User blog comment:HumboldtLycanthrope/The Shining: King or Kubrick?/@comment-24101790-20150223232156

Gotta go with Kubrick on this one. I am a little biased due to my love Dr. Strangelove. (Feels like I missed a golden opportunity for a pun.) He did something that few people manage when adapting a novel into a movie. He built on it and enhanced it. King was apparently disappointed with Kubrick's take on it and commissioned his own mini-series, which (IMOPO) didn't hold a candle to Kubrick's adaptation.

That being said, I enjoyed the book immensely and think that Kubrick was able to make the movie so impactful (The woman in 217 set me back a few years when I watched it as a kid.) because King did such an excellent job crafting the story.