... King, author's remark) has created his most monstrous of monsters. Ultimate Evil as Ultimate Banality" (www.stephenkingnews.com/books/misery.html) How can you best describe Annie Wilkes? Obsessed, eccentric, emotionally unstable, mentally ill, perhaps bi-polar manic-depressive or even schizophrenic. All of these terms aptly describe Stephen King's ... knowledge that Paul is her prisoner. Her anger erupts further when she finds that her beloved Misery Chastain dies in the end of Paul's last book. "She can't be dead!" Annie Wilkes shrieked at him. Her hands snapped open and hooked in a fas...

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... heroes and heroines still thrive. Why, therefore, is JRR Tolkien or Terry Pratchett not the world's bestselling author? This is because the majority of the book-buying public are adults, and the majority of adults dislike the sheer difference of the worlds that these authors present. Even in "Harry Potter", we ... do. We are also interested in the subplots, for although Stephen King is certainly a horror writer, he can and does also write about life; about romance, friendships and their failings, disputes, brawls, parties and all the things that we do to live, thrive and survive. He does ...

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... have issued handsomely packaged translations of gnostic scripture and, in one case, even a collection of meditations called A gnostic Book of Hours. Among gnosticism's more celebrated adherents are novelist Lawrence Durrell and psychologist Carl Jung, whose loopy gnostic outlook has, inspired many a spiritual/psychological best-selling authors, from James Hillman to Elaine Pagels to Thomas Moore to Bill Moyers. Even Stephen King's current ... as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Mormon founder Joseph Smith. America's present gnostic renaissance lacks the social reformist impulses that informed th...

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