Thanks, but you’re good-- you were already very clear in your previous post just before my latest write-in update. Just a clarification that ‘these are my votes’ is fine.
What I probably should have also done is check the ‘show identities’ option in the poll. Then I could see if people making mentions of King stuff already voted or not, which votes and how many. Oh well, live and learn.
Perhaps an updated poll listing all the write-ins with those options so we can start fresh?
Sorry, I’m not trying to make extra work - just thinking what might make it easier going forward.
Yeah, not a bad thought. But then, if I went back through the posts and eliminated from the write-in list all but the ones that specifically indicated a write-in, I’d probably eliminate many that were meant as a write-in, but not clearly indicated as such.
Eh, well, It’s not as if I’m gathering hard data for a Master’s in Literature thesis or something. The thread is garnering some good, fun discussion, and that’s the important thing.
And, I’m finding the main poll interesting. To wit: I knew Misery was a highly rated adaptation, but I’m surprised to see it pretty soldily in 3rd place so far. I thought The Shining would be the undisputed 3rd place holder. And I’m also a bit surprised that It the miniseries is now ahead of It the movie pair. That first It movie got a lot of attention and good reviews when it first came out (the second, not so much). I wonder if It the miniseries benefited recently from some Tim Curry memorial votes.
It is a fascinating topic. It sucked me in a lot farther than I expected. 
And you’ve been a great contributor to the thread, thanks.
I find your somewhat iconoclastic picks interesting. I will say, I really liked 11.22.63 the book-- I think it’s one of King’s better late-era works, and unlike many of those, I thought he really nailed the ending. The miniseries adaptation was very enjoyable too, well acted, and if I recall, very true to the source material. My brief thoughts on your other choices:
The Dark Tower: didn’t read the series, didn’t watch the movie, no opinion.
Hearts in Atlantis: the book didn’t make much of an impression on me, good or bad. Neither did the movie, though I’m 90% sure I saw it. Pretty much all I remember is Anthony Hopkins starred in it.
The Dead Zone: loved the book, don’t remember much of the movie. Need to rewatch.
The Running Man (2025): The Bachman story, enjoyed. The 1987 movie? Kitschy fun. The 2025 remake? That’s an odd one. My wife and I started to watch it a couple weeks ago on streaming, and 5 minutes in I said “I think I already saw this”. Pretty sure I watched it late one weekend night after she went to bed. Either it didn’t make much of any impression on me, or I fell asleep at some point soon after it started.
A huge part of why this film gets me is because it is directly tied to The Dark Tower. Ted Brautigan and the Low Men play a significant role in the later books. I will add that if a dislike of fantasy is why you have avoided The Dark Tower, you should maybe give it another chance. It’s really more of a Western, with some fantasy elements thrown in. It also skips around between parallel worlds (including our own - in which King himself appears as a character), so it’s really not even strictly a Western. It is also heavily tied in with the majority of King’s other works, and even that is a plot point in the story. You will find a lot of familiar characters, like Fr. Callahan from 'Salem’s Lot and Patrick Danville from Insomnia, and a lot of familiar worlds like the one from The Stand. What I don’t recommend is seeing the movie before reading at least the first 4 books - it won’t make any sense. And really, it’s better to have read the final line of the 7th book before watching the film. That one line is what makes the movie resonate with me - although I realize that other fans of the books don’t agree. I think the series got the fantasy reputation because King himself once compared it to the Lord of the Rings (pretty sure he said that in his autobiography On Writing). I get the comparison, but it’s not that really. I think what he meant was that it was his Magnum Opus, and it is that. And to be honest, I was never much of a King fan until I read The Dark Tower series.
I’ve never been described as iconoclastic. I kinda like it.
Well, to be perfectly accurate, I called your posts iconoclastic, not you specifically 
But I’d say you’re a bit of an iconoclast, sure.
Beware of early medieval Byzantine emperors…
I’ll take it
Well honestly, I dislike the ‘Sci-Fi Western’ trope too, as well as the ‘author inserts themselves as a character in their own story’ gimmick. Clive Cussler used to do that a lot, annoyingly. One writer, can’t remember his name offhand, a murder mystery writer I think-- I read one of his books a few months back, and he had a fictional character cite him as one of the character’s favorite authors. Vanity factor aside, how does that even logically work?
But, I have to say, your enthusiastic endorsement of the Dark Tower series has me rethinking my avoidance of it. Maybe I’ll see if I can find a Kindle sale on a bundled Dark Tower complete collection.
Nice history pull
But weren’t the Byzantines the original, literal “image-smasher” iconoclasts? In that case, they should welcome Thumper668 as a fellow iconoclast, shouldn’t they?
IIRC some (most?) of them were but most Emperors were not, and you don’t want to be an heretic in the hands of those that were not.
I lived for about a year in the heart of the Byzantine iconoclasm (northern Türkiye), so I must have learned something.
You contracted Iconoclamitis!
That explains so many things. 
At least it wasn’t Iconochlamydia 
Yeah, that one’s a keeper. The slow pace works perfectly with the sense of waking up to “this can’t really be happening, and what the hell’s happening anyway?”
Speaking of the Langoliers, I was completely remembering Bryan Brown as being in it. He wasn’t. It was actually Mark Lindsay Chapman. Weird.
Maybe the Langoliers ate Bryan Brown?
The short story 1408 isn’t good, but I loved the movie
My write-in candidates are Cujo and Christine.