![]() ![]() Anyone who remembers the deadly levitating Coke machine would agree.Ħ2. Full of anger at himself and the eighties, The Tommyknockers is a white-hot mess. Writing with “his heart running at a hundred and thirty beats a minute and cotton swabs stuck up my nose to stem the coke-induced bleeding” (as he would later describe it), King filled his book with addicts and thinly veiled metaphors for what he was going through. The Tommyknockers : This tale of a Maine writer (you’ll be seeing a lot of these) who accidentally comes across a piece of alien metal in her backyard and finds herself compelled to dig up the flying saucer that it’s attached to was written at the height of King’s addiction troubles. ![]() ![]() The combination of the real (the title character, the battered women’s shelter she ends up with, her monster of a husband) with the supernatural (a magical painting that offers a gateway to a Greek myth-tinged world) feels less convincing here than it does in any other of King’s books.Ħ3. This one was the last and least of the bunch. Rose Madder : In the early nineties, King wrote a set of novels focused on abused women and the horrible men who beat and haunt and entrap them. Every Stephen King Movie, Ranked From Worst to BestĦ4. ![]()
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