Five books totally unlike their adaptations

Jeff Somers is the author of the Avery Cates series, The Ustari Cycle, Lifers, and Chum (among many other books) and numerous short stories.

At the B&N Reads blog he tagged "five adaptations that appear to be based on alternate universe versions of their source material," including:The Shining, by Stephen King

Stephen King was famously unhappy with Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of his novel