Misery - [9/10]

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 It is a testament to an author's ability when the plot of a story can be easily explained, yet the final product can not be portrayed in such simple terms. An example would be Quentin Tarantino's 'Pulp Fiction' (or any Tarantino movie really). If you where to explain the plot of Pulp Fiction, it would be pretty easy to understand, the storylines are not complex. But it is hard to explain the feelings and emotions that this movie evokes when watching it. This is exactly how Misery is. The whole book is in one setting, it is a crippled and heavily sedated author who is under the care of an absolute psychotic fan of his. The whole book, nothing really happens, he stays in bed for the most part and then attempts to move around, but in the sense of things there is no real action/adventure in this book. It is an amazing novel of tension, conflict and suspense. The way that King sets this novel up is just mystifying, you are hooked the whole time by this psychotic die hard fan and how her character slowly reveals her true nature under her initial pleasant facade. Just a really interesting and different read. 


Author: Stephen King

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