At
Entertainment Weekly, Dan Heching tagged eight books for fans of Stephen King's
Misery, including:
Give Me Everything You Have by James Lasdun
Based on the writer’s real experiences, Give Me Everything You Have chronicles Lasdun’s dealings with an obsessive former student, who resorts to using everything from hate mail, online postings, and accusations of plagiarism/sexual misconduct to try to take him down. While not exactly as destructive as a mallet or axe, the accusations leveraged against the author online and in public have damning results, bringing to light the value of reputation in the Internet era.
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--Marshal Zeringue
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