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Summary: Excellent
Review: Truly a great and well written book. Great Job Stephen King!
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Summary: Misery is just having to put the book down.
Review: This book is one that keeps you on the edge of your seat. I had trouble putting it down.
Stephen King draws you into the scene, and without even seeing the movie, you can see the barn, and Anne Wilkes herself. When Anne Wilkes, the crazy housekeeper enters the room, there is a tingly feel that went down my spine. Characters like this make the book great. Stephen king made the book have a television screen in my mind's eye.
Stephen King has made this book not really horrifying, but deeply, and emotionally scary, like his other #1 best seller "It." The book just draws you in.
I found this book great because I can always talk about something new, and whoever I talk to who has read the book can always find some sort of fact that the other person had picked up, while reading the book.
This book was my first Stephen king book, and now I read almost all of his pieces, and eventually plan to read them all.
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Summary: Stephen King Interrupts My Life
Review: There is one big problem with Stephen King: he interrupts my life. What I mean to say is that once I start reading one of his books, I can't stop. Nothing gets done around the house, I have less time with my wife and children, the dog doesn't get walked, and you can forget about the stack of papers I brought home from the office to review over the weekend. This is exactly what happened when, on a Friday night, I decided I needed something easy to read, a page-turner, a plain old story-in short, something by Stephen King, the modern American master of the ripping yarn, replete with its baggage of cultural references no one will be able to decode a hundred years from now and deficient only if you cannot abide horror or terror or the macabre. Once I started "Misery," I didn't put it down until I was finished, and I loved every reading minute of it. "Misery" is not one of King's typical horror stories, that is, it does not require "the willing suspension of disbelief" that is needed when you read about telekinetic powers ("Carrie" or "Firestarter"), monsters from sewers ("It"), vampires ("Salem's Lot"), or any one of King's many other supernatural or unnatural characters (a very long list of King's books). "Misery" is, instead, one of King's stories that, while extreme and terrifying, is also realistically possible. It is one of his better books, written during a time when he wrote a string of similar, realistic horror stories that I consider among his best, including "Dolores Claiborne," "Gerald's Game" and "Rose Madder." The plot is straightforward. Paul Sheldon is a popular author known for his series of novels featuring a character named Misery Chastain. Sheldon finally kills off Misery, thereby ridding him, once and for all, of the pulpy best selling series and allowing him to move on, living off the royalties, to write more highbrow literary novels. Sheldon has, in fact, just finished writing such a novel and is driving home, manuscript in tow (the only copy, in fact), when he drives off a road in the wilds of Colorado during a blinding snowstorm. He is severely injured and, under less fortunate circumstances, his car probably would have been buried in snow and he would have died of exposure. Instead, he has the blessed fortune to be found by Annie Wilkes, one of his most devoted fans, an avid admirer of the Misery Chastain novels, and a reclusive-and deadly-psychopath. Annie, a nurse by training, takes the author to her home, where she holds him captive for several months while he resurrects Misery Chastain, writing a new novel in the series for Annie Wilkes's private enjoyment. The Babylonian Captivity pales in comparison to the mental and physical tortures that author Paul Sheldon endures, and King keeps the reader turning the pages, wondering what cruel or grisly event will follow one of Annie's many mood changes. It is vintage Stephen King, one of his better efforts, a book that I highly recommend if you're a King fan and, if your not, a good place to get some insight into King's imagination and skill as a story teller. It is also an interesting book for many other reasons, not the least of which are the way in which the plot of his novel is a kind of horror-writer's take on the relationship between author and editor, as well as between author and reader (Annie Wilkes, his mentally deranged, sadistic fan becoming not only his reader, but also his editor-in-captivity), the way in which an author who may have more serious literary aspirations can become captive to a reading public that becomes enthralled with his commercially-motivated work, and the way in which "Misery," as well as several other works written around this same period, embody things going on in King's own life (see, in this regard, his autobiographical piece in his book, "On Writing"). While "Misery" may not be a great work of literature by highbrow standards, it is a great piece of storytelling by an author who is, perhaps, America's foremost popular, contemporary storyteller. For that reason, if no other, it's worth putting everything aside for awhile and just reading.
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Summary: Misery
Review: I didn't like the book Misery written by Stephen King because it draged on until the very end. There were some parts in it that were very discusting. The story draged on and it made it confusing cecause you didnt't know if he was dreaming or it was really happening. The oher thing I didn't like about this book is it curses to much, and it had hardley any kind of action till the end. I wouldn't recommend thios bokk to anyone.
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Summary: She's No Girlscout!
Review: To those of you who haven't read this book but have seen the movie------Carl Reiner turned Annie into a girl scout! You don't know Annie until you've read the book and she will scare the HELL out of you!!!!! She is your worst nightmare! I'd say keep up the good work Stephen,but what can I say-----------he has!!!!
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Summary: creepy and hysterical
Review: Between the brutal and the hysterical, King manages to capture the madness of not only writing, but every day life, as seen thru the eyes of both the insane and the slowly going insane. More disturbing and graphic than the fine film version, the violent scenes here are more repellent, altho the riding lawn mower encounter had me laughing with over the top delight. Did King go too far here? probably, but you can't fault his imagination or his wicked ability to create real characters out of the most extreme circumstances. Despite his penchant for the cheesey pop culture reference, this is still a delicious little treat that will leave you a bit drained in the end. Where else can you go after a blow torch and an electric knife? How about a romance heroine covered by killer bees? (If these are possible spoilers, I apologize. if you've read the book already, you'll know what they mean).
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Summary: MY FAVORITE BOOK!!
Review: This book is amazing! I was surprised at how different, yet brilliant this book was. The first thing I've heard from many people is that they saw the movie and that was good enough for them. I have to admit, the movie was great, but terrible if compared to the book. For those of you who have seen the movie and loved it, you should read the book for a pleasant surprise. If you have read the book, don't see the movie, because it is utterly disappointing. In the book, a famous author, Paul Sheldon, is in a huge car crash and taken in by his #1 fan, Annie Wilkes, a former nurse who knows what she is doing. She nurses him to health, and there is only one problem: she is nuts. She is extremely angered when she finishes Sheldon's latest book about his great character, Misery Chastain. In that book, Misery dies during childbirth. Now Annie wants him to write a new Misery novel: Misery's Return. He can't escape, and she will, and does, torture him until he writes it. Intrigued?? You should be! Read it!
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: I was looking so forward to reading Misery by Stephen King. Having heard that it was one of his better novels, I anticipated the novel to rank high on my list of all time great King books. Boy was I surprised. The novel doesn't really take off at any point, and kind of drags on and on and on. Paul Sheldon is nothing compared to the writer heriones King created in most of his novels. For example, Jack Torrance in The Shining and Mike Noonan in Bag of Bones, are great characters, while Paul just meanders aroun (not literally of course)and doesn't interest us at all. Therfore, when Annie begins to torture him, we could really care less. The end of the novel is very scary, I will give King that, I did indeed have goosebumps on my flesh with the final encounter, or the second final encounter I guess you could say. Overall though, Misery falls short, and when you're done reading it, you realize the only misery you've experienced, is your feelings about this book. Oh well, one bad book out of thirty, not to shabby.
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Summary: Pure Horror
Review: King really did his craft proud when he put this book together. This book frightened me for weeks, and I loved it! This book is rather traditional for Stephen King compared to some of his more out there books and series, but this is horror writing at its best. If you like horror stories, you will love this book.
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Summary: My Favorite S.King Book!
Review: Like the title suggests, this is my favorite Stephen King book. I think that both Annie and Paul are both very well described in the book. The violent scenes are very well described too. My favorite part is when she breaks Paul's feet with the sledgehammer. Oh, and the lawnmower part is hilarious!
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