>>76210218Huh, I didnt know about the mini-series! A lot of his stuff really doesn't translate well from novel to film it feels like, like IT which I did read a long time ago... I will say having listened to it via audiobook, voice-acting does wonders for the characters and makes you feel what they feel pretty well. Made me care for the Torrences more than I did for their situation. I also think a big factor is probably a lot of King's best horror aspects are more vivid in the imagination and translating them to film is both a costly endeavor and loses the element of imagining the scenes in the visions/etc yourself.
>>76210337Yeah, I agree, bud! I definitely like the whole concept of the Overlook kinda pulling a Hotel California and
Both being empowered by and desiring Doc's death to gain his power, and the idea that it kinda uses your own failures to make you surrender yourself to it
It makes you feel for Jack. He's obviously made mistakes, the kind that end relationships, but you know he tried, and if not for the Overlook basically being like a corruption spreader, things wouldn't have ended tragically the way they did. I guess if there's another criticism, it's that it doesn't explain how Tony
Protects Danny, like in Room 217, but that's King, somethings are explained in excruciating detail that don't matter that much to the plot, and some things that should kinda never get cleared up
At least in this book, I heard Doctor Sleep is the sequel and I kinda wanna read/listen to it after the bookclub or when Rosemi goes on jer next hiatus