# The Stephen King bio on TLC **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 9, 2000, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stephen-king-bio-on-tlc/12734 "2000-01-09T19:10:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Gazelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Gazelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazelle)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2000, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stephen-king-bio-on-tlc/12734/21 "2000-01-11T13:23:00Z")
Make that “I’d rather be disappointed with the **movie** than the book.” Sheesh. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2000, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stephen-king-bio-on-tlc/12734/22 "2000-01-11T14:42:00Z")
My in-laws live in the Bangor, ME, area. One of the first things I was shown was his house. It’s Victorian w/ ironwork spider webs in the windows. He supports the local youth and college sports programs. He had a Little League park built in the area behind his house. And one Thanksgiving-time we went to a women’s basketball game, and he was sitting in one of the box seats to the right of us. I’ve never met him, but at least up until his accident he went around town like an average Joe. P.S. - I’ve only read “The Stand” and “The Green Mile”. Both outstanding. The latter is the only fiction book I’ve read that made me cry. * * * The Canadians. They walk among us. William Shatner. Michael J. Fox. Monty Hall. Mike Meyers. Alex Trebek. All of them Canadians. All of them here. ---
**Author:** ![Gazelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Gazelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazelle)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2000, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stephen-king-bio-on-tlc/12734/23 "2000-01-11T14:58:00Z")
I was in a melancholy mood when I saw the movie and was crying at the very beginning. It **is** a sad book. ---
**Author:** ![JCorre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3da27b/32.png) [@JCorre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JCorre)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2000, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stephen-king-bio-on-tlc/12734/24 "2000-01-11T23:41:00Z")
I am a longtime SK fan and with the exception of some of his most recent work I have read them all. I’m going to go with what seems like the status quo here and say The Stand was the best book but The Shining was by far the scariest. However in regard to The Shining I think SK was making the point that the house was the source of the evil and was manipulating the man. However in the Movie Mr. Kubrick wanted to make it the Man going crazy and Just imagining the things that he saw and eventually drove him insane. Except for the element of the boy’s ESP ability the movie contained nothing of the supernatural. Even though The Shining is one of my all time favorite movies I think I prefer SK’s version of the story. ---
**Author:** ![Gazelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Gazelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazelle)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2000, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stephen-king-bio-on-tlc/12734/25 "2000-01-12T12:20:00Z")
The worst Stephen King adaptation to movie has to be **The Running Man**. It’s been a while, so I can’t remember if they actually had the audacity to put **“Stephen King’s” The Running Man** on posters, etc. The actual story would make an excellent movie, IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2000, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stephen-king-bio-on-tlc/12734/26 "2000-01-12T12:28:00Z")
“The Running Man” was written by King as Richard Bachman. And the movie poster shown on [The Internet Movie Database](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0093894) only features Arnold Schwarzenegger. ---
**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2000, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stephen-king-bio-on-tlc/12734/27 "2000-01-12T12:28:00Z")
“The Running Man” was written by King as Richard Bachman. And the movie poster shown on [The Internet Movie Database](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0093894) only features Arnold Schwarzenegger. * * * I looked in the mirror today/My eyes just didn’t seem so bright I’ve lost a few more hairs/I think I’m going bald - Rush ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2000, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stephen-king-bio-on-tlc/12734/28 "2000-01-14T04:18:00Z")
Another story very similar to The Stand is Swan Song by Robert R. McCammon. I love SK, particularly his older work. The short story The Boogieman scared the crap out of me for years. I was a little disappointed with books like Gerald’s Game, Rose Madder, and I didn’t like the last installment of the Dark Tower series either. I am finshing up Hearts in Atlantis, which I have enjoyed quite a bit. I haven’t read Tom Gordon yet. Should I? ---
**Author:** ![PrivyQueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/85e7bf/32.png) [@PrivyQueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PrivyQueen)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2000, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stephen-king-bio-on-tlc/12734/29 "2000-01-14T15:48:00Z")
For those of you about to see the Green Mile, IMHO it was a fantastic book. The book tapes were even better. If you ever go on a drive through the Nevada desert, or any other - _Desperation_ (with Steve Himself reading it) will keep you awake! 🙂 I have everyone of his books, and you folks are right – most are great, but _Gerald’s Game_ sucked. In _Needful Things_ I would have sworn that he came to the small town I was living in and met the people himself. Described them to a ‘T’! Thanks to TLC for the insightful bio! * * * I could _hear_ you not saying anything. You’ve got the loudest silences I ever did hear from anyone who wasn’t dead! _Granny Weatherwax_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-stephen-king-bio-on-tlc/12734.md?page=1)