Is the Stand a good adaption of the book? Is it dare I say Stevenkino?
>>218598007I'm rebelling against /lit/ and this is one of my very first upcoming reads, I'm amped.
>>218598052I bought the book but it's over a 1000 pages and I haven't yet committed to it. Wondering if the television adaption is up to standard or not since Stephen king is either kino or widely inconsistent.
>>218598007>>218598052The Stand is a great 2/3 of a book. Great start, interesting premise, terrible ending. King's shorter stuff is usually better than his long books. Like It, it should have been just the kid storyline and then leave it ambiguous whether or not Pennywise ever came back, the end.
>>218598052Wait does /lit/ the book is for plebs or something? Are they still pretending they read Aristotle, Plato, Hegel, Kant, Zizek, etc despite the fact no one there has an education above HS level?
>>218598144Every author deserves the courtesy of reading his material before watching anything, even Stephen King in spite of how he felt about a certain adaption of his work from 1980.
>>218598007The show made the completely stupid choice of time skipping back and forth. It ruined the character building and removed a massive amount of tension.
>>218598171Okay but how is the TV series?>>218598198I would if it was 250 pages
>>218598195I couldn't think of an author /lit/ is more vitriolic towards, hence why it's crucial for me and any self-respecting worm to really give his work a chance.
>>218598199Does the book do this?>>218598240I liked the Mist and The Running Man. The books are short too and the movies are good. I personally liked Cell and Room 1408. All of them have movie adaptions.
>>218598356>Does the book do this?No. Advances chronologically. Reading about the collapse of the world is completely different if you read it before or after covid.
>>218598488COVID was not really a collapse it was just a reminder that neoliberalism/globalism is fundamentally broken when it comes to resource management, which has been known about for some time beforehand.
>>218598007Yeah it was pretty good. Molly Ringwold was, as usual, the weak link. She never could act. It had some heart. The music was well-matched.
>>218598356running man was a good book, but the arnold movie is probably the least faithful adaptation, if you can call it that, that i have ever seen.... haven't seen the new movie yet but it sounds like this time they made a serious attempt at properly adapting the novel
>>218598240Yeah, they're a little stuck up, but they're not completely wrong. King is a master storyteller, but he's sort-of OK, as a writer and that ended completely, around 2007.
>>218598803Yeah the Arnie adaption just used the loose premise and changed everything else. I liked it but it was borderline incoherent In the made up revolutionary sub plot.
>>218598872What are your favourite king stories?>Ended around 2007What was his last good novel?
