![]() ![]() The best parts of this novel demand that we take King seriously as a writer with a deeply felt understanding of human psychology. Sheldon is a revealingly autobiographical figure Annie is not merely a monster but is subtly and often touchingly portrayed, allowing hostage and keeper a believable, if twisted, relationship. Paul Sheldon, author of a bestselling series of historical romances, wakes up one winter day in a strange place, a secluded farmhouse in Colorado. Studded among the frightening moments are sparkling reflections on the writer and his audience, on the difficulties, joys and responsibilities of being a storyteller, on the nature of the muse, on the differences between "serious'' and "popular'' writing. ![]() Keeping the paralyzed Sheldon prisoner, she forces him to revive the character in a continuation of the series, and she reads each page as it comes out of the typewriter there is a joyously Dickensian novel within a novel here, and it appears in faded typescript. Sheldon has killed off Misery Chastain, the popular protagonist of his Misery series and Annie, who has a murderous past, wants her back. Paul Sheldon, a writer of historical romances, is in a car accident rescued by nurse Annie Wilkes, he slowly realizes that salvation can be worse than death. King's new novel, about a writer held hostage by his self-proclaimed "number-one fan,'' is unadulteratedly terrifying. ![]()
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