![]() ![]() She's extremely upset about the death of Misery Chastain, the paperback account of which she's just finished reading. ![]() It's confusing and the language is profane. She doesn't like ''Fast Cars,'' the manuscript of which she found in his traveling bag. She found him in his wreck, recognized him and brought him home to her remote farmhouse. The woman introduces herself as Annie Wilkes, the No. He is being nursed by a large blank-gazed woman, who feeds him drugs periodically to kill the pain. His legs are smashed and screaming with pain. Now he is in bed in a farmhouse somewhere. He had gotten high on champagne, gone driving in a Colorado snowstorm, skidded on a mountainside, and flipped his car. What had happened, it gradually dawns on Paul, is that he had been out celebrating the completion of a ''good'' novel, ''Fast Cars'' - having two years earlier put an end to his best-selling Misery series by killing off its heroine, Misery Chastain. Something very bad had happened to him but he was still alive.'' He smoked too much (or had before all this, whatever 'all this' was). In the opening pages of ''Misery,'' the protagonist wakes up from a coma in excruciating pain and tries to take stock: ''He was Paul Sheldon, who wrote novels of two kinds, good ones and best-sellers. ![]()
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