Stephen King was terrifyingly high for astoundingly long stretches of time. He can’t even remember writing some of his books. IT is the manifestation of fear, and a metaphor for King’s own experiences; he conquered fear through understanding, companionship, and anxiety-obliterating levels of cocaine and xanax.
Just goes to show that you can become incredibly rich and successful by locking yourself in a drug prison for a decade or two.
If you can’t handle me at my child sewer orgy, you don’t deserve me at my interdimensional time spider fight.
This is one of the reasons I just love Stephen King’s mind. Dude is fucking insane. We’re lucky to have him.
It was my understanding that Stephen King is just cocaine’s most prolific nom de plume
Only for one period of his life, and the stuff he’s written after he got clean is some of the best stuff he’s ever written…
King may have been on tons of coke (and drinking bottles of Scope mouth wash) while writing some books, it was in spite of it, not because. Those books don’t necessarily reflect the characteristics of cocaine.
It’s not like what speed is to On The Road, as that book actually reads like someone tweaking out.
I just finished it. What really irritated me was why the heck did he write the part where seven 11-year olds had an orgy in order to find the way back from the sewers. What. The. Fuck. Stephen. WTF.
And IT was definitely female. The discovered it was pregnant when they fought it as Kids. By the time they came back to finish the job 27y later, IT already laid some juicy spider eggs.
What really irritated me was why the heck did he write the part
For Stephen King, the answer is always ‘drugs. Lots of drugs’
Tbh the orgy ruined the book for me. I just don’t see the point of it. I understand what he did narratively, but it is so completely out of the left field and unnecessary that it just shatters the enjoyment. And I know what SK would say: it’s about the journey, not the destination. But that is such a load of horse crap! Imagine LOTR until the battle of the black gate and they decide to defeat Sauron by having a hobbit bukkake. Wouldn’t have the same place in history, I imagine.
I haven’t read IT specifically, but I’ve read a lot of SK, and lot of stories in his shared universe(s) (not sure how many people have connected IT to Dark Tower, but wouldn’t surprise me), but knowing him I’d imagine IT isn’t male or female. It just is. Or, at the very least, it’s not something that really falls into human concepts of gender.
What he meant by that was “holy shitballs I gotta stop drinking”
Dude had serious issues. Try reading his Dark Tower series - you can pinpoint at which book he got sober, because the story starts to make sense.
I could be wrong but I don’t think you drink cocaine…
Not with that attitude
Secretly am female?
When is that disclosed?
A brief internet search tells me that IT’s real form (or at least the closest thing to a real form the human mind can comprehend in our plane of existence) is a giant pregnant female spider. Apparently one of the characters in the book says “oh dear Jesus, IT is female,” though the web page I was reading doesn’t give a page number.
It’s definitely referenced in The Dark Tower iirc
The It monster is in the dark Tower? Which book? I think I only read the first three.
And honestly I can barely remember them even though I read the first three twice. They’re so crazy.
When he finally came back to finish that series he really took it off, way off, the rails. I envy you for only having read the first 3.
Yeah, but Book 4 is the best. Wizard and Glass is the pinnacle of the series.
Been years (prob over a decade) since I’ve read any of them, but I remembered hating Wizard and Glass at first, because it was a prequel and I wanted to hear more about the current journey, but fell in love with it by the end. So fucking good.
Oh yeah? Which one did they first visit a metropolitan city?
Was the gunslinger in a pharmacy?
Idk I think I lost interest at that point.
Ahhh look at these strange metal boxes with people inside! - geeeet outta here.
2nd book has the gunslinger (in Eddie’s body) in New York, and yes he had a shootout with the police in a pharmacy. He needed meds for his infected hand.
I don’t remember strange metal boxes with people inside…
4th book is really good. At least teenage me liked it at the time. It’s a prequel book about a time in the gunslinger past when he had just become newly knighted, and a love interest.
After that things get weird. I should try another read through.
Seriously? I thought the last two books were the strongest.
Oh man, talk about unpopular take.
You’re entitled to your opinion of course. But that’s a tough one to defend lol
