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Summary: Premier Storyteller
Review: I consider Stephen King one of the master storytellers of our time. And "Green Mile" is one of the most vividly portrayed stories I have ever encountered!! While reading this story, I could almost feel the electricity in the air (hear the sounds, smell the smells....)! Imagine what it must be like on "Death Row" in a prison!! I could sense the atmosphere in this novel! Highly recommended!
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Summary: Very good book
Review: I like the book a lot and it was just as good as the movie
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Summary: Very Good
Review: I enjoyed reading this book a lot. I read it in the 6 parts, and I was so hooked by the novel that I read 2 parts in one evening. Not too scary but very interesting. If you like the book, you should see the movie. I don't want to give away the DRAMATIC, VERY SUSPENSFUL ending for you, so go buy the book now, and see what you think about it.
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Summary: One of his best
Review: Green Mile is a winner. Whenever King does a prison story you know it's going to be special. The Mile is one of the saddest most heart breaking novels King has ever written. I defy anybody who reads it not to hope that there's some way John Coffey can be saved. Is there horror? Oh yes. The young villain in this story is one of the nastiest King's ever created and one of the scariest becuase men like him walk our streets every day. The characters both good and evil are all strong and all come to life.
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Summary: better than ever
Review: I read a lot of Stephen King's pulp horror stuff early on -- Cujo, Dead Zone, etc. -- and though I found his stories entertaining, his style of adding realism through lots of pop culture references always annoyed me. I haven't read any King for at least 10 years, so I wasn't sure what to expect with "The Green Mile". I was very pleasantly surprised after reading it. His writing seems to have matured a great deal since his horror work. "Green Mile" is a substantive work that relies on strong characters and good plot development to carry the story along. Definitely a worthwhile read whether you are a Stephen King fan or not. This is easily one of the best books I have read this year.
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Summary: One of King's Best
Review: The Green Mile is about as good as it gets. A well paced, well written story with a very human feel to it. As good as the movie version of this story was, the book is even better. And readers will be sure to enjoy the serial cliffhangers at the end of each installment. I would definitely list this in the top 5 of King's works with The Stand being number 1. This is another of King's works that I recommend to friends who do not like horror fiction but want to find out why everyone is so crazy over Stephen King. Others include The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon and Dolores Claiborne. Also, be sure to read On Writing for some of King's insights into the story of the Green Mile and others.
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Summary: The Green Mile: Stephen King's Allusion of the Gospels
Review: For literary critics whom dismiss Stephen King's writing as unjustly successful pulp fiction, pick up a copy of The Green Mile and challenge your own preconceptions of his work. In this departure from the horror genre, King has forged a captivating novel that explores life and death, good and evil, and the hope of salvation. Set in Georgia during the Great Depression, King retells the story of Christ's persecution through the eyes of Paul Edgecombe, the central character and narrator (whose life closely paralells Saul from the New Testament). Edgecombe works as the head secrurity guard on the E-Block of Cold Mountain Penitentiary. At the outset of the novel, E-Block, the death row wing of the prison, receives a new black inmate named John Coffey, whose been convicted and sentenced to die for raping and murdering two young white girls. As his execution date quickly approaches, Edgecombe begins to question Coffey's guilt. Can Paul find evidence to answer his own doubts? Can he save a man from death who might be innocent? Can he live with himself if he doesn't? Find out in The Green Mile.
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Summary: Just Awesome!
Review: King is just so good. I start reading and have to force myself to put the books down. I had to wait until all of these little books were out, so I could read them all at once. When people think of King they usaually think HORROR, well he is a great horror novelist, however I dont consider this a horror book. The setting is back in the 50's or so and it's about a guard in a prison working on death row. The story King writes about this man's experience, is just incredible. Of course it turned out to be a big movie success, and I did watch the movie, and it was good, but when you read you can create your own movie. So even if you have seen this movie, get the book and see just how much better books are!!!
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Summary: Deserves more than 5 stars
Review: If you have not watched the movie or read the book, I highly recommend that you read the book first... both the book and the movie will be more interesting. This book is quite different from Stephen King's other books, so even non-Stephen King fans will love it. The Green Mile is on the long side, but once you get into it you will not notice that and will find that when you get to the end you want the story to continue. The characters are well developed and the story is so well written that you feel you are among them. This is a very beautiful story of human compassion and the struggles between right and wrong (good and evil). READ IT!
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Summary: This book touched my heart!
Review: Before I picked up this book in the library, I thought that alll Steven King books were horrifying, yet engrossing slashers like "Cujo" and "Christine," which I both read. Yet after I finished this book, I knew that I was wrong. Steven King may write a lot of horror stories, but this book is a great example of tear-jerking, beautiful work on his part. I personally read this book as a full part, instead of in serial installments, which I prefered over tiny parts that I could finish in one night. In this way, if you moved on into a different part of the book, and was dying to know what happens next to John Coffey and/or Paul Edgecombe or whoever, you didn't have to worry about making multiple trips down to the library to pick up the next installment. I just thought that it was way easier to have the whole story in my hands, instead of multiple tiny books that would be annoying to handle for the time I read the book. I strongly encourage future readers of this book to use the full version of the book. As for the actual story, the book is about a prison in the southern United States, which is accompanied by; Eduard Delacroix, a non-intelligent french man sentenced to death for the murder of six people; "Wild Bill" Warton, a crazy ape of a man who was previously at a mental institution before going to Cold Mountain Penitentiary (the prison that I'm talking about); and John Coffey, a strangely quiet man with hidden supernatural powers that are later used in the book. John Coffey is also sentenced to death for the raping and murdering of two white girls. The main character is Paul Edgecombe, a merciful prison guard at Cold Mountain, who, before John Coffey, was a man who didn't fully believe in supernatural miracles. Then, one day, Paul Edgecombe is ill, and John Coffey calls him over to his cell to "help him" John then places his hand on Paul's injured spot, and Paul feels a odd rush of electricity going through his body. After John does this, Paul is cured, and is walking away in wonder, with a single, enduring thought placed in his head, "is he really guilty, or are we dealing with God's miracle right here in this very prison?" This sets the internal conflict of the book that goes on until the very ending. The conflict is curiosity and compassion on Paul Edgecombe's part, that he is feeling towards John Coffey. As you read what I have just said above, you are probably thinking, "Well, if that is all that happens in this story, I am definitely not going to read it" This is simply not true. The book is written with many minor characters that interest you for a good amount of time in the masterful plot of the book. As you read the book, and discover all the characters in the book you start to develop wonder and compassion for all of them (even the vicious prison guard Percy Wetmore, and the equally, if not more, vicious inmate "Wild Bill" Wharton) Sometimes when you are reading about Paul's adventures in the book, you might suddenly have an unexpected thought in your head about another character, like, "Whatever happened to Mr. Jingles?", or "Will Delacroix die humanly, or painfully?" Whatever thoughts you are thinking about the other characters will stay with you constantly until you figure out the answers. I guarantee it. The part that I enjoyed the most was the very ending. I won't reveal it to you, because I don't want to ruin the secret of it, but I can tell you that I cried at least 3 or 4 times during the end, because the book reached out to me from the confines of its pages, and touched my heart in a way that I have never felt before in my life. If you are wondering about the movie version of the book, I can tell you that the movie is very well done, and Tom Hanks does a spectacular job as the role of Paul Edgecombe, but nonetheless, as you may have already guessed, the book is better than the movie. After you have read the book, and have seen the movie, you may observe to your surprise, that the movie is three hours long. Even though this fact is true, it sure doesn't seem like it with all the engrossing detail of the book that wasn't mentioned as well in the movie. For this reason, the movie seems to have only about a third of all the book's engrossing acts. If you love Steven King books, and you like his dramas more than his horror, than this book is just right for you! Now, stop reading this review, get on a bike, and go to town and buy this book! Hurry before it is too late!
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