Gerald's Game By Stephen King
Gerald's Game By Stephen King If this had been a short story, it would have worked better for me. Gerald's Game is about a woman named Jessie who is at a remote cabin on the off-season with her husband Gerald who can only get it up now if he shackles Jessie to the headboard with handcuffs. Jessie is fed up with these sex games and when she tells Gerald she doesn't want to do it anymore and to uncuff her, and he refuses, Jessie kicks him and gives him a heart attack. This, of course, leaves her shackled to the bed with no means of freeing herself with her husband dead on the floor. While she's stuck and trying to devise a way to free herself, Jessie is confronted by the voices in her head (people from her past, people she has imagined) with an incident that happened with her father during an eclipse when she was little. Recalling these memories she has been repressing makes her think about her father, Gerald, and herself in different ways. She was always a meek pers...