Comment on Anon reads horror

• kibblebits@quokk.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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  • chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I think he actually avoided that in The Stand by having Harold cum on himself.

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    • kibblebits@quokk.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m certain someone did. At least he came on himself and not in a middle school child.

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  • urheber@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Why do people love this guy

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    • slickgoat@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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.

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      • jballs@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I think his latest stuff is pretty good. The Mr. Mercedes and Holly series are an interesting take on a detective series, IMO.

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      • Zannsolo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Didn’t forget Shawshank redemption

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      • MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        The Four Seasons one ia my favorite. Except for the Winter story.

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    • kibblebits@quokk.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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

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      • moopet@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        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.

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      • zipkag@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I latent agree with that for all of his books, except for the Dark Tower series. I actually think the Dark Tower series is pretty good. It’s very different from his other books though.

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  • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    On the one hand, I kinda get the logic. On the other, Stephen no, wtf.

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    • kibblebits@quokk.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You get the logic… of… peeing or the middle school gang bang to defeat a monster?

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      • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        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?

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• Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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

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• slickgoat@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  He was extremely coked out of his mind during those years.

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  • steeznson@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Famously has no memory of writing Tommy Knockers

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  • urheber@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Probably just wrote up his dreams LOL

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• wuffah@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Let’s put it this way, enough people read IT that IT got three movies and a TV series.

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