[vlunkr]

I don’t think less of King for it, though it strongly disagree with him. An artist sometimes has a much different connection to their artwork than the audience does.

[ndsipa_pomu]

Maybe I was over-harsh - I think less of Stephen King's taste in films. And yes, he's absolutely allowed to like or dislike any adaptations of his books. I used to think that the majority of Stephen King film adaptations were likely to be rubbish, but I think there's plenty of exceptions to that now.

I can imagine that King has a very deep connection to The Shining as Jack is probably the closest that King has got to an autobiographical character.

[dleary]

> I can imagine that King has a very deep connection to The Shining as Jack is probably the closest that King has got to an autobiographical character.

Kimg has a few autobiographical characters, but surely the closest has to be when he literally self inserted himself into the gunslinger series.

[anotherhue]

He literally writes himself into the dark tower series.