Without Feathers

Personally, my favorite story in Woody Allen's Without Feathers was "If the Impressionists Had Been Dentists". It's a simple enough book, but it's pretty funny. It's written like letters from Vincent Van Gogh to his brother, Theo. It describes what Vincent's doing, what he's gotten in trouble for recently, and the way he yearns to assimilate art into his dentistry. I quite like the relationship Vincent supposedly has with another Impressionist-turned-Dentist, Gauguin. It's really funny because of the way all of Vincent's exploits are told as if they're entirely normal, despite the oddity of their nature.

My First Injury

A kid distracted me and I ran into a wall. It was painful and embarrassing. Also, I couldn't breathe for about 20 seconds. Second injury, I from a low to the round branch and the branch fell on me. I was very winded and my chest was bruised.

Edit: Wait actually, my first injury was when I was two. I was an idiot, walked into the way of a flying hay bale, got slammed into a two-by-four and lost a tooth. (The removal of my tooth may have been the thing to start my terror of needles...)

Misery

Misery was filled with masterfully-used suspense. It's one of those horror films/books that actually has you rooting for the protagonist because the protag didn't get into his trouble due to a stupid mistake or choice. Paul Sheldon has no control over the situation at all. Stephen King used suspense by giving us little clues that our antagonist, Annie Wilkes, isn't as sweet and harmless as she seems to be in the beginning. We start to see more and more of this unstable side of Annie Wilkes as the movie/book goes on. When Paul finally escapes from his room, King puts an emphasis on how he knocks over the little glass penguin and puts it back up facing the wrong direction and we take extra notice of the knives in the kitchen. Then there's the fight scene where Annie has an obvious advantage over Paul and yet Paul still manages to pull through. But not really. He doesn't really escape Anni Wilkes. He's traumatized, he almost certainly has physical scars from the encounter, he sees Annie almost everywhere, and his publisher and others are pushing for a non-fiction description of his encounter, which would certainly reopen the mental scars.

Colours out of Space

I really, really liked Colours out of Space. It was interesting and strange but not in a scary way, despite the fact that it's a horror story. From this, I learned that you don't need overly descriptive to have an interesting story. You can let the reader's imagination create parts of the story. It was really fun to read and I would definitely recommend it.