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Stephen Kingcast

Episode 235-The Ending of Misery

Stephen Kingcast

Constant Reader

Books, Arts:books, Arts, Tv & Film

4.7680 Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Welcome back! In today's episode, I discuss the ending of Misery. Let me know all of your thoughts by writing into stephenkingcast@yahoo.com and if you have any time on your hands, a review on iTunes would be greatly appreciated!

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0:00.0

You might think I'm crazy

0:07.0

I'm crazy Hello everyone, and welcome to the Stephen King cast, one man's musings on the works of Stephen King.

0:31.5

Once I reviewed each of his works in the chronological order of publication, but Ka is a wheel,

0:36.9

it all goes round again, and here I am,

0:38.9

once more, back at the beginning on a new phase of the journey to examine each of the endings

0:43.7

of the works of Stephen King, to determine whether or not King deserves his reputation for having

0:48.8

an inability to successfully land his endings. The focus of the podcast is going to be to examine the climax, the falling action, the resolution

0:57.4

of the endings to each of his novels and break it down by character, themes, conflict, and

1:02.3

plot to determine whether or not it meets the criteria of being an objectively good ending.

1:08.3

I will also weigh in on whether or not I happen to personally, subjectively like the ending.

1:14.3

And today's podcast will focus on the ending of the Stephen King Classic misery.

1:21.2

Okay, guys, I'm going to get right into it.

1:23.7

Last week, I gave a quarantine corona recommendation of a series of books and movies

1:35.5

slash TV for everyone to catch up on. And what I'm going to do is head back into the

1:43.4

endings of the works of Stephen King.

1:46.0

I had taken basically a month-long break from June to July to, I just, I wasn't in the zone.

1:55.0

I just, I couldn't focus where I needed to focus, and I kind of want to get back to it. I don't want to leave anyone in the lurch.

2:03.3

So I'm just going to go right into my thoughts on the ending of misery.

2:10.2

And in order for me to talk about the ending of misery, I'm just going to read the Wikipedia

2:15.4

summary so that we have some context.

2:19.2

Paul Sheldon, the author of the bestselling series of Victorian-era romance novels featuring the

2:24.7

character Misery Chastain, has finished the series' final installment in which misery is killed off.

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