Week 10: Gerald's Game

This week's book:
Gerald's Game
By Stephen King

Okay, remember when I wrote about how you should just read Stephen King's IT and avoid a lot of his other books? Well umm forget what I said. This week's book is one of King's books and it was fun.

One day, I'm folding laundry and I turn on Netflix to watch whatever mind candy I don't really have to focus on while I'm doing said laundry. I can't be the only mom who does this while their little one takes a nap. Anyway, I see a trailer for a new Netflix movie... Gerald's Game. It seems like I might want to watch it for a good Halloween thrill. The trailer ends by saying it's based on a Stephen King book. Well, crap, now I have to read it! Flash forward two weeks and I can't find the flipping book anywhere. It's about to be, and then actually is, on Netflix and still I can't get my hands on it. Finally I break down and get it on the amazing Nook the kids (amazing husband) got me for Mother's Day. I'm about two thirds through the book when what do you know I find a copy for a song at a local library used book sale, AMAZING! Ok, it may or may not have been missing the first forty pages but what do I care. I was on page two hundred something at the time.

Alright, the plot of the book is that a woman is handcuffed to her bed at her lake house, which is super private, when her husband has a heart attack or something and dies, leaving her trapped on the bed with no flipping way to be free. There is a series of obstacles she has to face in this book, but just think of it like a combination of Misery and Cujo, both King stories.

Now I would never be handcuffed to my bed because I am strong willed, independent, don't need to be controlled by no man kind of woman. Plus, we have a sleigh bed so there isn't anything to be cuffed to... but mostly the first one. Also I will never own a lake house so this plot isn't really that realistic for me.

I finished the book and immediately made my hubs turn on the movie. And I gotta say, the movie did it justice. I liked both of them very much. This story has the typical King twist which normally is like 'damn Stevie your endings suck' but not this time. I would recommend this book (it is a little yucky but not too bad) if you want a little Halloween thrill, but if you don't have time to read it, at least watch the movie. Fourteen more days until Halloween, y'all!

"Watched/read Gerald's Game? Get a sleigh bed!" hahaha
-- my sweet husband after watching the tv movie.