【原创】《Misery》作者：Stephan King (Loving Craziness)

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中文名，《一号书迷》。因为自己看的时候是英文版，所以想任性地写一篇英文书评，求斑竹不删哈。

【文案】
The novel was nominated for the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel in 1988, and was later made into a Hollywood film and an Off-Broadway play.

In Misery, a writer is trapped inan evil house during a Colorado winter. The novel bristles with claustrophobia, stinging insects, and the threat of a lethal explosion. It is about a writer faced with the dominating monster of his unpredictable muse.

Paul Sheldon, the hero of Misery,sees himself as a caged parrot who must return to Africa in order to be free. Thus, in the novel within a novel, the romance novel that his mad captor-nurse, Annie Wilkes, forces him to write, he goes to Africa--a mysterious continent that evokes for him the frightening, implacable solidity of a woman's (Annie's) body. The manuscript fragments he produces tell of a great Bee Goddess, an African queen reminiscent of H. Rider Haggard's She. He hates her, he fears her, he wants to kill her; but all the same he needs her power. Annie Wilkes literally breathes life into him.

Misery touches on several large themes: the state of possession by an evil being, the idea that art is an act in which the artist willingly becomes captive, the tortured condition of being a writer, and the fears attendant to becoming a "brand-name" best selling author with legions of zealous fans. And yet it's a tight, highly resonant echo chamber of a book--oneof King's shortest, and best novels ever.

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【原创书评】
The uniqueness of this fiction lies in the twisted relationship between the abuser and the abused. While the writer is confined and abused by the nurse, his survival also depends solely on her mercy. At first glance, Annie seems shy and neat. Her care for Paul was tender and considerate, with some book fan admiration thrown in. But as the plot draws on, her psychotic nature become clear to both the readers and Paul himself.
One of the most fascinating aspect of the novel is how Annie would switch between tenderness and brutality.  Because of Annie's attempt to disguise her viciousness, the readers are put on a balancing rope together with the main character. Continually trying to work out the best way to "behave", while struggling to run away or simply kill the bitch.
Although numerous critics say the book imply about the love-and-hate relation between writer and fans, the book really reminds me of the ways parents or elderly deals with children or their inferiors. In the name of love, dictation is often disguised and even dismissed as "suggestions".
Love is so often used as a leverage in people's relationship that the most beautiful word on earth is thus transformed into grotesque horrifying monster hungry for flesh... ...

【香】挑食君

虽然看不懂但是觉得很厉害的样子嗯…………………………不过话又说回来既没有原文链接又没有站内链接好歹给个亚马逊链接吧………………

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不好意思，刚刚完成了～