Qs & As: Stephen King's 11/22/63: Which is Better, the Novel or the Miniseries?
As a writer/reader, I’ve learned over the years to stop expecting book-to-movie adaptations to recreate novels, short stories, plays, or Broadway musicals with 100% fidelity. It is a nearly impossible task to translate a medium - such as literature - that concerns itself mostly with the internal, mental, and emotional processes of a story’s characters perfectly into another medium (film or TV) that is mostly visual and needs imagery and motion to tell a story. I’m a huge fan of Stephen King’s 2011 novel. It was the first King novel I bought after a long drought (nearly 10 years) since I had bothered to get one of his books ( Wizard and Glass ). But when I found out that Stephen King had written a time travel story in which the protagonist’s task is to prevent JFK’s assassination, I was eager to see how Steve-O would pull that rabbit out of his magician’s hat. I read the novel in less than a week - a miracle of sorts, because at the time I had a lot going on in my li...