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   On 6/4/2020 12:56 AM, between "Jimmy Anderson : Doug Cooper":   
      
    DC>> I don't like Zombie movies either, nor does my wife -- we   
    DC>> both love The Walking Dead. It's more about the people and..   
   [snip]   
    DC>> ..the zombies are just what cause   
    DC>> the situation and constant stress they live within. More of   
    DC>> a back drop.   
      
    JA> EXACTLY! It's a shoow about human interaction and drama set   
    JA> in a zombie apocalypse. It's the same reason I read Stephen   
    JA> King - I dont' care for macabre or horror, but his character   
    JA> development is the best around!!!   
      
   I really enjoyed King's "Under The Dome" tv series.  People gradually growing   
   nuts and turning on each other before as they gradually find ways to discover   
   the secret of the dome they are in.   
      
   But King's book of the same name was terrible, imho.  The back stories of the   
   characters were far too drawn out and extending dozens of pages before the   
   real story line would pick up.   
      
   The book was even published as a pocket book in two very thick parts! Insane.   
      
   When one season of the tv series ended, I picked up the book version to find   
   out what happens next.  Boy, was I disappointed.  I never skimmed through a   
   book before like I did with Under The Dome.  For example, King would dwell on   
   a character's childhood, or a trauma in the past for far too many pages before   
   the main storyline would pick up.   
      
   I just wanted to know how the dome got created, and why, and the human   
   struggle to solve the mystery and escape.  I found it uncompelling to even   
   care about a certain adult's childhood dreams and fears. Granted, part of the   
   psychology of the human chars plays a role in describing their approach to   
   working together or not to solve their trapped dilemma, but I don't need to   
   read 12 pages of somebody's fear of rape and/or a depiction of it to make   
   sense of the dome.   
      
   I have read some of King's other works that have also been made into film.   
   Carrie wasn't too bad, although some situations deviated between film and   
   book.  The Green Mile is another that was both good as book and film.  Both of   
   those, book version and film version, were fast-paced, to the point, with very   
   little back-story as filler.   
      
   I'm working on Hostile right now.  I'm at the point where the main char is   
   trapped under her vehicle, broken a lower limb, and trying to reach for her   
   gun.  Pause.  Went to bed.   
      
   In other news: I think actors get paid far too much for the fun of pretending   
   to be someone else.   
      
      
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