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Fables, everyone has a story in the District of Wonders. Come and find yours.

Good evening, Children of the night.

In our corner of the literary world, there is one name that is larger than most, Stephen King.

The author's fans are Legion.

Sure, he has some detractors acclaim that his work is overrated, but no one is universally liked. There are a few

other authors that I can think of that have had so much of their work translated in a television

and feature-length films than Stephen King. Now, there is a good area to have some disagreements,

because some of those translations to the big and small screen

didn't go so well, in my opinion.

Recently, I re-watched the Shawshank Redemption, which I think I've seen a hundred times,

as when I was a teenager I think that TBS defaulted to that movie if they didn't have any other

programming. It's a very enjoyable film.

I've sang the praises of the movie version of The Mist. Conversely, the TV show of the same name has the distinction of being

one of the few TV shows that I quit watching less than half of the way through the first episode.

Last year's movie, The Dark Tower, featuring Edress El Elba, doing a great job as Roland Deschain,

and Matthew McConaug as a Walter Paddock that was better than my imagination made him while reading the books,

which didn't save the movie for being, at best, a terrific fanfic movie.

And then the slightly more recent movie, It, which I've sang the praises of.

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