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

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

it all goes round again, and here I am once more back at the beginning on a new phase of the journey

to examine each of the endings of the works of Stephen King to determine whether or not King deserves

his reputation for having 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 of the endings to each of his novels, and break it down

by characters, themes, conflicts, and plot to determine whether or not it meets the criteria

of being an objectively good ending. It will also weigh in on whether or not I happen to personally subjectively like the ending. It will also weigh in on whether or not I happen to personally, subjectively like the ending,

and today's podcast will focus on the ending to Stephen King's classic misery.

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

Last week, I gave a quarantine corona recommendation of a series of books and movies slash TV for everyone to catch up on.

And what I'm going to do is head back into the endings of the works of Stephen King. I had taken basically a month-long

break from June to July to, I just, I wasn't in the zone. 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. So I'm just

going to go right into my thoughts on the ending of misery. And in order for me to talk about

the ending of misery, I'm just going to read the Wikipedia summary so that we have some

context.

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

the character Misery Chastain, has finished the series' final installment in which misery

is killed off. As Paul celebrates the completion of the manuscript for his new crime novel

Fast Cars,

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