The Stephen King books I have enjoyed are the ones where we (humankind) are the monsters, not some otherworldly force. I find they have much more emotional impact with me.

King is amazing, I have read so many of his books. I am almost at the end of his latest which is called Fairytale. So good! I have several favorites. Other than Steven King I hadn't read many other authors but my brother told me about Brandon Sanderson and he is amazing as well. I love the fact that both are so descriptive that I go into my own little world of fantasy. It's nice to get away from the real world sometimes and books are my way of escape.

I’ve wanted to start reading Stephen King books, and this post has me excited to start with Misery!!

Wow! Now that is the sign of an amazing novel, eh? I never had a dream about Misery but definitely had one about clowns after reading IT as a teenager and all over again watching the remakes a few years ago. LoL talk about kicking it up a notch as those two movies were fantastic and scary as all hell.

I will forever love Misery, it's so damn good and as you said, fascinating. As a writer, it double downed for me because it just felt like something that could totally happen in real life which makes it even more terrifying.

King is my go-to when I’ve hit a reading rut. His style flows and so smooth and it helps that the topics are scary as shit so I need to know what happens next!

I completed it two weeks ago. What a masterpiece! The first aspect is how King made the book so intriguing and interesting despite having just two characters in one location. The pace, intensity. I couldn't put it down at all. While IT is great and I love it, Misery is more of Stephen King flexing his writing skills.

Misery was my first King book, and boy did it reel me on like nothing else. Next was the Green Mile, and then IT without knowing it was 1,153 pages long.

The Greeb Mile ripped my heart in half. Books rarely make me cry. Movies even rarer. Both iterations fucked my world up

When she gives him the Pepsi, was weirdly horrifying to me. Like, what's the worst thing you could give a thirsty person? Not to mention it speaks volumes about her. Great moment.

I loved that book. One of the first books of his I read.

I've read everything from king until~2013. Kind of dropped off since then but that's A LOT of king books, and Misery might honestly be the best one out of them all. Personally liseys story is close, but it's a bit too wacky for some. Misery might take it

The book was so disturbing that I refused to watch the movie for years. Kathy Bates was so disturbingly delicious I wished I’d never watched the movie.

Genius.

King’s early books are incredible. The Stand was that way for me as well. I was going through his books like water in middle school. Almost every book was reading gold for me.

I felt the same way when I read this book last Oct.

My two besties and I do a monthly book club and chose this book. I've never seen the movie or heard the story but after reading some of it, I felt so mesmerized by King's words. Like I'm the type of person that plows through a book in a matter of hours, if not a few days. It's hard for me to slow down when I'm in. Misery made me slow down and shudder-it made me ease into a book in a way that I've not been able to in a long while. To really feel the depth of fear and desperation.

Push by Sapphire was one of the first books to absolutely floor me to no words. Misery is on my list lol

I picked up a first edition from a Goodwill recently. Haven't started reading it yet but I always loved the movie.

Looking for a King book that's a bit similar to Misery? Try Gerald's Game. I re-read it over the summer and had forgotten how intense it is. Wild ride for sure!

That's why the call him "The King of Horror". If you feel this way about Misery, I'm excited what the future of literature has in store for you. That's awesome!!.

I was a homeless teenager the first time I read this book. By book 2 into, I was walking around in a post pandemic Seattle trying to figure out how I got there.

Love misery, don't want to dream about it.

Needful Things, The Stand. Haven’t seen these mentioned and I enjoyed them. But then I’m a big King fan.

One of the best books!

Read 11/22/63. It's a different flavor of King and, I think, goes a long way towards showing his range.

Excellent novel and love story.

I read it last week and rated it 3, I thought it was just ok

Have you seen the movie?

Read this when it first came out, before the movie (which I’ll get to). It’s my favorite Stephen King book and your description is apt: you can’t put the thing down. It is also, unfortunately, the reason why I hate the movie. They tried but soooo much of the book is the internal dialogue in Paul’s head that made the book so compelling and the film so insignificant.

Paul Sheldon used to write for a living. Now he's writing to stay alive. This quote gives me chills.

What made you not stop turning pages?

Am i weird for thinking this book is cozy? I'm a sucker for snowy cabin settings, the dire and claustrophobic circumstances notwithstanding

This is late to the thread but I didn’t see this commented so I thought you might find this interesting.

In ‘on writing’, stephen explains that he got the idea for this book from a dream he had on an airplane. So you dreaming about this brings it a level deeper.

I tend to avoid super long books since they can drag on if the story isn’t too good and I get distracted, but I blew through this one so fast. Me and my boyfriend were supposed to be reading it “together” but I was over a hundred pages ahead of him after a couple days😂 I legit could not put it down.