User blog comment:HumboldtLycanthrope/The Shining: King or Kubrick?/@comment-5632489-20150224131433

"This one is bound to start a firestorm". So a FIRESTARTER? Hehe.

Anyway, I'll also go with King. Kubrick's is great, but the book just got more of an emotional response out of me. Though I will say the book's ending disappointed me (like most of King's endings) and the ending of the film was infinitely more interesting to me.