His early work was exceptionally good. Tommy knockers, Needful Things, Salem’s Lot, Misery, Stand By Me, were all pretty good. Not a fan of some of his latest stuff.
His books are variable, but they usually have like 300 pages of genuinely good character development and scene setting, an inciting horrible incident and then another 100 pages of suspension-of-disbelief. All of the film adaptations I’ve seen are pretty bad though.
The second one. It preys on innocent childish fears, so kill that part of you. Haha, so clever, makes sense in universe I guess. But like, why would you make your universe that way?
Cause when you use drugs, you are in the deepest, darkest corners of your psyche. You usually start taking drugs because you either want to silence that part of yourself, or because you feel like a piece of shit because of the thoughts you have in your head. Ultimately, healing comes from realising that everyone experiences thoughts like that, they just decide to not live out the thoughts.
Uppers like cocaine (which he was very fond of at the time) are often consumed to be more productive or to “enhance” an otherwise already positive time. From what I’ve heard, he was introduced to coke at a party, which makes perfect sense. Cocaine abuse starts with making a party exhilarating, then it continues with giving you so much energy while working, finally you simply take the stuff because your brain doesn’t know how to work with natural levels or serotonin/dopamine/noradrenaline anymore.
To name another class of drugs, taking psychedelics (which I haven’t heard of King having much business with) to hide from your inner demons would be a profoundly bad move since those tend to forcibly confront you with yourself. Great if you have the feeling that deep down there’s something you need to address but you don’t know what. Terrible if you know there’s something but you can’t handle dealing with it.
Downers like cannabis (which King apparently did at least occasionally use) can be used to silence the bad thoughts. Putting up a smokescreen between your conscious and your subconscious isn’t exactly the best way of handling things but at least you’re not pouring fuel onto the fire.
Drugs of all kinds can still take your mind in directions you normally would’ve shied away from, that’s true. And a sustained drug habit of any kind is often indicative of an underlying problem; happy people don’t mess with their brain chemistry as often. The specific underlying problem can vary wildly – unassisted psychological distress, physiological issues like chronic pain, performance anxiety, peer pressure… the list goes on and on.
Of course, given that King also had a sustained alcohol problem and apparently at one point abused everything he could get his hands on, he definitely seems like someone who couldn’t handle what was going on inside of his head. Thankfully he had the support he needed to overcome his drug problem.
It’s a weird and completely unnecessary scene narratively speaking but it’s not even close to porn. It’s one of many similar examples in King’s writing, seems like the guy was molested as a kid and tried working through it with his writing
Today I learned everyone with a copy of the book ‘It’ is in possession of CSAM, and amazon and Barnes and noble are actively and criminally distributing the same material.
The book has child porn in it. A group fuck where they all fuck the girl.
Not joking.
The fuck who read that shit Stephen is disgusting
He was extremely coked out of his mind during those years.
I think a lot of people never saw it coming. He was on a lot of drugs at the time.
That said, in every single book he wrote, he has very elaborate scenes where a person urinates themselves. Every. Single. Book.
Why do people love this guy
His early work was exceptionally good. Tommy knockers, Needful Things, Salem’s Lot, Misery, Stand By Me, were all pretty good. Not a fan of some of his latest stuff.
The Four Seasons one is my favorite. Except for the Winter story.
Didn’t forget Shawshank redemption.
I think his latest stuff is pretty good. The Mr. Mercedes and Holly series are an interesting take on a detective series, IMO.
I don’t know. His books aren’t that great. His movie adaptations are just okay.
He has some early work that was good and got a lot of attention. It was back in the prime days of horror novels. Right place right time. That’s all.
With the right amount of cocaine I think you or I could probably give him a run for his money
His books are variable, but they usually have like 300 pages of genuinely good character development and scene setting, an inciting horrible incident and then another 100 pages of suspension-of-disbelief. All of the film adaptations I’ve seen are pretty bad though.
Is using cocaine the writing equivalent of the programmer’s Ballmer Peak?
I think, in his case, the more he did the more he produced.
However, he’s very public about having no recollection or writing many of his books.
I wish I could say “damn, I don’t ever remember making that app. It made a million you say? Wow”
On the one hand, I kinda get the logic. On the other, Stephen no, wtf.
You get the logic… of… peeing or the middle school gang bang to defeat a monster?
The second one. It preys on innocent childish fears, so kill that part of you. Haha, so clever, makes sense in universe I guess. But like, why would you make your universe that way?
Because Stephen King has sexual trauma from his childhood and has been working through it with his writing the entire time
Cause when you use drugs, you are in the deepest, darkest corners of your psyche. You usually start taking drugs because you either want to silence that part of yourself, or because you feel like a piece of shit because of the thoughts you have in your head. Ultimately, healing comes from realising that everyone experiences thoughts like that, they just decide to not live out the thoughts.
That’s not necessarily why you take drugs.
Uppers like cocaine (which he was very fond of at the time) are often consumed to be more productive or to “enhance” an otherwise already positive time. From what I’ve heard, he was introduced to coke at a party, which makes perfect sense. Cocaine abuse starts with making a party exhilarating, then it continues with giving you so much energy while working, finally you simply take the stuff because your brain doesn’t know how to work with natural levels or serotonin/dopamine/noradrenaline anymore.
To name another class of drugs, taking psychedelics (which I haven’t heard of King having much business with) to hide from your inner demons would be a profoundly bad move since those tend to forcibly confront you with yourself. Great if you have the feeling that deep down there’s something you need to address but you don’t know what. Terrible if you know there’s something but you can’t handle dealing with it.
Downers like cannabis (which King apparently did at least occasionally use) can be used to silence the bad thoughts. Putting up a smokescreen between your conscious and your subconscious isn’t exactly the best way of handling things but at least you’re not pouring fuel onto the fire.
Drugs of all kinds can still take your mind in directions you normally would’ve shied away from, that’s true. And a sustained drug habit of any kind is often indicative of an underlying problem; happy people don’t mess with their brain chemistry as often. The specific underlying problem can vary wildly – unassisted psychological distress, physiological issues like chronic pain, performance anxiety, peer pressure… the list goes on and on.
Of course, given that King also had a sustained alcohol problem and apparently at one point abused everything he could get his hands on, he definitely seems like someone who couldn’t handle what was going on inside of his head. Thankfully he had the support he needed to overcome his drug problem.
It’s a weird and completely unnecessary scene narratively speaking but it’s not even close to porn. It’s one of many similar examples in King’s writing, seems like the guy was molested as a kid and tried working through it with his writing
Today I learned everyone with a copy of the book ‘It’ is in possession of CSAM, and amazon and Barnes and noble are actively and criminally distributing the same material.
Words have meaning.