Nearly Finished with 2001

Probably would have finished today, except we went to see Ghost Rider 2 3D.  Because TR is a Ghost Rider kind of guy.

The book (2001) has answered a number of my questions from the movie.  I now understand why HAL went nuts as well as what the connection was between the monolith found on the moon and the space mission was.  That is one of the things that can really make me hate a movie (screenwriter) or book (author.)  Skipping explaining "why."  And this explains why I hate Steven King.  We are told in The Shining that there were boxes in the basement full of all kinds of newspaper clippings and ephemera documenting the many gruesome deaths that might have explained the haunting of the hotel.  We know that Jack Torrence spent much of his time in that basement reading that material.  But we were never allowed to read it.  A chapter recounting many of those articles would have satisfied me.  It would have explained the woman in the bathtub, the twins, and many other things.  He did it again with Christine  in which we were never given an explanation as to why the car was acting up.   Ahhhhhhhhgh.  I stopped reading Steven King.  I like Anne Rice much better.