Friday, 11 October 2013

Discussion for October 11th's Pick

Title: The Shining
Author: Stephen King
Year: 1977

 Summary: Danny was only five years old but in the words of old Mr Halloran he was a 'shiner', aglow with psychic voltage. When his father became caretaker of the Overlook Hotel his visions grew frighteningly out of control. As winter closed in and blizzards cut them off, the hotel seemed to develop a life of its own. It was meant to be empty, but who was the lady in Room 217, and who were the masked guests going up and down in the elevator? And why did the hedges shaped like animals seem so alive? 

Somewhere, somehow there was an evil force in the hotel - and that too had begun to shine...

Blog Post!

I chose blogger because it is a fairly simple website whose purpose is just blogs, with no overly complicated stuff to get in the way. I don't really like using Facebook as a main blog, but more or less as an accompaniment to the website and it's blog. I also like that blogger makes it easy to share the post, as shown with the buttons below. I looked at LiveJournal too, but it didn't seem as customizable as blogger, and is less popular in general.