Fiction vs. Fiction: The Lawnmower Man

 I spent a whole $4.99 on a Paperback Copy of Stephen King's Night Shift and I'm going to get my money's worth!

Let's begin with his most controversial Story-to-Film Adaptation...

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What's the Same?

A guy uses a Lawnmower on a Lawn.  A man is killed by a Lawnmower.

What's different?

Oh boy, here we go...

The Film is about a somewhat-crazy Scientist who takes the local Lawnmower Man and does some experiments on him...

The titular man- Jobe- becomes super-smart and gets, well, Matrix powers that Neo would get in those Sequels.

Basically, it is Flower for Algernon for the Internet Generation.

To see the actual story, you need to track down a Dollar Baby like I did in 2014...

This follows the story nearly verbatim.

A man lets his lawn grow too long and hires a strange service to mow it.

The man eats the grass, talks about working for Pan and kills our Lead when he tries to call the Police.

You want to know more?

Tough- the Short Story is about 10 pages long.

Final Thoughts.

The infamous Film was a cash grab used to sell a random-ass Story that had nothing to do with King's Story.  

He sued over this.  He won.

The real Story is weird as hell.

So which is better?

One is short and weird.  One is longer, weird and full of dated CGI.
Take your pick.