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Summary: Chelsea's Review
Review: Misery is a suspenseful novel about a writer, Paul Sheldon, who gets tortured by his number one fan. Every year he always goes to the same place to write his books. He had just finished his newest novel, Fast Cars. As he is driving home the radio says that there is a storm coming. He decides that he's far enough ahead so decides not to stop. The storm catches up with him and he crashes. He cant move. Luckily, a nurse, Annie Wilkes, is driving home and finds his car. She takes him back to her house without telling anyone. She cares for him for a few weeks. His legs are beat up and he's in terrible condition. Paul soon realizes that Annie has mental problems and cant control herself when shes upset. She is also obsessed with his Misery series of books. All she does is talk about them. SHe is more than obsessed. She even named her pig Misery after the books. After awhile Annie finds Paul's new book, Fast Cars, and asks him if she can read it. He says that she can, so she reads it. Afew nights later, she finishes the book and doesnt like it because its not part of the Misery series. Also because there is so much foul language in it. She makes him light a match and burn the novel, if he doesnt than she wont give him any medicine. Annie comes home a few days later with the newest Misery book that just came out. Paul gets nervous about her reading it. She has just finsihed it and she gets really mad at Paul because the main character dies and she realizes that that was the last Misery book. Finally she forgave him and bought him a present. She bought him a typewriter and paper. She wants him to write a new book called Misery's Return. Where the girl comes back to life and its a whole new story. She is making Paul write it. She buys him the most expensive paper that was at the store. Paul tells her he can tuse that paper becaue it smudges. So she tells him that she'll go get some new paper and slams the expensive paper down on his legs. This is basicaly what Misery is about. ~chelsea~
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Summary: One of My Favorite King Novels
Review: This book is one of the scariest books I have read by King. Scary because it is something that could happen in real life. A famous writer (Paul) of women's romance novels is injured in a car accident and kidnapped by a crazed fan (Annie). Annie will let Paul go on the condition that he resurrerect a popular character (Misery) that he killed off in one of his novels.Sounds easy, except that Paul must make it totally convincing (not just a dream like Bobby Ewing) or he will suffer excrutiating consequences. Annie makes for one of the most horrifying jailers. Someone that is very demanding and will go off the deep end for any little thing. Loved this book through and through. One possible drawback to some readers may be that King presents many pages from the Misery transcript that Paul was prepares. If you are not a romance novel fan you could find those parts boring. I rather liked them.
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Summary: An amazing novel
Review: Stephen King did a fanastic job with this novel. I suppose I have read novels from cover to cover in one sitting before, but I don't remember doing so with a novel this large before. This novel is that good. I remember thinking, I will just see how this part plays out and then go to bed, I went to sleep four hours later. This novel has so many plot twists it scared me. I was sure Paul was managing fine, then she revealed everything she knew, and wham, Paul lost some appendages. Then I thought I had figured Annie out, and wham, she does the total opposite of what I anticipated. This novel did something only one other novel has ever done, it allowed me to feel Paul's terror, hope, and arrogance as my own terror, hope(lessness), and arrogance. I think I even trembled with fear during passages of the book. Aside from the Dark Tower Series, I feel this is the best King novel I have read. What happened. Paul broke both his legs in a car crash. Annie Wilkes rescues him. Maybe rescue is the wrong word, she prolonges his life. She nurses his recovery using her secret stash of drugs, iv's, and splints. However, she forgets to notify authorities of Paul's stay with her. Paul initially has the strength to resist her and fight for his freedom, over the next months, he loses that strength. The main problem is that Annie is mentally ill. She sees only what she wants and ignores other possibilities. This is bad for Paul. Paul's first punishment for angering her is a two day stretch without painkillers, water or food. When she thinks he lied to her, she amputates his foot. When he complains about the typewriter she makes him use, he loses a thumb. When he gets the attention of a possible rescuer, she runs over the policeman with a lawnmower. However, Annie is now fighting a lost battle, the police begin to investigate, and Paul plans his revenge. His revenge is sweet, and his rescue secured, but he will always remain her prisoner. A chilling novel that I highly recommend.
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Summary: A Classic, and certainly one of King's best!
Review: It is a very good book. King is leaving his regular style of dealing with para-normal phenomenon, and start dealing with the most normal, and yet most para-normal thing: the Human soul. More than it is a horror book, it is a thriller, and a very good one. You feel the sweat dripping down your neck and your breathe getting faster when the hero is in tension and fear (and there are many moments like this.). This is a story about a situation that we wouldn't like to find ourselves in, and that's why I personally symphatyzed the hero, it is the story of the human soul in its struggle to survive and in the depthes of madness.
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Summary: One of Stephen King's very best!
Review: The movie was nothing compared to this! I had seen the movie several years before reading the book, but even though I knew the story the book captivated me! Once I started reading, I just couldn't put it down and, amazingly, I read the whole thing in about a day and a half. To this day, I can't believe how quickly I went through "Misery". I recommend this book to everyone! It is the best!
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Summary: "I'm your number one fan"
Review: I have in the last 9 months began to read stephen king books, although i have seen many of his movie adaptions before.Alot of people told me his books are way better than the film.Misery was one of my favourite movies and i couldnt imagine an Annie Wilkes worse than kathy bates.Boy was i wrong.Paul Sheldon is the novelist of a string of hugely successful romance novels about a beautiful woman named Misery Chastain.However Paul was tiring of writing Misery and eventually grew to despise his creation.In his latest novel he killed Misery off at the end.Now in Boulder Colorado Paul just finished writing a new novel called "Fast cars" and was driving back to new york to get it published when he is caught in a sudden snowstorm.His car skids off the road and crashes down a steep hill.Legs badly broken and his pelvis crushed Paul is rescued by a woman who lives in an isolated farmhouse in sidewinder colorado.She is an ex nurse and a huge fan of Pauls Misery books,not to mention she is a dangerous and obsessive psychopath.When she reads his latest novel she turns to a blinding rage and forces Paul to burn his only existing copy of his new book,and then write a new novel just for her which ressurects Misery back to life.Holding him prisoner in her isolated farmhouse Paul is helpless as he physically confined to a wheelchair due to his injuries,he must endure cruel and painful punishments at the hands of Annie and her deadly mood swings.Much more violent than the movie,Misery is one of Stephen Kings finest books and Annie Wilkes is without a doubt his most monstorous creation.
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Summary: Misery the Magnificent
Review: Okay, I read Misery about a year ago and I still can't stand how wonderful it is! Even though it took me like forever to finally get my mom to let me read Stephen King fiction (after all I was only ten at the time.) But still, if your looking for a shorter S.K. book, you better get... over to Borders and by it!!!!
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Summary: Excelente
Review: Esta novela es super buena, se la recomiendo a cualquiera. Sientes angustia, odio, repulsion, ganas de estrangular a Annie, y estas en una constante tension. Desde el principio al final la novela da escalofrios.
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Summary: My Introduction To Stephen King
Review: I purchased the book Misery after a friend pursuaded me to read a King novel, as that was all he read, Stephen King after Stephen King. After I finished Misery I could not put the novel into words! The sheer terror Annie Wilkes brought to paul Sheldon was hairraising. One of my favourite aspects about Stephen King's writing is the description, from the taste of raw Novril, to the poster in his room of L'Arc de Triomphe. The originality of the plot is amazing. Another favourite aspect, though a small one, is when Annie is telling Paul a little story. It is about the Overlook Hotel, which is the hotel in the film/novel "The Shining," where Jack Torrence goes crazy (I have not read the book, but I have the DVD, which I understand is completey different from the novel).
The plot of this novel is about Paul Sheldon, bestselling author of the romance series about a woman named Misery. After a near-fatal car crash, Paul is nursed backed to health by "number one fan" Annie Wilkes in her home. She is a nurse, an avid Sheldon reader, and a psycho. After she reads the latest Misery novel, she despises it. Misery Chanstene, the main character of the novels, dies in the end. Annie then forces Paul to write a new novel, just for his "number one fan." From a seringe to an electrical knife, to an axe, Annie will do anything in her power to keep Paul at her house to finish "Misery's Return," for Annie Wilkes.
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Summary: Misery: Nowhere near miserable
Review: Even though this was my first Stephen King book, it was the best book that I ever read. I had to do it for some book report. Even though the hardcover that I got had tiny print, I was determined to read this Stephen King book before the book report. I started on a Saturday. It took me a while to get through the small boring part at the beginning. However, once I got through that boring part the rest was non-stop, heart-pounding suspence and action. Some nights I would read the book before I went to bed (since I had no other time during the day). I would then go to bed and lay awake thinking how Stephen King would make the next scene. If you have seen the movie and disliked it, don't not read this book because it is a very interesting book. I highly recommend it to anyone that wants to read Stephen King books or to anyone who doesn't want to read his books. Two words: READ MISERY!
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