Quote Originally Posted by DJD View Post
Read everything King wrote when I was in the Army even under the other name of Richard Bachman (going by memory so I could be WAY OFF)?

Never read the green mile but thats a great movie so the book must be fantastic!
King in his heyday was the most prolific author I can name. Dude has a gift for cranking out long, wild stories one after the other. His ability to build colorful, fascinating characters, and hook you on a story after just a page or 2 is amazing.

Books are always much better to me than movies based on them Don. A perfect example is one of the Bachman books you mentioned. The best IMO was "The Running Man". The governator in the movie version was entertaining, but not even remotely close to Bachman/King's book.

Green Mile makes my top 10 all time favorite list, a great read if you like that kind of stuff.

Hey ZX, surely you like cop novels. How about Joseph Wambaugh's "The Blue Knight"? A great book that inspired a really good movie. Something-or-other Kennedy (CRS) was the perfect main character in the movie.