Misery
3 journalers for this copy...
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In Misery (1987), as in The Shining (1977), a writer is trapped in an evil house during a Colorado winter. Each novel bristles with claustrophobia, stinging insects, and the threat of a lethal explosion. Each is about a writer faced with the dominating monster of his unpredictable muse.
Paul Sheldon, the hero of Misery, sees himself as a caged parrot who must return to Africa in order to be free. Thus, in the novel within a novel, the romance novel that his mad captor-nurse, Annie Wilkes, forces him to write, he goes to Africa--a mysterious continent that evokes for him the frightening, implacable solidity of a woman's (Annie's) body. The manuscript fragments he produces tell of a great Bee Goddess, an African queen reminiscent of H. Rider Haggard's She.
He hates her, he fears her, he wants to kill her; but all the same he needs her power. Annie Wilkes literally breathes life into him.
Misery touches on several large themes: the state of possession by an evil being, the idea that art is an act in which the artist willingly becomes captive, the tortured condition of being a writer, and the fears attendant to becoming a "brand-name" bestselling author with legions of zealous fans. And yet it's a tight, highly resonant echo chamber of a book--one of King's shortest, and best novels ever. --Fiona Webster
In Misery (1987), as in The Shining (1977), a writer is trapped in an evil house during a Colorado winter. Each novel bristles with claustrophobia, stinging insects, and the threat of a lethal explosion. Each is about a writer faced with the dominating monster of his unpredictable muse.
Paul Sheldon, the hero of Misery, sees himself as a caged parrot who must return to Africa in order to be free. Thus, in the novel within a novel, the romance novel that his mad captor-nurse, Annie Wilkes, forces him to write, he goes to Africa--a mysterious continent that evokes for him the frightening, implacable solidity of a woman's (Annie's) body. The manuscript fragments he produces tell of a great Bee Goddess, an African queen reminiscent of H. Rider Haggard's She.
He hates her, he fears her, he wants to kill her; but all the same he needs her power. Annie Wilkes literally breathes life into him.
Misery touches on several large themes: the state of possession by an evil being, the idea that art is an act in which the artist willingly becomes captive, the tortured condition of being a writer, and the fears attendant to becoming a "brand-name" bestselling author with legions of zealous fans. And yet it's a tight, highly resonant echo chamber of a book--one of King's shortest, and best novels ever. --Fiona Webster
Released on Thursday, April 01, 2004 at Hjørnet af H.C. Ørstedsvej/Fuglevangsvej in Frederiksberg C, Sjælland Denmark.
I'll leave this classic horror story in the phone booth. Look up a bit, because I'll place it where only BC'ers, who know it's there, will find it. Enjoy!
April 4: it's still there!!
I'll leave this classic horror story in the phone booth. Look up a bit, because I'll place it where only BC'ers, who know it's there, will find it. Enjoy!
April 4: it's still there!!
Misery is here!
I do not know if I will be able to read it! Time will show ... First I must celebrate my silverwedding with the worlds most wonderful woman. Then I hope to get the time. I will take care of Misery.
My wife is a nurse ... My legs are okay.
We have seen Misery ad theatre 3 years ago. UUUUUUhhhhhh!!!!
Andersene
CAUGHT IN COPENHAGEN DENMARK
I do not know if I will be able to read it! Time will show ... First I must celebrate my silverwedding with the worlds most wonderful woman. Then I hope to get the time. I will take care of Misery.
My wife is a nurse ... My legs are okay.
We have seen Misery ad theatre 3 years ago. UUUUUUhhhhhh!!!!
Andersene
CAUGHT IN COPENHAGEN DENMARK
Journal Entry 4 by Andersene from København K - City, København Amt Denmark on Sunday, April 25, 2004
I have not read the book yet.
Journal Entry 5 by Andersene from København K - City, København Amt Denmark on Sunday, April 25, 2004
Forgot to say, that I am the anonymous finder (15.4.04)
