salem's Lot in The Shining which were his next two again are recognizable one's a vampire story one's A Hau… 1
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“Salem's Lot in The Shining which were his next two again are recognizable one's a vampire story one's A Haunted House story”
Jack Carr I mean with his incredible results I mean ya know it's Holly also earlier [ __ ] like The Shining 1
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“I mean with his incredible results I mean ya know it's Holly also earlier [ __ ] like The Shining”
Jason Hawes Yeah, that I mean, that place was amazing up in Estes Park, Colorado and I mean, Stephen King stayed there… 1
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“Yeah, that I mean, that place was amazing up in Estes Park, Colorado and I mean, Stephen King stayed there and that was the premise behind the Shining.”
Sean Fennessey Maybe Salem's Lot would have come. Maybe The Shining would have come. Maybe something would have happened i… 1
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“Maybe Salem's Lot would have come. Maybe The Shining would have come. Maybe something would have happened in the aftermath of that that also would have worked.”
Steven Graham Jones I've read The Shining I don't know probably 10 times I love that novel 1
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“I've read The Shining I don't know probably 10 times I love that novel”
Tim Robbins He wrote The Shining, right? Yeah. So, was it Carrie? He threw Carrie away. Crazy. Crazy. [laughter] Crazy.… 1
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“He wrote The Shining, right? Yeah. So, was it Carrie? He threw Carrie away. Crazy. Crazy. [laughter] Crazy. Yeah. Shining was a big movie for a book. Big book for me.”
Warren Smith Stephen King didn't even like he didn't like that movie which is so crazy because it was different than his… 1
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“Stephen King didn't even like he didn't like that movie which is so crazy because it was different than his novel. so in his novel The Jack Nicholson character I forget the name of the Jack Nicholson character starts off normal and becomes crazier and crazier”
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“so the Stanley was the uh inspiration for the shining right”
Speaker The Joe Rogan Experience Joe Rogan Experience #1922 - Sam & Colby 2024-06-27 Listen at 2:30:05
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“I've always thought it was so interesting that Stanley kubric being such a snob uh glommed on to The Shining because it is a bit of a broad you know Stephen King is a bit of a broad writer”
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“You ever read The Shining? No. It's really interesting different. Stephen King did not like it.”
Also mentioned in the same episodes
Other mentions (12: passing, ad reads, own books)
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“Alongside Henry James' The Turn of the Screw and Stephen King's The Shining, The Haunting of Hill House, published in 1959, is one of the seminal haunted house stories of the 20th century.”
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“He went from carry and Salem slot to the Shining and it was the confluence of King in the movies and King on the paperback spinner racks that led to his dominance certainly of 80s culture.”
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“and then a movie version of Dr. Sleep, which is Stephen King's sequel to The Shining, and which I know you have great affection for, as do I.”
Passing
“and by the way another great sequel is Dr sleep with a sequel to The Shining”
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“that book is The Haunting of Hill housee by Shirley Jackson alongside Henry James's the turn of the screw and Stephen King's The Shining”
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“and I feel like with King you have the Blazing Earth years when he was on the come up and you have books like The Shining and the stand”
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“I think a book like Revival or 112263 or girl who love Tom Gordon or these late career very recent in terms books I'd stack any of them up against carry The Shining the stand”
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“I'm thinking naturally of The Shining I'm thinking of Carrie of course it Misery the stand sha Shank Redemption”
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“some of his early stuff like The Shining or Cujo or pet cemetery”
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“uh to SD's Park like frozen Dead Guy days had been to the Stanley Hotel that Stanley Hotel uh the same one that inspired The Shining when Stephen King and his family vacation there”
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“And also a little bit of like The Shining vibe! You know that hotel from The Shining?”
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“I mean it's all that uh the Jack Nicholson in the shining you know too much work no play makes Jack a dull boy right”