Nick: I liked the movie Shining, Just dont think it's as good as the book.
Seems' I've found the Stephen King fan club o the board. I dont go out of my way to watch king movies. I do make an effort not to watch a movie based on a book, til I've read the book. but it's not a strict rule.
"My bones and My Flute was written by Edgar Mittelholzer, A guyanese. I can't even find a copy here. Mittelholzr was a dabbler in the occult who eventually burned himself to death to get to "the other side". TOtall cuckoo and his book is kickass.
The great Ponds was done by Elichi Amadi of Nigeria.
Chrisalids is by John Wyndham. He's either an American or British scifi author. He should be easy to find
The painted bird is a really messed up book about a kid in a WW2 poland. The author, Jerzy Kosinski based it on his life, which to judge from the book was totally fucked up. Kosinski also killed himself... Hmm. I see a theme here.
Buried CHild is a Sam Shepard play. All his stuff is good.
A man for all season is a Robert Bolt play form 1962, which got made into a kickass movie, incidentally.