Group 3: Misery

[mae]

Misery, 1987
http://www.thedarktower.org/gallery/data/510/medium/Misery_face.jpg

Please grade Misery (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misery_(novel)) in the following three areas using the grades A, B, or C:


Strength of Plot
Character Development
Quality of the Story's Ending


If you haven't read this book yet, please vote Never Read. Feel free to discuss your votes in this thread.

IMPORTANT: Please make sure to select only one grade in each grading area. For complete instructions, see this post (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showpost.php?p=314275&postcount=1).

[Sam]

This is one of King's best works to date. I think I would have to put it in my top ten, if I ever actually made a King top ten list that is.

All A's.

[mae]

Cool, three votes thus far, including mine, and all are straight As!

[Melike]

Straight A's.

[BROWNINGS CHILDE]

Wow, this one is getting very consistently high marks.

[Jean]

yes, this one was easy

Quality of the Story's Ending is actually A++++++++++++++; it's the best King's ending I personally know.

[BROWNINGS CHILDE]

Yes, for me the character development was very easy to grade. Annie Wilkes is one of King's best villains. She is so believable. This is one of my favorites because there is nothing supernatural about it, there is just one seriously fucked up lady.

[Tito_Villa]

AAA ... and another one of my favourites! I really do love this book!

[mae]

I'm surprised this book didn't rate higher in Round 1, only garnering the 16th spot. I feel it could've placed in the top 10.

[alinda]

Me too All A's and kudos to the POV that AW is just
one seriously messed up woman.:lol:

[pathoftheturtle]

I'm trying to be tough in this voting; I'd hate to give all of the books all A's... but even though this is not my very favorite SK, I just could not find fault with any of those areas. AAA *shrug*

[NicNac]

Yeah, I'm trying to be tough too, but this got straight A's from me. And, in thinking about it more, I think I need to add this to my fave's list, b/c this really is one of my favorite King novels.

Though, I did see the movie first, and Kathy Bates will ALWAYS be Annie to me...normally that kind of thing bothers me, but in this case...I love it.

And I agree, one of the best things about this novel is that there's no supernatural...hell, as humans, we don't NEED supernatural stuff to be scary; we're scary as hell all on our own.

[Daghain]

AAA. I literally stayed up half the night to finish this, it was so good.

[Jon]

I found it too "one demential."

[mae]

The poll has closed. This round Misery has earned an OAG (overall average grade) of 2.807017544 or 93.57% in addition to its FAS (final average score), making it 7.186764379 or 89.83%. In 2009, Misery received an OAG of 2.727272727 for a FAS of 7.127272727, so it gained 0.059491652 (+0.83%) this time.

Grade breakdown:
Strength of Plot: 2.807017544 (93.57%)
Character Development: 2.859649123 (95.32%)
Quality of the Story's Ending: 2.754385965 (91.81%)

[mae]

Great showing by one of my favorite King novels! I don't know if it'll be enough to catapult it from 16th into the Top 10 for Round 3, but I certainly hope so!

[pathoftheturtle]

I found it too "one demential."lol, I don't agree, but I can see your point. :thumbsup: on the wordplay.

[Jean]

I found it too "one demential."lol, I don't agree, but I can see your point. :thumbsup: on the wordplay.
applause from bears

[BROWNINGS CHILDE]

I found it too "one demential."

Jon, I'm your number one fan.:clap: