Review: Misery by Stephen King

Synopsis:

Paul Sheldon is a writer who suffers a serious accident and regains consciousness in a secluded house where a suspicious woman lives, corpulent and strange character. She is a former nurse, involved in several mysterious deaths in various hospitals.

A fan of a character in a series of books that he has decided to stop writing, she is willing to do whatever it takes to 'convince' him to take up writing again.

This woman is capable of the greatest horrors, and Paul, with broken legs and in terrible pain, will have to fight for his life. An obsessive and terrifying story, that only Stephen King could offer.

Review:

Misery is one of the many books that Stephen King has written.

"He lay back, one arm over his eyes, trying to hold on to anger, because anger made him feel brave. 

A brave man could think. A cowardly one, no."

The story is about a well-known writer named Paul Sheldon who suffered an accident and to his misfortune is found by a lady who instead of taking him to the hospital takes him home. There she gives him a sample medication, which is Novril, which by the way, this lady has boxes and boxes in the bathroom, and which are to soothe the pain in Paul's legs, since they are incredibly broken forming a kind of grotesque zigzag.

This woman who calls herself "his number one fan" is obsessed with a saga of this writer's Misery and forces Paul to continue the story with an old typewriter that is missing the letter "N".

You don't know how much I enjoyed this book, I couldn't believe what I was reading! For me this book was like a black comedy, because the woman is so evil and unhinged that I found it funny the things she did to poor Paul.

"How her heart beats! how she struggles to free herself! just like we do, Paul. just like we do. 

We think we know a lot of things, but in reality we hardly know a rat in a trap; A rat with a broken back who thinks he still wants to live."

I don't know how you will take it but I loved that the woman with not one screw loose but like ten! acted like that.

This lady is totally unbalanced to the point that it makes you nervous because you don't know what she's thinking, if she's going to explode with rage or give you a tender and maternal look back.

The story is very grotesque, and even bizarre,

Paul is a successful and quite proud man, and being held captive in his house by a crazy/innocent/evil woman, drugging him with novril and forcing him to go on with a saga (which he hates by the way) where everything is very dramatic and cheesy was very funny to me.

I loved the detail of that machine missing a letter and poor Paul having to handwrite it on the eraser.

I love how Paul demeans her and contradicts her in his thoughts when she tells him something.

"Psychotics, cradled by the poison of their egos, want to do everyone close to them a favor and charge them, too."

Another point I really liked is that Annie, this crazy nurse, is religious, in one part she tells Paul that she was talking to God, and that he answered her telling her that he had spared Paul's life but Paul had to write another Misery book.... I mean, this lady is delusional as hell.

I found the situation so bizarre and tragicomic that I couldn't stop reading it.

I read The Shining a long time ago and it became one of my favorite books by this writer. But Misery enchanted me much more than I could have imagined, so both have an important place in my library.

I think it's a very good choice to start with this author.

I don't usually rate my reviews, but if I did, I would give it 5/5 stars.