Before reading: Yay! I am very excited for this one. I absolutely love the movie and am a fan of the Castle Rock series on Hulu. I love me some Annie Wilkes. Oddly enough, I haven't read this one. Besides it being a great film, this is a very highly rated and well loved novel and I am sure I will love it, as well. There is only one way to know for sure, though, so I guess I should start reading. After reading: In no surprise to anyone, that was a great book. I really enjoyed it, start to finish. I can see this being one that I would read again. It definitely wasn't his best work but it was up there, for me. I really enjoyed it at face value, just the story as it was. And I really enjoyed it on a deeper level, as a metaphor for addiction. The storytelling was so great that it was able to work on both levels. Of course, we see a lot of King tropes in here. The most in-your-face being that the main character is a writer. We've seen this again and again. This one being a bi