User blog comment:HumboldtLycanthrope/The Shining: King or Kubrick?/@comment-25148755-20150224040742

This is one of the very few instances I like the movie more than the book. I've read a good amount (although certainly not anywhere close to all) of King's work and consider myself a fan. However, my biggest problem with his writing is that he, especially early in his career, sucked at endings. Lately he's gotten a bit better with them (although I felt the recently published sequel to The Shining, Dr. Sleep, sort of fell into his old trap of just sort of "and then the end happened") but I feel like Kubrick was just firing on all cylinders. Add in the crazy stories of how he was as a director and one of the best performances of Nicholson's career and I don't think it's really even a contest. Still waiting for an adaptation of the Dark Tower series, however.