Misery by Stephen KingViking - June 8, 1987
320 pages
Paul Sheldon has finished his last historical romance novel featuring the heroine Misery Chastain, and he is finally freed from her forever, having killed her in the last novel. Now he has finished his new manuscript, Fast Cars, and feels that he can truly begin his writing life. When his car crashes and he is rescued by Annie Wilkes, she tells him that he will not be released from her home until she writes her back to life in a new novel just for her.
Meanwhile, Paul realizes that he has become addicted to a drug she gave him called Novril. He needs to shake his addiction and free himself from her oppression.
A friend gave me the book The Stephen King Story while I was reading this, and while it was horribly out-of-date, it had interesting insight into this novel. Apparently fans did not like The Eyes of the Dragon (those fans are crazy) because it was not horror. Therefore, the fact that Paul feels chained to the character of Misery Chastain by his fans, who hate any other book he tries to create, is a metaphor for King feeling chained to horror. That being said, I was thoroughly pleased with this novel. It moves much faster than most other Stephen King books, which is a major complaint that I have. The characters are fully developed even in the limited space, and the plot is strong. This is one of King's stronger works.
Grade: A
Hey when you are talking about what you liked and didn't like about the book, you said while you were reading this a friend gave you the Stephen king story. That was me!!! It was not that out of date it was from '92, but I guess it was a little out of date. I thought it was cool that that friend was me! :D
ReplyDelete'92 was twenty years ago! Stephen King has written almost thirty books since then!
DeleteIt is not that long ago if you lived thourgh it. ;D
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