Just finished!

[blunthead]

I love Misery, the novel (as well as the movie). My favorite part of the novel is due to the hilarity I experience when Sheldon is trying to write the compelled Misery sequel and the typewriter keeps throwing letters; as well as the description of the imposed story itself, because I enjoy sK's description of his protagonists' dreams, daydreams, imaginations, invoked creative wanderings.

[Jojo87]

The ending was best part in the book. I read this 3 years ago and planned to re-read Misery soon. Because it was a great book.

[GNTLGNT]

For my big old self, it's when Paul is taking his "trip" outside the room while Annie is gone. Man, that one even made me sweat!

[rjt65]

yankees boy!! egads are u the 3rd Yankee fan i ma the residnet yankee defiant fan ! welcome!!!

i loved the whole book--- the torture is sick!!! hearing him try to do things and her coming home---gr8 stuff!

[Mookie]

I´ve a got a doubt, in the spanish translation she cuts the foot off, but in the movie she smashes it with a hammer, what´s the original stuff???, I´ve got an English friend who says that she smashes it too in the English version :S.

Ironically I came here this morning to post my shock at reading where[SPOILER]Annie Wilkes does not simply hobble P. Sheldon, she cuts off his feet at the ankles!/SPOILER] I was cringing in my seat reading that part!

[Mookie]

Ironically I came here this morning to post my shock at reading where[SPOILER]Annie Wilkes does not simply hobble P. Sheldon, she cuts off his feet at the ankles!/SPOILER] I was cringing in my seat reading that part!

correction She cuts off one foot and cauterizes it with a propane torch! And oh, the thumb.. the THUMB! I will never look at an electric knife the same again But, that's the point isn't it? Great book and as always, so much better than the movie.

[randallFlaggfan1]

correction She cuts off one foot and cauterizes it with a propane torch! And oh, the thumb.. the THUMB! I will never look at an electric knife the same again But, that's the point isn't it? Great book and as always, so much better than the movie.

It's great to know that you finished Misery, Mookie! And you're right: the novel is always better, although I do love Cathy Bates portrayal of Annie Wilkes. And Dolores Claiborne, for that matter.

[Pucker]

Misery will always have a special place in my heart. It was the first King novel I ever read. It was given to me by a friend of mine who was no great reader, but had taken up the habit after breaking both of his legs in an industrial accident and being bedridden for months. I think it may have taken me two or three days to finish it, and all I could think of was my friend, laid up in bed with two broken legs reading THIS !?! Well, needless to say, I began devouring any and all of Mr. King's work I could get my hands on and now, twenty-odd years later (and they have been odd years) I find myself still unsated. What I always flash on when I think of Misery is the way Paul would think of his pain (and his medication) in terms of the tide going in and out. That, and Annie flying into a rage about the coackadoodie cliffhangers.

[Percys Wet Trousers]

I just finished it last night too! (Although im certain it was a different night to you :P) I read the last 100 pages or so real fast and all in one sitting it was that good. One of the freakiest parts to me was when Annie found out the hairs she put down outside Pauls room had been broken, including the ones upstairs where poor old Paul couldn't get. Instantly this begged the question (to me anyway) was there anything/anyone in the house besides Paul and Annie and that creeped me out like hell. Paul all alone, confined to that room and something creeping about upstairs while Annies away.... But it turned out to be nothing

[keganbigger]

This was actually the first Stephen King novel I've read. Now because of it I don't want to read anything except him!
I loved the climax when he burned the pages and choked her with them. That was brilliant! At first I thought it was ridiculous that she was still alive, but when I read the last page, I understood King's reasoning behind it: she did eventually die in the barn later, but Paul never knew that. So he spent the rest of his life panicked that she was coming for him. Loved how he ended it! Perfect!