ablackcloudupahead t1_j1mpqbf wrote on December 25, 2022 at 5:52 PM

Not related to your question but, as someone who hasn't read coked-out Stephen King since I was a kid (love a lot of his post coke books), how does it hold up?

BreathingCorpse252 t1_j1mqzb5 wrote on December 25, 2022 at 6:02 PM

Carrie was his debut novel. I don’t think he was coked up during that time

ablackcloudupahead t1_j1mr86b wrote on December 25, 2022 at 6:04 PM

Really? I thought The Gunslinger was his first novel

BreathingCorpse252 t1_j1mrelq wrote on December 25, 2022 at 6:05 PM

Oh no the dark tower series started later in the early 80s

ablackcloudupahead t1_j1mrsso wrote on December 25, 2022 at 6:08 PM

After a google, we are both kind of right. SK wrote The Gunslinger when he was 17 but didn't publish until '82. Thanks for the info, I had no idea he waited so long to publish it

7thturninghour184 t1_j1mzisy wrote on December 25, 2022 at 7:08 PM

https://darktower.fandom.com/wiki/19

mirrorspirit t1_j1ooez2 wrote on December 26, 2022 at 3:43 AM

Really good. Carrie's rampage was a lot wider than the school. The Chloe Moretz movie was supposed to show that too, but they limited it one road and a gas station.

The book tells about the rampage unfolding much like you would read about a disaster happening.

Although SK almost threw it out because he didn't think he could relate to telling the story through a teenage girl's eyes, but his wife persuaded him to keep going with it.

ablackcloudupahead t1_j1p6pp7 wrote on December 26, 2022 at 7:03 AM

Hit Girl was in a Carrie movie? Awesome