Misery
by Stephen King · first published 1978
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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. [Source][1] [1]: https://stephenking.com/library/novel/misery.html
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…reconstruction surgery due to Ritalin abuse, etc. (I'm not saying abuse does not/can not happen). Can you name any songs about one's love/hate for Ritalin? While we are at it, I don't think Stephen King wrote, "Misery" about his struggles with Ritalin abuse either... I just think using cocaine to damn Ritalin is such a glaring example of a false equivalence. The comparison does nothing, but further stigma people that…
on “The Pharma Cult: How America Became the Most Troubled Drug Culture” ↗…change depending on setting like temperature or prompts. Or let's try a different example. Stephen King wrote a novel where he imagined the protagonist gets killed and eaten by the villain's pet pig (Misery). He struggled to come up with a different ending because he said nobody wants to read a whole novel just to see the main character die in the end. He thought about it and did a different ending. Are…
on “The Singularity Is Nigh!” ↗…read five books so far this year. 1. The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason by Sam Harris 2. Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris (a re-read) 3. Lying by Sam Harris 4. Misery by Stephen King (a re-read) 5. The Road by Cormac McCarthy I'd probably pick The Road by Cormac McCarthy as my favorite so far.
on “Ask HN: How many books have you read in 2026 so far and which was your favorite?” ↗Something like this came up in Robert R. McCammon's 1987 book Swan Song[1], one of the first novels to win the Bram Stoker award[2] for Best Novel (alongside Stephen King's Misery that year). One of the survivors finds a glass ring (something like trinitite) among the post-nuclear-blast rubble of Saks Fifth Avenue[3] in New York and sees visions of the future (or something) through…
on “Crystals found inside wreckage from the first nuclear bomb test” ↗…with that at all. I enjoy reading Stephen King books, at times, but there aren't that many of them that have become great films. Off the top of my head the best King films have been "The Shining", "Misery", "Pet Semetry", "Stand by Me", & "The Shawshank Redemption". So many more films have been terrible (I've not seen the recent version of "It").
on ““Close to tears, he left at the intermission”: how Kubrick upset Clarke (2017)” ↗…believe Stephen King might be a p zombie and I'm skeptical you really think consciousness is an illusion. I think if i chained you to a bed and sawed off your leg (like what happens to the protagonist in Misery) you would insist you were a conscious actor who would prefer to not suffer. I don't even know what consciousness is an illusion is supposed to mean. If I sawed off your leg would it have the moral consideration…
on “The Singularity Is Nigh!” ↗