📚 6 Books mentioned in "Joe Rogan Experience #1957 - Shane Gillis" of The Joe Rogan Experience

when I was on my way into town I would read damn pet cemetery Cojo he said he said he didn't even remember writing Cojo just blacked out on coke and beer what yeah oh Stephen King rules dude rules he got [ __ ] up in Ro God he got [ __ ] up and wrote everything what if uh St Bernard he got eventually got C he got clean and uh I mean stuff he's still an amazing writer but the the early stuff when he was Wilding you know the early stuff Kujo [ __ ] me up read Tommy knockers no Tommy knockers is a good one

Joe mentions reading 'Cujo' and 'Pet Sematary' on the train, then discusses King's writing process for 'Cujo' and the intensity of his early work.

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that uh that book the first thing I ever talked to you about was uh cabasa de vaka and then they were like the guy the guy they hired to do the navigating like [ __ ] up yeah and then they they had no idea he had to be like no I know where we're going

Joe mentions this historical account/book as something he discussed with Shane previously, highlighting the navigator's failure.

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when I was on my way into town I would read damn pet cemetery Cojo he said he said he didn't even remember writing Cojo just blacked out on coke and beer what yeah oh Stephen King rules dude rules he got [ __ ] up in Ro God he got [ __ ] up and wrote everything what if uh St Bernard he got eventually got C he got clean and uh I mean stuff he's still an amazing writer but the the early stuff when he was Wilding you know the early stuff Kujo [ __ ] me up read Tommy knockers no Tommy knockers is a good one

Joe mentions reading 'Pet Sematary' and 'Cujo' on the train, then discusses King's writing process for 'Cujo' and the intensity of his early work like 'Pet Sematary'.

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yeah it's like [ __ ] Red Badge of Courage in the Civil War they wrote a book that that was like it's not what you think it is it's not Glory it's cowardice it's it's the worst thing possible

Shane mentions this book in the context of the Civil War, describing it as a book that shows war is not glorious but terrible and about cowardice.

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did he do The Shining mhm yeah he rules oh he wrote The Shining he rules the book is even more intense than the the movie he didn't like the movie which is crazy

Shane asks if Stephen King wrote 'The Shining', Joe confirms, praises the book's intensity compared to the movie, and notes King's dislike for the adaptation.

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do you remember that we were talking about that movie the other day um that they made about that Stephen King book when he was Richard Bachmann the dark side we're talking about that movie do you know what that movie is no which one is it it was a movie where there was a guy who was a writer and he would have like these seizures and he would see crows and then he would become this like super duper badass who was the the guy who actually wrote all of his books oh okay so he he had like some sort of brain malfunction that led him to have a split personality but the other guy was like a real guy and I think maybe like it turned out he was like some dead bad guy who I don't remember but it was they they turn into a movie but it's crows it's always crows yeah those [ __ ] black birds are staring at you smart yeah they're funny dude The Dark Half that's what it is The Dark Half not the dark side yeah he's got a real dark half on Twitter that guy

Joe and Shane discuss a movie based on a Stephen King book about crows, and Joe corrects the title to 'The Dark Half'.

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