Gerald's Game (1992); why does Steven King always write about kids in a sexual manner?

[Stent]

After he dug its dead body up

Fawk that don't make no sense to dig up a dead kid's body and rape it and kill it again, being as it was already dead.

Hoist on my own Tomlinson Technicality

: Yeah, I mean, I could see that happening to just about anyone. Addiction is a different beast than most people understand and they don't get how dark it can be. It's a tough one, man. Work the program. One day at a time. Okay, Stephen. Thanks for your call.

This guy a pedo? I'd never guess it by looking at him.

 

[guest]

His father touched his butthole, that’s why he writes books about kids fucking.

That’s where worm killer touched me when I was 10.

 

[Wild]

Finished this book, been wanting to read it for a while. it was ok, but the last 4 chapters were like a letter to someone and it was a bore.

The chapters where there is a "guy" in the house were bad ass and really freaky and unnerving when reading. That being said:

Why does this dude always write about kids? I know It is the worse with the teen orgy, but it seems like most of his books have this shit. Even the shinning had something where Danny picked up a snow globe and the inside of it were showing him sex acts?

In Gerald's Game, the Dad of the main woman blows a load on her ass when she was ten years old. really fucking gross. really detailed too.

Dude, Gerald's Game is the biggest piece of trash I've ever read. "Hehe, space cowboy. Ya know, like the Steve Miller Band, you stoner fucks?" Nobody wants to read about some tied down roastie struggling against handcuffs while cringe supernatural shit happens around her.

 

[Duxbury Dave]

When you realize Jack Torrance is an autobiographical character, it all starts to make sense.

 

[Carl Winslow]

Dude, Gerald's Game is the biggest piece of trash I've ever read. "Hehe, space cowboy. Ya know, like the Steve Miller Band, you stoner fucks?" Nobody wants to read about some tied down roastie struggling against handcuffs while cringe supernatural shit happens around her.

It wasn’t bad, it wasn’t great. I’m glad I read it, but never will again.

Misery was a lot better. Maybe my favorite of his? I read it in 8th grade and still remember most of it.

 

[JoeBrotheChildSpitGuzzler]

does it FRIGHTEN you?

it frightens me that this guy is allowed to go out among normal people instead of being executed

 

[JoeBrotheChildSpitGuzzler]

When you realize Jack Torrance is an autobiographical character, it all starts to make sense.

yea an out of control drunk hurting his kids.....

when did you MAYBE think we should take danny to the hospital?!

 

[guest]

It wasn’t bad, it wasn’t great. I’m glad I read it, but never will again.

Misery was a lot better. Maybe my favorite of his? I read it in 8th grade and still remember most of it.

Ever read The Shining? Read that around the same age and loved it. Read it again 10 years later and was a bit a let down after learning about how King used it to make himself a martyr about his addictions.

 

[Carl Winslow]

yea i read a ton of his shit when i was in high school and Jr high.

 

[bantadant]

Dude, Gerald's Game is the biggest piece of trash I've ever read. "Hehe, space cowboy. Ya know, like the Steve Miller Band, you stoner fucks?" Nobody wants to read about some tied down roastie struggling against handcuffs while cringe supernatural shit happens around her.

Anytime King throws in some song lyrics or band references it's always cringy as hell. The only think worse is when he tries to sound like a kid and uses slang that no one ever fucking says. In "Black House" one of the characters calls something "bitchrod" for fucks sake

 

[Stent]

make himself a martyr about his addictions

 

[Rutherford_b_Blaze]

His father touched his butthole, that’s why he writes books about kids fucking.

He never met his father.

 

[not that Jack Horner]

I was so scared reading about the kid gangbang in IT I thought I was gonna piss myself

so I took my pants off and had this huge fear boner

 

[PogromStallone]

I think it's just the contrast of what is supposed to be the most innocent creature next to an act meant to symbolize the opposite. It's a simple act that will likely change them forever, starting their journey to adulthood. Seems apropos for a horror writer.

 

[Lamont & Tonelli]

I think it's just the contrast of what is supposed to be the most innocent creature next to an act meant to symbolize the opposite. It's a simple act that will likely change them forever, starting their journey to adulthood. Seems apropos for a horror writer.

It's apropos, but King is a hack for going to the Weimer well so often. It's cheap heat, a quick way to go right to the reader's lizard brain horror/disgust reaction. He's got some great ideas and he's not an unskilled writer, but he runs out of steam (i.e. cocaine), says "Fuck it, we'll do it live!" and throws in some SFWA action to distract from his inability to end a story satisfactorily.

 

[bantadant]

It's apropos, but King is a hack for going to the Weimer well so often. It's cheap heat, a quick way to go right to the reader's lizard brain horror/disgust reaction. He's got some great ideas and he's not an unskilled writer, but he runs out of steam (i.e. cocaine), says "Fuck it, we'll do it live!" and throws in some SFWA action to distract from his inability to end a story satisfactorily.

His endings always suck. Dude doesn't know how to finish a story at all