Why do people love this guy
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kibblebits@quokk.au 3 weeks agoI 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.
urheber@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
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.
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.
Zannsolo@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Didn’t forget Shawshank redemption
MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The Four Seasons one ia my favorite. Except for the Winter story.
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
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.
massacre@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Shawshank? Shining? Mist? Green Mile? Misery? Maybe not everything is a winner, but these are pretty classic movies and some like Pet Sematary, Thinner, Carrie, Dream Catcher and many others are not bad movies. The Running Man wasn’t super well made (old one) but a decent movie for it’s time. I haven’t even seen half of his adapted works and I just rattled off 10 movies that pretty universally are not seen as “pretty bad”:
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.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
On the one hand, I kinda get the logic. On the other, Stephen no, wtf.
kibblebits@quokk.au 3 weeks ago
You get the logic… of… peeing or the middle school gang bang to defeat a monster?
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?
edwardbear@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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.
kibblebits@quokk.au 3 weeks ago
I guess. I mean, he’s a pervert who wants to watch kids fuck. You know he jerked off after writing it.
Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Because Stephen King has sexual trauma from his childhood and has been working through it with his writing the entire time
chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I think he actually avoided that in The Stand by having Harold cum on himself.
kibblebits@quokk.au 3 weeks ago
I’m certain someone did. At least he came on himself and not in a middle school child.