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.
in a money laundering operation led by the prison warden Samuel Norton (Bob Gunton). William Sadler, Clancy Brown, Gil Bellows, and James Whitmore appear in supporting roles.
Darabont purchased the film rights to King's story in 1987, but development did not begin until five years later when he wrote the script over an eight-week period. Two weeks after submitting his script to Castle Rock Entertainment, Darabont secured a $25 million budget to produce "The Shawshank Redemption", which started pre-production in
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