For me it missed the mark. Danny Torrance as a down and out alcoholic trying to navigate life as a broken man who can't come to terms with his weird affliction and the horrific events of his childhood was a great premise. It didn't need the vampire storyline at all.

Unpopular opinion on a King novel I suppose.

I saw it happen with my own two eyes. Lived in Central Florida at the time and always excitedly ran outside to watch shuttle launches.

Everything about that morning is seared in my memory.