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Yes, it is The Shining.

Not dead, on vacation! Another clue for the same book: An important character in the book is a malevolent hotel.

Can I post a clue? If so: A book about father-son relationships and telepathy

I found out about this French series because a video game is going to be based on it. The plot is very similar to Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Identity: an amnesiac found on the beach discovers he has extraordinary fighting skills (which come in handy because there are many people trying to kill...

Gaim is open-source, right?

Why? PC here. Macs are too expensive for me, especially to upgrade. Once I saw a picture of a box that advertised "Mac upgrade kit." It included a hammer and a checkbook. :p

I like it when stories are actually dramatized and acted by a cast with foley effects. Stephen King's The Mist and Agatha Christie's The Orient Express are two I know of that are dramatizations.

Are motorsports included? I love to watch World Rally Championship racing.

Great minds think alike, n'est-ce pas? Next time, though, I will use the search function and avoid redundancy. :o

Thanks for the link, Ell. That site cleared things up.

In reading Sherlock Holmes, I have come across no less than seven different types of British currency. Can anyone explain their value and how they are related to each other? I have read of pounds, pence, quid, shillings, guineas, crowns, and sovereigns.

Not high-tech, but very enjoyable: The Great Train Robbery by Michael Crichton. It is a very well written book about a gold theft in Victorian England.

I forgot to mention Temple by Matthew Reilly. It is one of the fastest paced books I have ever read, but it also one of the most implausible. The plot concerns the retreival of a South American idol made from a meteorite. The book actually has two concurrent storylines; one in the present, and...

I enjoyed Timeline. As to the movie, I am doubtful it will be as enjoyable as the novel. I may be pleasantly surprised, but that is unlikely. Recently I read Riptide by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. It was a good read; very fast paced and exciting. The story concerned the retrieval of...

I plan to read every Sherlock Holmes story by Arthur Conan Doyle, but other than that I have no plans. I continually change my mind on what I want to read. Of course, I must read Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell for a class.

I like to listen to music while I read. I carefully choose songs for different passages. Do you listen to music while you read? What kind of music?

I loved the Bourne trilogy of books. I tolerate the movie.

I would like to read "Let's go and get it" books--books that deal with expeditions, recoveries, et cetera. I'm looking for something along the lines of Michael Crichton's Congo. Can you recommend any to me?