5/24/2023 0 Comments King's book misery![]() We mainly sit with Paul in his bleak little bedroom in this middle-of-nowhere farmhouse and watch him stare at walls and escape into the authoring of a book he hates. ![]() Misery is one of King’s more subtle books. ![]() In a rare Stephen King twist, the supernatural takes a back seat to a far more insidious horror – that of a mentally deranged person, half psychopath, half psychotic and what we do to stay alive, how we cut out our humanity bit by bit to serve a broken body and a lagging sense of hope. She may just bring out the syringe, or the hammer, or the rats. And if he doesn’t – well, you don’t want Annie mad. When Paul wakes up in an isolated farm house, trapped by weather and his psychotic fan, he must resurrect Misery, his most hated romantic character, or face the wrath of his new care taker. A celebratory drink (or five), a curvy mountain road in a sporty car, and a pending snowstorm are about to rewrite both his celebration and his priorities.Īnnie Wilkes, Paul’s little known number one fan, has her own set of issues, but when she find s a blasted car skidded off the side of the road and realizes the bloody hump of meat inside is her favorite author, her scheming goes into overdrive. ![]() ![]() All that is about to change with the penning of his gritty new novel, Fast Cars. Paul Sheldon is a popular hack novelist with a long string of trashy romances under his belt and a disproportionate disappointment in his own profitable sell-out. An Intense Blend of Isolation and Insanity ![]()
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