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In Reply to: The beginning of the end for Randall... posted by ghost of olddude55 on September 17, 2023 at 17:29:38:
in '78 the winter before I joined the Air Force in the spring.
There are parts that stick with me
(the passage about the protagonist's alcoholic father in which he and his drinking buddy referred to martinis as Martians, "We have met the Martians and they are friendly," or something to that effect; and the description of the incident that caused them to cease drinking for a while),
but honest6ly, I wasn't blown away.
However, I gave it to my mom, who was far more cerebral than I am, and she literally did not put it down. I am sure I got my OCD from her. For some books, after she started them, she would not stop until she finished, and that meant staying up all night and sleeping late into the next day. 'The Shining' fell into that category.
I agree that Kubrick butchered it and Nicholson was nothing like the character that King created. As a matter of fact, the entire movie was nothing like the book that King wrote. Shelley Duvall was worse than terrible.
I also agree that the miniseries was pretty good.
I remember we were sitting around work bullshitting one night and the topic came up, and a good work friend of mine said something to the effect of whoever was playing the alcoholic father/writer "had some big shoes to fill" (meaning Nicholson's). That cracked me up.
Anyway, I didn't read 'The Stand' until '85 or '86. I was working for a company in Saudi Arabia at the time, and I would go through reading binges. Like most of King's stuff wound up working out for me, I enjoyed it not for what it was about, but for how he wrote about it. His descriptions blew me away. The Walking Dude/Flagg in his Levis and worn boots and ruddy cheeks . . . Nadine Cross . . . the scene in the jail shortly after the apocalypse occurred . . . the shoot 'em up scene at the convenience store shortly before the apocalypse. . . .
It was The Stand that actually turned me into a fan and on my next vacation I bought a bunch of his paperbacks at an airport to take back with me (which, among others, included Salem's Lot).
Sometime in the late '90s I found a paperback copy of 'Hearts In Atlantis' lying around at work, and I picked it up and read it and I cannot remember what it was really about, but what I do remember are the characters and scenes that he created that blew me away and kept me reading to the bitter end.
Oh well . . . ramble on. . . .
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Follow Ups
- I bought The Shining in paperback - immatthewj 18:35:24 09/17/23 (5)
- What always really stuck with me from "The Shining" was this... - ghost of olddude55 03:20:37 09/18/23 (4)
- Glacial pace - Victor Khomenko 05:19:35 09/18/23 (3)
- Sometimes, it's appropriate. - ghost of olddude55 05:39:51 09/18/23 (2)
- I am not arguing about the Shining and 2001 - Victor Khomenko 06:15:13 09/18/23 (1)
- Agree on "Paths of Glory." - ghost of olddude55 06:23:04 09/18/23 (0)
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