The plot in Misery is far from original but King turns it into something special. Annie Wilkes is one of the most vivid fictional villains I’ve read about in a long time. One he’d killed off and now had to bring back to life.īecause if he didn’t, if he was Bad and Didn’t Do What Nurse Told Him, she would be cross –very cross – and do things that would make him scream and scream. All he had to do in return was to write a very special book, just for her, all about her favourite heroine from his novels. She’d pulled him out of the car-wreck, brought him home, splinted and set his mangled legs.
Coyly, smiling, she pillow-plumped and nursery-talked and made sure he finished up every last little scrap. Sickly-sweet, she smiled down at him, pushing the painkillers into his dry mouth with her big, work-calloused fingers. Mouth-to-mouth, the woman had forced him back to life, pumping great sickly-sweet gusts of bad breath back into him. It’s one of my favourite movies and one of the best adaptations of King’s work. Misery was adapted for the screen in 1990 starring James Caan and Kathy Bates ( (film). Misery was nominated for the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel in 1988.
The other two copies were read to pieces. The copy I re-read is my third copy of the novel. One million first printing $400,000 ad/promo BOMC main selection.Misery is one of my favourite King novels. The best parts of this novel demand that we take King seriously as a writer with a deeply felt understanding of human psychology. Sheldon is a revealingly autobiographical figure Annie is not merely a monster but is subtly and often touchingly portrayed, allowing hostage and keeper a believable, if twisted, relationship. Studded among the frightening moments are sparkling reflections on the writer and his audience, on the difficulties, joys and responsibilities of being a storyteller, on the nature of the muse, on the differences between ``serious'' and ``popular'' writing. Keeping the paralyzed Sheldon prisoner, she forces him to revive the character in a continuation of the series, and she reads each page as it comes out of the typewriter there is a joyously Dickensian novel within a novel here, and it appears in faded typescript. Sheldon has killed off Misery Chastain, the popular protagonist of his Misery series and Annie, who has a murderous past, wants her back. Paul Sheldon, a writer of historical romances, is in a car accident rescued by nurse Annie Wilkes, he slowly realizes that salvation can be worse than death. King's new novel, about a writer held hostage by his self-proclaimed ""number-one fan,'' is unadulteratedly terrifying.
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