> "Bob" stonedimmaculate.com> wrote in message

>>>>> Redemption (Rita Hayward and the Shawshank Redemption), The Green Mile

>>> (The

>>>>> Green Mile) the television versions just don't measure up. Why?
>>>>>
>>>>> The Green Mile is a really good example of a full length novel being

>>> reduced

>>>>> to three hours and it is a wonderful film that never leaves me feeling
>>>>> "cheated". The screenwriter knew how to take King's work, take the

> best

>>> of

>>>>> it, the meat of the story, and tell it in a way that didn't lose any

> of

>>> the

>>>>> flavour.
>>>>>
>>>>> While The Body and 'Shawshank' were taken from short stories (The Body

>>> was a

>>>>> novella, I believe) they too, were expertly written and directed.
>>>>>
>>>>> Someone on this ng (can't recall who, sorry) once wrote that King

> needs

>>> to

>>>>> stop giving his mini-series to his buddies to direct. I agree. I

> also

>>>>> think King should stick to writing novels and short stories. It's

> what

>>> he

>>>>> does best. He doesn't produce the best screenplays. He should pass

>>> that

>>>>> job along to someone who knows when to say "when" and knows how to

> turn

>>>>> novels and short stories into wonderful films and mini-series.
>>>>>
>>>>> Anyway, my two cents ... with inflations we're up to about a dollar

>>> these

>>>>> days, aren't we?
>>>>>
>>>>> Murielle
>>>>>
>>>>>

>>>>>> --
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -Bob
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us
>>>>>> with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -Galileo Galilei
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of
>>>>>> things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to

> work

>>>>>> and don't have time for all that ...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -George Carlin

>>>> I've actually thought King goes a bit overboard with character
>>>> development and over all description in most cases. With a few
>>>> exceptions it usually takes me a good 100 pages to start getting into a
>>>> book by him. That was actually something(character development) I felt
>>>> was done pretty well in The Stand.

>>> Really? Wow! That has only happened with a couple of his books. I

> usually

>>> fall into his work as easily as I fall into bed.
>>>

>>>> I thought Shawshank was great to,that one was done very well in all
>>>> aspects IMO. Never seen The Body though. Delores Claiborn came off
>>>> pretty good as a movie to.

>>> I forgot about Dolores Claiborne! I can't believe I forgot about

> Dolores

>>> Claiborne! (Okay, done now.) That was also a great adaptation.
>>>
>>> The Body is the short story/novela that King wrote it was made into the
>>> movie Stand By Me.

>> Now that I've seen! Great movie...never read tge short story though!

>
> Oh, I highly recommend The Body. It's in Different Seasons. You know how
> well King writes kids, he's the best.
>

>>>> What did you think of Desperation?

>>> It was better than I feared and expected (based on promos). Though, to

> tell

>>> the truth I read Desperation as soon as I got my hands on it and haven't
>>> reread it since. I started The Regulators immediately afterward and

> just

>>> didn't like it. Too violent with nothing to redeme it in my estimation.
>>> It's one of the few King books I haven't finished. It's still sitting

> there

>>> on my a shelve in my bookcase with the original bookmark holding the

> place

>>> where I gave up.
>>>
>>> Sad, huh?
>>>

>> Not at all...some books just aren't for everyone. I like Regulators so
>> far yet I have Rose Madder and From a Buick 8 laying around somewhere
>> with bookmarks in them to! Had a hard time getting into Black House and
>> The Gunslinger actually,both of which I am very glad I ended up getting
>> into. For that reason I plan on eventually reading FAB & RM...just don't
>> get to read much nowadays and when I do I have to really be into it to
>> read it for any length of time. I mean Regulators I like and I'm only
>> 150 pages in after almost a month!

>
> I know. I'm the same. I love reading. Books breed in my home, but lately
> I just don't read as much as I'd like, or even need. Don't know what it is.
> Maybe I'm just getting old. ;-))
>
> Murielle
>