Anybody want to compare and contrast?
I would say the book is scarier but I like the movie better. Movie Annie is more relatable and that draws you in. I didn’t enjoy all the existential angst about writing in the book.
Just got up to the part he loses limbs in the book.
So not all the way finished yet. But i love how in the next part you see is his writing with out "n"s and then he loses his t key also(at this point annie stopped filling in the n's for him). hes losing in both worlds.
I wish i caught more of the references he makes to other literary works and some authors. But i love the the way his imagination and writing talent helps him cope and express the unexpressable pain and torture he is being put through. , Africa, bourka bee goddess, sandman nurse annie .
I am loving this book . Ill never be able to express how much wonder, moments of contemplation, joy, and fear Mr kings works have bought me.
Love the movie too. And i feel its one that can be done again and again with a new director, actors as everyone will bring something unique to it.
I wanna add due to seeing the movie first i pictured kathy bates the whole time as Annie.
Mr king refers to this type of effect in the book too, which was cool.
I liked the angle that Annie abused her self with food and physical pain when she was in a un settled state.
I like the idea of the laughing place she goes to.
I like to think it could be connected the same power that haunts the overlook.
A dark force that pushs her to continue a life of murder and torture.
And i really like how for the last few pages he made the reader worried that Annnie was still alive and would get Paul again.. the last 100 odd pages i could not put down till i finished.
One thing i think was a bit understated was how she murdered newborns, many of them. I feel that could have been expanded on both in the movie and book.
But what do i know , Im no Mr Man like Stephen king . Im just a dirty birdie fan 🤪
The book was my favorite or close to it for years
I never thought a movie could capture everything great about the book, and this movie didn't
Instead, it stripped the story down to its bare essentials and made Annie more human and Paul into James Chan (I'd always figured someone like Craig Wasson for the role), increasing the tension between them by making Paul a physical match for Annie herself.
Sorry to say, I wound up liking the movie more and re-watch it more than I re-read the novel.