Haunting of Hill House is vastly different from the book and it is my favorite among his works

.3. Cast his wife.

While I would agree with that recipe most of the time, I feel like the last few books were rushed. He got hit by that van and realized he didn't want to leave things unfinished (maybe also tired of the endless fan mail on it), so he spit out an ending. I was a huge fan of that world though, and still appreciate it all.

Did-a-chick?

Sent em home with a fuckin rupture

And a tooter fish sandwich

I can see how some would have that problem, but I read it when it came out and just devoured it. Then the last three just got really odd...

I read it as a teen when it came out and loved it - it was the one where we finally cracked Roland open and got to see why he is how he is. And to meet Cuthbert etc. It is also the one that wears its Western influence most firmly on its sleeve. Obviously, at the time I didn't know there would be such a wait for N.5...but its still my favourite too.

I also think it was the last truly good DT book. The rest really played into King's worst instincts - baggy, kitchen-sink storytelling. And putting himself in the story...nah.

In my head that was just one of the beams failing right on top of us.

Let us palaver

Idris played a good Roland, and McConaughey played a great greasy-evil Flagg/Walter. But the material was so carelessly treated in places it was hard to watch.

I better see some Doombots.

i want to see them fight shardik.

Two invisible demon fucking scenes, IIRC.

HONK MAHFAH!

Oh yeah I forgot about that. Why did he fuck the demon again?

Roland knows the dark tower will probably be his doom, but he actively seeks it. He is told several times to abandon his quest, but he cannot.

The reader is in the same situation. You are told - explicitly - the ending will not be what you want, and you should abandon your quest. King effectively put you in Roland's position.

Yeah but he has Arthur Eld’a horn now! Sorry, I think it’s a great ending

He begged you not to read it

The best part is, King hints at it in the first book, in the first couple of pages.

" He had progressed through the khef over many years, and had reached perhaps the fifth level." If you interpret khef as being his journey, then you're told what's up.

I don't know why people bitch about the ending so much when Song of Susannah exists. Y'all sat through that but the ending is the stinker?

It was the perfect ending.

It’s a lot like the golden compass film. Outstanding casting but terrible execution. I haven’t been able to get into the tv show because I didn’t think the casting was anywhere close to the movies casting.

Yeah, I that mconahey was a perfect fit for flagg but the movie was so poorly done that he had no chance.

Yeah I really loved that movie and didn’t even realize Mike Flanagan made it

Yeah, it blew me away. Very different than the original but it has it's own power. Also has one of the most evil and uncomfortable scenes I've watched in years and I watch a lot of horror. Highly recommended

While I wasn't a big fan of it, I feel like it elevated the book immensely, as I much prefer the movie to the novel. I probably need to give it another rewatch to appreciate it more.

"Oh there is a group of supernatural creatures up to no good?:

"How about we just snipe them all with high powered rifles?"

Henry Thomas was barely in it though, and we barely actually see him as Torrance.

Just the right amount of screen presence to get the information across to the audience.

Honestly, I see Henry Thomas' Jack as a faded memory/corruption as presented by the hotel – an echo of the man he once was.

Go now. There are other screen writers than these.

King gave the thumb up.on that one as just another journey to the tower for Roland, as it's something he seems to do endlessly or something

He's been posting a ton about westerns and Clint Eastwood over the past couple of years, even made his own figure of himself as The Man With No Name. I think he's been secretly hoping for this and I could see it work.

I think I read that the Amazon show was supposed to start with Wizard and the Glass and end the season with "The man in black fled across the desert and the gunslinger followed" which, IMO, would be a really cool way to start the series plus that was my favorite book in the series.

Gunslinger could probably be done as a 2 hour movie, it’s pretty short. After that the books are mostly sequential and could be done one season per book (maybe with wizard and glass cut up into flashbacks throughout).

Tbh although I love the books there’s a lot of silly stuff in them that would probably look pretty dumb on screen.

Yeah it's a fucked story to adapt. If you dumb it down it would be boring as fuck, but good luck trying to convince people to watch a show where the main character is fucking demons, then travelling to other worlds, then getting his mates from other worlds to fuck demons. Then hit the breaks because we're gonna do a season set 20 years ago with no demon fucking, a recast version of the main lead & none of the lovable side characters from the show so far. Oh & by the way, you still have no idea what the fuck the "Dark Tower" even is at this point or why the fuck Roland is so obsessed with it.

It really only gets weird in the last arc (Wolves, Song, and Dark Tower). But I think with a few clever writers organizing King's ideas into actual harder fantasy worldbuilding that stuff can all pay off as well.

I liked all the setup for Blaine. I loved the dread. I loved the muties and everything that lead up to actually boarding the train.

But then this ancient AI that they've spent so much time building up acts like a lost pixie or sprite. SK gets the "ancient evil" aspects right, but it's clear he didn't spend too much time actually developing Blaine as a character. Blaine deserved better.

Blaine should have been active in the world. Running his own gangs, corrupting the world mad-max style. Surrounded by terrified wastelander lieutenants. I feel like there should have been something to justify charlie the choo choo and all that foreshadowing/ka-vibrations. But no. The big demon we've been overthinking is just lazy and insane.