So only twenty six years after purchasing a paperback copy of
Misery I finally got around to reading it. Progress has been made on my stack of King novels that I purchased as a teenager for the first time in decades! Since I've seen the movie the book didn't have too many surprises except that I think the whole foot hobbling thing is more gruesome in the novel. By reading it well after its release I was able to read about some of the influences on King while writing it (his increasing drug dependence and feelings that his fans only wanted horror novels) and that made the story a bit deeper. As in most books about a writer this one mentioned a lot of list book :
The Count of Monte Cristo, The Lord of the Flies, The Lord of the Rings, Alice in Wonderland, Tess of the D'Urbervilles and
The Sound and the Fury. This is one of his better works... A-.
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