![]() ![]() She kidnaps her favorite writer, Paul Sheldon, feeds him full of drugs, leaves him to starve when she decides to take off, cuts off his foot and his thumb, and forces him to write yet another romance novel which he doesn’t want to write. On the one hand, King’s Annie is undeniably violent and coercive-a force one would certainly want to overcome. He wants to “quit” Annie, but she exerts a strong pull. Jack Wilhelmi of Screen Rant interprets King’s equation of Annie and cocaine as highlighting not only King’s personal “struggles with addiction” but also “the seductive quality of drugs and how it can make someone feel like they can accomplish something-like writing a novel-even under duress.” It does indeed seem as if King’s comment points toward a powerful ambivalence toward cocaine, and toward Annie. She was my number-one fan.” In his memoir, On Writing, King claims that the creation of Annie actually inspired him to quit drugs and alcohol: “Annie was coke, Annie was booze, and I decided I was tired of being Annie’s pet writer.” Like Paul Sheldon, King was able to jettison Annie from his life. King was a self-confessed “heavy user” of cocaine from about 1978 to 1986, and he famously confessed in an interview with Rolling Stone that “ Misery is a book about cocaine. ![]() Stephen King published Misery on June 8, 1987, and he has claimed that the novel is, first and foremost, about the compulsions of cocaine use. ![]()
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