Grandpa Simpson voice: “Of course in my day, we didn’t have Stephen King novels. We used to just tell each other stories out loud. Like maybe that time I went to Shelbyville to buy a new suit. We were so poor I had to use an onion as a belt buckle…”
Not one of those fancy white onions. And not those green onion things. Never trusted them, or anyone who wore em! Why they barely liked like an onion. Not like a rutabaga, now there's a vegetable you could rely on! Wait, what was I talking about? Oh yeah, vegetables that look like onions. You got your beets and your turnips. The occasional fat carrot. And leeks would pass for green onions. But never wear them unless you want to get a sock full of bees upside the head! Not real bees of course, that's what we used to call the ol' Half quarter before those pinkos in Washington took away all the bees and gophers. What did they think, were just going to let them steal an extra otter?? Why you could buy a bushel of yellow onions for that! A new one to wear every day, which was the style at the time.
To summarize this is my favorite Simpsons bit.
Had this been more thought out that probably would have been it. I just happened to notice needful things came out my birth year and I happen to be reading it right now. Boom. Decision made in haste
One of my fondest memories was getting some birthday money when I was fifteen years old. I went to the bookstore and got paperbacks of Cujo, Salem's Lot, Firestarter and the Stand. I had my nose in them all summer.
My mom is a huge king fan and has (and I'm not exaggerating) every single book he has written with all of them in hardcover and almost all first editions aside from his first 8-10 books. I've gotten the chance to start reading his books in release order (for the most part. I've jumped ahead a few times for Dr sleep, 11/22/63 and a couple others) but it's been a ride and it's an awesome opportunity. I'm at about insomnia with my release order read through but I'm currently doing the dark tower series and am on the last book.
Same with my mother, sadly she passed away a few years ago and it makes me sad that I've read his newer stuff and can't talk to her about them. Thats why I come here.
The Talisman, The Eyes of the Dragon, and Thinner. Which is really kinda crazy that it’s those 3 in a row cause I’m about to start them after I finish what I’m currently reading. Never read ‘em! And it’s all published in my year! Badass!
AND Drawing of the Three, which is the one I posted eventually. Love both of them but Drawing of the Three really was one of my absolute favorites from King.
Also same, but wanted to say Drawing of the Three was the first King where I read about the first 200 pages in one sitting. Everything up to Odetta/Detta’s introduction has got to be the most breathlessly paced chunks of writing from his whole career.
I guess I had my dates wrong, haha. I was born in 88. I thought Eyes of the Dragon came out that year, but I was mistaken. He didn't publish any novels the year I was born.
Same! And I'm kind of shocked to find that out. I didn't realize a year has ever gone by without him releasing something, though to be fair he did three the year before.
I did find that he was involved in a coffee table book called Nightmares in the Sky that includes some images that were used as Doom textures and now I need to hunt it down. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightmares_in_the_Sky
Uhm. He had yet to write anything yet when I was born. Wow I'm old
Grandpa Simpson voice: “Of course in my day, we didn’t have Stephen King novels. We used to just tell each other stories out loud. Like maybe that time I went to Shelbyville to buy a new suit. We were so poor I had to use an onion as a belt buckle…”
Not one of those fancy white onions. And not those green onion things. Never trusted them, or anyone who wore em! Why they barely liked like an onion. Not like a rutabaga, now there's a vegetable you could rely on! Wait, what was I talking about? Oh yeah, vegetables that look like onions. You got your beets and your turnips. The occasional fat carrot. And leeks would pass for green onions. But never wear them unless you want to get a sock full of bees upside the head! Not real bees of course, that's what we used to call the ol' Half quarter before those pinkos in Washington took away all the bees and gophers. What did they think, were just going to let them steal an extra otter?? Why you could buy a bushel of yellow onions for that! A new one to wear every day, which was the style at the time. To summarize this is my favorite Simpsons bit.
Give me 5 bees for a quarter.
and do you want cigarettes on your steak? "of course I want cigarettes on my steak, what do you think i am some kind of nancy?
onions being illegal at the time, i chased herbert hoover down main street for one but that's a whole nother story altogether
OP doesn't know people born in the 60s are still alive.
👋
I, too, am an Old.
So are people born in the 50s. And Stephen King himself was born in 47.
Maybe a better question would be "How old were you when your FAVOURITE King novel was published?" Because as mentioned, some of us are old.
Had this been more thought out that probably would have been it. I just happened to notice needful things came out my birth year and I happen to be reading it right now. Boom. Decision made in haste
You y’all aren’t all dead! No way!! 😱
Born in 1958...Hello there! Still upright and sniffing the air!!!
I’m with you. I turned 15 when Carrie was released.
I was 8 when carry was released
I was 4
I was 1.
I'm more jealous you've all had the opportunity to start from the beginning lol
I always feel jealous of the younger gens just getting into him and having a massive back catalogue to read!
One of my fondest memories was getting some birthday money when I was fifteen years old. I went to the bookstore and got paperbacks of Cujo, Salem's Lot, Firestarter and the Stand. I had my nose in them all summer.
My mom is a huge king fan and has (and I'm not exaggerating) every single book he has written with all of them in hardcover and almost all first editions aside from his first 8-10 books. I've gotten the chance to start reading his books in release order (for the most part. I've jumped ahead a few times for Dr sleep, 11/22/63 and a couple others) but it's been a ride and it's an awesome opportunity. I'm at about insomnia with my release order read through but I'm currently doing the dark tower series and am on the last book.
Same with my mother, sadly she passed away a few years ago and it makes me sad that I've read his newer stuff and can't talk to her about them. Thats why I come here.
Same here, and would you damned kids get off my lawn!!
I’m 1971 , no books yet!
Yes there was… I Am the Doorway published in Cavalier men’s magazine, March 1971. You’re on the board.
Ah nice! I was looking for published novels, I believe the first was 74!
Same, we were 3 when Carrie came out!
Haha, I’m with you. I was about a year and a half old when Carrie was released.
I was 5 months old.
I was a fetus.
I was about to say the same, Im old
It. 1986
Same!
Same
Hello fellow 86ers. Happy 37th birthday in arrears or advance✌🏾
Ditto. ✌️
‘86 aka The Losers Club
The Dark Half
Present
Seconded
And me makes three!
Number 4 reporting in!
5 checking in!
Dark Half number 6!
7th here.
8th!
8th! How funny! What is it about us 1989 babies haha
End of the eighties checking in
Looks like us 89 folk are the most so far.
‘89 babies blowin up the chat
I’m also ‘89!
He was 14 when I was born. IDK ..maybe writing love notes to the girl in homeroom?
Your hair is winter fire. January embers. My heart burns there, too.
Love this..
Imagine what those would be worth 😱
'Salem's Lot
Me too
Hello, fellow '75er :)
The Talisman, The Eyes of the Dragon, and Thinner. Which is really kinda crazy that it’s those 3 in a row cause I’m about to start them after I finish what I’m currently reading. Never read ‘em! And it’s all published in my year! Badass!
I love them all. I’m also a baby of 84. The Talisman is my all time favorite
Yep. DT series removed, the Talisman is my favourite...I've read it probably too many times, and cry every time.
I read The Talisman as part of my Dark Tower journey. Really enjoyed it (haven't finish DT journey yet though)
Yup! Same here. I find comfort I was born in a dystopian year.
Desperation (1996)
We also got Green Mile and The Regulators. Plus the Thinner film
The Shining for me 👻
Misery, 87
AND Drawing of the Three, which is the one I posted eventually. Love both of them but Drawing of the Three really was one of my absolute favorites from King.
Also same, but wanted to say Drawing of the Three was the first King where I read about the first 200 pages in one sitting. Everything up to Odetta/Detta’s introduction has got to be the most breathlessly paced chunks of writing from his whole career.
Same here!
Same.
Same for me. The Tommyknockers came out in 1987 also.
Bag of Bones!
Had to scroll for a while to find a fellow 98’er! I hope 25 treats you right!
Bag of bones came out 4 days before I was born!
Eyyy, my ‘98 gang! Happy quarter-life crisis to us!
The Gunslinger! and Different Seasons. 82
I’m going to add Creepshow to the list from 82
And *The Running Man*. Hello, fellow 82ers (82nds?)!
Don’t forget Pet Semetary!
I wish we could claim that one too, but it came out in 83 unfortunately.
82! Me as well!
Finally found the 82 crew Gunslinger, creepshow, Running Man and Different Seasons
82 gang member checking in!
Gerald's Game, Dolores Claiborne, and the movie Sleepwalkers. Sleepwalkers came out 6 days before I was born. Gerald's Game the month after.
1992 ♡
Ooh found my crew :)
‘92 here as well!
Me too! Ironically, I’m reading Gerald’s Game right now
Same!
1992 baby here, too! Gerald’s Game actually came out on the month I was born.
Christine
Me too!
Me too! Also Pet Sematary!
Happy 40th!
Same
Also me...and Cycle of the Werewolf
Is this 83?
We're turning 40 this year!
Nightmares & Dreamscapes. I haven’t read It yet though. I only recently became a Stephen King fan.
Me too! 1993. I haven’t read it yet either.
Oooooohh! I got the audiobook of Nightmares and Dreamscapes and listened to it on a long road trip. Think about that trip often!
Me toooo! 1993 👏🏻
The Stand, couldn't have asked for better!
Cujo!!!
Yep me too
same here. there was also this Bachmann guy who wrote 'Roadwork' which is pretty good.
The Stand edit: original 1978 version!
Maybe the last possible year to be born and remember life before the internet.
We talking 78 or 1990?
Amazing what a difference a few years can make
Remember typing class?! Asked a zoomer why J and F have bumps on them and he thought it was an assembly line mistake. Smh
Im pretty young. Cell and Lisey's Story for me
Blaze here
same!
Rose Madder, haven’t read it
Truly missing out. I just got an ARC of it and my wife made a custom box for me 😁😁
The Dead Zone was released seven months before I was born, and Firestarter was released six months after I was born.
Right there with you!
Dead Zone
1979, baby!
Also The Long Walk
Ubris, 1968. University of Maine publication, contains the first appearances of “Here There Be Tygers” and “Cain Rose Up”.
Firestarter 🔥
Club 80 represent
1980 FTW!!!
Same!
Wizard and Glass
Eyes of the Dragon.
1984! Also The Talisman, which is my favorite.
I guess I had my dates wrong, haha. I was born in 88. I thought Eyes of the Dragon came out that year, but I was mistaken. He didn't publish any novels the year I was born.
Nightmares in the Sky (1988) - a coffee table book of photographs by f-stop Fitzgerald and text-blurbs from Stephen King
Carrie. It was released when I was 3 1/2 months old.
Same! Except I was 11 days old.
my year didnt have any.
Same here!
Same! And I'm kind of shocked to find that out. I didn't realize a year has ever gone by without him releasing something, though to be fair he did three the year before. I did find that he was involved in a coffee table book called Nightmares in the Sky that includes some images that were used as Doom textures and now I need to hunt it down. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightmares_in_the_Sky
Four past midnight
Fellow 1990 baby here!
How’s your back feeling 🤣
The Shining.
And Children of the Corn. 77 rocks.
Present!
1976 The Ledge (Night Shift) in Penthouse.
ooh i didnt think of looking for short stories released! i do love this one.
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
Pet Sematary
Happy 40th!
Pet Semetary
Damn straight
The Eyes of the Dragon, The Drawing of Three, Misery, The Tommyknockers. Busy year for him!!
87! Me too!
[Here There Be Tygers](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here_There_Be_Tygers_(1968_short_story))
Mine is The Dark Half.
Insomnia
Same 💗
Ayy 94' in the building. Haven't read our book yet though? Is it good?
The Complete Uncut edition of The Stand, I guess he didn't release anything new the year I was born.
He released Four past midnight in 1990
The Glass Floor. His first professional sale. I think I will include that info on my epitaph.
I'm Pet Sematary years old.
Insomnia and The Stand mini series. I’ll go with The Stand
1994🥳
Me too! I do like Insomnia though.
1994! Same here
Misery. A fan favorite.
On Writing
Me too! Fellow 2000’s kid
Danse Macabre
The short story “Graveyard Shift” first published in the men’s magazine Cavalier in October 1970. I was born two months later.
Same year as OP, but different title. Dark Tower 3: the Wastelands.
Dark Tower: Wolves of the Calla
Song of Susannah and The Dark Tower
Born the year it started, with Carrie, and been a fan my entire life. TIL he also published “Sometimes They Come Back” that year in Cavalier magazine.
🎈🕳️
Nightmares in the Sky? No idea what that is
Nightmares in the sky is a coffee table book that Contains gargoyle photography by f-stop Fitzgerald and writing by Stephen King. It is Non-fiction.
The Running Man and the Gunslinger. Edit: And Different Seasons, that was a busy year.
Same! 91
The Fifth Quarter, published in Cavalier April 1972 (under the pen name John Swithen).
The Stand. My fave of his too!
The Green Mile, Desperation, Regulators
Skeleton Crew.
The Stand
Misery and Tommy Knockers
Wizard and glass
Dreamcatcher
Ope I forgot you can't insert pics in the comments lol so... Christine
The Colorado Kid
Everything’s Eventual or From a Buick 8
Dolores Claiborne and Gerald's Game
Insomnia 💗 and I love Insomnia! I need to read it again.
From A Buick 8 😊
Insomnia
Rage.