Writing does not cause misery,it is born of misery”

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Book author-Stephen King

Book title-Misery

Published date-1987

“Writing does not cause misery,it is born of misery”

Stephen King is probably the most popular author now writing. There are over 150 million copies of his novels in print and he makes $2 million a month from his books and the films of his books. He was born in 1947 in Portland, Maine, USA and became a full-time writer after his first novel, Carrie (1973), was sold for $400,000. Many of King's books have been made into films. The screen version of Misery was one of the most popular films of 1990. Kathy Bates won an Oscar for playing Annie Wilkes. James Caan played Paul Sheldon. You tan also read Stephen King's The breathing Method and The Body in Penguin Readers.

Many of King’s books have been made into films.The screen version of Misery was one of the most popular films of 1990.Kathy Bates won an oscar for playing Annie Wilkes.James Caan played Paul Sheldon. Misery is an American psychological horror thriller novel written by Stephen King and first published by Viking Press on June 8,1987.The novel’s narrative is based on the relatonship of ihs two main characters-the romance novelist Paul Sheldon and his deranged fan Annie Wikles.The book consist of 27 chapters.The major theme is “reasonableness”of madness.

This is truly an addicting novel to read. You truly never know what is going to happen on the next page due to the complete unpredictability of the novel's antagonist Annie Wilkes. Making a character like her is super impressive, honestly one of the best novel characters I've ever had the pleasure of getting to know. The Novel makes you cringe, makes you tense and it's got that turn paging addiction that every good book has... a gotta. As in, you gotta keep reading no matter what. The ending, even though you eventually think you will 100% know what happens, still gets you, and you'll be partly wrong as well. Paul Sheldon is quite a good protagonist as well. You feel his pain and even understand how he eventually sees Annie as a goddess. There is no supernatural aspect in this book like some other Stephen king books. And personally, that makes it all the more scary. It even feels slightly realistic. I'm sure famous people have this fear, especially if they have ever read or seen the movie for misery. This truly is a must read, and it's my first Stephen king book, I think, a perfect starting point and I am now hooked. Only a cockadoodie brat would say this book isn't worth the pick up.

When Misery opens,Annie is living in a remote cabin in Colorado,trying to escape her past.Annie has a lot to run from:She has been murdering people since she was 11.In her youth,Annie killed her father ,former neighbors,a colege roommate, and a hitchhiker.Then,she used her nursing gig as an avenue for murder.

Poul Sheldon is the main protagonist of Misery.He is author of the Misery Chastain novel series,and imprisoned by Annie Wilkes after a devastating car crash.He lives in New York.He’s a tall man,forty-two years old.He divorced twice and an alcoholic.

Misery is a fictional animal featured in the 1990 film Misery.She received her own screen credit in the film.Misery was a brown pig owned by Annie Wilkes.

While on his way to California with his finished manuscript, a snow storm that reports had said wouldn't hit the Sidewinder area brings hazardous driving conditions. Paul, still somewhat drunk from the champagne he drank to celebrate completing Fast Cars, swerves off the road and crashes his car into a snow bank. He is rescued from the wreck by Annie Wilkes, a woman who claims she is his "number one fan." Back at her house, Paul awakens from a drug-induced haze to discover that Annie has taken him from the site of the crash. Both of Paul's legs are severely broken with multiple fractures and his left knee is shattered, leaving him incapacitated. Annie keeps him dependent on "Novril," a (fictional) codeine-based pain pill. The Novril also represses his breathing, prompting Annie to perform mouth-to-mouth resucitation on him a few times while he was unconscious.

Paul is subject to (and terrified of) Annie's fits of rage. During one, where she critiques the foul language of Fast Cars, she spills soup on his bed cover, smashes the bowl against the wall, and very slowly and methodically cleans up the soup over a full hour while Paul writhes in agony for his pain pills. She forces Paul to drink the dirty rinse water in order to wash down the pills. He complies and is satisfied but humiliated. He lies back, vowing to kill her.

After a few days, Paul begins to realize that Annie is dangerously obsessed with him and his Misery novels. Annie reads Misery's Child and his enraged that Paul would kill off her favorite character. She leaves him locked in the room without food or water or the means to relieve himself cleanly, hoping he'll die while she's gone. Paul is also left without Novril and lies helpless in excruciating pain, unwilling to drop out of the bed for fear of injuring himself further.

When she returns, she has a new plan: she makes him burn the only copy of Fast Cars as a penance. Paul had refused to make a copy of the manuscript because he fears it will bring bad luck. After he does, she forces him to write a new novel, bringing Misery back to life.

Through a series of abusive and dangerous events, Annie tortures Paul by locking him in his room whenever she goes out to do her shopping and other errands. Paul breaks out of his room using a bobby pin that had fallen out of her hair and finds the Novril for himself. In another one of her episodes, Paul breaks out of his room again and, while he gets food and water, sees a memory book on Annie's life. The book contains newspaper clippings that tell the story of all of Annie's murders from her time as a child in Bakersfield, California to her time as a nurse across the country, including her time in Denver where she was brought to trial for the murder of infants when she was a maternity ward nurse. She was cleared of all charges, but was labeled "The Dragon Lady" by the media.

When Annie returns, she claims that she has left her hairs strung across the house and has found them broken, knowing that Paul has gotten out. To stop him from getting out again, she chops his right foot off with an axe and cauterizes the wound with a blowtorch. Paul almost dies from the shock and, once he recovers, is cowed and seeks to finish Misery's Return. Another argument with Annie about the typewriter and its missing keys sets her off and she cuts off his left thumb with an electric carving knife.

Early in Spring, Paul calls out to a Colorado State Trooper who has visited Annie's house looking for him, presumably because his car has turned up somewhere. Annie stabs the trooper multiple times with a wooden cross. Surprisingly, he survives and as he crawls towards his car, Annie runs him over with her riding lawnmower, later telling Paul that he killed the trooper by shouting out.

Annie puts Paul into her rat-infested, damp cellar to ensure he cannot signal to any visiting vehicles, leaving Paul terrified with the beginnings of a urinary tract infection. Annie returns from stashing the trooper's body and vehicle and tells Paul that he must finish his novel before the police obtain a search warrant. They reach an unspoken agreement that once the novel is finished, she will kill Paul and then herself.

Paul feverishly finishes Misery's Return in a matter of days, being interrupted only by two troopers, local police officers, and "gawkers" interested in Annie's infamous stream of death that follows her. Paul keeps his promise to Annie and makes no attempt to signal them.

Paul enacts his plan on the day he finishes his novel and asks Annie for a cigarette and a match to celebrate. She agrees and allows him one cigarette and one match. He also asks her to bring in the bottle of Dom Perignon champagne, prepping his revenge when she leaves the room. He soaks the manuscript with the lighter fluid and when she returns with the bottle and glasses, he sets the novel aflame. As Paul predicted, Annie grabs the flaming stack in terror, meaning to douse it with water. Paul slams the heavy typewriter into her back, bringing her down on the flaming stack of paper. A struggle ensues and Paul stuffs flaming sheets down her throat. She marches toward him, threatening to kill him, trips over the typewriter and hits her head on the mantle of the room's small fireplace, knocking herself out. She regains consciousness briefly until Paul can escape, locking her in the room, believing her to be dead. He crawls to the bathroom closet and takes Novril to help his pain and passes out.

The same police officers from earlier come back with the search warrant, finding Paul injured and disheveled and an empty bedroom. Annie herself had clawed most of the paper from her throat and escaped the room through the window. She is found by the two cops later, dead in her barn from a fractured skull, clutching her chainsaw.

Months after his ordeal, Paul sells Misery's Return and it becomes a best-seller when boosted with the real-life ordeal he went through writing it. Paul, now sporting a prosthetic foot, suffers from both writer's block and PTSD, plagued by visions of the murderous Annie. He has since become an alcoholic after his doctors weaned him off the Novril. One day, during his recommended daily one-mile walk, he sees an odd sight, a young boy pushing a shopping cart with a skunk in it, which inspires him to write again, unaware that he is weeping while doing so.