Stephen King used to do so much cocaine that he doesn't remember writing Cujo, Maximum Overdrive, or (I believe also?) Tommyknockers
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If you've seen Maximum Overdrive it's not hard to belive at all. AC/DC does the score/soundtrack.
Tommyknockers was also batshit crazy.
Tommyknockers fucking Bernsteined me; I swear to god I've seen a Tommyknockers movie, but the internet swears to god that I haven't because no such thing exists
Well, there's a mini-series
Same, it was the two-part miniseries.
I remember it as being pretty good, but it has been about 30 years since I saw it. So I don't know how much I can trust that memory.
I just remember Jimmy Smits strapped into a big satellite dish, going fucking "Scanners" on some people.
Oh I've seen Maximum Overdrive, it's my favourite Stephen King movie. Much better than the book, as long as you appreciate badness
That's actually a pretty shitty metric to gauge cocaine consumption. It's being employed here since it's supposedly a great metaphor for his writing frenzy and blood always carries a certain shock value, which is tied neatly together by the blood dripping on the typewriter.
Honestly, it's pretty easy to dry out and damage your nostrils and have your nose spill blood everywhere. The stories King tells about his addiction are far more harrowing than this banal picture.
The guy was cranking out multiple books a year.
During the 80s, there was a gentleman's agreement for book publishers to only release so many books under an author a year. King wrote so much that he had to find other places that would publish his work. So to not upset King, they published it anyways. He published like 19 novels and a crazy amount of short stories in the 80s.
Cocaine explains it.
At that point maybe he should have just tried eating it, damn.
Boof it
He looks like the lovechild of 
and
I read Stephen Hawking and I was like, "sure, maybe it helps with the ALS and see the universe".
Hold my straw
A d he outright blames Maximum Overdrive on the so much cocaine, and it why he never stepped behind the camera again