He got sober sometime in the late 80's, it seems like he started trying in '87, but shit takes work, and you don't always succeed on your first attempt.

Regardless, look at , and all the shit he wrote before getting sober, and everything he wrote afterwards.

While, as a horror aficionado, I never thought he was the best writer, the shit he wrote on coke is generally regarded as way better than the shit he wrote after he got sober.

You read his Bachman short stories?

No, never heard of them. Worth a read?

Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption was one of his better books and is worth reading. The earlier Gunslinger books too, before he went off the leftist deep end with the race mixing and other garbage. He was on board the woke train as it was leaving the station.

I just watched Green Mile last night in my current 90s movie binge. Any suggestions

Shawshank was not a long read