I was finally able to read the Mist!!!! One Slight problem

[Bugsy]

It turned out I had Skeleton Crew all along and I never bothered to look over the short stories in it. So I began it, got up to where they first mention creatures in the mist.

and I lost it!!!!!

Well, I left it on a hotel bed

in SPAIN!!!!!!!!

I was going to pull an all-nighter because we had to be in the lobby ate 3:45 AM to go to the airport, decided to do some reading, must fell asleep a bit, didn't put it in my backpack. Left it there. I was so excited to finally read it. It was great so far. I don't think God wanted me to read it at that time. I need to go back to Barnes & Noble and get Skeleton Crew again!

I hate myself.


Anyways, from what I read, great story. I plan on finishing it when I can.

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[Charms7]

Don't beat yourself up. Absentmindedness happens to us all.

[Agincourt Concierge]

Movie was awesome....so was story....loved them both...!!

[Bugsy]

I will finish it some day. I can't wait! Then after I read it, I can finally see the movie (I don't usually like watching the movie before the book).

[williams974]

So how is the book? How much diofferent is it? After I finish Christine, The Mist is the book I want to read next.

[GBPack1]

I didn't think the movie strayed from the story too much. Of course, there are differences, but I enjoyed the movie (still enjoy the story better - like always). The endings are different but I thought they were both good.

[Jake Featherston]

So how is the book? How much diofferent is it? After I finish Christine, The Mist is the book I want to read next.

The movie is very faithful to the book (rather unusually so), but it has a different (and in my opinion, superior) ending. The ending was kind of a cinematic thing, however; I'm not sure it would have worked as words on a page. After an unfortunate event that occurs right at the end, something very surprising happens, and the visual impact of that is just huge.

[JRM]

The short-story was decent. Thought the movie was much better.

But that sucks you left the book in Spain!!!!! :wow:

[Jake Featherston]

The short-story was decent. Thought the movie was much better.

I don't really understand how someone could feel that way, as the movie pretty much followed the book word-for-word (except for the ending, which I think was better in the movie).

[JRM]

I don't really understand how someone could feel that way, as the movie pretty much followed the book word-for-word (except for the ending, which I think was better in the movie).

I highly disagree. There's a long list of changes and additions. My biggest problem with the book was that Ms. Carmondy seemed tacked-on. It didn't really feel like the book had any sense of where it was going, and the ending confirmed that for me. I still enjoyed it, but I simply liked the movie more.

[BettySien]

I finished reading the Mist then talked to someone who saw the movie. We had very different opinions! The ending my friend saw was very different from the one I read. However, I think the books are always better than the movies. Just an opinion.

[michal]

I'd lose my head if it wasn't attached to my neck, so really, don't hate yourself, please. BUT - do go and buy another one. don't give up on the book. You ARE meant to read it and you're going to love it, I'm sure. I did.

[doowopgirl]

I didn't even like The Mist the first time I read it. Then got the film out on DVD as Darabont is THE MAN. Loved the interpretation of the film. Although there are no eal changes in the film I thought it captured the atmosphere of locked in a supermarket with scary things out side so well I had to re read the story. Guess what? Loved it, too.

[Space Hitler]

The movie was frankly pretty amazing. I haven't been moved so much by a scene in a film (you know the scene I'm talking about) since ....I want to say probably when I first saw the Great Escape and they're bringing the prisoners "back to the camp" and pull over and they're talking and then you hear the guns being locked into place...

[Manxkitti]

I think in the movie they had to have some sort of ending. In the story I think it was sort of an open ending.