I love to read.  My favorite author is Stephen King.  Who is your favorite?
I love to read too and used to red Stephen King's books all the time!
My favorite King book is The Stand.  I also really love The Shining.  How about you?
I like his book "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption" a lot.
Shawshank Redemption is a great book and the film rendition is good, as well. Usually his books do not translate well to the screen.
It was actually made into a movie too in 1994 and nominated for seven Academy Awards.
That is not a surprise.  Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman did an absolutely wonderful job.
That's right, just like William Sadler, Clancy Brown or Gil Bellows, James Whitmore in supporting roles!
The Green Mile was also another wonderful book made into a really well made film by Stephen King.
The Shawshank Redemption
The Shawshank Redemption is a 1994 American drama film written and directed by Frank Darabont, based on the 1982 Stephen King novella "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption". It tells the story of banker Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins), who is sentenced to life in Shawshank State Penitentiary for the murder of his wife and her lover, despite his claims of innocence. Over the following two decades, he befriends a fellow prisoner, contraband smuggler Ellis "Red" Redding (Morgan Freeman), and becomes instrumental
Hatlen for his review and perusal. King told the Bangor Daily News that, "He (Hatlen) saw so much more of what I was doing than I did." In turn, Hatlen wrote several scholarly essays and critiques of Stephen King's works.
Stephen King named a handful of his fictional characters after Burton Hatlen, including the prison librarian in "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption", whom King named Brooks Hatlen.
Stephen and Tabitha King donated $4 million to the University of Maine in 1997