STEPHEN KING RULES!! But Now THEY GOT HIM | The Joe Rogan Experience

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LIKE, SHARE & SUBSCRIBE for new videos everyday 👉kzbin.info/door/WkLJgGBIqY9wsuEayeCkZwjoin STEPHEN KING RULES!! But Now THEY GOT HIM | The Joe Rogan Experience | The Joe Rogan Experience #1957 Shane Gillis is a stand-up comedian and co-host of “Matt and Shane’s Secret Podcast”, also look for “Gilly and Keeves” sketches on KZbin, a new show created alongside John McKeever. Source: The Joe Rogan Experience @ www.spotify.com Host: Joe Rogan @joerogan Guest: Shane Gillis Producer: Jamie Vernon @jamievernon #jre #joerogan #thejoeroganexperience

[@g.sferrazza10-13]

Wasn't it Sparrows?

[@braedon1986]

Needful Things is epic!

[@blisterbill8477]

One of kings best books was”On writing, a memoir of the craft.” It is his actual story. Very good.

[@GITMachine]

I agree but this is one of the rare times I'd say the audiobook is better. He narrates, so you really get a feel for everything he's saying. Cheers.

[@harleyheavner5597]

Yeah is there where he kinda breaks his process down, I have tried to find the name to the book he did about it. I think thats it

[@monadamus42]

Yeah! I love sharing that book. Really good

[@cisium1184]

That is a great book. Which is ironic because I've never read any of his other books.

[@1133sparrow]

Dance Macabre?

[@klew5988]

🤣🤣🤣 he called Steven King a dork 🤣🤣 a straight up dork. 💯💯💯

[@ahojahojish]

I mean “Go Kamala Harris!”?? 😂 only a dork would say that shit 😅

[@joeduffy2154]

I'm sure King will be devastated by what these two fucking mouthbreathers think of him

[@jimmyallgood781]

What I love about Stephen Kings writing is he is writes real world stories just as good as he writes supernatural horror, he dabbles in all genres and pulls all the emotions. Shawshank, The Green Mile, It, Misery, The Shining, Dr. Sleep, The Mist, 1922, Carrie, FUCKING STAND BY ME. Amazing stories.

[@melissaawesome9403]

1922 was DARK but really good

[@hbsavage0387]

The funniest part about him is his hate for the movie adaptations of his works he despises the Shinning because some of the changes made to it.

[@spookyskelly5276]

Stand By Me is the name of the movie. The novella is called The Body.

[@Brandon-tk2rw]

what I love about Stephen king is that he's gay

[@dragons_red]

​@@spookyskelly5276 for your bonus question, name the book of short stories by King that contains "The Body"

[@ShogunateDaimyo]

I'm not a huge fan of Steven King's horror but crazy thing is he still wrote two of my favorite stories, Shawshank and Stand by Me.

[@ThePatrickFamilyBand]

His non-horror content is ironically the better writing. Two great movies you referenced.

[@mistrsynistr7644]

His new book Fairy Tale is pretty wild. It needs a movie for sure.

[@mfin-dave]

You're all forgetting 'the Green Mile'.

[@braxtontillman2406]

Stand by me is amazing

[@lindboknifeandtool]

He’s way overhyped. There are countless books hat you’d never know of that are amazing. Usually how shit goes.

[@TCS4680]

It's remarkable that Joe managed to get literally every single aspect of his description of The Dark Half wrong. Everything from the title, to the types of birds(they were sparrows, not crows), to the existential nature of the antagonist, to the fact that King wrote that book under his own name, not as Richard Bachman(though he did write the book in part due to his experience of writing as Bachman). That's not easy to do and should be recognized. Well done, Joe!

[@kxkxkxkx]

Roughly half the facts Joe states are the literal opposite of truth 😂 ...The Stand Unabridged is awesome doe🎉

[@HonorEmblem]

It’s like he hangs out with Forrest Galante or something.

[@zaclaflamme2480]

Shut up nerd!

[@cornbread4everyone555]

his hard drive is filled up

[@sarahmcdonald9624]

😂😂😂😂

[@MisterRawgers]

His book of short stories, Everything’s Eventual, is great and one of my favs

[@PhreakPhantom]

King is an amazing writer. His non-horror stuff is mindblowing

[@michaelweems679]

The Dark Tower series is amazing. My all-time favorite books.

[@gorgesmiff]

Mr Mercedes is great

[@AJ82778]

‘salem’s Lot. One of the best vampire stories ever written (imho). I’ve read it every October since the mid 80s.

[@ForExampleJon]

Didn't read that one until someone mentioned how good the scene was written where the vampire goes in the window upstairs. They made it sound like one of the scariest things ever written and they were right. Sheer terror with every word.

[@AJ82778]

@@ForExampleJon Yeah. The Danny Glick at Mark Petrie's window scene is--for me--more terrifying in the book, but the TV movie version does a great job of it.

[@PizzaPatron-gw8rm]

​@@AJ82778Dude I'm with you Salem's Lot is a masterpiece

[@dostagirl9551]

One of the reasons I got off Twitter (after jumping on out of curiosity after Musk bought it) was b/c of King. I loved his books and admired him as a one-time teacher and author who churned out these amazing stories, but then I started reading tweets from him calling for silencing and banning. Due to the controversial nature of his novels, being older, working with young minds, and growing up in an era that fought against conservative censorship, I really didn’t think I’d see the day where he would embrace the same tactics so long as they aligned with his personal views. I see a lot of this happening to some of the best creative minds. James Cameron, Ridley Scott, and King…as they get older and mortality not just looms but is ticking down, it’s as if they feel they have to atone for something and become philosophical, which is fine but then they’re constantly interjecting it into their work. I don’t want Aliens to solve my existential crisis; I just want to see xenomorphs battle it out with marines.

[@TechGently]

Exactly, 20 years ago while I was in the Navy Neil Young was singing "Keep on Rocking w the Free World" a popular song during the Gulf War, now he's "We must silence free speech comrade!" Jesus.

[@ericgardner2790]

Wait, you think James Cameron being political is new? Every movie he's ever made is either overtly anti-capitalism or feminist.

[@GabrielTheMagolorMain]

Oh no..how dare an author have a political opinion! They just need to keep quiet and entertain us. That does bring up what your career is..should you be sharing your opinions online?

[@mrcoatsworth429]

Are you of the "Rage against the machine have become too political" crowd?

[@danielfwd1]

He really always pulled his books if he saw a big negative impact fr idk why he wouldn’t be against censoring himself

[@tiggetty]

I watched cujo with my grandma at her house. She bred dogs and took in strays. She had upwards of 20 dogs. Whatever the step up from nightmares is, I had that.

[@harrymills2770]

I never understood the appeal of Cujo. Just seemed like they dragged it out. I ended up wondering who was dumber, the female lead or me, for trying to read the whole thing. I think the original "IT" adaptation was very good and mostly true to a very good story. I think the mini-series treatment of "The Stand" was really good. Good book. Good miniseries. I got into "The Gunslinger" saga, but was always denied any kind of happy ending, which kept me coming back for more for far too long.

[@NunyaNope-mv4hr]

Bro everyone in my city has a "cujo" in their yard 😂

[@toke1727]

"WhaT If a ST Bernard FkeD uP a FaMiLy" ahahah this shit had me laughing dude.

[@michaelemerson7661]

Sparrows, not crows…..”The sparrows are flying again”

[@kanoboomboom]

The Richard bachman novels were some of his best ones. The long walk ...rage

[@drunken69dragon]

Loved the original Running Man story as well

[@husker4life109]

Rage is one of his worst books

[@maxheadroom607]

I’m glad they mentioned after seeing Kings twitter, how much of a disappointment he turned out to be

[@marsoblivi0n945]

Who cares? Separate the art.

[@davenic2471]

​@@marsoblivi0n945 Some artists make that a lot harder than others.

[@Usernamesdontmatter1]

​@@marsoblivi0n945 I mean he doesn't do that so why should I?

[@derrickclark4753]

How dare he have an opinion and use his platform

[@maxheadroom607]

@@derrickclark4753 you do know the vast majority of celebrities are drug addicts or former addicts. You guys wouldn’t follow the rantings of a crackhead in your hometown, but you love the ideas of a crackhead with money and a platform.

[@braddick3159]

Steven is crazy. Dude has been hit like 3 times by cars. I got a typed letter from him in the 80s for a school project.

[@marsoblivi0n945]

@Anaximander your slow asf if you think dude is lying about getting that letter. I’m a creative person and when your not a lame normie and actually do something with your life. You will be met some of your heroes wanting to meet you or reach out. I’ve met so many famous people in the weirdest of circumstances. They’re just normal people that also appreciate people that resonate with them. One person that gets a bad rap but I found to be very intellectual and kind was Courtney love. Before the internet brave people did things. It’s the only way things got done. Also rob zombie is a great dude in real life as well.

[@mismissy]

He's crazy for helping a child with a school project. What a maniac

[@danielfwd1]

Anything possible with drugs lil bro

[@tannerhachey2033]

@powdergate hahahahahaha omg that made me laugh

[@shukis17]

If you read his Dark Tower series he sobered up fall of 87, he's a character in the Dark Tower Series. Talks about how he would go to hard and celebrate when a book sold really well. All I know is his books before he sobered up had really vivid sex scenes, dude was practically writing porn. Plus It came out in 1985. That book is fantastic, except for the last 5 pages. If you read the book REMEMBER SKIP THE LAST FIVE PAGES! I heard he wasn't working with an editor in the 80s, was just getting blasted and publishing. After It they stuck an Editor with him and then he started to sober up. Wicked wicked talented guy, but boy does he loves getting all coked up and writing about intercourse.

[@SEEYAIAYE]

SK even puts a warning to stop reading near the ending of the Dark Tower now and people should heed it, what a horrible ending.

[@yig_501]

best book series ive ever read Wizard and Glass is amqzing

[@marsoblivi0n945]

So what? That’s what coke does. Lame

[@seasonedbeefs]

Nearly every book of his has a let down ending

[@SEEYAIAYE]

@@seasonedbeefs Oh no this is an exceptionally bad ending even for SK. I wish I could go back in time and not read the last 3rd of the last book.

[@redhoode.n.y.6314]

"He was just lit the whole entire time he wrote the book"😂😂😂

[@jeffrichards1537]

My favorite Steven King movie is storm of the century. The line of the antagonist "Born in sin, come on in". Is great.

[@bobalmond8257]

His work really changed after his accident when the dude ran him over. He is still very good just very different. His political views don’t change his skill. Lately it seems like you take a chance following your heroes too closely. It saddens me when one just flat out drinks the Koolaid whether it’s blue or red.

[@dragons_red]

The Blue koolaid is the far more dangerous and delusional one currently though. It was the Red many years ago.

[@rbibbe34]

@@RobVanDelay_WholeFnContest he's awful and super cringey now

[@louieo.blevinsmusic4197]

Didn’t he create a character based off the driver into a book and made him a simpleton?

[@bobalmond8257]

@@louieo.blevinsmusic4197 the guy in question had like a dozen infractions on his record prior to hitting Mr King. He got 6 month deferred sentence and lost his license for a year. The author was not happy he got off so easily. He was found dead in his bed at the age of 43. I guess karma came around.

[@louieo.blevinsmusic4197]

@@bobalmond8257 damnnnnn. I heard he was possibly driving intoxicated but hadn’t a clue he’d go on to pass so early. Must’ve been living that hard life.

[@cameleyez]

Night Shift and Skeleton Crew are my favorite anthologies from him.

[@ChristianBeck1082]

The summary of "The Dark Half" by Rogan should be a reminder for every listener to check everything he states and cites in his podcasts. Because it might at best be a stretch or at worst completely wrong.

[@tomspring213]

First horror movie I ever saw was Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors in the theater. It was 1987 and I was 6. My mom and stepdad took me. I don’t remember being scared. I just remember the topless nurse and thinking to myself, “I’m not supposed to see this”, lol.

[@tomspring213]

And 2-3 years later, in 2nd grade, they bought me the novel for I think the 5th movie Dream Child.

[@tomspring213]

I remember reading it on recess at school.

[@RobVanDelay_WholeFnContest]

​@@tomspring213 so your parents wanted to ruin you? I had noghtmares about Freddy Krueger just because he was a pop icon at the time. Loved Freddy's dead thou, prob cause it was more misterious than scary/gory

[@louieo.blevinsmusic4197]

@@RobVanDelay_WholeFnContest shoot my uncle let my brother and I watch Friday the 13th real early. Part 7 I believe. My older brother started crying so he turned it off. lol. I took care of my nephew a good bit when he was 2-3. He’d sit in my lap and watch me play a Friday the 13th game and now plays it himself, started to at 5 and he’s 7 now. Horror movies don’t phase him. Just knows it’s bullshit.

[@RobVanDelay_WholeFnContest]

@@louieo.blevinsmusic4197 i watched the first friday the 13 with my parents but covered my eyes during the gruesome parts lol

[@seanhaberman4619]

The Dark Tower series is the greatest series I've ever read. The characters are perfect and the world building is unmatched. It's a western, in a nuclear wasteland where science battled magic 10,000 years ago and they both lost.

[@harleydeclue2456]

Was this once a show on wb?

[@seanhaberman4619]

@Harley DeClue no. The only attempt of bringing the books to life was an awful movie made in 2017. Don't bother with it. I guess some people who never read any of the books kinda liked it but it was a flop for the most part and the fans of the series don't accept it as any representation of the story. There was attempt made to justify it as an alternate universe, which the books do incorporate the existence of, but it was a last ditch effort to apologize for a steaming pile of shit that no one liked.

[@smith97320]

I'll take Red Rising or King Slayer chronicles over the dark tower any day. The dark tower like most king stuff is long winded and boring. I had to force myself just get through wastelands.

[@husker4life109]

Shit ending tho

[@AtariDad]

Fun fact: when filming Cujo the crew had to literally tie the St. Bernard's tail down because he kept on wagging it during shots when he was supposed to be attacking the mom and her kid. The whole thing was just a game to the big happy doggo!

[@jl5464]

While I cannot get behind his politics, Stephen King is still one of the all time great literary giants and my favorite author of all time! I'll continue to be one of his constant readers until the lights go out

[@Shastavalleyoutdoorsman]

How's a big fan until I found out it's all borrowed from lovecraft and bradbury.

[@jl5464]

@Shasta Valley Outdoorsman professionals do not borrow, they steal 🙄

[@Shastavalleyoutdoorsman]

@@jl5464 That and his work's been trash since early two thousand. Ran out of love crafty horrors.

[@jl5464]

@Shasta Valley Outdoorsman Everybody's a critic 🙄 and I'm certain your published works are great, right?!?

[@Shastavalleyoutdoorsman]

@@jl5464 I certainly haven't replaced my creativity with gratuitous violence.

[@metacamman121]

The Gunslinger is the best I've ever read in my life, a series should make GoT look like a cartoon.

[@robertmclane7034]

Terrifier 2 is the only horror film stuck in my head right now. If you know, you know. i think Steven King has a quote on the cover saying how grossed out he was

[@g.sferrazza10-13]

Wasn't it Sparrows? Any who if you want to talk about vintage King, Through the eyes of the Dragon. It is like a predecessor to Game of Thrones and Song of Fire and Ice. Also the first appearance of the Main Villain in his opus, The Stand

[@williamwalkup988]

I read Eyes of the Dragon in the early 90s. People looking for great material for a movie should of looked at it instead of making up prequels of Lord of the Rings...

[@positivepsycho2932]

That is such a good book.

[@williamwalkup988]

@@positivepsycho2932 Loved that book and still have the Hard Cover in a box of King books somewhere...

[@maxdamagusbroski]

That's the only Stephen King book I've actually read. For some reason. We had basically his whole bibliography in the house as a kid. I just remember having watched IT at school on a class television on the day before summer holidays in the early 90s, but having to go home before the ending, so that clown was living in my head for years, unresolved. Put me off wanting to read his stuff. I like your comparison to Game of Thrones, it did have the somewhat more grim feel to it than LOTR and Shannara series.

[@ddkeegs]

Steve holds a special place in my heart...I grew up reading Stephen and spending Summers in Ocean Park, Me. Ran into Bigfoot and Dogman there. Thinking...Stephen would love this. But, somebody got to him...far left bullshit. I still love you Steve. But, we all know your compromised. God bless you.

[@oaky1283]

Why can’t I find this episode on Spotify

[@isaiahsanchevy9252]

Same. I can't find it either.

[@Gerickmb]

My paps red pickup was in the dark half movie! The old guy with the glasses and fake leg drives it.

[@jamesblevins5088]

Cujo is one of the most commonly banned books. It has a part in it where a character is describing having sex in a very descriptive way. It was considered vulgar enough to get the book banned multiple places.

[@aniquinstark4347]

IT was also banned by a ton of schools

[@jakefromstatefarm5204]

Most graphic sex scene I remember from him was in bag of bones. If you read it you know what one I mean...🤮

[@NOMADcourier85]

​@aniquinstark4347 gee I wonder why? 🤔😆

[@utilid4lifefigureitout602]

Stephen King has leaps and bounds more integrity & knows more about politics than these 2 goons.

[@roberthayes9931]

It's amazing that almost all his books connect to The Dark Tower. The most amazing multiverse ever. Randall Flagg from The Stand and he's a version of the Man in Black from the gunslinger. They destroyed the dark tower movie. Should of been let a 10 season series

[@Mopark25]

Yeah fuck the MCU, King has the best universe. I found a reading list and read every connected book leading up to and including the Dark Tower series, took me about two years but it was amazing. Wish I could erase my memory and do it again.

[@theonewholurks]

Agreed ! Og I've been waiting for decades to see it done right.

[@michaelweems679]

The Dark Tower movie was just shit. I knew it was going to suck. Watched it anyway. And was still disappointed. Went in with VERY low expectations.

[@Odd_Combo]

​@@michaelweems679 Mike Flanagan is working on getting a series going. Possibly the most equipped director to take it on.

[@thomas_dries]

I read The Dark Half a few years ago, but never knew it was made into a movie! I have to go check that out.

[@SHIMSHAMRECORDS]

WARNING SPOILER: The protagonist was born with a conjoined twin brother, but the twin never developed beyond being an eyeball in his brain. And, apparently the twin had a consciousness that would manifest as the character's alter ego.

[@johnotoole5786]

Sorry I posted before reading urs

[@KR-ki9hw]

Crows - I was in Kansas City on business. In the morning, I walked up to a coffee bar from the hotel, under a row of trees, filled with crows, all seemingly shitting at the same time. I do not know why, but I walked right through the gauntlet, and did not get hit once. shit was falling all around me.

[@jamescendrowski4844]

The sparrows are flying again.

[@barfyman-dm6zx]

Please God Stephen King write a book about the horrors of TDS

[@shootthemoon6072]

He's well qualified to do it.

[@donguess4332]

Lmao 🤣 Him and Rob meathead Reiner are poster boys for TDS.

[@KA-te7nd]

The scariest thing about Stephen King is his politics

[@1247.cccccc]

I like to think his idiotic tweets come right after he takes a pop tin to the forehead like the coach in Maximum Overdrive. It is the perfect excuse.

[@mikec4308]

only an american would be scared of someones views lol

[@KA-te7nd]

@@mikec4308 other countries probably don't have as many celebrities where people just do whatever they say. Yes it's scary

[@russellbree6458]

Did he attend Epstein's island ?

[@fu102]

@@mikec4308 woooosh. right over your misshapen head

[@Pedalbored]

King is king! Dude is amazing and shaped pop culture forever! The Shining, Maximum Overdrive, Silver Bullet, IT, etc… list goes on and on.

[@jacksmith4460]

so what pedals are your board then?

[@richbrescher6544]

Dream Catchers scared me. Silver Bullet is a comedy now. Some of Steven Kings movies are comedies like Maximum Overdrive.

[@DoodlesHD719]

I watched the entirety of The Stand in one sitting whilw tripping on a few hits of microdot and it was INSANE! The Rat Man!

[@modusartsgroup]

M-O-O-N that spells "tripping balls"

[@dfc666]

​@Christopher Hayden lmao That's still one of my favorite books by him. Also the love the dark tower series

[@DoodlesHD719]

@@modusartsgroup Haha this used to be a running joke with the people I watched it with.

[@DoodlesHD719]

@@Shepp82 🤣🤣

[@modusartsgroup]

@@DoodlesHD719 of course! it could get quite tedious. "M-O-O-N. That spells thanks for taking the garbage out like I asked." and "M-O-O-N. That spells your welcome."

[@mfin-dave]

Pretty sure it was Turkeys in the book... Mr. Carlson says, "I swear to God Andy, I thought Turkeys could fly". Oh wait, that was from the TV show 'WKRP in Cincinnati'... my bad !!

[@electroduval831]

Joe was confusing Alan Wake with The Dark Half, ha ha

[@andidreyes5323]

Cujo...try "The Exorcist" playing at noon for the big Easter celebration for the family...all of us kids saw scenes from thar & I was 4, maybe 5. But parents were different in the 80's. They were trying to get you to understand the real world real fast.

[@MatiasScheening]

The shining is amazing book and movie

[@joshuab4586]

When George RR Martin asked Stephen King how he writes so much, I really wanted him to reply “with copious amounts of coca1ne”

[@iHaveTheDocuments]

Watch RR Martin next year with 2 books out as skinny as crazy Steven King😂

[@jsims563]

A lot of us 40-60 year old people read all those books. It was a quick way to know back in the day what type of person you were dealing with. Gave you something to talk about. So sad Stephen King let his own success and wealth turn him into a troglodyte. Nothing worse for a person than being too rich, for too long.

[@bandofmountains]

You say this while being a fan of the JRE.... the fucking irony is insane but on brand.

[@jsims563]

@@bandofmountains wtf are you even talking about?

[@bandofmountains]

@@jsims563 if you don’t see the irony you are the irony

[@jamesalexander8872]

@@bandofmountains Rogan hasn't been too rich for too long. King clearly has lost his sense of reality.

[@jsims563]

@@bandofmountains you just think you're smarter than you actually are. Also I never said I was a Rogan fan boy.

[@Zeeboklown]

That's awesome. I actually really enjoyed the tommyknockers (the book, fug the movie), even tho most every critic and fan shit all over that book. And Joe gets it too, it's a decently good/crazy read alone, but when u realize he was at the very height of his addiction and just starting to comes to term with it, and it makes it a REALLY good book.

[@samanthab1923]

Salems’ Lot & Christine are my favs. Movies still hold up 👻

[@Sgtvalentini]

Guess everyone forgot Steve King hates freedom

[@joeduffy2154]

your kind of freedom only applies to white people

[@braedon1986]

Needful Things is epic!

[@davidburke2697]

The summer of '78, I worked at Buff Ledge Camp in Milton, Vermont. Naomi King (Stephen's daughter) was a camper and she was about 10 years old. Naomi liked to spend time with me (archery range) and Jeanette Lane (tennis coach). We'd chat all morning for most of the summer. I awarded Naomi the archery award at the closing ceremonies. As a prank, I rolled out a large, straw-filled archery target as the award. She gave me a big hug.

[@John-mf1sz]

The Dark Half. First King book I ever read when I was a kid.

[@shaundiltz5821]

The movie is maximum overdrive and it’s the greatest damn movie ever!!!!

[@acepc2]

The Dark Tower series is Stephen King’s greatest fantasy series. Most people don’t know that all his books are connected to the Dark Tower. It’s on par with George R Martin’s Game of thrones. It’s unfortunate the movie adaptation was so tremendously horrible.

[@Zonfeair]

The Green Mile was a 10 book series sold in supermarkets. I read them all. Awesome.

[@WeTravelOnlyByNightAsItsSoHot]

The Stand was the most Ominous book, I read it in the spring, I can only imagine reading it in the winter. That heavy Doom is coming feeling stayed with me for a week.

[@Xervello]

Stephen King has always been a liberal. And his books have always had liberal protagonists. He grew up poor and as an outcast. So he has a lot of empathy for people who get shit on. He also gives back to his community and has for several decades. So, the dork calling him a dork is just being a typical dork.

[@PlayNiceFolks]

Love this comment.

[@innerlude]

Shane & Joe should be protected at all cost. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@innerlude]

@powdergate I’m sorry that you feel that way I hope whatever is going on in your life gets better soon and you have a really great life.

[@mizobvious3753]

i didn't want tommy knockers to end, great book.

[@blueeyed5074]

He is a great writer. Salem's Lot is my favorite. But just imagine the most leftist opinion about anything - he probably said it.

[@jamesblevins5088]

Read his Dark Tower books. It is an excellent story.

[@aaronboyd1388]

My favorite Stephen king thing is he has boxes of beginnings boxes of middles and boxes of ends and sometimes when short on time he just grabs one from each and jams them togeather, i.e. tommyknockers

[@CallumsCorner.]

Sparrows, the black crow was The Stand.

[@j.j.5731]

His short stories are better than his full novels. The Jaunt Boogie Man The Mist I Am The Doorway Mrs. Todd's Shortcut And loads more.

[@mfin-dave]

Cujo was based on a real dog that King encountered.

[@Telepathic-Spider]

Misery was about a real fan that king encountered.

[@mfin-dave]

@@Telepathic-Spider not as far as I've ever heard... I'm pretty sure it was based on a real nurse who killed a bunch of patients. NOT a nutty fan.

[@jess_n_atx]

It was a bichon frise

[@Telepathic-Spider]

@@mfin-dave bad joke my mistake

[@mfin-dave]

@@jess_n_atx those fuckin' things are vicious and should be outlawed !!

[@funwithfrank7522]

He wrote a few books under a fake name, one of them was the long walk. So weird you get right in the mind set of the characters seems like a boring concept but it blew me away with how Into it i got

[@sadare765]

Blaze by him is also pretty good and it's not in the same horror category as his most famous books

[@mfin-dave]

'The Long Walk' is Phenomenal... I wish they'd turn that into a movie !! One of his best short novels ever.

[@thomasmccann3679]

The concept was good the execution sucked. The first 60 pages were gold and then he blew it.

[@lordofallusion5862]

​@@mfin-dave It's in development, actually

[@mfin-dave]

@@lordofallusion5862 I'd heard their doing the Dark Tower as a series... I hadn't heard about the Long Walk !

[@timothyadams4477]

Learned the word strumpet from “It” in junior high. Heard the dark tower series was good, bought them as an adult but couldn’t make it past the first one.

[@JarrettWBass]

The Dark Tower series is his best series! Mainly the 2nd book

[@fr33dumb0]

Agreed. Read it in jail once. In the hole actually. Great book.

[@seanhaberman4619]

For me it will always be Wizard and Glass. I read it in the 6th grade and it's stuck with me in a special way. I might rank the Drawing of the Three as second though. I've had a few bad runs on heroin and Eddie Dean having to kick the shit on that fucking beach has a certain resonance with me.

[@shootthemoon6072]

Dum-a-chum?

[@PirataMundoTV]

He also wrote "The Running Man" under his pseudonym Richard Bachman

[@phil5569]

I don’t even know who this guest is, but he’s my kind of people! 👍👍👍

[@DanXJ19]

Dark Tower II: The Drawing of The Three is tremendous

[@AnalAmoebe]

The one thing I remember from 'The Dark Half' is that the birds are sparrows, so no, it's not always crows...

[@lisalynch629]

Lot of us elders remember being demo til we figured it out

[@jamesmiller5331]

The way things should be ideally versus the way things actually are and the reason that they are. I went through a period of saying a lot "No Democrats don't really believe that. That's a lie!" to "Oh nevermind. Democrats do. It's just that *I* don't."

[@Shastavalleyoutdoorsman]

It was starlings or sparrows and the villain was from another dimension. Joe has never seen the damn film.

[@parkerpruett4579]

😂😂😂 “what if a Saint Bernard fucked up a family” I’m weak 💀

[@Arcane740]

I made the mistake of buying and starting to read The Stand in December of 2019

[@shootthemoon6072]

I was re-reading it around the same time...if I knew then what I know now. Lol

[@slurricrasher9923]

The person Shane is talking about is Senator John Kennedy and I fucking LOVE that dude and im a left leaning person. He's so god damn hilarious in that exact sense that hes actually kind of converted me to the right a little bit lol!

[@matthewhall8790]

It was Sparrows in the Dark Half, one of my favorite books ever.

[@eliquate]

He didn’t remember writing IT. He got a call from his agent saying “I love it!” And he was like… “love what?”

[@i.p.p.]

I think it's hysterical that he got his name, title and plot of the book wrong. 😂

[@jamesdonoughue4557]

The dark tower is my fave book series, wish the film would have bin good

[@TheJasonmoretti]

Shane would love my dad

[@RobertGarcia-cc4uw]

The scariest thing about Stephen King is that he doesn’t like Kubrick’s The Shining.

[@gemlouise1260]

He tried to make his own version, but it sucked. I think if you're an author though, it's always going to be hard to feel like anyone else's vision of what you spent so long writing and perfecting and envisioning comes close to yours. For the rest of us, it was fantastic.

[@r.pmcmxc5068]

I enjoyed his books & short stories when I was a teenager & still will occasionally revisit some of his older works from the 1970’s & 1980’s. It’s not the fact that he’s on the left side of the aisle that bothers me so much, but rather the fact that he comes across as a hardline, hyper-partisan, militant leftist. Although his politics would occasionally seep into his works from time to time, he wasn’t overt about it, but all that changed after 2008 & he’s increasingly become the Twitter version of himself since. I wish he could be more of an old-school traditional liberal in the mold of Bill Maher

[@TeeTee-bz3pv]

One of my favorite books is “On Writing”, it’s the only Stephen King book I read. I enjoy the movies

[@LaurenLawDawg]

He could have titled it " On Writing Screenplays"

[@kingsley5522]

#Thinner was my favourite Stephen King book, that was bad ass

[@evelynmahoney3569]

My favorite Stephen King book: The Langdoliers

[@maxheadroom607]

Silver Bullet was another good one

[@SnakePit6517]

Stephen King’s most terrifying creation is his Twitter account. 😂

[@corycoral7072]

I loveeee the tommyknockers getting some love. It’s my fav book by farrr and ive read 28 of his books (so far) nothing compares to hard trying to decide as he watches the town falling apart

[@MrCorner21]

I just read that novel last year and then watched the movie...both were fantastic, I love King

[@marioncampbell2674]

I went to college in bangor maine where i met his son. I can tell you that drugs we’re behind a lot of his classics. That dude went hard back in the day. Great house though. Secret passages and everything.

[@Novastar.SaberCombat]

"Secret Window" was essentially the same story. No joke. Depp & Turturro were pretty excellent in the film version, and it was directed pretty well. 🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨

[@yig_501]

underrated

[@charityscreams5366]

Huge fan of his pre 2010's stuff

[@Chris12987]

My uncle made me watch pet cemetery when I was 4 years old. That fucked me up for a while lol.

[@opferzeit]

King is great at writing the middle of a book. The endings always suck.

[@RobVanDelay_WholeFnContest]

Tommyknockers is a rare exception where the middle bites balls and the ending is pretty good