Best SK novel!

[Javier23gol]

As far as I've read SK novels this is the best and possibly the best book I've read after The Bible. I used to read like 3 hours a day this book. I used to say: "Well I finish this chapter and I go to sleep" but I can't stop reading it. It always makes you feel that something is going to happen next....

[JohnDalglish]

Hi,

Welcome to the MB, and keep posting!

And Misery wasn't even supposed to be a King book, it was originally intended to be Richard Bachman's 'breakthrough' novel.

Wasn't Kathy Bates fantastic as Annie?

Long days and pleasant nights

[Jojo87]

I've read this book twice. One of my favorite after Bag of Bones.

Yes John, Kathy Bates did a great job as playing Annie.

[GNTLGNT]

That's an interesting ranking I hadn't seen before: Bible-#1, Misery-#2-bet ole Annie could give the original serpent a run for it's money...

[muskrat]

Ah, I remember reading Misery for the first time. I was, like, twelve. I read the whole thing in one sitting--I COULD NOT PUT IT DOWN! It's a perfect novel...just perfect.

Movie was great. Kathy Bates is great...but I remember picturing Anne Wilkes as my third grade teacher Mrs. Smith. Oh jeeze, what a psycho beast, with those "painted on eyes"...eeek, she was a real battleaxe. Shiver!

[omm poppa mow mow]

I was and will always be intrigued by the use of the root beer initials of Annie Wilkes. There's other root beer characters, Audrey Wyler, Annie Winterbottom, Auggie March (if you turn the W upside down)....Absalom Whitaker and so on. There's a pile of them, but I don't have a list compiled and handy. I'm not that...whatever...label?

[Tinahorve]

Misery was the really one of the first books that truly scared me. Some of the parts (I think you all know the squeamish parts) were so horrible in the movie theater of my mind, that I had to put the book down for awhile and come back to it.

Is there something to the "root beer" initials?