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Summary: Great Book
Review: I absolutly loved this book. This book is about a bid strong black man named John Coffey ([like the drink, just not spelled the same] something thats repeated in the book very nicely) who is convicted of killing two girls in the south. Whats weird about it is he is not like a regular inmate. He is very emotional and not very "prison inmate" like. Anyway, this book is about things that go on in the prison Coffey is at. This is one of the best books i have ever read. No kidding.After you read this book i highly recommend watching the movie. All most as good as the book, it is a masterpiece in terms of book-to-movie movies. Just a great story altogether. Book and Movie highest ratings possible
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Summary: An Epic Story
Review: The story of The Green Mile is an epic story of good vs. evil, racial tensions and lack of judgment in the parts of our early ancestors. The book was about a man named Paul Edgecombe he was the head of the death row block on Cold Mountain. He never ever had a prisoner like john Coffey before. John was an extrodinary man who had a special power to him. John had the power to heel all that was evil. He saved Pauls Blatter infection, Mr. jingles, and Mrs. Moore. But know one stepped up and tried to save his life because they figured no one would believe them because he was a black man who was at the scene of the crime. John ended up walking the green mile in the end, but that was the way he wanted it.
This book shows the struggles of two extrodinary men with great hearts. This book is excellent and I would recommend it to anyone who likes a real story with many plot twist. As for movie versus book. I would pick the book. The book showed tremendous detail to characters and settings. All in all a great book
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Summary: SUPERB!!
Review: Great! The Green Mile is one of the best works ever written. With a tale of southern prison life and the powers of the human heart, this novel shows promise to be read for many many years to come. King should have been given any and every award for this book. The movie did not deviate from the book much, but it did some. The orderly that always pushed around the main character was not in the movie, but it was still awesome. The book should be read by everyone on the planet that can read, it is great.
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Summary: Stephen writes good versus evil.
Review: Stephen King has written a drama about death row in the early 1930's. He is using his usual style of good versus evil. Stephen has a way of bring out the most evil in his evil character (Billy the Kid). He also has a way of making the good character almost saint like (John Coffey). Stephen King is an excellent writer,who makes you use your imagination. He brings everything he writes about, especially the more tragic events, almost to life. These images become so vivid to the reader, you feel you are present for the actual event. For instance, when Delacroix is executed, you can smell the burning flesh and feel the heat of the fire. Stephen King has written a great novel which will be a classic.
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Summary: His Best by a Mile
Review: Having read nearly all of Stephen King's books, I feel confident in saying that this is his best. His faithful readers will already be familiar with his customary blend of horror and humor, however this book goes far and above his others. Reading this book I was forced by life's daily duties to tear myself away from it from time to time. During those periods, Paul, John and Del were not forgotten, staying in the back of my conciousness like a song will. When I found my way back to my reading chair it was never long before I was lost in the story with lump in my throat or my hands gripped, sweaty around the pages. The story unfolded beautifully with new twists in the plot coming regularly even on the last few pages. The characters and the story were so compelling that this book colored my thoughts for days after I put it down. The individuals between the covers were like people whose aquaintance I had actually made, rather than characters in a book. Fans of Stephen King's writing, must not miss this one.
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Summary: A Smile On Death Row
Review: After I heard about the first release of King's Green Mile series, I resisted buying it. "It's a marketing ploy," I thought sagely - "they'll charge the same amount for the six paperback books that I'd pay for a hardcover on the bestseller list." And so I waited. The boxed set finally arrived. I gave in and bought it. Oh, yeah - I paid about the same as I would for a hardcover on the bestseller list. Now that I've vented my economic cynicism, I can talk about the book(s). I liked it. My long-ago past includes some just out-of-college work in the corrections field, including some prison guard work. I recognized both the scenes and the mental attitudes of prison life in those pages, and King should be complimented on his apt portrayal of the interactions between one inmate and another, inmates and guards, and prison administration. His insights into the dynamics of death row life are worth reading - and this, as you may know, is not his only book about life behind bars. The gritty scenes of hardened evil, and the surprise appearances of mercy and tenderness are both repellent and touching, just as they are in the penitentiary. The story line concerns the incarceration of a giant black man in the highly-prejudiced rural South of the 1950s. He was condemned to death for murders which the protagonist, a guard on death row (a cell block dubbed the "Green Mile" by those who live and work there), does not believe the man committed. This new prisoner changes everyone who gets to know him. For this man is not what he seems to be, and that is the heart and soul of this story. His personality throughout the book is gentle, kind and a bit naive about some of the complexities of life. At the same time, he is wise beyond understanding concerning other matters which touch directly on the lives of the characters in the book. And yes, the supernatural is involved; but just how much and how often I will let you, gentle reader, discover when you read the book yourself. In keeping with the themes of many of King's books, the presence of elemental forces in people's lives is not necessarily for their benefit, nor do those forces always save the people they have possessed. Good and Evil use people impersonally and indiscriminately for reasons we are only dimly aware of at the best of times. The forces of Good use this giant inmate - almost like a puppet at times - but we end up wondering how he has been helped by Good manifesting itself in him. The manifestation of the powers of Good collaterally benefit the people touched by it - but more as an accident or afterthought rather than as a primary intention. The Green Mile is a worthwhile read, and now that it's out in mass market paperback form I can recommend it to anyone. With no cynical smirk.
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Summary: A wonderful tale of compassion, and bigotry.
Review: John Coffey (a black man with limited intelect) is found literaly red handed with two murdered white girls. Everyone believes he is guilty (even his defence lawyer) of the two heinous murders, and is sentenced to death by the Electric Chair. After John Coffey is transferred to the Green Mile (death row), amazing things begin to happen because John Coffey has the power to heal, and know things that will happen before they happen. I will not spoil the story for you; I will only tell you to get the book and prepare to stay up late turning pages. ;-) Many people have asked me (because I am a Reiki master) if what John Coffey did was Reiki. The answer is no. The healing modality performed by John Coffey was none of the healing modalities I have learned. What he did was an empathic healing modality. He had the ability to take the disease away from the person onto himself, then transmute the ailment and dispose of it without suffering the effects. Two Bears
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Summary: Absolutism slightly mars this otherwise great story
Review: Over the three decades of King's career, he's been steadily metamorphosing from a horror writer to a writer of character-driven literature. We saw it in the way the supernatural aspect of a lot of his work often took a back seat to the very real evil in human nature. The title character in "Carrie", for example, had destructive psychokinetic powers, but we also saw the cruelty of her "normal" classmates and the fulminating hatred from her religious fanatic mother as the main catalyst. In this story, however, the paranormal powers of the condemned man John Coffey do only good, while the real evil in this story happens at the hands of fellow inmate "Wild Bill" and sadistic guard Percy. King skillfully avoids the bleeding heart cliche of "hacks", "bulls" and "screws" tormenting "solid cons" that writers of the generation we share often fall into--our story's main character is tough but goodhearted cellblock commander Paul Edgecombe, who is the narrator of this tale from his residence in a senior care facility, one of whose male nurses bullies him. Paul's immediate superior has a terminally ill wife, and the man's agony is heartrending. Paul's second-in-command Brutus is one of those stolid types whose loyalty to his boss is the sort every command-level officer in a stressful, dangerous job yearns for. The message in this book is clear, as it has been for a long time in King's work. Saturday afternoon Dracula and Frankenstein movies are chump change in terms of evil when compared with the real stuff you can find in everyday people. I have just one problem with that, however. There's always the suggestion in a King story that there are enough heroes around to clean up the carnage, put band aids on everyone's boo-boos and punish the creeps responsible by the "epilogue" chapter. Which does not always happen in real life, and "civilization" today has less power to keep order than in past years, not more. That's the danger in allegorical fiction--does every reader really know the difference deep down? Can we remind ourselves that the happy ending in a book is not ncessarily our birthright once we close the cover? I'm not so sure--the slippery slope which law and order is on these days is paralleled by our growing talent at denial of that fact.
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Summary: Very Goood
Review: This novel was wonderful because of the way that it depicted a man wrongfully accused. John Coffey a man wrongfully accused of a gruesome crime. In the end was the best part of the book when Coffey talked about all of the hate in the world. It was very sad when he died, but it made a lesson for all of the characthers in the book. I really loved how Stephen King did descriptions of characthers like Percy and the orderlie that harassed Paul and Elaine and Paul's wife. The comparisons were very well written and it was like you could see each characther as a living being.
I would recommend this book because not only does it keep you in suspense, but it is inspiring. In the end, I cried because of what happened, but it is still inspiring for the reason that it happened.
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Summary: Good plane reading
Review: The Green Mile is good mainly because it goes quickly. It is not particularly well written, but like any good serial novel it has a fair amount of suspense that makes it hard to put down. The story of the convicted killer who proves to have incredible healing powers and a great heart is compelling and memorable, and something you can fully appreciate after a very superficial read. It is not great literature, but it is certainly entertaining and pleasant for the short time it takes to read. I would recommend it to someone who has some time to kill and wants a feel good book to keep them company.
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