Aug 6, 2026 · 40 min · 10 segments
*Misery* — a gateway for both of us, the film especially. But we’re both fans of the book and the movie. A warning, we botched the sound on this one a bit — so definitely turn it all the way up! The…
Simon SweetmanHostOscarHostthis came out in 87 and then the movie came out in 1990 so
yeah pretty pretty quickly afterwards obviously the the book was a hit and We've talked about this before in the other episodes that we've done to date.
So it had just come out the year before and had just been turned into a mini series and this follows on from that in terms of the timeline that this would have been picked up around a similar time and been big.
We'll talk about the book first, but for me, I just want to clarify what I started saying.
I bought the book very eager to read it, but I ended up watching the movie and loving the movie so much I watched it a bunch.
That's crazy.
Yeah, it's one of the more recent reads, and I must have seen the film ten times before.
that's crazy um i did watch the movie uh the movie first though um twice actually i saw it the first time and then i saw it at the movie theaters which was great
was amazing yeah um but then this was also my first ever stephen king novel I've read two novellas before this The Body and The Mist I think The Body was my yeah The Body was my first but this was my
yeah yeah this was my first Stephen King novel so it's very special for that reason yeah and I just fell in love with Stephen King immediately because of this
this is classic Stephen King storytelling and there's a bit of meta Stuff going on around it.
Yeah, so the whole plot of the story is that Paul Sheldon is a writer of a fantasy series called Misery.
And he's...
That's the character.
Yeah.
this came out in 87 and then the movie came out in 1990 so
yeah pretty pretty quickly afterwards obviously the the book was a hit and We've talked about this before in the other episodes that we've done to date.
So it had just come out the year before and had just been turned into a mini series and this follows on from that in terms of the timeline that this would have been picked up around a similar time and been big.
We'll talk about the book first, but for me, I just want to clarify what I started saying.
I bought the book very eager to read it, but I ended up watching the movie and loving the movie so much I watched it a bunch.
That's crazy.
Yeah, it's one of the more recent reads, and I must have seen the film ten times before.
that's crazy um i did watch the movie uh the movie first though um twice actually i saw it the first time and then i saw it at the movie theaters which was great
was amazing yeah um but then this was also my first ever stephen king novel I've read two novellas before this The Body and The Mist I think The Body was my yeah The Body was my first but this was my
yeah yeah this was my first Stephen King novel so it's very special for that reason yeah and I just fell in love with Stephen King immediately because of this
this is classic Stephen King storytelling and there's a bit of meta Stuff going on around it.
Yeah, so the whole plot of the story is that Paul Sheldon is a writer of a fantasy series called Misery.
And he's...
That's the character.
Yeah.
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