Misery

King at his best...a winner. --The New York Times Nerve-jangling...razor keen. --Kirkus Reviews Dazzlingly well-written. --The Indianapolis Star Classic King...full of twists and turns and mounting suspense. --Boston Globe Page-turningly effective, stringing out every scene to the screaming point. --Chicago Sun-Times Vintage King...a masterpiece of horror...creates a level of tension that makes it difficult to keep your eyes from jumping to the next page to escape sooner. --Cincinnati Post As is his genius, King never relaxes the oh-my-god tension until the final paragraph. --San Diego Tribune Compelling...totally involving. --Library Journal Undiluted horror...wonderful...A primal storyteller writing about a primal scream. --Houston Chronicle Suspenseful, entertaining, genuinely scary. --USA Today Solid character delineation and terrifying insight. In addition to being able to scare the reader breathless, King says a tremendous amount about writing itself. We delight in his virtuosity. --The Washington Post Terrifying...King is a terrific storyteller. --San Francisco Chronicle Stephen King at his best...frighteningly good. --Philadelphia Inquirer Deft psychological horror...easily one of King's best novels. --The Boston Herald Unadulteratedly terrifying. --Publishers Weekly Misery had me on edge for days after I'd finished it... the novel is something else -- an airless, claustrophobic portrait of an egotistic writer pushed to the edge of madness by pain, pills, incarceration, the expectations of his reading public and a deadline like he's never known before. In the book, our hero is as threatened by the demons within as he is by the madwoman beside his bed. Like him, you the reader can't wait to escape; yet you can no more walk away from Mr. King's tightly spun yarn than Paul can walk away from his captor. --The New York Times