Misery, 1987
Please vote for Misery using the following scale:
5: I loved it
4: It was good
3: Average
2: Only so-so
1: I didn't like it
If you haven't read this book yet, please vote Never Read. Feel free to discuss your votes in this thread.
5: I loved it
4: It was good
3: Average
2: Only so-so
1: I didn't like it
Never Read
Bracket #5: Misery (1987)
Misery, 1987
Please vote for Misery using the following scale:
5: I loved it
4: It was good
3: Average
2: Only so-so
1: I didn't like it
If you haven't read this book yet, please vote Never Read. Feel free to discuss your votes in this thread.
A great book - 5!
One of King's absolute masterpieces. Short and to the point, without a wasted page. Five from five easily.
I'd give it a 6 if I could. As it was, I had to settle for a 5.
"People, especially children, aren't measured by their IQ. What's important about them is whether they're good or bad, and these children are bad." ~ Alan Bernard
"You needn't die happy when your day comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from beginning to end and ka is always served." ~ Roland Deschain
So would bears.Originally Posted by Daghain
Was in my top 5 until supplanted by Duma Key.
Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)
bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
5 no doubt. Another great example of King getting onto the mind of his characters. It's a testament to his writing that you basically have 2 people in a house for several hundred pages, with so much of the "action" being psychological rather than razzle dazzle, and you are hooked from page one. Even the book within a book story of the Misery romance novel is interesting, and I have no use for romance novels as such. King = genius.
(For an extreme opposite example of King failing miserably at the same basic approach, see Gerald's Game.)
5. One of only 4 or 5 books that I have sat down and read the entire thing nonstop.
Sloth Love Chunk
Great book. Gave it a 5.
Margaret Emmie Mackey Catoe, you are, have been, and always will be my soulmate, and I love you.
Con todo mi corazon, por todo de mis dias. And I always will, in this life and into the next.
August 2, 1947 - September 24, 2010
How is that even possible
To do it? Or to only do it 4 or 5 times?How is that even possible
Sloth Love Chunk
To just do it. I'm a slow reader, plus I maybe have an hour or two a day to read.
The books I have read in one sitting were read either on a long trip, or in an all-night marathon.
Of SK's novels that I have read in one sitting, I remember reading Carrie, Misery, The Shining and most of the novellas in this fashion. I recommend reading the novellas in one sitting if possible, it greatly enhances the story for me to have no breaks in it.
Sloth Love Chunk
I've read many the same way. When It came out I even read it in one sitting. With a great book I become deeply absorbed.
I read It in about 3 sittings the first time. You should lay off the meth Brice. haha
Sloth Love Chunk
Do you have one of those time-stopping watches?
*sniff* wha? *sniff*
Sloth Love Chunk
No, when I was young I'd read for a couple days at a time minus short breaks to grab a snack (no, not meth) or for the restroom. As a child I'd read about 800 or so pages in a day. Into early adulthood I'd not read at such a pace, but I could read much longer. Now it's hard for me to find that sort of time for it and I am distracted much easier.
I can do that as an adult. Put the kidsin cageswith grandma, grab a cup of coffee, turn off the tv, wrap myself in a blanket and waste the day away reading. I take days off work just to do that.
Oh, and I'm probably going to be tarred and feathered for this, but I gave Misery a 3. I just didn't like it that much.
A true firewasp ninja would never wear such a ridiculous sweater.
There's logic in nonsense.
Give me all the bacon and eggs you have.
Definitely a 5, no question! Annie was probably one of the scariest antagonists he's ever written, and it was just such a powerful subject with so many thematic implications to it. I adore books of that magnitude.
The only thing I didn't like about this book, and I think this was pointed out last year, was the "book within a book" thing. I could have done without reading ANYTHING about Misery Chastaine herself. The only thing about that that I DID like was the missing/filled in "n"s.
Sloth Love Chunk
I don't mind the manuscript parts, they're so badly done and over the top that it speaks a lot about Paul's cunning and will to survive. The book might have been nearly as good or better without them but I found they gave depth to Paul's character. The n's are great too of course.
This one left horror images embedded in my mind forever. Great read!
The poll has closed. Misery has earned a FAS (final average score) of 4.379746835 or 87.59%, placing 3rd in this bracket. It will not be moving on to Round 2. In 2009, Misery also placed 3rd with a FAS of 4.400000000, so it lost 0.020253165 (-0.46%) this time.
Thats a shame because i really like this book!
Well, keep in mind after Round 1 is done, six wildcard spots will then be promoted to Round 2. If Misery's earned enough to get into that group of six, it moves on. It did last year.
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