Misery (CD-Audio)

from PaperbackPirate

I came across the book report I wrote in high school comparing the book to the movie. I am sharing it here for my own amusement: I read Misery the book and then saw the movie. The book was a million times better than the movie! Still, the movie was good. For my book project I am going to compare ...

from JaneSteen

Where I got the book: well, I was staying in my niece's old room while I was in England, my sister and her husband being happy empty nesters, and there it was on the shelf. A tattered mmpb with exactly the schlocky cover shown above, its pages yellowed like the teeth of a 100-year-old smoker, sme...

from bookworm_naida

Misery is the story of a writer named Paul Sheldon whose car upturned in the middle of a blizzard in the remote Colorado mountains and who has been rescued by an ex-nurse named Annie Wilkes. Annie insists she is Paul's biggest fan. Paul is famous for his historical romance novels featuring a hero...

from jseger9000

Misery is the book that made me a Stephen King fan. It was also the first Stephen King novel I ever read (after enjoying the heck out of the short story collection Skeleton Crew). I remember thinking that the book didn't sound very promising. But that first paragraph grabbed me and I tore through...

from santhony

As with many of King's works, I find his books that deal with real people to be far scarier and more entertaining than the books that involve supernatural (and many times silly) monsters and beings. Gerald's Game, Dolores Claiborne, The Shining, Misery are terrifying without being ridiculous.