Stephen King used to do so much cocaine that he doesn't remember writing Cujo, Maximum Overdrive, or (I believe also?) Tommyknockers
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If you've seen Maximum Overdrive it's not hard to belive at all. AC/DC does the score/soundtrack.
Tommyknockers was also batshit crazy.
Tommyknockers fucking Bernsteined me; I swear to god I've seen a Tommyknockers movie, but the internet swears to god that I haven't because no such thing exists
Well, there's a mini-series
Same, it was the two-part miniseries.
I remember it as being pretty good, but it has been about 30 years since I saw it. So I don't know how much I can trust that memory.
I just remember Jimmy Smits strapped into a big satellite dish, going fucking "Scanners" on some people.
Oh I've seen Maximum Overdrive, it's my favourite Stephen King movie. Much better than the book, as long as you appreciate badness
The guy was cranking out multiple books a year.
During the 80s, there was a gentleman's agreement for book publishers to only release so many books under an author a year. King wrote so much that he had to find other places that would publish his work. So to not upset King, they published it anyways. He published like 19 novels and a crazy amount of short stories in the 80s.
Cocaine explains it.
That explains a lot of his recent unhinged tweets
I read some of his tweets from 2022 ish, he seems pro Ukraine, anti book ban, and anti Elon. What's happened more recently? I don't have an account so can't effectively search
No wonder why his books are so bad. If it wasn’t for the screen adaptations I doubt anyone would know who he is. I read dream catcher when it came out and I couldn’t make it through. It was so bad. Like how did this guy get famous bad? It was just so bad.
My aunt, who is an idiot, loves him though.
I don't know how to respond to this.
The guy who made so much creative work that spawned genres. So many movies and TV shows share how King's work inspired them.
I think it's fine to say you hate something. But theres so much BS in your comment that a fact checker's head would explode going line by line.
Also your comment about your family paints more about the kind of person you are.
So, in summary, you tried one book he wrote 30 years after he came to prominence and gave up. IT, The Shining, The Stand, Misery, Dolores Claiborne, Pet Sematery, The Green Mile, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption are fantastic. Some of his Bachman books - The Long Walk, The Running Man, Rage - are also great. You're simply objectively wrong. Your aunt sounds like she knows a good book, though.
I read Stephen Hawking and I was like, "sure, maybe it helps with the ALS and see the universe".
Hold my straw