Did nobody even tell him "Hey Steve, great novel, gonna be another huge seller, but um, we think there's a couple of pages that really ought to stay on the cutting room floor..."

>>24560445 (OP)
To this day it still blows my mind how an editor let that through. And granted, there is some pretty disturbing shit in that book but Jesus...

Steve was an A-1 pervert.
Now read Gerald's Game

>>24560452
>>24560447
he doth protest too much

>>24560447
Steven King was an institution.

>>24560484
Homer, Shakespeare, and Stephen King.
They were not individuals, but a group of people.

>>24560445 (OP)
No one said anything when he did it in The Shining so why would they have stopped him during peak cocaine King.

>>24560516
But the fact that such a controversial scene was left in the book speaks against that theory. An institution would make the rational choice and cut it out for the sake of maximizing profit. That it was left in unchanged points to Steven King being one extremely rich and famous author who at the time of releasing IT already had fuck you money and the influence that he could tell his editors to punch sand if they didn't like his cocain fever dream writing.

>>24560477
That can't be true, right?

>>24561015
You're telling me you don't believe in Santa?

>>24560445 (OP)
>>24560447
>>24560452
>>24560564
FFS tell me what's so controversial. Don't make me read Stephen King to find out.

>>24561017
Sheeeit nigga. The jokes write themselves. I guess I have too much hope in humanity.

>>24561037
Explicitly detailed kid orgy

>>24560445 (OP)
>Mr King, is the child orgy scene quite necessary?

>>24560445 (OP)
Taking the child orgy out would go against everything he stands for. He would be selling out, so he stuck by his guns. And now he's part of the pedo elite and enjoys the luxuries it gives him.

>>24560564
Epstein Island consisted of hundreds of rich and famous people though

>>24560445 (OP)
I imagine that a horror writer like King has a lot of plausible deniability.
>it's SUPPOSED to be unsettling bro, don't think too hard about it