Instruct: Classify the given Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: Watch the movie instead

I read half of this book in 2008 and had to stop because I was so bored. I decided to finish it a couple months ago and wish I hadn't. The decision to finish The Shining led me to one of the gravest mistakes of my life; I read the book IT. I have heard so many people sing the praises of Stephen King that I figured the Shining was just a bad fluke and decided to read IT because of all the regards it has received. The Shining is not a fluke; Stephen King is just a boring author that doesn't understand the genre of horror. Maybe these books were good back in the 1980's when horror sucked. I won't go into the actual details of the book because they are way too ridiculous. Watch the movie instead; Stanley Kubrick actually had vision for this story.