![]() The book is good but the movie is better. Still, "Misery" is a good novel that could have been a great short story. Watching the movie after reading the book emphasizes the length of King's novel - a length that abruptly seems unnecessary and possibly tedious by comparison. Yet, the movie is more intense (helped not only by Reiner's direction but Kathy Bates' Oscar-winning performance as the deranged fan Annie Wilkes). "Misery" is a tense, page-turner of a novel. Annie keeps Sheldon prisoner while forcing him to write a book that brings Misery back. ![]() The former nurse takes care of him in her remote house, but becomes irate when she discovers that the author has killed Misery off in his latest book. short story comparison is readily there.įor older readers/viewers who grew up with the common movie analysis of "the movie is good but the book is better," finding the television show is as good as or in some cases better than the book is surprising.īut sometimes, the television version isn't better in many cases, an episodic adaptation can point out that the book and the season worth of TV aren't necessarily better but too long. Annie Wilkes (Kathy Bates), Sheldon’s number one fan, rescues the author from the scene of a car accident. Even for series and movies not based on books, the novel vs. In this age, when television shows can poke into every detail of a book adaptation (as well as adding some additional details) with varying degrees of success, many viewers may come to look at a season of television as being novel length and movies as being the equivalent of short stories. ![]()
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