Stephen King!

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Originally posted by Bregalad
Ringbearer...
But you must admit even though....
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everyone died! (lol) it is a very creepy book! I agree with you about Peter Straub's Ghost Story, excellent book! Have you ever seen the movie? Great cast of old classic actors, really worth seeing! And speaking of everybody dieing, in the book, Cujo, didn't everybody die? I remember thinking that they chickened out in the movie. Awful movie but I just love it!
Also speaking of Stephen King books being made into movies, which did you all prefer, the old "the Shining" of the new one? Despite the groovy special fx, I still prefer the old classic, and no one will ever be Dick Holloran to me except Scatman Crothers!

As to your question, I am sorry to say that I did not like the first Shining! For these reasons...
1. They had to kill somebody, so they killed Holloran(the hero of the book).
2. They did not have the hedge animals(scariest part of the book)
3. The Overlook won. (It burnt down(exploded) in the book.

By itself...it was OK, but the second one was far better, in my POV!

I saw the "Ghost Story movie...good, but as always...the book was better. Did you notice that King paid homage to Straub by including one of his characters from Ghost Story, in the book "It"?