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Quote: CaroleH Or you can even just identify with the reality of her situation - an isolated, lonely woman. Err - an isolated lonely woman who chops the feet off her favourite author because he wasn't writing what she wanted for her favourite heroine. Yet she has enough medical skills to prevent him going catatonic from the pain and/or bleeding to death. This and being able to hide all trace of a wrecked car. She also is a functional psychopath able to negotiate the community, yet she lives in his books, plus it never occurs to her, since she's gone ape anyway, that she might as well rape him. Uh ... huh!
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I'm pretty sure she didn't chop his feet off. No medical expertise is required to break someone's legs.
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Quote: dancingsue, Friday, 9 Mar 2012 09:47I'm pretty sure she didn't chop his feet off. No medical expertise is required to break someone's legs. I think she did cut his foot off in the book. They changed it for the film. I might be wrong. I haven't read it in a long while. x
This post was last edited by Sammy, 09 Mar 2012, 15:37
'Stay away from your potential. It's like your bank balance. There's never as much of it as you think.'
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Didn't she chop his foot off with an axe?
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Yeah, I think so. I actually preferred the way it was done in the film. Great scene.
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'Stay away from your potential. It's like your bank balance. There's never as much of it as you think.'
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Quote: NickPoole, Friday, 9 Mar 2012 15:50Didn't she chop his foot off with an axe? So he was: Foot loose & fancy free.
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Misery was (is) a terrific book and Annie Wilkes a compelling character. But it is a long time since I read it too...and I'm not sure if it is one I'd read again. I don't read King at all now, but once upon a time I'd read all he had written (that was available) and bought new books in hardback. Insomnia, Desolation, Rose Madder...I couldn't finish any of those and I'm not sure whether it's cos I lost interest or King had lost whatever magic he had.
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Quote: Sammy, Friday, 9 Mar 2012 15:34Quote: dancingsue, Friday, 9 Mar 2012 09:47I'm pretty sure she didn't chop his feet off. No medical expertise is required to break someone's legs. I think she did cut his foot off in the book. They changed it for the film. I might be wrong. I haven't read it in a long while. x It's a long time since I read it and Kathy Bates is now so synonymous with the character, that's the version I remember best. The last SK I read was The Black House, co-written with Peter Straub. I liked it.
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Did too. Did he kill her in the film by stuffing toilet paper down her throat? I didn't see it. That's how she went out in the book.
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Quote: PERRY, Friday, 9 Mar 2012 18:28Did too. Did he kill her in the film by stuffing toilet paper down her throat? I didn't see it. That's how she went out in the book. Stuffed his burnt manuscript down her throat and bashed her with a door stop.
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