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PERRY
 08 Mar 2012, 19:45 #145155 Reply To Post
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!
dancingsue
 09 Mar 2012, 09:47 #145236 Reply To Post
I'm pretty sure she didn't chop his feet off. No medical expertise is required to break someone's legs.
the long and the short of it

Sammy
 09 Mar 2012, 15:34 #145270 Reply To Post
Quote: dancingsue, Friday, 9 Mar 2012 09:47
I'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.

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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.'
NickPoole
 09 Mar 2012, 15:50 #145275 Reply To Post

Didn't she chop his foot off with an axe?
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Sammy
 09 Mar 2012, 15:59 #145276 Reply To Post
Yeah, I think so. I actually preferred the way it was done in the film. Great scene.
This post was last edited by Sammy, 09 Mar 2012, 15:59
'Stay away from your potential. It's like your bank balance. There's never as much of it as you think.'
notleyab
 09 Mar 2012, 16:07 #145277 Reply To Post
Quote: NickPoole, Friday, 9 Mar 2012 15:50

Didn't she chop his foot off with an axe?


So he was: Foot loose & fancy free.
NickPoole
 09 Mar 2012, 16:11 #145279 Reply To Post
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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dancingsue
 09 Mar 2012, 16:24 #145282 Reply To Post
Quote: Sammy, Friday, 9 Mar 2012 15:34
Quote: dancingsue, Friday, 9 Mar 2012 09:47
I'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.
the long and the short of it

PERRY
 09 Mar 2012, 18:28 #145292 Reply To Post
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.
draig
 12 Mar 2012, 09:26 #145467 Reply To Post
Quote: PERRY, Friday, 9 Mar 2012 18:28
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.



Stuffed his burnt manuscript down her throat and bashed her with a door stop.
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