Just started reading the novel of Jaws. It's a lot more interesting characterisation wise than the film and more gruesome.

yeah I still think that the jurassic park novel was very grim and good indeed,I mean seriously the whole book had me at "T-Rex's CAN Swim!!!!!!!!" the idea of that really would have made a great hit in the movies I'd say because it just sounds so crazy that I'd like to see it put to the test on the big screen!!!

i liked the movie shining alot more than the book, i know alot of people disagree with this, but i thought stanly kubrick did the movie the way he wanted and it worked.

yeah true movies based on books can turn out good when done precisely a directors way especially when a director is the book writer!

Which Author are you thinking of who directed his own book?

Clive Barker directed Hellraiser and Stephen King directed Maximum Overdrive which was from his short story Trucks. Not sure if that's who they're talking about but it happens.

stephen king wrote the shining but i liked stanley kubricks movie.

ok so I was half lieing half hoping that it was true that book creators can direct books into good movies,it's true that some have been terrible over the years from a writer directing their book into a movie!

yeah,good point stephen king is a good director and writer!

though some books are worse than a writer's movie,number 1 example:stephen spielburg his movies are pretty good but,after reading,"encounters of the third kind" I really thought he was a bad horror book writer!

Actually i was saying that it can be done. Are you saying Hellraiser wasnt good?

Since i havent actually mentioned anything, Pet Semetary and Thinner the films are better then the books in my opinion.

Also i enjoyed Hellraiser more then The Hellbound Heart.