Yeah I'll definitely check those all out as soon as I can. Much prefer the book to the movie as far as Shining goes, then again I typically do prefer the books.
Oh me too, I have a hard time comparing them because I think The Shining is like a perfect movie, just not a perfect adaptation of that story.
Very true. I have a lot of reading to catch up on, but thankfully Shawshank and The Mist will be short reads before watching those movies.
I'd also add the Shining to this list. It has some supernatural elements to it, but the core story is a character's inner struggle with alcoholism and child abuse. Very powerful, heavy stuff.
That's an excellent casting, but again, that's really soon right? King has an idea for an 11/22/63 sequel where Jake tries to stop people from using the time portal but he probably won't ever write it.
Went to grab some Dark Tower books at Powell's last weekend, they were basically out but had a sign up that said "Looking for the Dark Tower series? Being reprinted, check back May 2016." Is this news? I haven't heard about this anywhere, but am excited for it. Would love a seven (eight?) volume same size set.
Fukunaga left and had a lot of bad things to say about the direction they wanted to take it in. It's "alive" but there's a lot of reasons to be worried.
I know a few of you have had the privilege of reading a Nick Cutter novel, The Troop or The Deep will do, his next book Little Heaven is called a mix between Blood Meridian and IT, which sounds like the greatest thing ever.
My two favorite books mixed together? I need this now. Also, if you haven't seen Green Room yet...you really should. It's a horror film, in my opinion.
Haha, I know right? I knew you'd like that. Fuck man, it was suppose to have a wide release today but it's not playing here. I'm so pissed. Dying to see it.
I've read far too little King. I read The Shining last year and loved it, and right now I'm halfway through Revival. I've found it very engaging so far.
Just finished up Revival. Thoroughly enjoyed it, loved the characters, but that ending...holy crap. So terrifying and bleak.
About 135 pages into Fireman and it's fucking brilliant. At least one character totally based on a character from The Stand and I feel like there's one more but it's a little bit more of a reach. A lot of similarities to The Stand except for a focus on one pov Very fantasy-esque as well. Explaining the plague sort of reminds me of Sanderson working through a magic system.