Misery

'Misery' is a gruesome story of torture with blood, guts, and a psychopath. It's a well told tale, the characters are well developed and the fact that there are only two of them never gets boring. It's a real page turner, in fact I finished it tonight after getting off the subway on the platform bef Leggi tutto

man sure does like his words

Honestly, who among us hasn’t gotten frustrated with their favorite writer and felt like holding them prisoner while forcing them to write the exact book that we want? Well, don’t do that because it would be wrong ! What kind of twisted freaks are you people?!? Paul Sheldon is a best selling author who Leggi tutto

¡JOYA! Una de las mejores antagonistas ¡escalofriante! Todo lo que necesita tener una novela de suspenso psicológico está en Misery.

El mejor libro que he leído de Stephen King. ¡Una genialidad! Me perturba, me encanta. Audio reseña aquí La mayor parte de los secuestros que se generan en el mundo son realizados para obtener dinero a cambio, para prostituir a sus víctimas, por venganzas, o simplemente por psicopatía del crimina Leggi tutto

One room, a strange couple, and lots of innovative ideas to deal with writers' block and stop procrastinating fast. Or… The most captivating thing about this novel is how permanent fear is escalating to more and more shocking and horrifying revelations, actions, and torture methods and how the feelin Leggi tutto

With the fore knowledge, I can definitely see how this was originally going to be a Richard Bachman book, with the carnage from the opening scene followed by darkness, madness and torture throughout! Lots of personal knowledge shared via Stephen King's addiction problems, gives this story even more

a list of things this book was: - disgusting - disturbing - a quick read, surprisingly - really fond of using sexual assault as a metaphor (cool cool cool) - harmfully stereotypical in terms of race (the Africa references/setting) - harmfully stereotypical in terms of gender (so much man-goes-to-work woma Leggi tutto