>uses cocaine and booze to write
>come up with some of the greatest American fiction ever written, turned into some of the best movies of all time
>the coke and booze turns you into a wreck, you have to quit
>still a better writer than 100% of the people seething about him online, still a multi-millionaire, still making excellent fiction
No one wants to be lectured by a deranged old lady.
Fpbp
Spbp
Nice try, shill
Because he's a degenerate piece of shit and most of his books are abject garbage.
>most of his books are abject garbage
I don't think even a King fan would disagree with that. The thing is, the sheer volume of stuff he written means that there is decent genre fiction in it too, and a lot of it. Just avoid his latest slop and you should generally be fine if you're into genre horror fiction.
Listen I like king but it's 90% filler and his meandering rambling side stories. It's insufferable. It's only good if you have absolutely nothing else to do. Which Black House saved me from going insane while completely isolated once.
When I think of King I think of a quote by Michael Moorwiener: "I'd rather be a bad writer with good ideas than a good writer with bad ideas". I feel like King is one of those bad writers with good ideas.
(He's left leaning)
I read The Shining and IT, neither of them were particularly impressive, though I did like the watertower portion in IT. Also the homosexual publisher spoiled the ending of The Shining on the back cover. Still seething and coping.
>Also the homosexual publisher spoiled the ending of The Shining on the back cover. Still seething and coping.
Yeah I still remember that book review quote on the back cover "A CLIMAX THAT IS LITERALLY EXPLOSIVE". After that you basically know how its going to end after reading the first few pages where the boiler is mentioned.
>still a better writer than 100% of the people seething about him online, still a multi-millionaire, still making excellent fiction
You forgot
>Still making fun of small-dicked lunatic right-wing bullies like Trump and Putin
Only women read modern king
I don't claim to be an author much less a world class one.
this homie couldn't write to save his life
He can write a pen with diamond ink, b***h
He might just be the most overrated hack on planet earth. I am talking in all industries, all walks of life. Never has there been a creator so unworthy of their massive success and praise. He has written maybe 3 decent books over the past half decade, and that’s being generous. Every now and then an anon like you convinces me to give King another chance, and every single time I have literally thrown the book into the trash before getting even halfway through.
Thats still 3 more than most writers do
>3 decent books over the past half decade
3 books in 5 years that are good and this is somehow a bad thing? Are you fricking moronic? Most people can't even write a single book in 5 years let alone a good one.
I meant century
moron
Overrated? He's just popular
Every Who down in Whoville, the tall and the small, Was singing without any presents at all!
OP, do you think folx have only been like making fun of King since twitter was um a thing? Like for a shoot? That's heckin' wild NGL.
>hey so I’ve got this idea, it’s about a writer from Maine, who starts to go crazy because some weird supernatural shit happens around him, real spooky stuff with vampires and ghosts and shit
>yeah, and then he’ll meet some tall blonde supermodel who will fall head over heels in love with him, and suck his balls dry every night, despite his obsession with said ghosts and vampires
>how does it all end? I don’t know, they kill all the ghosts and vampires by blowing up the house or something, then they’ll live happily ever after
>yeah I don’t think this will meet my minimum word count, so I’ll spend 200 pages painstakingly describing every minute detail of every piece of furniture in every room
You forgot that every single thing he ever wrote including characters and said furniture descriptions are directly ripped off from various archives of Maine history.
You forgot how he loves his wife dearly but cheats on her the instant he can.
Also, inflatable nazi dildos
>they kill all the ghosts and vampires by blowing up the house or something
In Doctor Sleep they just shot them with bolt action rifles.
>come up with some of the greatest American fiction ever written
LMAO, name some
There was the one about the guy who went mental in a hotel. Then the other one about a dog with rabies or something. Can’t forget that other one where the guy buries his kid in a magic cemetery, or the one with the pedo ghost clown
>The Stand
>Carrie
>The Shining
>Cujo
>Misery
>The Running Man
>Road Work
>Thinner
>The Long Walk
>Cujo
>IT
>The Body
>The Mist
>Rita Hayworth and The Shawshank Redemption
>The Mangler
>The Night Flyer
The last two are pretty goofy, but I fricking love them. Especially the shitty HBO movie version of the Night Flyer and whoever made The Mangler. There was a laundry down the road from my house growing up and I had nightmares about the laundry press coming to eat me when I was 10. Good times. Too bad he's such an insufferable homosexual now.
Salems Lot
Christine
Two of his best. Step outside of his degeneracy, he breaks formatting rules and changes up the reading experience. A lot of modern writers can learn from his technique
YO DONNIE
>JUST SHAT ON A PLATE AT THE FAMILY DINNER AND CALLED IT "THE TRUMP"
>come up with some of the greatest American fiction ever written
such as?
I tried to read IT but it was describing details too much so I lost interest. Give me a short description of the surroundings and I can imagine the rest. I guess morons like it because they can't imagine anything, tbh.
Please don't tell me I'm gonna have to start gatekeeping Victor Hugo from people like you.
He’s based. There’s nothing wrong with pop literature.
I separate the art from the artist. Utterly despise that degenerate, but some of his stories are damn good
He’s a degenerate pedophile
I don't see how that's any different from you, anon
that'll show Kubrick to frick with source material
Every time I see his face I can't help but think of THAT scene in It.
I liked Skeleton Crew, very hit or miss but had a few gems.
His short story collections are by far some of his best works. Different Seasons and Skeleton Crew were good. The Stand and the first 4 Dark Tower books were good, but once he started huffing his own farts and writing himself into his books while attempting to connect every fricking book he's ever written to the Dark Tower, it all went down hill fast. I read Cell after the Dark Tower (his supposed last book), and it was trash. So was Buick 88. I wish someone would try and adapt some his lesser known short stories like Road Work or The Long Walk into a movie, but I know deep down they would be awful.
>t. has read almost all his books and used to really enjoy his work
>his magnum opus involves a crippled Black person woman throwing plates at doctor doom robots that wield quidditch bombs and lightsabers as well as himself being a literal god who is saved from the car accident by one of his characters
>it's another story where the protagonist is a writer
Absolute hack shit.
because he's a democrat/liberal living in one of the whitest states lecturing people about politics
because he's a liberal
Ok homosexuals, since most of his books are apparently trash, which one are good?
He looks like he collects childrens underwear
Modern society is so gay. Instead of just telling the truth and saying "I don't like him because I find his politics obnoxious" everyone has to be like "I HATE HIM BECAUSE HE'S A MORALLY BANKRUPT PEDO/NAZI".
Both of these accusations mean nothing anymore because of politicsgays.
Both go hand in hand though.
The guy literally writes pedo shit wtf
99% of the time when chan-sites hate someone, it's because they said something mean about nazis on twitter.
Nice
the slew of trashy 90s b-movie adaptations of his novels (that I'm sure he made a shitload of money from) kind of dampened the respect for his overall output for that whole decade and into the 00s imo
at the time most of those tv mini series were shit on but now I find them quite comfy
The Stand is one of the best TV miniseries of all time.
He sells movie rights to nobodies for $1 because he doesn't give a frick
he’s based for being relaxed about movie adaptations of his work, though it makes his hatred of Kubrick’s shining even funnier
did he always do that?
can't imagine he took just a single dollar from Darabont who made probably BILLIONS off his books
The end of this movie frustrates the frick out of me. It was done for pure shock value. The book ending was way better with them driving off in the mist surrounded by gigantic fricking monsters. Up until then, the movie was actually very close to the book.
worth it for that theme track I still listen to almost daily even now
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That's just for students and amateur filmmakers/screenwriters.
He definitely gets a large check for cinematic rights to studios.
Darabont got to write the screenplay for a buck, but the studio would then have to pay big to option.
This is how King gets his published work pushed out...a thousand screenwriters hammering out screenplay versions of his stories...see what sticks.
Why does he look like a freak?
>Spends all day on social media b***hing about Orange Man Bad and le evil conservatives
You forgot that one.
So why did he write a child orgy again?
Because this fricking site throw a tantrum every time they discover the political agenda of a fricking art guy. Imagine being this stupid to kot think that like 95 percent of artist are left leaning
OK but about the pedo shit?
that's just a lame excuse to justify the hate, especially coming from the designated pedophile board
why do women value a sex and drug addict atheist talking about sex and drugs?
Because they don't have to be around him 24/7. It's like the make attraction to female porn stars
It's funny this dipshit cries about racism and homophobia, xenophobia whatever and then jerks off over Lovecraft lol
Maybe hes good separating the art from the artist
Maybe I'm good at separating your mom's ass cheeks
Because my social awkwardness kept me from developing a likable personality, so I repeat whatever the shills and marketeers who pretend to be my internet friends say so I can fit in for once in my life.
>Why do we pretend to hate King
Because all of his stories are the same. All of them. There is something about his storytelling that just screams King, and that is even if I disregard his trope of a child with a mind of 30 year old following around some freelance adult.
There was this movie with John Deep two decades ago, and the first scene was just camera going through a forest, then to a cottage, through window inside, and a shot of wooden office table with laptop on it, and at that moment I said 'It's a King movie', never ever heard of it before and yet, it was King movie.
I turned it off when that weirdo showed up and harassed Depp, but let me guess - the weirdo wasn't real.
If it weren't likely that he was a pedo, all I would be able to say is that hos extraordinary success is on the backs of a few decent pop literature horror novels.
>pretend
he's a pedophile
Could Duma Key be adapted for cinemar?
a degenerate pedophile propped up by israelites
i didnt like a single one of his books, in fact i didnt finish any of them and i did try
Everyone I know has seen at least one Stephen King movie but not one has read a Stephen King novel. Director's save and reinvent his drivel
Because our parents like him. Simple as.
I never read anything from King. But I watched this show and if the book is anything like it, then Im glad Ive never read anything by him. The premise is ok, but the resolution ia so fricking moronic it made me angry.
Almost every adaptation changes the ending. I like King's endings, but most people can't deal with them.
I remember thinking the same thing, real bad
Actually the ending to the book is even worse.
>giant drider
The Dark Tower series is kino. I really love Wizard & Glass in particular.
It was all downhill after. The talking schizo monorail and random insertion of the Trashcan Man into the story was the foreshadowing of the shitty books to come.
It is kino, but it should have ended after fourth book.
Can someone edit the joker damaged tattoo on his forehead
King himself says that his writing is shit.
Shit =/= plebian. By understanding and acknowledging this, he's a better writer than any of the pretentious fart-huffers that infest the literary scene like lice in Section 8 housing
The smartest thing he's ever said.
>in addition to being a brilliant and world renowned best selling author he's also humble and self-aware as frick
Kingbros we just can't stop winning
They're not scary. I read through IT and every time there was a horror scene, there was some detail that kept it from actually being scary. One of my favorites was IT stooping so low as to call the black guy a coon. It's so petty for an ancient being to do that it made me laugh.
>One of my favorites was IT stooping so low as to call the black guy a coon. It's so petty for an ancient being to do that it made me laugh.
Had it been Lovecraft writing it, the eldritch god would have dropped an N-bomb brutal enough to tear dimensions apart and echo through the endless aeons.
He's a pedo
Where is The Talisman adaptation? We deserve it! Also RIP Frank Muller, I hope to hear you again soon with AI.
it's frustrating he can NEVER write a good ending in any of his books.
Honestly, philip k dick suffers the same problem. His endings are less bad though but man King cannot finish a book to save his life.
And then what he did with the dark tower, jesus christ.
every premise requires some open-end to potentially build upon
>uses cocaine and booze to write
So he is degenerate and a hack.
>come up with some of the greatest American fiction ever written
Key word being American here. Not saying much tbh.
>turned into some of the best movies of all time
Movies are shit. Only deracinated Americans and the europeans and asians they have culturally colonized since last century think of movies or anything on television as the highest form of art. Actors are prostitutes who play pretend for money and you should feel bad for enjoying or being emotionally invested in their "craft". In sound cultures, acting is outlawed as a profession.
>the coke and booze turns you into a wreck, you have to quit
Still a hack though.
>still a better writer than 100% of the people seething about him online, still a multi-millionaire, still making excellent fiction
I am not seething. I am just mocking what passes for an American cultural treasure lol.
Stephen King is just glorified Kioskcore.
i appreciate all the entertainment hes given me
reading stephen king gave me aids
stephen king then came around to my house and gave me even more aids
Cause he's a lib shill. Being morally bankrupt doesn't make you untalented. It just means I'm not going to support you anymore
>dark tower ending was trash
>11-22-63 was trash
>"lol it was totally oswald alone"
>cringe pro-war leftist homosexual
Really enjoyed the Dark Tower series up until King made himself a character. They need to make a Cinemaphile series about that show while skipping the entire King as a character angle
Because the film versions of his books are always better and he's always mad about it.
It's only recently he's started lieing to not look like such a crybaby.
>Because the film versions of his books are always better
You never read The Running Man then. Or The Dark Tower.
> Implying Arnold kino with Harold F synths is not as good as the book
Running Man movie pulled a Jaws on Richard Bachman. Nobody cared about the book after that.
Because of political nonsense, as always.
Book nerds kiss his butt enough for all of us.
He's popular and he's liberal, so by definition this board has to hate him. Either one of those things would enough to trigger Cinemaphile
>come up with some of the greatest American fiction ever written
lol no
He's a vocal atheist, nobody likes those blights.
delusional christgay
nobody likes christians except other christians
Maybe later in his career, but Salems Lot has Christianity and crucifixes and all the traditional Christian symbology throughout. I think the more writing got to his soul, the more he fell away from Christianity. But he was clearly raised a Catholic and that influenced his early writing
>the greatest American fiction ever written
Kek. His books make for good movies precisely because they are schlock. Most of the best novels are unfilmable.
I like the ritual train they run on Bev in IT, to ward off Pennywise, that was King's peak.
It needs to be adapted to the screen
all pedophiles should be executed
went political and proved himself as a complete idiot
also supports mental illness in his children
His books got worse when he stopped drinking.
Frick him for how he ended the dark tower
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I've been reading a lot of his work lately and I have to say he has some strange child fetish. Like a specific "preteen boy guro".
> every novel has at last one preteen boy that is excessively described as being in good shape but the descriptions always use questionable terms and phrases that heavily imply the person describing them wants to frick them
> every novel has a preteen boy murdered (or turned in the case of 'Salem's Lot) in a gruesome way
Just skim through the first few chapters of The Outsider and you'll see exactly what I mean. Even as far back as the first Dark Tower novel you have Roland telling Jake that he loves him after thinking he's a very able-bodied boy.