Is Stephen King a cat lover?
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MissMargoChanning — 18 years ago(October 25, 2007 03:57 AM)
Can
t be sure, but I think in the introduction of PPet Semetary," or somewhere, Stephen King wrote that at one time, he and his family lived near a busy highway where pets were always being run over and there was a place where the pets were buried. Either his childrens beloved cat was hit or he began wondering how hed be able to break the news to his children if it happened. Thats the origins of the book anyway. Its been a while since Ive read the book, but I could swear that I read something like that. Anyone else? -
Big Dick McGee — 18 years ago(December 07, 2007 07:06 AM)
thurber67,
You're correct. Stephen King's daughter Naomi had a cat named Smucky when she was a child. Smucky was hit by a car and killed, and after King broke the news to his daughter, he later found her angrily stomping around the house, crying, "Let God get his own cat!"
Smucky, of course, was memorialized in the novel "Pet Sematary." He shall be sorely missed; after all, he was obedient. -
d-r-baird — 17 years ago(August 17, 2008 07:28 PM)
To the person who gave this movie a 1 because of that one scene:
SK probably wrote this scene to show how crazy the business guy was and also to disturb people. This movie isnt a full out comedy it has to have something scary happen in it.
BTW im also a cat lover.
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beaterfred — 14 years ago(October 29, 2011 04:14 PM)
Also, his kid was almost run over by a truck as well. Apparently King just caught him by inches and he kept thinking what if I had missed, and this was the reason he wrote the book. He also said he believed Pet Semetary was the scariest book he had written and was horrified after he had finished it because it was so close to his life.
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DannX68 — 13 years ago(August 16, 2012 04:28 PM)
I'm also an animal lover who's partial to cats (and bears - King should have a bear in a novel, preferably a polar bear).
To the poster that finds King's love of cats frustrating: try reading Dean Koontz, he goes psychotically overboard in his love for dogs, they're pretty much saints and angels. At least King's cats are normal cats.
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masuka-fan — 9 years ago(September 16, 2016 08:47 AM)
As much as I think Steve is a good guy, I've always gotten the impression that he was not a cat fan. He seems to kill them off an awful lot in his stories.
(BTW, in Sleepwalkers, those dead cats you see hanging aroundthey're real cats. So, not really a point in favor.) -
MissMargoChanning — 9 years ago(October 22, 2016 03:20 PM)
(BTW, in Sleepwalkers, those dead cats you see hanging aroundthey're real cats. So, not really a point in favor.)
Do tell..
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I love both cats & dogs but am partial to cats & it makes me happy knowing that the great Stephen King is a cat lover, too.