The shorter story adaptions are seem to be the best overall don't they? Although I rather liked Carrie, and I thought The Stand series was rather good.
I would be interested in reading his thoughts on the worse adaptions though, so:
Salem's Lot - Rather estranged from the book, but has it's good points I reckon.
The Shining - I actually though this was a great film.It deviates quite a bit from the book though. Jack Nicholson's character was certainly iconic. I felt he had a much smaller journey than the book equivalent though. I.e. the book version, is generally decent guy with a dark side that comes out when he's drunk. Jack Nicholson's version seemed pretty dark from the start to me though. King's thoughts on this could be interesting.
Shawshank- I choose this as it's such a faithful adaption. Nice to get King's thoughts on something that was successfully adapted, and his view on the
Spoiler:
tagged on happy ending. Personally it gave me a nice feeling.
Carrie. First book. First film adaption (I believe.) I'd like his thoughts on this.
Not sure of the last. I'm going for another success though(despite what I said at the start):
The Green Mile.
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