Anything written by Stephen King after the mid 1980s
He was loads better at writing when he was addicted to cocaine
Never heard that. You read his Bachman short stories? Compelling. They no longer print "Rage" at his request.
He got sober sometime in the late 80's, it seems like he started trying in '87, but shit takes work, and you don't always succeed on your first attempt.
Regardless, look at , and all the shit he wrote before getting sober, and everything he wrote afterwards.
While, as a horror aficionado, I never thought he was the best writer, the shit he wrote on coke is generally regarded as way better than the shit he wrote after he got sober.
You read his Bachman short stories?
No, never heard of them. Worth a read?
I read: The Shining, Carrie, The Stand, and Pet Cemetary. All pretty good. His short stories, and the Bachman books finishe my S King phase. But, he wrote The Green Mile & Shawshank Redemption. Both good movies.
While The Stand was good overall, it was his longest and most tedious book to date at the time. His writing got too long-winded for many. Concur that The Green Mile and Shawshank were good movies, but there's no way I'd entertain reading them.
Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption was one of his better books and is worth reading. The earlier Gunslinger books too, before he went off the leftist deep end with the race mixing and other garbage. He was on board the woke train as it was leaving the station.
I just watched Green Mile last night in my current 90s movie binge. Any suggestions
Shawshank was not a long read
I think those were all written while he was coked outta his gord, except for The Green Mile
Came here to say this.
Agreed
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