Wow, what a story!
I think this is one of those books that scars the reader for a lifetime. I'll probably think of Annie or Paul every time my legs hurt from now on. Actually, I felt my legs hurt while I was reading the book thanks to King's vivid descriptions of Paul's pain, and to make things worse, I accidentally bumped my left (!!) knee into the side of my bed one day, and though I'm sure it was not worse than any other time this had happened, for a few days, I kept touching around my knee just to make sure my knee wasn't messed up and everything was in its right place! Besides the pain, I probably will never use the phrase "number one fan" anymore.
Anyways, the story was great obviously. Since I had never watched any of the movie adaptations of the book, I had no idea what I was getting myself into when I decided to read the book. I only knew (or thought I did) Annie Wilkes from the Castle Rock series on Hulu, so my expectations of her weren't that close to how she really was. At first, I wanted to feel bad for her because of Castle Rock, but it didn't take long for me to totally despise her.
Apart from the main story, the story within was quite interesting too. I would actually like to read the Misery series by Paul Sheldon.