Misery

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Summary: A Famous Writers Nightmare
Review: Steven King does he have a fear of meeting a obsessed psychotic fan? I wonder? The writer send fear and I was sweating as I read this thriller. When I go traveling across country I now take my cellular phone because I don't want to meet Annie Wilks. The best Thriller I have read this year is Uri Gellers Dead Cold it seemed more real then Misery

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Summary: Amazing
Review: This book is breath-taking..On page 1 the action begins. We start with a man (Paul Sheldon) in a bed trying to think how he got in this situation.After a car reck women named Annie picks him up and gives him shelter.We see that she is Paul's biggest fan.Poor Pauly because this women is crazy.Paul writes these books and the main character is Misery.Annie is a fan for Misery and lives for her.Paul kills off Misery in the last book and this is the worst mistake of his life.This is where we see Annie go crazy.She wants paul to bring her back to life.Paul doesn't want to.But Annie has ways of getting him too.Like a needle and an axe and if that sounds bad she can really get nasty.I really recomened this book.It is a suspen es novel and get you caught up in it.

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Summary: Exciting Book and Don't Forget the Movie
Review: This book was amazing. Again King as in Firestarter veers away from his typical horror/supernatural story lines.

Paul Sheldon a writer is in an accident and rescued from freezing by what at first appears to be a sweet ex-nurse named Annie Wilkes.

While recovering at Annie's home because the phones are supposed to be out, his latest Misery Chastain novel hits the shelfs. Annie reads this and decides that Paul must write another and bring Annie back from the grave.

This is a gripping book that you will find hard to put down. King does a great job at making the characters so real. When she chops off one of Paul's feet with an axe and then cauterizes it with a blow torch will make you get chills up your back.

If you ever see the movie, Katheryn Bates portrays Annie just as I pictured when reading this book. And much like Jack Nicholson in The Shining with the famous line "Here's Johnny', the same holds true with Annie and "I'm your number one fan".

This is definately a great read. One afternoon is all it will take.

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Summary: Misery
Review: This book is a psychotic ride into the maddening world of obsession. In this book, Stephen King takes you into Paul Sheldon's hell, the home of his tormentor and obsessed fan, Anne Wilkes. He is brought he one winter evening after an auto accident, and Anne discovers his wrecked car and decides to help. I can remember the epigraph for part I of this book, the quote by Fredrich Nietzsche "When you look into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you." Because the abyss is where Paul has fallen. I liked this book, because it was both a romance, and a psycho-thriller. We see the relationship between Paul and Annie evolve. She is not only his nurse, but also his jailer, tormentor. I also found this book had some ironic humor in it, like the fact that Anne Wilkes was born on April 1st, 1943. Born on April Fool's day, how ironic ;). My favorite part was when Paul managed to escape from his room and into Anne's den. There he learned about Anne's past. I read this book back in 1986. I enjoyed it alot.

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Summary: Bitter, bold and brutal
Review: How would you react to watching, screaming, as a woman, who to you is unbreakable, forces an axe down onto the lower shin- and then as she removes the axe from your splintered bone, lifts it again, brings it down into the gaping wound left behind from the last blow- effectively severing your foot at the ankle?

My my, that's an ooby lot of pain.

Call me sick, but I loved this book. Misery is a King classic- psychotic, violent, complex, symbolic and affecting.

In some parts, the sheer weight of Annie's insanity renders this book also very humourous, in a macabre sort of way.

Misery is also claustrophobic. We are witness to the goings-on inside the mind of a captive man- write Paul Sheldon, who must write his way out of his own misery. He must resurrect Misery, the heroine whom he despises as a 'lessor' star of a 'lessor' series of books. Paul does not want to bring her back, but he must, if he wants to escape Annie's depressive/schizophrenic whirly-wind.

Buy this. Borrow it too. Read it, and you'll know what goes through King's mind everytime he sits down to write. Poor man. Lucky us.

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Summary: Descriptive
Review: Like a number of other Stephen King books that I have read, there is an abundance of descriptive writing that conjures up mental images that really make you believe that you are a fly on the wall of the story. The plot of this book is good and the images conjured up are at times gruesome and I could really feel Paul's desperation at not being able to escape or even know if anyone was looking for him. Despite this, however, this book just didn't do it for me. The Annie/Paul parts of the book were good, but the book within the book 'Misery's Return' was just boring - I skipped whole chunks of this to get back to the 'real' book. Overall I would recommend it to a friend if they asked me what I thought of it but I would not sing its praises. I am currently reading 'Rose Madder' and so far it is very good.

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Summary: Totally AWESOME!
Review: I was originally drawn to this book because of Kathy Bates' performance in the movie, but I never dreamed the book could make Anne Wilkes five times more terrifying. Fans of the movie will LOVE the book. Kathy Bates performance is still worth seeing, but it see it before taking in this marvelous read. You'll be too caught up in comparisons to truly appreciate the screen adaptation, otherwise. A DEFINITE BUY!

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Summary: CREEPY BUT NOT GORY!
Review: I remember reading this book 8 years ago in a staff house rumored to be haunted. Of course, that only contributed more to a wilder imagination! Like all other SK novels, Misery carries an element of supernatural. I couldn't consider the story as horror since there were no ghosts,apparitions nor exorcism --- but still paranormal in the sense that Annie Wilkes was acting abnormally. She was sort of a lunatic too obsessed with "Misery" & its writer. I also admire SK for being able to capture the readers' attention considering that the story was too tight-spaced ---- limited to 2 characters trapped in one house, with nothing to do but talk, write & axe each other :-)

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Summary: A Super Thrill Fest, King at his BEST
Review: I LOVE this book. The captivity, the plight of being paid to "create", the sheer malevolence of Sheldon's nemesis is fasincating because we see a bit of ourselves in Sheldon's "Number One Fan"... The mocking of the romance genre was really enjoyble and broke the tension. This book captivates you from page one and won't let you go, you will feel you are imprisoned with Paul, at the will of a madwoman.....Kathy Bates is SUPERIOR in the film by the way. don't miss either one.

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Summary: Why reading is better than watching the movie!
Review: I always say to read the book before you watch the movie version. This book is the one who started me on that kick! When I read this book ten years ago, I was only a high school student and thought, "Oh my God, that was so gory!" When I watched the movie, I was so disappointed! None of the real violent scenes were kept in. A lot of my friends already saw it but I got them interested by telling them that the really violent stuff wasn't in the movie. Stephen King truly masters the obsessed fan. The lengths Annie Wilkes will go through to hang on to her #1 author are frightening! Read this book and you will NOT be disappointed!