User blog comment:HumboldtLycanthrope/The Shining: King or Kubrick?/@comment-25226524-20150225035404

Well this may come as a shock to you, but I have literally only read one book by King (or Bachman in this instance). It was The Long Walk which was recommended to me by none other than the man/myth/legend known as Empy, also know by many sub-par writers as The Reaper. Anyway, I avoided King like the plague due to him being too mainstream (no, I'm not a hipster), and assumed he was just another panderer that I didn't want to waste my time with. That being said, I truly enjoyed The Long Walk and may cave enough to read another of his works in the future.

Now as for Kubrick, the greatest filmmaker of all time, I have withheld myself from none of his work. Many of my favorite films were in fact directed by Kubrick, and I find little fault in any of his work (not that I'm much of a critic). He's one of VERY few people in the entertainment industry that I have even the tiniest drop of respect for, and I will hold fast to my belief that he is the greatest director of all time until my dying day. I actually hold the opinion that he is the only truly great director in film history. Other directors have made great films, but no one truly has achieved such a collective greatness as Kubrick did.

Since I haven't read The Shining I can't make a comparison, but I have no problem giving my answer nonetheless:

Kubrick comes out on top every time, no matter what comparison is being made.