On 6/4/2020 12:56 AM, between "Jimmy Anderson : Doug Cooper":

 DC>> I don't like Zombie movies either, nor does my wife -- we
 DC>> both love The Walking Dead. It's more about the people and..
[snip]
 DC>> ..the zombies are just what cause
 DC>> the situation and constant stress they live within. More of
 DC>> a back drop.

 JA> EXACTLY! It's a shoow about human interaction and drama set
 JA> in a zombie apocalypse. It's the same reason I read Stephen
 JA> King - I dont' care for macabre or horror, but his character
 JA> development is the best around!!!

I really enjoyed King's "Under The Dome" tv series.  People gradually growing
nuts and turning on each other before as they gradually find ways to discover
the secret of the dome they are in.

But King's book of the same name was terrible, imho.  The back stories of the
characters were far too drawn out and extending dozens of pages before the real
story line would pick up.

The book was even published as a pocket book in two very thick parts! Insane.

When one season of the tv series ended, I picked up the book version to find
out what happens next.  Boy, was I disappointed.  I never skimmed through a
book before like I did with Under The Dome.  For example, King would dwell on a
character's childhood, or a trauma in the past for far too many pages before
the main storyline would pick up.

I just wanted to know how the dome got created, and why, and the human struggle
to solve the mystery and escape.  I found it uncompelling to even care about a
certain adult's childhood dreams and fears. Granted, part of the psychology of
the human chars plays a role in describing their approach to working together
or not to solve their trapped dilemma, but I don't need to read 12 pages of
somebody's fear of rape and/or a depiction of it to make sense of the dome.

I have read some of King's other works that have also been made into film.
Carrie wasn't too bad, although some situations deviated between film and book.
 The Green Mile is another that was both good as book and film.  Both of those,
book version and film version, were fast-paced, to the point, with very little
back-story as filler.

I'm working on Hostile right now.  I'm at the point where the main char is
trapped under her vehicle, broken a lower limb, and trying to reach for her
gun.  Pause.  Went to bed.

In other news: I think actors get paid far too much for the fun of pretending
to be someone else.


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