My parents were super restrictive about what movies we could watch (I didn't see an R-rated movie until I was 16), but they let us read whatever we wanted. I read Firestarter when I was like 11 or 12, and that has stuck with me forever. Anything I write always has a touch of King in it.
So happy Greater Creators is slowly making its way onto TH-cam. Yet to find anything that has provided me with such new and interesting info about people I thought I knew all about. (Plus we get to see Robot and Space brain again :-)
To think people actually *sneered* at Stephen King's work, back in the day, saying it wasn't "good" literature. Now his ideas & stories have probably influenced a generation of storytellers *:)*
I am glad there are more of this BIO videos and also about STEPHEN KING OF HORROR, the first writter I became a fan of and open the door to my book obsession as a kid and teenager.
King is my favorite author. Besides the classics that everyone loves, my favorite are Desperation, Dark Tower series , Insomnia, the Dead Zone, the talisman, the outsider
In a perfect world, there would be a second channel of yours dealing exclusively with all things Stephen King. Outstanding as always, CBG19. Love this series, this writer really appreciates it! 📚👍
Highly suggest everyone to check out JoeHill's books- Stephen's son- go for NOS4A2 and HeartShapedBox; wish CBG would do a short informal book club on NOS4A2
fromthawell Agreed. I’ve read something like 45 of his books and I love most of them but I feel like On Writing is something special. It’s wonderful to get a behind-the-scenes look at his process and it stands totally apart from the rest of his work.
Wizard and Glass is the best Dark Tower book, hands down. It’s not that the books which come after don’t have their moments. The Dark Tower (book seven) is also quite good but book 4 had King really firing on all cylinders.
His books got me labeled as the weird black kid on Church Trips. Got all his movies, working on getting all of his books again. He holds a special place in my life with his books. Especially Christine. Awesome story.
Woow! This totally makes sense! So having been severely injured by a drunk driver himself, he used his personal trauma and turned it into fiction. This was the personal motivation behind the Mr. Mercedes - Finders Keepers - End of Watch trilogy... Cool!
He and Tabitha are incredibly generous and have done a ton of good in Maine! Everything from donating to charities, helping fund a new wing of a children’s hospital, donating funds to build a beautiful little league baseball stadium in Bangor until it was able to self fund itself, helping renovate the Bangor library, and much more! Hell of a guy!
I've been reading Stephen King since I was 12 and watching this video has taught a good bit more than I ever thought I knew. Thanks for this one. Very nice :)
Incredibly good documentary! There is so much i didnt know about him! The way you put hos body of work into perspective is fascinating! This is why I'll support team 19 trough the ups and downs
I had to quit reading the Dark Tower series for a few months when Stephen King became a character. That book was already weak and it was kind of the last straw. Just started reading the last book after the hiatus. Hopefully it finishes up strong. The Stand is his best work if you ask me.
My dad read King to me and my brother as bed time stories. I had some vivid dreams of The Stand. They took IT to the big screen and I think they should do the same with The Stand. Anyways, Best day & Best wishes to you & yours.
I grew up in a house with almost all of Stephen King's books also. My mom had book shelves of mostly horror and many others as well, so I was introduced early. I was into comics in the early to mid 90s too, which is pretty cool to find a channel that I share that in common with. Hope you do a special send off to Stan Lee in this series.
He has conceptually lifted ideas from many greats such as Serling, Beaumont, Ellison, Blackwood, Matheson, and Bloch. A good sometimes great writer, but his literary branding skills are unprecedented.
I was already a fan of horror when I read my first stephen king book back in the early 80s, when i was about 12 years old. I'd already been going to see every horror movie that came to the local cinema and those on cable tv, but horror became a full time hobby when I read 'salem's lot, having seen the 2-part tv movie a few years earlier (which scared the crap out of me). it's clear that CBG 19 knows and loves her SK, but I'm a bit surprised she lists "Insomnia" as one of her favorites; i remember it being the first novel that was blatantly self-referential (no spoilers), and the first that felt too long and too slow and kind of dull. But hey, to each his or her own. She's clearly a huge SK fan, and this video got me to search for SK books I've missed in the last few years. Also, thanks CBG for the best breakdown of the Dark Tower series ever! They should have hired you as a consultant on the movie.
I loved you before, but I love you stepping up your game. This video is VERY well done. I love to see all of your scholarly work. I wanna show this to students in English class!
I've only read one Stephen King novel which was The Stand, and that's easily one of the best novels I have had the pleasure of reading so far in my life. I have a bunch of his other novels which I took from my mum's collection which I intend to read eventually. I'm torn between The Dead Zone and The Gunslinger.
I LOVE Stephen King!!! His books, movies / television shows de after his books.(Except the Stanley Kubrick POS in the 80's) I am so excited for Dr. Sleep and the new IT chapter 2. I already have a babysitter for my 2 kids on those 2 opening nights lol.
I really need to collect his books. Have you heard of Richard Laymon? He is my favorite horror writer and Stephen King is a fan of his. Check out 'Endless Night' which is my favorite.
@Comic Book Girl 19 will you be doing any Stan tribute videos? I alreayd watched the Kevin Smith tribute video, but knowing what a fan of Marvel and the X-Men you are, and just with how empathic and in-tune w things you are, I was really looking forward to seeing something from you about him, even if it's just a short video talking about his work or impact on you, etc, I'd most definitely watch and share if you do, of course!!
Love Stephen King! I've been reading King since I stole a paperback copy of the Shinning from my brother shortly after its release. (The copy with a silver shiny cover, that caught my eye.) I've been an avid reader ever since, not only of King but so many authors.
“Salem’s Lot” - TV series, not the book - hooked me in when I was a child. Then I saw “Carrie” late one night, found the book, and I was hooked from the age of 12.
This man is my literary soul mate. I adore him! If it wasn't for him, I'd never read books. But I've always thought he writes thriller novels with supernatural elements.
11/22/63 is one of my favorites. He focused more on science-fiction and history, and ended up writing an endearing love story. The HULU version was pretty good even though it had to cut a lot out.
Amazing!!! The pleasant surprise I also got was it was a simple love story of him going back and falling for this girl while they are wrapped up in crazy events, and it goes full circle when he meets her when she's older
King has been my favorite writer since i was 10 or 11. I also love his collaborations with other writers. If You ever get the time, You should check out Fred Saberhagen's "Book Of Swords" series and "Book Of Lost Swords" series... ...As well as Piers Anthony's "Incarnations Of Immortality" series (this collection i think You may fall in love with) and, if You are a fan of puns, his ongoing "Xanth" collection. (am currently into J.D. Robb's (Nora Roberts) "In Death" collection, You'd love the protagonist )
My first book was a coverless Dark Tower, the wastelands, it took me some years to know it was Stephen King and the awesome was to know that there was a saga.
One of my favorite books by him is Rose Madder. To think that the same guy who wrote it was once said to not be able to write women is just mindblowing.
Favorite Stephen King work would have to be the entire multi verse lol. Having dyslexia it's always been a challenge for me to sit down and read ANYTHING, but I've always been a fan of horror and SKs movies/mini serious. Over the last several years I've discovered audio books and out of my library of 60 books or so 95% of them are SK and two of Joe Hill's lol.
Oh and everybody needs to check out "The Eyes of the Dragon" a fantasy novel King originally wrote the novel for his children. The fans gave it crap (because it wasn't a horror novel) but it is an excellent book and it's where we first meet Flag (Randall Flagg). Also as a high fantasy fan as a child it's the book that introduced me to Stephen King's work and i went out after i finished it and bought Cycle of the Werewolf. Oh and the Syfy channel announced that they were developing "The Eyes of the Dragon" for potential television adaptations.
I'm not sure if this is the best way to contact you. I just finished dine club session 9 and the Q&A. (Very late but I finished watchman club first). But in the Q&A you talk about the synchronicity of the book and things ppl are going through. I just read the DC comic Witching Hour event about hecate and the maiden, mother and Crone. Because wonder woman is my favorite superhero and she's in it but anyway in the Q&A you talk about the maiden mother and crone and I feel like even though I'm late in dune club its oddly syncing up with this current run of comics I just read and I thought that was really cool and scary and exciting how that all worked out. But yeah. Big fan of the stuff you do
Hello CBG19, This video is great and very truthful but something is buggggggggggging me : why are the quotes wrote as "Steven" instead of Stephen? :p Except at 17mins where it's written correctly ;) Otherwise, nothing to complain about. May I just add that : - Nightmares at 20000 feet, mentionned at 5mins. The story is in the book "Flight or fright" that he co-edited, about everything that could go wrong while flying. - The Dark Tower : very well mentionned and summarised! Did you know that Steve gave an outline to his son Joe in order to be able to conclude it, if he was to pass away before finishing it? :)
King is awesome even though I've only read Misery and The Myst, which were fantastic. Thanks for the vid it was very informative and rekindled my King curiosity.
Saw him around campus a lot when I went to U Maine. Derry is really Bangor and myself and a few friends found everyplace that IT appeared. Still cannot walk on sewer grates when I visit Bangor.
I HATE Stanley Kubrick movies & I HATE Stephen King as a person but I LOVE how you express your passion. Even if I don't agree with you I watch just to see your passion for the subject.
Just bought the Calendar, from the UK, is there any information on shipping? I don't know if I'll get it late because of my distance. I know you haven't really finished it yet so feels like kind of a dick question, but hey. I love these Greater Creator episodes
Have you taken a chance to read anything by Thomas Ligotti? He is referenced as being one of the main influences on True Detective season one. I know that he is nowhere near as prolific as King, but I believe Ligotti truly understands fear in a way that few could hope to comprehend
I read "Carrie" in 1978. I was age 19. Next came "Salem's Lot", and my favorite, "The Stand.":)
I wish you had more chances to produce content like this (with a better budget and assistance of course). It is just so good.
Thanks, Clados, We do too!
My parents were super restrictive about what movies we could watch (I didn't see an R-rated movie until I was 16), but they let us read whatever we wanted. I read Firestarter when I was like 11 or 12, and that has stuck with me forever. Anything I write always has a touch of King in it.
So happy Greater Creators is slowly making its way onto TH-cam. Yet to find anything that has provided me with such new and interesting info about people I thought I knew all about. (Plus we get to see Robot and Space brain again
:-)
To think people actually *sneered* at Stephen King's work, back in the day, saying it wasn't "good" literature. Now his ideas & stories have probably influenced a generation of storytellers *:)*
You are such a good presenter, like Joey Diaz or Alan Moore, could listen to you talk all day.
Why do people thumb down good quality content? Ugh... That annoying 5%. :( Oh well....Love these bios!
They are haters, enough said.
Love this series!
Love you too Jesus, you kick ass.
Amen.
HOLY SHIT JESUS IS VERIFIED
I am glad there are more of this BIO videos and also about STEPHEN KING OF HORROR, the first writter I became a fan of and open the door to my book obsession as a kid and teenager.
I dont care what anyone says i loved "Maximum Overdrive"
It was 80's greatness!
@@breakupgoogle It had Lisa Simpson!
Trucks is worse. Plus how can you hate a movie with AC/DC?
It has Emilio Estevez C'mon its awesome.
I initially liked your comment, but realised you had 19 likes.
King is my favorite author. Besides the classics that everyone loves, my favorite are Desperation, Dark Tower series , Insomnia, the Dead Zone, the talisman, the outsider
TheBody while short might be the best written book I've ever read, 11/22/63 was a shockingly good novel
@@kevb3047 I forgot about 11/22/63 that is fantastic.
In a perfect world, there would be a second channel of yours dealing exclusively with all things Stephen King. Outstanding as always, CBG19. Love this series, this writer really appreciates it! 📚👍
The one I was waiting for. :)
Highly suggest everyone to check out JoeHill's books- Stephen's son- go for NOS4A2 and HeartShapedBox; wish CBG would do a short informal book club on NOS4A2
Also my favorite book by King is On Writing his memoir. Great read.
fromthawell Agreed. I’ve read something like 45 of his books and I love most of them but I feel like On Writing is something special. It’s wonderful to get a behind-the-scenes look at his process and it stands totally apart from the rest of his work.
Currently reading The Dark Tower vol 4, you got me into it girl! thanks
Wizard and Glass is the best in the series IMO. Very moving and a great insight into the world.
Wizard and Glass is the best Dark Tower book, hands down.
It’s not that the books which come after don’t have their moments. The Dark Tower (book seven) is also quite good but book 4 had King really firing on all cylinders.
His books got me labeled as the weird black kid on Church Trips. Got all his movies, working on getting all of his books again.
He holds a special place in my life with his books. Especially Christine. Awesome story.
This Series is the BEST! I always learn so much.
Woow! This totally makes sense! So having been severely injured by a drunk driver himself, he used his personal trauma and turned it into fiction. This was the personal motivation behind the Mr. Mercedes - Finders Keepers - End of Watch trilogy... Cool!
Stephen King is my favorite author of all time. Thank you for this!!!
He and Tabitha are incredibly generous and have done a ton of good in Maine! Everything from donating to charities, helping fund a new wing of a children’s hospital, donating funds to build a beautiful little league baseball stadium in Bangor until it was able to self fund itself, helping renovate the Bangor library, and much more! Hell of a guy!
shame how if you don't make a Logan Paul video no one watches it...this was great
I've been reading Stephen King since I was 12 and watching this video has taught a good bit more than I ever thought I knew. Thanks for this one. Very nice :)
😊 Thanks Space Cowboy!
Now this is a class I need everyday. 💕
Incredibly good documentary! There is so much i didnt know about him! The way you put hos body of work into perspective is fascinating! This is why I'll support team 19 trough the ups and downs
I had to quit reading the Dark Tower series for a few months when Stephen King became a character. That book was already weak and it was kind of the last straw. Just started reading the last book after the hiatus. Hopefully it finishes up strong.
The Stand is his best work if you ask me.
Yes, agreed. I read a few of his books years back, even one's I'd already seen films of, and the books were better. He's a great writer imo 💯
My dad read King to me and my brother as bed time stories. I had some vivid dreams of The Stand. They took IT to the big screen and I think they should do the same with The Stand. Anyways, Best day & Best wishes to you & yours.
fromthawell there is a tv series of the stand from the 90s it's not great but neither was It so...
I really like this personality WAY more relaxed. I can't get onboard with this new, hyper-polished, clean and clinical (emotionless) platform.
Insomnia is SO GOOD. So few people have heard of it, I am glad to hear someone else loves it as much as I do.
Love how much passion you display talking about this stuff
I grew up in a house with almost all of Stephen King's books also. My mom had book shelves of mostly horror and many others as well, so I was introduced early. I was into comics in the early to mid 90s too, which is pretty cool to find a channel that I share that in common with.
Hope you do a special send off to Stan Lee in this series.
He has conceptually lifted ideas from many greats such as Serling, Beaumont, Ellison, Blackwood, Matheson, and Bloch. A good sometimes great writer, but his literary branding skills are unprecedented.
Man I love your videos! Epic History 🔥
I was already a fan of horror when I read my first stephen king book back in the early 80s, when i was about 12 years old. I'd already been going to see every horror movie that came to the local cinema and those on cable tv, but horror became a full time hobby when I read 'salem's lot, having seen the 2-part tv movie a few years earlier (which scared the crap out of me). it's clear that CBG 19 knows and loves her SK, but I'm a bit surprised she lists "Insomnia" as one of her favorites; i remember it being the first novel that was blatantly self-referential (no spoilers), and the first that felt too long and too slow and kind of dull. But hey, to each his or her own. She's clearly a huge SK fan, and this video got me to search for SK books I've missed in the last few years. Also, thanks CBG for the best breakdown of the Dark Tower series ever! They should have hired you as a consultant on the movie.
Great homage to the master. The Shining was my first King book, I was 8 years old! So I could totally relate to Danny.
Love that this series is still going on
I loved you before, but I love you stepping up your game. This video is VERY well done. I love to see all of your scholarly work.
I wanna show this to students in English class!
Another awesome 'Master' episode. well done CBG19!!!
I've only read one Stephen King novel which was The Stand, and that's easily one of the best novels I have had the pleasure of reading so far in my life. I have a bunch of his other novels which I took from my mum's collection which I intend to read eventually. I'm torn between The Dead Zone and The Gunslinger.
Love you team19! Thanks for such awesome vids 😁🖤
The new pink highlights look really good on you!!! Great video!!!
King is my favorite writer, thanks for the video.
I LOVE Stephen King!!! His books, movies / television shows de after his books.(Except the Stanley Kubrick POS in the 80's) I am so excited for Dr. Sleep and the new IT chapter 2. I already have a babysitter for my 2 kids on those 2 opening nights lol.
I really need to collect his books. Have you heard of Richard Laymon? He is my favorite horror writer and Stephen King is a fan of his. Check out 'Endless Night' which is my favorite.
@Comic Book Girl 19 will you be doing any Stan tribute videos? I alreayd watched the Kevin Smith tribute video, but knowing what a fan of Marvel and the X-Men you are, and just with how empathic and in-tune w things you are, I was really looking forward to seeing something from you about him, even if it's just a short video talking about his work or impact on you, etc, I'd most definitely watch and share if you do, of course!!
so glad you survived the youtubocolypse, you always have great content and interesting takes. I turn off my adblocker just for this channel
CB19 can you please do a book club of It or the Stand they are my favorite King books please and thank you
Love Stephen King! I've been reading King since I stole a paperback copy of the Shinning from my brother shortly after its release. (The copy with a silver shiny cover, that caught my eye.) I've been an avid reader ever since, not only of King but so many authors.
“Salem’s Lot” - TV series, not the book - hooked me in when I was a child. Then I saw “Carrie” late one night, found the book, and I was hooked from the age of 12.
Great BIO, I really loved it. Well done
This man is my literary soul mate. I adore him! If it wasn't for him, I'd never read books. But I've always thought he writes thriller novels with supernatural elements.
11/22/63 is one of my favorites. He focused more on science-fiction and history, and ended up writing an endearing love story. The HULU version was pretty good even though it had to cut a lot out.
Amazing!!! The pleasant surprise I also got was it was a simple love story of him going back and falling for this girl while they are wrapped up in crazy events, and it goes full circle when he meets her when she's older
King has been my favorite writer since i was 10 or 11.
I also love his collaborations with other writers.
If You ever get the time, You should check out Fred Saberhagen's "Book Of Swords" series and "Book Of Lost Swords" series...
...As well as Piers Anthony's "Incarnations Of Immortality" series (this collection i think You may fall in love with) and, if You are a fan of puns, his ongoing "Xanth" collection.
(am currently into J.D. Robb's (Nora Roberts) "In Death" collection, You'd love the protagonist )
That was amazing!!!!! Id love more content like this on things you love
Love SK and this video CBG19! But who did the title cards/quotes that kept spelling Stephen's name as Steven?! :(
My favorite King novel is The Dark Half. My favorite King short stories are The Langoliers and The Sun Dog.
My first book was a coverless Dark Tower, the wastelands, it took me some years to know it was Stephen King and the awesome was to know that there was a saga.
I was born in the same town Bangor, Maine that Stephen King lives in.
March 25th, 1989
My grandpa lived three houses down from him too.
Jeo Hill also wrote Locke & Key, which is a FANTASTIC set of graphic novels!
Great video! I would like to watch a new adaptation of Salem's Lot for the silver screen.
brought the pink back! beautiful stuff.
Love this series! Any chance you'll feature Ray Harryhausen or Eiji Tsuburaya in an episode?
One of my favorite books by him is Rose Madder. To think that the same guy who wrote it was once said to not be able to write women is just mindblowing.
Favorite Stephen King work would have to be the entire multi verse lol. Having dyslexia it's always been a challenge for me to sit down and read ANYTHING, but I've always been a fan of horror and SKs movies/mini serious. Over the last several years I've discovered audio books and out of my library of 60 books or so 95% of them are SK and two of Joe Hill's lol.
Great video! Who will be your next subject? Clive Barker maybe? Or Neil Gaiman?
Oh and everybody needs to check out "The Eyes of the Dragon" a fantasy novel King originally wrote the novel for his children. The fans gave it crap (because it wasn't a horror novel) but it is an excellent book and it's where we first meet Flag (Randall Flagg). Also as a high fantasy fan as a child it's the book that introduced me to Stephen King's work and i went out after i finished it and bought Cycle of the Werewolf. Oh and the Syfy channel announced that they were developing "The Eyes of the Dragon" for potential television adaptations.
_Revival_ was DOPE. So good. That ending is actually horrifying to me. It's great, great stuff.
Love getting to watch these episodes! Gotta call it out cause it's my home town, the pic at 3:21is Portland Oregon (Steel Bridge), not Portland Maine.
I love Stephen King so much, I named my dog 'Cujo'.
Aww what an adorable killer.
I'm not sure if this is the best way to contact you. I just finished dine club session 9 and the Q&A. (Very late but I finished watchman club first). But in the Q&A you talk about the synchronicity of the book and things ppl are going through. I just read the DC comic Witching Hour event about hecate and the maiden, mother and Crone. Because wonder woman is my favorite superhero and she's in it but anyway in the Q&A you talk about the maiden mother and crone and I feel like even though I'm late in dune club its oddly syncing up with this current run of comics I just read and I thought that was really cool and scary and exciting how that all worked out. But yeah. Big fan of the stuff you do
Hello CBG19,
This video is great and very truthful but something is buggggggggggging me : why are the quotes wrote as "Steven" instead of Stephen? :p
Except at 17mins where it's written correctly ;)
Otherwise, nothing to complain about.
May I just add that :
- Nightmares at 20000 feet, mentionned at 5mins. The story is in the book "Flight or fright" that he co-edited, about everything that could go wrong while flying.
- The Dark Tower : very well mentionned and summarised! Did you know that Steve gave an outline to his son Joe in order to be able to conclude it, if he was to pass away before finishing it?
:)
King is awesome even though I've only read Misery and The Myst, which were fantastic. Thanks for the vid it was very informative and rekindled my King curiosity.
I think the Long Walk is underrated.
Agreed; every couple of years i run across it and read it again. The ending always sucker-punches me.
Its brutal.
Great episode!
Reading the Stand right now! I'm really into it but now everybody who's coughing around me is really making me nervous 😷😷😘😘
Even when you don't think it was written by Stephen King? Nope. Stephen King.
The Stephen King is strong with this one.
Saw him around campus a lot when I went to U Maine. Derry is really Bangor and myself and a few friends found everyplace that IT appeared. Still cannot walk on sewer grates when I visit Bangor.
He's way more than that, he's easily one of the best American writers of all time.
Now I know why you have 19 in your username.
i don't
@@lovebts1st she says why in the video.
@@titod.7012 ok i only am here for a assignment
@@lovebts1st ok..
I'm your biggest fan #TrustMe and I'm upset I haven't seen your Daredevil S3 review yet
I HATE Stanley Kubrick movies & I HATE Stephen King as a person but I LOVE how you express your passion. Even if I don't agree with you I watch just to see your passion for the subject.
Crazy, I've never cared much to know of the life of King.
But - I'll watch this. Hopefully I'll pick up something new.
seems like your show is perfect for a bio/treatment of Robert Anton Wilson
Maximum overdrive is a good movie
You must be on everything Stephen was on when he made it.
Just bought the Calendar, from the UK, is there any information on shipping? I don't know if I'll get it late because of my distance. I know you haven't really finished it yet so feels like kind of a dick question, but hey. I love these Greater Creator episodes
One more photo shoot and a shit load of editing
I need to re-read Misery at some point, and the Shining. Haven't read them since childhood
i've been reading through his son Joe Hill's Locke and Key comic series the past few days.. its really good.
Nobody ever mentions one the most perfect films ever made that was written by Stephen King. Shawshank Redemption.
Do one on Clive Barker! Love the greater creator series
Good job. I agree.
You look so beautiful
Have you taken a chance to read anything by Thomas Ligotti? He is referenced as being one of the main influences on True Detective season one. I know that he is nowhere near as prolific as King, but I believe Ligotti truly understands fear in a way that few could hope to comprehend
Have you read James Herbert? King is a big fan of him and growing up in England Herbert got me into King. Great video.
I fcking love robot “this is complicated”. CBG19 without pause: “It is”
Maximum Overdrive was awesome!!!
Cujo is an amazing book.
Wow, I love this!
Man that was really great. Anyone know what this channels up to lately? Seems like we're in lull.
Great video "19" you and your whole team is beyond fucking awesome