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I don't read 2 much by Stephen King, I probably watch his adaptations alot more, I've read Nightwatch, The Shining and The Stand but nothing else. So while u all talk about his books I'll list my top ten adaptations:
1. The Shining
2. The Stand
3. Children of the Corn
4. Firestarter
5. Burnt Offerings
6. Needful Things
7. The Dead Zone
8. Misery
9. Dolores Claireborne
10. Salem's Lot
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I always thought King's Made-For-TV movies were always better than the movies done on his books. Perhaps, it's because the TV movies are usually spread out over a number of nights, and get better treatment (exceptions: The Langoliers and The Tommyknockers).
Favorite books are It, The Stand, Salem's Lot, and the novella (my all time favorite) The Mist. I read these four over and over; the others get read once, and in most cases, sold.
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I think the best King movies I have seen are Pet Sematary and Carrie. Pet Sematary is also one of my favorite King novels, as is The Shining, regarding to the movie adaption of which I'm in the minority thinking that it butchered the book. The miniseries isn't all that great either but I think it's better than the movie.

Another great-book-turned-terrible-movie is IMHO Needful Things. It starts as a valiant but doomed attempt to film a complex and well-nigh unfilmable book on a shoestring budget and little talent, but terrible political correctness starts to come to the surface in the middle of the movie when they didn't dare having a young boy commit suicide like in the book and succeed. (Gasp!) It goes downhill from there. I'm still angry at whoever funded the movie... adaptation... thing. <i></i>

I totally 4got about Carrie! dang! I kno the movie The Shining is no where near the book but I'm a total Jack Nicholson freak can't help it! Needful Things, apparently, is a book I need 2 read... How far do you fall Pilot?<i></i>

The Stand
Salem's Lot
Tommy Knockers
The Mist
This all ties in with my fear that some government is going to do something exremely stupid some day. Then we will all be dodging giant reptiles or sneeze ourselves to death.
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I find his writing to be rather dull, but I did enjoy the books It and Misery.
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It - I read the whole book in three days. Had one 14 hr sitting - missed work!!! Couldn't put it down. IT scared the b'jeebers outta me!!!!!!

The Stand was an excellent read & better TV movie. Scifi channel was showing for a while about every 4 weeks it seems!! <i></i>

Boo NBC horrible job in remaking Carrie! No 1 can top Sissy in the role! It's like getting Anna Nicole Smith 2 play Dolores Claireborne. I will say that ABC's Shining miniseries probed alot more interesting stuff in the Shining than the movie--but there's alot more u can do in 8 hrs as compared 2 2 or 2 and 1/2 hrs...
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We went 2 our friends Charlie and Syd's house 4 an Xmas party last weekend. No, not the same Charlie who has played Bridge w/SRD. He had every Stephen King book ever written in hardbound---I was impressed!!!
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.
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I've never read King, but I've seen Salem's Lot, and the Shining is one of my favorite movies! Further up, and further in!<i></i>

Any1 read Dreamcather? The movie's about 2 come out and the clips look totally cool! I love Morgan Freeman (outstanding in The Bone Collector & Kiss the Girls)! And now Danlo looked in that direction, too. He remembered that snowy owls mate in the darkest part of deep winter, and so along with this beautiful white bird perched in a tree a hundred feet away, he turned to face the sea as he watched and waited.

Ahira, Ahira, he called out silently to the sky. Ahira, Ahira<i></i>

In September it was announced that Stephen King would be awarded the National Book Foundation's Distinguished Contribution of American Letters award. www.nationalbook.org Past winners of this award have included Eudora Welty, Ray Bradbury, Toni Morrison, Studs Terkel, Arthur Miller.

However, when the award was announced, Harold Bloom, a Yale professor and literary critic, said "That they (presuming he means the Foundation's awards committee) could believe that there is any literary value or any aesthetic accomplishment or signs of inventive human intelligence is simply testimony to their own idiocy" His comments on the Foundation's selection, and his comments are regarding his opinion of Mr King's body of work. My source for this quote is Ansible David Langford's e-zine www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/SF-Archives/Ansible/

Now one may ask who is Harold Bloom, anyway. (Hafta admit myself prior to this quote, I was only real fuzzy on who he was) Mr. Bloom is a critical writer best known for emphasis on teaching and reading the classics of literature (for example, Dante, Shakespeare, Chaucer, etc.) taraswizard
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I think the best film adaptations of King include:
--The Dead Zone
--Carrie (the original)
--The Shawshank Redemption
--Dolores Claibourne
--Misery

His best adapted miniseries are:
--The Shining
--The Stand (better than the book, imo)

I also quite enjoyed two of his three original miniseries:
--Storm of the Century
--Rose Red

Frankly, I was disappointed with the following films/miniseries:
--Salem's Lot (glad to hear there's a remake on its way)
--IT
--Pet Semetary
--Tommy Knockers
--Needful Things
--Night Flyer

Notice there's a bunch I'm not even mentioning, either because they are too horrible or just haven't seen'em yet. But I should mention how hugely impressed I remain with his series The Dark Tower. "O let my name be in the Book of Love; if it be there I care
Not of the other great book above. Strike it out!
Or write it in anew. But let my name be in the Book of Love!"
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Wow! Y'all got a lot of new smileys!

*The Dark Tower is one branch of my holy trinity of fantasy fiction. The other two being TCTC and LOTR. Honestly, I think TDT is my favorite, although I haven't yet read Martin or Zindell.

*I am working on my hardback SK collection. I'm only lacking about half a dozen. My husband thinks I'm crazy 'cause I recently bought the first four Dark Tower books in the re-printed hardback format, even though I already had them in trade paperback. I'm a bit of a collector.

*favorite movie adaptations:

The Shawshank Redemption
Dolores Claiborne
Carrie
The Shining
Cat's Eye
Stand By Me
Firestarter
Storm of the Century (original screenplay)


Tried to keep it short. King is one of my geekdoms (there are a few.) I could talk King all night. Be still heart

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