C'mon....no one but me????

[sigh]....I'll be over here, in the 'loser' corner.

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I've learned to just avoid Stephen King movies. I love his books, but aside from The Shining and The Stand, his movies only disappoint. His work just, for whatever reason, doesn't translate to a visual medium. Maybe it's the constraints of time, or possibly not finding the right people to work on adapting his books and making the fantasy worlds his characters inhabit come alive, I don't know.

I do agree with the majority on the Dark Tower series. Absolutely riveted the whole way through. At the time when I first finished reading the series, I felt a bit hacked off that he finished it the way he did, Roland having to set off on his quest for the Dark Tower all over again. I guess after all that had come before and all that the characters endured I was expecting it to all culminate in some great revelation for Roland. Now I've come to believe that it was a fitting end to the story.

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I read the first 3 or so of that Gunslinger sega, then it started to get redundant and boring so I never finished, first couple were pretty good though. Other than that I read all his books when I was younger...the Shining was one of the few that was both a good book and a great movie

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I have always really liked Stephen King books, but for whatever reason, they rarely turn into good movies. For good King movies, I think that Shawshank is probably his best and it is one of my favourite movies of all time. Misery and Stand by Me were both very good movies. I thought Cujo was decent, although I hated that they bastardized the ending.

As far as books go, the Dark Tower series is amazing. I really enjoyed Salem's Lot and The Shining. I thought that The Talisman and It were also very good and also really enjoyed Thinner, although it was a Bachman. I loved The Eyes of the Dragon, although I thought it was a lot lighter than normal King. Hands down, The Stand is the best King book ever written for me.

I haven't read anything really recent from him except The Darktower. Besides that, the most recent thing of his I have read is proabbly Insomnia, although I did read almost everything before that and certainly all of his classics.

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Definitely my favourite book of his. Whenever things seem to go pear-shaped I like to bust out the following: "I think, I wish were insane". It only makes sense if you've read it and no one understands it when I use it (except my brother).

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The Mist was also a good adaptation. The ending was actually more horrific than the book (IMO - haven't seen the DVD version, I think there's an alternate ending, maybe they do the one in the novella).

I would write more, but it would take too long, I am too tired - I will get around to this

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I remember both those phrases. Totally agree how he can use a simple phrase to split up a scene after a long build up. Sometimes you have to keep reading of course, other times I know if I don't have time I purposely stop there (or soon after) because I know I won't be able to stop later on.

Hey loser,

I don't think I've watched the entire Lawnmower Man film, but had seen bits of it soon after it came out and thought it was awful. Then, only a few short years ago I read the short story, and thought WTF this has nothing to do with it!

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I've read it twice (the second time I just finished about a month ago), and both times I felt that it was a perfect ending. Ka is a wheel, so it just seem to fit to me. I hope they don't spoil the film with a different ending though. However, the 'ending' wouldn't change how amazing was the journey.

I have to read Insomnia again, especially after reading the Dark Tower, as it would probably make more sense given the connections between the two.

That goes with a lot of his books - many of them link to the Dark Tower story, whether by the characters/settings or both. There used to be a website where someone had created a flowchart of all his books connecting to the Dark Tower - it was quite impressive. However, the last time I checked earlier this year, unfortunately the site no longer existed.