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[El Gordo]

An interesting contrast to, say, Stephen King, one of the most successful popular writers in modern times. With the exception of The Green Mile and Misery the essence of King's works are too often lost in translation, resulting in second-rate B-movie trash.

I was snooty about King for years until I happened across his novella, Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption on holiday one year. He's not a great writer in the traditional literary sense, but what a great storyteller he is, and what a versatile imagination.

Agree that The Green Mile and Misery are excellent films but there are others. Shawshank Redemption has to be the best of all, I'd have thought, but what about The Shining and Carrie? And the little known Dolores Claiborne, one of my favourite films, is another King story.