YA Buddy Readers' Corner ♥ discussion

Paul Sheldon. He's a bestselling novelist who has finally met his biggest fan. Her name is Annie Wilkes and she is more than a rabid reader - she is Paul's nurse, tending his shattered body after an automobile accident. But she is also his captor, keeping him prisoner in her isolated house.

I'll join you guys for this one! =)

Drishti wrote: "I'll join you guys for this one! =)"

Awesome :D
Glad to have you join us~

I would like to join too! Sounds like a good read!

Erika, welcome. Glad for you to join us :)

Going to start tonight :)

chapter 1 & 2 (view spoiler)[ i wasn't expecting to be introduced to Annie that way...that was gross. (view spoiler)[ (hide spoiler)] (hide spoiler)]

chapter 3 & 4 (view spoiler)[ DAMN SHE IS CRAZY. also i kinda know the beggining of the book because i've seen the movie trailer. (view spoiler)[ (hide spoiler)] (hide spoiler)]

chapter 5-12 (view spoiler)[ annie kinda scared me when she threw the bowl to the wall, just knowing that she could kill him straight away makes it intense... (view spoiler)[ (hide spoiler)] (hide spoiler)]

chapter 13-22 (view spoiler)[ i really want the police to find her but that ain't gonna happen soon...lol (view spoiler)[ (hide spoiler)] (hide spoiler)]

I'm afraid I won't be able to keep my word on this one. It's just that I'm a bit over-scheduled this month. Sorry, guys! =(

*******************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★

Date Changed. Restarting April 17th 2018. Happy Reading ☺

★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★
***********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************

************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★

Date changed. Restarting February 21st 2020. Happy Reading ☺

★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★
************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************

************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★

Date changed. Restarting May 25th 2023. Happy Reading ☺

★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★
************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************

Started early!

Ch 19
(view spoiler)[This is the first book I’ve ever read by Stephen King, can’t wait! Okay there are no white spaces or anything, just laps of text 🤣

confusing start already hm. So something happened to him, and Annie is giving him meds/saved his life apparently. Holy crap she’s already so messed up, making him take his meds with dirty water that she used to clean?? Gross omg. And he’s definitely addicted omg. I wonder whether there is actually something wrong with his legs or whether she has done something to them?

Oh no she now knows the end of misery and basically blew an artery oh help. He drank his own piss omg this is getting worse and worse already. He had to burn his book!! Why does that physically hurt me lmao, it was the only copy 😭😭😭 (hide spoiler)]

Part 2 - ch 9
(view spoiler)[Damn at least he got out for a sec to get more pills!! This woman is bloody scary ngl, and she’s making him rewrite Misery. At least he’s slowly fighting back I guess?

Omg I’m fully invested in Misery’s story too now 🤣🤣 The idea of her being buried alive omg! I completely forgot that I was not actually reading that book for a sec 🤣 and the guy who visited Annie - why do I feel like he’s her brother? Her brother is either dead or she doesn’t have contact with him idk. (hide spoiler)]

Part 3
(view spoiler)[I was literally just thinking that it wasn’t so bad, since Annie inspired him to write and he’s writing more than ever, but then she killed a rat ew!! I was sure she was going to force him to eat it omg.

She killed so many as a nurse aaaaah!! But the man with the axe, why would she kill him? Ah apparently because he lied to her then. holy SHIT SHE CHOPPED OFF HIS FOOT!! This is insane. I genuinely thought this wasn’t that bad so far🤣 she kinda reminds me of the parents from the horror game resident evil, with their crazy and gross food ew. (hide spoiler)]

Ch 29
(view spoiler)[Misery being covered in bees is like the worst nightmare ever?? The letters falling out of the typewriter is kinda funny though oop, since it kinda resembles how Paul is slowly losing it too. Sorry he lost his thumb too? How did I miss that???

Oh never mind, it got explained 🤣 Ewwww and the cake with his thumb on it she’s completely losing it now😭 I was happy that the policedude came, and then he died and SHE RAN HIM OVER WITH A LAWNMOWER. Fuck me it’s getting worse and worse 🤣

she threw him in the basement with the spiders and rats holy shit worst nightmare. We’re truly nearing the endgame now. I hope he won’t burn his manuscript ngl. (hide spoiler)]

Finished
(view spoiler)[The police is back aaaah!!! Can’t wait to see how his manuscript will end tbh. Noooo he did burn it!! Feel weirdly sad about that :( but damn the scene with her was so intense, I still don’t really know what happened.

HE DIDN’T BURN IT!! SHE ISNT DEAD HOLY FUCK SHES GONE!! She had better not taken the manuscript.

Oh damn so she is dead! Thank the stars. It was kinda ironic that she was the reason for his productiveness and that he’s back to not productive again - although he at least started writing again near the end. So intense pff, glad it sorta ended well? Although I feel weirdly sad about the fact that she never read the end 🤣 and I still feel a little weird, as if she’s hiding around every corner lmao. (hide spoiler)]

girl. u r on a rampage!!! I'm gonna try to get to it in a couple days. I have another BR that starts today.

Yes omg I just flew through!! Had some free time teehee :) Take your time though!

****************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★

Date changed. Restarting October 2024. Happy Reading ☺

★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★
**************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************

****************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★

Date changed. Restarting October 6th 2024. Happy Reading ☺

★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★
**************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************

I started early i hope that's ok
I'm 30% through the book

(view spoiler)[ I've seen bits of this through parodys on shows and stuff but I've never seen the movie or read it. It's very visceral and depressing so far which i like. I didn't realize how insane she actually is and what Paul has to go through. I can't imagine being in that bad of shape and being treated like that. (hide spoiler)]

Part one chapter 10 (about 6%)
(view spoiler)[ SHE JUST MADE HIM DRINK THE DIRTY WATER??? oh this is gonna be wild (hide spoiler)]

Julianne wrote: "Part one chapter 10 (about 6%)
[spoilers removed]"

(view spoiler)[ sometimes you're realllly thirsty.......... (hide spoiler)]

like 51%

(view spoiler)[pauls gonna eat a rat. annie is so crazy i woulda just said yes to her ending the both of them tbh (hide spoiler)]

56%

(view spoiler)[ oh she be killing people......... (hide spoiler)]

66%

(view spoiler)[OH HIS LEG GETS CUT OFF? HACKED OFF? I THOUGHT IT JUST GOT REBROKEN OH NO THAT WAS HORRIFIC (hide spoiler)]

72%

(view spoiler)[ oh random n bomb ok annie and just paul casually hinting that hes missing a thumb.... (hide spoiler)]

80%

(view spoiler)[ no leg? fine. no thumb? ok. dead cop? sucks but ill be ok. yucky basement with rats and spiders? thats the line annie (hide spoiler)]

20% (view spoiler)[ i got a kick out of the sports casters in his head for him trying to escape the bedroom (hide spoiler)]

45% (view spoiler)[ big mistake not taking Annie's writing advice about it being a bee sting!! Now shes gonna treat you all badly again Paul (hide spoiler)]

Zach wrote: "56%

[spoilers removed]"


(view spoiler)[ she would have 100% gotten away with it if she didnt go after babies!!! And shes already putting Pauls info in her book too (hide spoiler)]

75% (view spoiler)[ ok him screaming africa made me kinda laugh but i think he just made everything so much worse for himself (hide spoiler)]

Finished

(view spoiler)[ i finished it and loved it. I loved her breaking and finally getting caught and found out. I loved Paul planning to kill her and succeeding. It was horrible how much it took her to finally get put down and he was still convinced she was still gonna get up and go after him. Really excited to see the movie now finally. (hide spoiler)]

Zach wrote: "80%

[spoilers removed]"


I think he was more worried about getting eaten, or an infection

Finished (view spoiler)[ i liked it a lot!! I liked how he ended up doing to her almost exactly what she did to him. I liked his extreme paranoia of running into her while he made his escape. I think Annie helped him though because he did end up writing the best book he ever wrote (hide spoiler)]