Misery

paperback

English language

Published Nov. 1, 1988 by Coronet.

ISBN:
978-0-450-41739-9
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OCLC Number:
16470105

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4 stars (142 reviews)

Novelist Paul Sheldon has plans to make the difficult transition from writing historical romances featuring heroine Misery Chastain to publishing literary fiction. Annie Wilkes, Sheldon's number one fan, rescues the author from the scene of a car accident. The former nurse takes care of him in her remote house, but becomes irate when she discovers that the author has killed Misery off in his latest book. Annie keeps Sheldon prisoner while forcing him to write a book that brings Misery back to life.

stephenking.com/library/novel/misery.html

71 editions

Misery

2 stars

Todas las señales indicaban que la obra de Stephen King no era para mí, sobre todo tras leer “Mientras escribo” y poder conocer de primera mano sus ideas literarias. Quise probar con una de sus obras más alabadas a pesar de contar con esa información de antemano y, efectivamente, no me equivocaba.

Lo digo con cierta rabia. Me apetecía sumergirme en su mundo de buenas y truculentas ideas, a pesar de que el principal problema que tengo es precisamente ese: que necesito más que una buena idea razonablemente bien contada. Yo en la literatura no busco únicamente acción, acción y acción; quiero reflexiones, quiero frases evocadoras, quiero que las palabras resuenen, quiero que me cuenten de una forma distinta una sensación ya conocida para que así se transforme en otra cosa… No encuentro en este libro ninguna de los deleites que me proporciona un buen libro. Creo además que ni …

Wie viel Spannung lässt sich in einer schon klar abgegrenzten Situation aufbauen?

3 stars

Obwohl hier die Geschichte schon interessieren kann, zieht King sie unerhört in die Länge: Auf ca. Seite 40 wird klar, woran alle Beteiligten sind. Bis Seite 100 zeichnet sich das ganze Ausmaß der Misere ab – und danach ist alles nur noch Stilübung. Wie viel Spannung lässt sich auf weiteren 300 Seiten Beschreibung einer schon klar abgegrenzten Situation noch aufbauen? Erstaunlich viel. Wie viel Überraschung? Naja, wesentlich weniger. Es ist kaum darüber hinwegzusehen, dass man der Routine eines Vielschreibers ausgeliefert ist, der seine Figuren und Situationen schon längst nach einem eingefahrenen Schema abarbeitet. Das allerdings kann er ziemlich gut.

Review of 'Misery' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

Note - I read the Dutch version so this review is in Dutch.

Wat een bijzonder boek. Ik ben nooit een fan geweest van Stephen King, maar dit boek, net als 'De ogen van de draak' zijn toch wel briljante producties.
Als je van onverwachte wendingen houdt zit je met dit boek goed. Aan het eind is er de nodige moord en doodslag en zelfs daar weet je niet eens precies wat er wel en niet gebeurt.

Aanrader als je van dit soort boeken houdt.

Review of 'Sie' on 'Storygraph'

3 stars

Obwohl hier die Geschichte schon interessieren kann, zieht King sie unerhört in die Länge: Auf ca. Seite 40 wird klar, woran alle Beteiligten sind. Bis Seite 100 zeichnet sich das ganze Ausmaß der Misere ab – und danach ist alles nur noch Stilübung. Wie viel Spannung lässt sich auf weiteren 300 Seiten Beschreibung einer schon klar abgegrenzten Situation noch aufbauen? Erstaunlich viel. Wie viel Überraschung? Naja, wesentlich weniger. Es ist kaum darüber hinwegzusehen, dass man der Routine eines Vielschreibers ausgeliefert ist, der seine Figuren und Situationen schon längst nach einem eingefahrenen Schema abarbeitet. Das allerdings kann er ziemlich gut.

Review of 'Misery' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

Everybody knows this story, mainly because of the movie, it is about a crazy lady who allows a writer to move in with her whilst he recuperates from a fender bender, things soon escalate out of control once the writer realises he is not in a 5 star hotel and the end result is one hell of a tantrum on a scale never seen before. Are all writers like this? I suggest kidnapping one and seeing for yourself.

The book is not one of King's usual horrors, this is suspense all the way, when reading this you'll be on the edge of your seat the whole time. Anne Wilkes is one of my favourite King characters, it makes me wonder if he met somebody like this in real life, King is known for putting events from his life into his books, so it makes you wonder.

Great book, probably due …

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