ORB #1

First Quarter Outside Reading Book Review
Misery By Stephen King. Penguin Books, 1988 Genre-Realistic Fiction
The setting of this book takes place in Colorado during the winter time. The story is about an author, Paul Sheldon, who is working on publishing his book and when he is finished he starts traveling to New York to have it published. On his way there he crashes in a bank of snow and is found by a lady, Annie Wilkes, who claims she is his biggest fan and is obsessed with him. She used to be a nurse and takes Paul in her house to heal him. Paul realizes soon after that she is crazy and just is capturing him to be with him and have him rewrite his story just to add her in it. When she left the house one time he saw a photo book of her life and realized she was a laid off nurse because she neglected her patients they died. Whenever Annie left Paul would sneak around in his wheel chair. When Annie realized she chopped his foot off with an ax. In the end Paul ended up killing Annie and escaping.
A quote that I really liked from the book was, “There comes a point when the very discussion of pain becomes redundant. No one knows there is pain the size of this in the world. No one. It is like being possessed by demons.” (Pg. 77) I picked this quote from the book because it really describes the point of the book in about three sentences. It is about the pain he endures throughout the book and it pretty much summarizes the whole book.
The author's writing style in this book is a very mysterious type of writing throughout the whole book because you don't really know a lot about the book until you get far into it. At the same time though it is a very suspenseful book and will always keep you at the edge of your seat. This book is like most other Stephen King books because it has a very weird but unique plot and it is suspenseful like his other books but this one wasn't as scary.
I can't pick a particular quote from the book but I can mention a part from the book that matches the authors writing style. When Paul is writing his new story he asks Annie to go to the store to get new paper so he can sneak around when she is gone and get the kitchen knife and the medication she gives him. While he is sneaking around in the house Annie returns to the house and it is a race for Paul to get back to the Bed before Annie gets inside. That was a very suspenseful moment in the book and that is an example of the authors style.
I really like Stephen Kings books but only the believable ones because I hate unrealistic books. I don't particularly like these types of books because I haven't read many but I thought the way he made it suspenseful really kept me into the book the whole time. This story line will stick with me for a long time because it really sticks out to me above any other book I've read and it is unique. Overall I really enjoyed this book and would give it a ten out of ten.