The A word.

[Tiny]

hello, I am new. I love this forum . I can say with out
any doubt, that 1408 is all about alcoholism. You know SK is an alcoholic. Trust me . The whole thing is a three dimensional metaphor for being a drunk. I my self am a drunk- I know of what I speak. Iv been in AA for 14 years. I know it when I see it. Metaphor or otherwise. I love Stephen King, I can call him a drunk (im allowed). I love him.
I will detail all this, if anyone wants me to. But its hard to explain. The one thing you will all realize is that the guy in the movie is sipping from a bottle through the whole thing, untill the end. He throws it in the fire place.
Has SK ever spken about this? The achie-1408 connection, I mean>?

Anyway, im really glad to be here.

[TBlack]

Glad to have ya Tiny!
Keep comin' back!

[JohnDalglish]

Hi,

Not as far as I know, but then, he DID choose 1408 for the example at the end of On Writing (which you MUST read, if you haven't already BTW), so you may have something there.

Welcome to the MB, and keep posting!

Long days and pleasant nights

[Selena_Kitt]

If you look, there's a LOT of alcoholism/addiction and recovery in his work. Much of it isn't direct (although some of it us) but it's there.

[Bryan James]

If tobacco is "Indian's Revenge," alcohol is "Judas Juice."

To paraphrase Homer Simpson, "Ah, alcohol. The solution to...and the cause of...all of life's problems."

I'm a functional drinker. I know that it's a slippery slope though. When you slide fast enough you don't hit the bottom and rebound...you just crash through into Hell.

I see loads of alcohol and tobacco references in everything I read. Not because they were intended by the writer, but because my brain is pre-wired for them.

If I don't have a squirrel on my back, I have a couple monkeys perched there.

~BJS

[pathoftheturtle]

Well, King wrote, in "Stephen King Goes To The Movies" that in his story the room would drive people insane with the kind of alien sensations and mental input that are only experienced in fever dreams, or under L.S.D. I think that that's just talking about the effects, tho. To me, the real central meaning of 1408 is deep and cosmological.
I've never been an alcoholic, but I do recognize the influence that King's experience dealing with it has had on other works of his. I just don't really believe that it's the main thrust of this one... if that is what you were trying to say.

[Tiny]

tommyknockers , the shining; are of course all about drunks. there maybe some im forgeting. T.K. really gets detailed about meetings and the meeting lists and everything.
The Shinning was writen before he got sober. what other drunks are in his work? I know im forgeting some, was there a big drunk in IT?

[Cowboy]

Alcoholism??? I thought this thread was going to be about asstronomy.

[kelly7898]

hello, I am new. I love this forum . I can say with out
any doubt, that 1408 is all about alcoholism. You know SK is an alcoholic. Trust me . The whole thing is a three dimensional metaphor for being a drunk. I my self am a drunk- I know of what I speak. Iv been in AA for 14 years. I know it when I see it. Metaphor or otherwise. I love Stephen King, I can call him a drunk (im allowed). I love him.
I will detail all this, if anyone wants me to. But its hard to explain. The one thing you will all realize is that the guy in the movie is sipping from a bottle through the whole thing, untill the end. He throws it in the fire place.
Has SK ever spken about this? The achie-1408 connection, I mean>?

Anyway, im really glad to be here.

Hi , I am a new member of forum. Would a newcomer be warmly welcome here? Good day you guys!!!

[GNTLGNT]

All newcomers are welcome Kelly...and Tiny that's a take on 1408 I blew right past when I read it. I felt at the conclusion, it was a commentary on how fragile sanity is...(Right Harvey? Yes, as a matter of fact I AM talking to a big rabbit!)