false 2266079 <![CDATA[The Green Mile: The Complete Serial Novel]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1198723410m/2266079.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1198723410s/2266079.jpg
Edgecomb has sent seventy-eight inmates to their date with "old sparky," but he's never encountered one like Coffey -- a man who wants to die, yet has the power to heal. And in this place of ultimate retribution, Edgecomb discovers the terrible truth about Coffey's gift, a truth that challenges his most cherished beliefs -- and ours.

Originally published in 1996 in six self-contained monthly installments, The Green Mile is an astonishingly rich and complex novel that delivers over and over again. Each individual volume became a huge success when first published, and all six were on the New York Times bestseller list simultaneously. Three years later, when Frank Darabont made The Green Mile into an award-winning movie starring Tom Hanks and Michael Clarke Duncan, the book returned to the bestseller list -- and stayed there for months.

And now -- with a new introduction by King's foreign agent Ralph Vicinanza, as well as the author's own foreword -- we have the first hardcover edition of this magnificent novel in which "King surpasses our expectations, leaves us spellbound and hungry for the next twist of plot" (The Boston Globe).

With illustrations and a new frontispiece for this edition by Mark Geyer.]]> 11566 52 15599 1 9 1996 The Green Mile Book Box Set total:16259|5:7615|4:5619|3:2500|2:430|1:95| 16259 69006 18850 754 3389 3.75 734447 32947 10919567 701620 11566 0451933028 9780451933027 541 <![CDATA[The Green Mile Book Box Set]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166480212m/11566.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166480212s/11566.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11566.The_Green_Mile_Book_Box_Set 4.25 12923 The Green Mile as a series of six novellas, he didn't even know how the story would turn out. And it turned out to be of his finest yarns, tapping into what he does best: character-driven storytelling. The setting is the small "death house" of a Southern prison in 1932. The Green Mile is the hall with a floor "the color of tired old limes" that leads to "Old Sparky" (the electric chair). The charming narrator is an old man, a prison guard, looking back on the events decades later.

Maybe it's a little too cute (there's a smart prison mouse named Mr. Jingles), maybe the pathos is laid on a little thick, but it's hard to resist the colorful personalities and simple wonders of this supernatural tale. And it's not a bad choice for giving to someone who doesn't understand the appeal of Stephen King, because the one scene that is out-and-out gruesome (it involves "Old Sparky") can be easily skipped by the squeamish.

The Green Mile won a 1997 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel; and Tom Hanks stars in a film of the novel by Frank Darabont, the director of The Shawshank Redemption (from King's collection Different Seasons). --Fiona Webster

]]> 1996 5 3 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Dec 23 11:55:37 -0800 2007 Sun Dec 30 18:38:54 -0800 2007 more...]]> 25643381 1084008 11566 0451933028 9780451933027 541 <![CDATA[The Green Mile Book Box Set]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166480212m/11566.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166480212s/11566.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11566.The_Green_Mile_Book_Box_Set 4.24 16259 The Green Mile as a series of six novellas, he didn't even know how the story would turn out. And it turned out to be of his finest yarns, tapping into what he does best: character-driven storytelling. The setting is the small "death house" of a Southern prison in 1932. The Green Mile is the hall with a floor "the color of tired old limes" that leads to "Old Sparky" (the electric chair). The charming narrator is an old man, a prison guard, looking back on the events decades later.

Maybe it's a little too cute (there's a smart prison mouse named Mr. Jingles), maybe the pathos is laid on a little thick, but it's hard to resist the colorful personalities and simple wonders of this supernatural tale. And it's not a bad choice for giving to someone who doesn't understand the appeal of Stephen King, because the one scene that is out-and-out gruesome (it involves "Old Sparky") can be easily skipped by the squeamish.

The Green Mile won a 1997 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel; and Tom Hanks stars in a film of the novel by Frank Darabont, the director of The Shawshank Redemption (from King's collection Different Seasons). --Fiona Webster

]]> 1996 4 1 false Fri Jun 27 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 27 02:52:39 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 27 03:09:30 -0700 2008 more...]]> 17098745 826119 85424 0671041789 9780671041786 108 <![CDATA[The Green Mile]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171059931m/85424.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171059931s/85424.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/85424.The_Green_Mile 4.17 2112 Read this history-making serial novel -- from cliffhanger to cliffhanger -- in its entirety.

When it first appeared, one volume per month, Stephen King's The Green Mile was an unprecedented publishing triumph: all six volumes ended up on the New York Times bestseller list -- simultaneously -- and delighted millions of fans the world over.

Welcome to Cold Mountain Penitentiary, home to the Depression-worn men of E Block. Convicted killers all, each awaits his turn to walk the Green Mile, keeping a date with "Old Sparky," Cold Mountain's electric chair. Prison guard Paul Edgecombe has seen his share of oddities in his years working the Mile. But he's never seen anyone like John Coffey, a man with the body of a giant and the mind of a child, condemned for a crime terrifying in its violence and shocking in its depravity. In this place of ultimate retribution, Edgecombe is about to discover the terrible, wondrous truth about Coffey, a truth that will challenge his most cherished beliefs...and yours.

]]> 1996 5 1 false Sun Apr 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Mar 05 12:55:04 -0800 2008 Tue Apr 29 15:59:31 -0700 2008 more...]]> 8285543 575972 11566 0451933028 9780451933027 541 <![CDATA[The Green Mile Book Box Set]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166480212m/11566.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166480212s/11566.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11566.The_Green_Mile_Book_Box_Set 4.24 16259 The Green Mile as a series of six novellas, he didn't even know how the story would turn out. And it turned out to be of his finest yarns, tapping into what he does best: character-driven storytelling. The setting is the small "death house" of a Southern prison in 1932. The Green Mile is the hall with a floor "the color of tired old limes" that leads to "Old Sparky" (the electric chair). The charming narrator is an old man, a prison guard, looking back on the events decades later.

Maybe it's a little too cute (there's a smart prison mouse named Mr. Jingles), maybe the pathos is laid on a little thick, but it's hard to resist the colorful personalities and simple wonders of this supernatural tale. And it's not a bad choice for giving to someone who doesn't understand the appeal of Stephen King, because the one scene that is out-and-out gruesome (it involves "Old Sparky") can be easily skipped by the squeamish.

The Green Mile won a 1997 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel; and Tom Hanks stars in a film of the novel by Frank Darabont, the director of The Shawshank Redemption (from King's collection Different Seasons). --Fiona Webster

]]> 1996 5 1 false Wed Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Fri Oct 26 12:38:49 -0700 2007 Fri Oct 26 13:03:36 -0700 2007
King weaves some important themes and ...more...]]> 3175692 165151 480713 1416524339 9781416524335 4 <![CDATA[The Green Mile]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175112766m/480713.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175112766s/480713.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/480713.The_Green_Mile 4.45 44 The Green Mile as a series of six novellas, he didn't even know how the story would turn out. And it turned out to be of his finest yarns, tapping into what he does best: character-driven storytelling. The setting is the small "death house" of a Southern prison in 1932. The Green Mile is the hall with a floor "the color of tired old limes" that leads to "Old Sparky" (the electric chair). The charming narrator is an old man, a prison guard, looking back on the events decades later.

Maybe it's a little too cute (there's a smart prison mouse named Mr. Jingles), maybe the pathos is laid on a little thick, but it's hard to resist the colorful personalities and simple wonders of this supernatural tale. And it's not a bad choice for giving to someone who doesn't understand the appeal of Stephen King, because the one scene that is out-and-out gruesome (it involves "Old Sparky") can be easily skipped by the squeamish.

The Green Mile won a 1997 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel; and Tom Hanks stars in a film of the novel by Frank Darabont, the director of The Shawshank Redemption (from King's collection Different Seasons). --Fiona Webster

]]> 1996 5 1 false Thu Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Tue Jul 17 11:31:01 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 17 11:49:53 -0700 2007 more...]]> 35371977 1159163 11566 0451933028 9780451933027 541 <![CDATA[The Green Mile Book Box Set]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166480212m/11566.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166480212s/11566.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11566.The_Green_Mile_Book_Box_Set 4.24 16259 The Green Mile as a series of six novellas, he didn't even know how the story would turn out. And it turned out to be of his finest yarns, tapping into what he does best: character-driven storytelling. The setting is the small "death house" of a Southern prison in 1932. The Green Mile is the hall with a floor "the color of tired old limes" that leads to "Old Sparky" (the electric chair). The charming narrator is an old man, a prison guard, looking back on the events decades later.

Maybe it's a little too cute (there's a smart prison mouse named Mr. Jingles), maybe the pathos is laid on a little thick, but it's hard to resist the colorful personalities and simple wonders of this supernatural tale. And it's not a bad choice for giving to someone who doesn't understand the appeal of Stephen King, because the one scene that is out-and-out gruesome (it involves "Old Sparky") can be easily skipped by the squeamish.

The Green Mile won a 1997 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel; and Tom Hanks stars in a film of the novel by Frank Darabont, the director of The Shawshank Redemption (from King's collection Different Seasons). --Fiona Webster

]]> 1996 5 1 false Wed Oct 15 09:12:03 -0700 2008 Wed Nov 05 09:23:13 -0800 2008 more...]]> 52501029 2200621 11566 0451933028 9780451933027 541 <![CDATA[The Green Mile Book Box Set]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166480212m/11566.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166480212s/11566.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11566.The_Green_Mile_Book_Box_Set 4.24 16259 The Green Mile as a series of six novellas, he didn't even know how the story would turn out. And it turned out to be of his finest yarns, tapping into what he does best: character-driven storytelling. The setting is the small "death house" of a Southern prison in 1932. The Green Mile is the hall with a floor "the color of tired old limes" that leads to "Old Sparky" (the electric chair). The charming narrator is an old man, a prison guard, looking back on the events decades later.

Maybe it's a little too cute (there's a smart prison mouse named Mr. Jingles), maybe the pathos is laid on a little thick, but it's hard to resist the colorful personalities and simple wonders of this supernatural tale. And it's not a bad choice for giving to someone who doesn't understand the appeal of Stephen King, because the one scene that is out-and-out gruesome (it involves "Old Sparky") can be easily skipped by the squeamish.

The Green Mile won a 1997 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel; and Tom Hanks stars in a film of the novel by Frank Darabont, the director of The Shawshank Redemption (from King's collection Different Seasons). --Fiona Webster

]]> 1996 5 1 false Mon Apr 13 09:35:47 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 13 09:36:29 -0700 2009 40759852 1805428 11566 0451933028 9780451933027 541 <![CDATA[The Green Mile Book Box Set]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166480212m/11566.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166480212s/11566.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11566.The_Green_Mile_Book_Box_Set 4.24 16259 The Green Mile as a series of six novellas, he didn't even know how the story would turn out. And it turned out to be of his finest yarns, tapping into what he does best: character-driven storytelling. The setting is the small "death house" of a Southern prison in 1932. The Green Mile is the hall with a floor "the color of tired old limes" that leads to "Old Sparky" (the electric chair). The charming narrator is an old man, a prison guard, looking back on the events decades later.

Maybe it's a little too cute (there's a smart prison mouse named Mr. Jingles), maybe the pathos is laid on a little thick, but it's hard to resist the colorful personalities and simple wonders of this supernatural tale. And it's not a bad choice for giving to someone who doesn't understand the appeal of Stephen King, because the one scene that is out-and-out gruesome (it involves "Old Sparky") can be easily skipped by the squeamish.

The Green Mile won a 1997 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel; and Tom Hanks stars in a film of the novel by Frank Darabont, the director of The Shawshank Redemption (from King's collection Different Seasons). --Fiona Webster

]]> 1996 4 0 false Tue Dec 23 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 23 09:42:33 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 23 10:14:52 -0800 2008 By: Stephen King

The book Begins with the story of Paul Edgecombe. Paul works at the Cold mountain penitentiary in the E-Block where people are jailed while they are waiting for their turn to meet “old sparky”, the E-Block’s electric chair. Everything is normal t...more...]]> 80622005 3028439 11566 0451933028 9780451933027 541 <![CDATA[The Green Mile Book Box Set]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166480212m/11566.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166480212s/11566.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11566.The_Green_Mile_Book_Box_Set 4.24 16259 The Green Mile as a series of six novellas, he didn't even know how the story would turn out. And it turned out to be of his finest yarns, tapping into what he does best: character-driven storytelling. The setting is the small "death house" of a Southern prison in 1932. The Green Mile is the hall with a floor "the color of tired old limes" that leads to "Old Sparky" (the electric chair). The charming narrator is an old man, a prison guard, looking back on the events decades later.

Maybe it's a little too cute (there's a smart prison mouse named Mr. Jingles), maybe the pathos is laid on a little thick, but it's hard to resist the colorful personalities and simple wonders of this supernatural tale. And it's not a bad choice for giving to someone who doesn't understand the appeal of Stephen King, because the one scene that is out-and-out gruesome (it involves "Old Sparky") can be easily skipped by the squeamish.

The Green Mile won a 1997 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel; and Tom Hanks stars in a film of the novel by Frank Darabont, the director of The Shawshank Redemption (from King's collection Different Seasons). --Fiona Webster

]]> 1996 0 0 false Wed Dec 09 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Dec 10 20:51:13 -0800 2009 Thu Dec 10 21:03:36 -0800 2009 A Book Review by Jesus Acosta
Rating:  out of 

This is my first book from Steven king, but yes a totally success, I profoundly recommend The Green Mile; it has the suspense that would make you not to stop reading it. The call it The Gree...more...]]> 70322958 575523 11566 0451933028 9780451933027 541 <![CDATA[The Green Mile Book Box Set]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166480212m/11566.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166480212s/11566.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11566.The_Green_Mile_Book_Box_Set 4.24 16259 The Green Mile as a series of six novellas, he didn't even know how the story would turn out. And it turned out to be of his finest yarns, tapping into what he does best: character-driven storytelling. The setting is the small "death house" of a Southern prison in 1932. The Green Mile is the hall with a floor "the color of tired old limes" that leads to "Old Sparky" (the electric chair). The charming narrator is an old man, a prison guard, looking back on the events decades later.

Maybe it's a little too cute (there's a smart prison mouse named Mr. Jingles), maybe the pathos is laid on a little thick, but it's hard to resist the colorful personalities and simple wonders of this supernatural tale. And it's not a bad choice for giving to someone who doesn't understand the appeal of Stephen King, because the one scene that is out-and-out gruesome (it involves "Old Sparky") can be easily skipped by the squeamish.

The Green Mile won a 1997 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel; and Tom Hanks stars in a film of the novel by Frank Darabont, the director of The Shawshank Redemption (from King's collection Different Seasons). --Fiona Webster

]]> 1996 5 0 false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Sep 06 23:07:30 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 06 23:31:20 -0700 2009 more...]]> 58615922 1074042 11566 0451933028 9780451933027 541 <![CDATA[The Green Mile Book Box Set]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166480212m/11566.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166480212s/11566.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11566.The_Green_Mile_Book_Box_Set 4.24 16259 The Green Mile as a series of six novellas, he didn't even know how the story would turn out. And it turned out to be of his finest yarns, tapping into what he does best: character-driven storytelling. The setting is the small "death house" of a Southern prison in 1932. The Green Mile is the hall with a floor "the color of tired old limes" that leads to "Old Sparky" (the electric chair). The charming narrator is an old man, a prison guard, looking back on the events decades later.

Maybe it's a little too cute (there's a smart prison mouse named Mr. Jingles), maybe the pathos is laid on a little thick, but it's hard to resist the colorful personalities and simple wonders of this supernatural tale. And it's not a bad choice for giving to someone who doesn't understand the appeal of Stephen King, because the one scene that is out-and-out gruesome (it involves "Old Sparky") can be easily skipped by the squeamish.

The Green Mile won a 1997 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel; and Tom Hanks stars in a film of the novel by Frank Darabont, the director of The Shawshank Redemption (from King's collection Different Seasons). --Fiona Webster

]]> 1996 5 0 false Tue Jun 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 05 21:22:35 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 05 21:31:50 -0700 2009 more...]]> 57299589 1880447 2266079 29 <![CDATA[The Green Mile: The Complete Serial Novel]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1198723410m/2266079.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1198723410s/2266079.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2266079.The_Green_Mile_The_Complete_Serial_Novel 4.33 320
Edgecomb has sent seventy-eight inmates to their date with "old sparky," but he's never encountered one like Coffey -- a man who wants to die, yet has the power to heal. And in this place of ultimate retribution, Edgecomb discovers the terrible truth about Coffey's gift, a truth that challenges his most cherished beliefs -- and ours.

Originally published in 1996 in six self-contained monthly installments, The Green Mile is an astonishingly rich and complex novel that delivers over and over again. Each individual volume became a huge success when first published, and all six were on the New York Times bestseller list simultaneously. Three years later, when Frank Darabont made The Green Mile into an award-winning movie starring Tom Hanks and Michael Clarke Duncan, the book returned to the bestseller list -- and stayed there for months.

And now -- with a new introduction by King's foreign agent Ralph Vicinanza, as well as the author's own foreword -- we have the first hardcover edition of this magnificent novel in which "King surpasses our expectations, leaves us spellbound and hungry for the next twist of plot" (The Boston Globe).

With illustrations and a new frontispiece for this edition by Mark Geyer.]]> 1996 5 1 false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon May 25 16:47:29 -0700 2009 Mon May 25 17:25:00 -0700 2009 2 more...]]> 56963122 2343573 11566 0451933028 9780451933027 541 <![CDATA[The Green Mile Book Box Set]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166480212m/11566.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166480212s/11566.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11566.The_Green_Mile_Book_Box_Set 4.24 16259 The Green Mile as a series of six novellas, he didn't even know how the story would turn out. And it turned out to be of his finest yarns, tapping into what he does best: character-driven storytelling. The setting is the small "death house" of a Southern prison in 1932. The Green Mile is the hall with a floor "the color of tired old limes" that leads to "Old Sparky" (the electric chair). The charming narrator is an old man, a prison guard, looking back on the events decades later.

Maybe it's a little too cute (there's a smart prison mouse named Mr. Jingles), maybe the pathos is laid on a little thick, but it's hard to resist the colorful personalities and simple wonders of this supernatural tale. And it's not a bad choice for giving to someone who doesn't understand the appeal of Stephen King, because the one scene that is out-and-out gruesome (it involves "Old Sparky") can be easily skipped by the squeamish.

The Green Mile won a 1997 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel; and Tom Hanks stars in a film of the novel by Frank Darabont, the director of The Shawshank Redemption (from King's collection Different Seasons). --Fiona Webster

]]> 1996 5 0 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Fri May 22 09:21:40 -0700 2009 Fri May 22 10:27:01 -0700 2009
I had seen the movie first, so I knew what was in store, but I still went through half a box of tissues near the end.

While the style King took in writing the novel (that of an old man re...more...]]> 47601504 203289 978711 0452278902 9780452278905 15 <![CDATA[The Green Mile]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179959169m/978711.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179959169s/978711.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/978711.The_Green_Mile 4.07 124 Time magazine put it, "Like the best popular art, The Green Mile has the courage of its cornier convictions ... the palpable sense of King's sheer, unwavering belief in his tale is what makes the novel work as well as it finally does." And it's not a bad choice for giving to someone who doesn't understand the appeal of Stephen King, because the one scene that is out-and-out gruesome can be easily skipped by the squeamish. The Green Mile was nominated for a 1997 Bram Stoker Award.]]> 1996 5 0 false Mon Mar 02 09:23:13 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 26 10:41:58 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 02 09:23:13 -0800 2009 1 more...]]> 57936568 2366564 11566 0451933028 9780451933027 541 <![CDATA[The Green Mile Book Box Set]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166480212m/11566.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166480212s/11566.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11566.The_Green_Mile_Book_Box_Set 4.24 16259 The Green Mile as a series of six novellas, he didn't even know how the story would turn out. And it turned out to be of his finest yarns, tapping into what he does best: character-driven storytelling. The setting is the small "death house" of a Southern prison in 1932. The Green Mile is the hall with a floor "the color of tired old limes" that leads to "Old Sparky" (the electric chair). The charming narrator is an old man, a prison guard, looking back on the events decades later.

Maybe it's a little too cute (there's a smart prison mouse named Mr. Jingles), maybe the pathos is laid on a little thick, but it's hard to resist the colorful personalities and simple wonders of this supernatural tale. And it's not a bad choice for giving to someone who doesn't understand the appeal of Stephen King, because the one scene that is out-and-out gruesome (it involves "Old Sparky") can be easily skipped by the squeamish.

The Green Mile won a 1997 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel; and Tom Hanks stars in a film of the novel by Frank Darabont, the director of The Shawshank Redemption (from King's collection Different Seasons). --Fiona Webster

]]> 1996 5 0 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1996 Sun May 31 06:11:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 05 01:40:00 -0700 2009
The characters are multi-layered and completly beli...more...]]> 50398871 885654 11566 0451933028 9780451933027 541 <![CDATA[The Green Mile Book Box Set]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166480212m/11566.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166480212s/11566.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11566.The_Green_Mile_Book_Box_Set 4.24 16259 The Green Mile as a series of six novellas, he didn't even know how the story would turn out. And it turned out to be of his finest yarns, tapping into what he does best: character-driven storytelling. The setting is the small "death house" of a Southern prison in 1932. The Green Mile is the hall with a floor "the color of tired old limes" that leads to "Old Sparky" (the electric chair). The charming narrator is an old man, a prison guard, looking back on the events decades later.

Maybe it's a little too cute (there's a smart prison mouse named Mr. Jingles), maybe the pathos is laid on a little thick, but it's hard to resist the colorful personalities and simple wonders of this supernatural tale. And it's not a bad choice for giving to someone who doesn't understand the appeal of Stephen King, because the one scene that is out-and-out gruesome (it involves "Old Sparky") can be easily skipped by the squeamish.

The Green Mile won a 1997 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel; and Tom Hanks stars in a film of the novel by Frank Darabont, the director of The Shawshank Redemption (from King's collection Different Seasons). --Fiona Webster

]]> 1996 5 0 false Mon Mar 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 25 08:09:15 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 30 11:38:04 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4858464 291333 11566 0451933028 9780451933027 541 <![CDATA[The Green Mile Book Box Set]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166480212m/11566.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166480212s/11566.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11566.The_Green_Mile_Book_Box_Set 4.24 16259 The Green Mile as a series of six novellas, he didn't even know how the story would turn out. And it turned out to be of his finest yarns, tapping into what he does best: character-driven storytelling. The setting is the small "death house" of a Southern prison in 1932. The Green Mile is the hall with a floor "the color of tired old limes" that leads to "Old Sparky" (the electric chair). The charming narrator is an old man, a prison guard, looking back on the events decades later.

Maybe it's a little too cute (there's a smart prison mouse named Mr. Jingles), maybe the pathos is laid on a little thick, but it's hard to resist the colorful personalities and simple wonders of this supernatural tale. And it's not a bad choice for giving to someone who doesn't understand the appeal of Stephen King, because the one scene that is out-and-out gruesome (it involves "Old Sparky") can be easily skipped by the squeamish.

The Green Mile won a 1997 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel; and Tom Hanks stars in a film of the novel by Frank Darabont, the director of The Shawshank Redemption (from King's collection Different Seasons). --Fiona Webster

]]> 1996 4 1 false Tue Aug 21 05:59:06 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 17 06:13:07 -0800 2009 more...]]> 48791409 2110092 11566 0451933028 9780451933027 541 <![CDATA[The Green Mile Book Box Set]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166480212m/11566.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166480212s/11566.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11566.The_Green_Mile_Book_Box_Set 4.24 16259 The Green Mile as a series of six novellas, he didn't even know how the story would turn out. And it turned out to be of his finest yarns, tapping into what he does best: character-driven storytelling. The setting is the small "death house" of a Southern prison in 1932. The Green Mile is the hall with a floor "the color of tired old limes" that leads to "Old Sparky" (the electric chair). The charming narrator is an old man, a prison guard, looking back on the events decades later.

Maybe it's a little too cute (there's a smart prison mouse named Mr. Jingles), maybe the pathos is laid on a little thick, but it's hard to resist the colorful personalities and simple wonders of this supernatural tale. And it's not a bad choice for giving to someone who doesn't understand the appeal of Stephen King, because the one scene that is out-and-out gruesome (it involves "Old Sparky") can be easily skipped by the squeamish.

The Green Mile won a 1997 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel; and Tom Hanks stars in a film of the novel by Frank Darabont, the director of The Shawshank Redemption (from King's collection Different Seasons). --Fiona Webster

]]> 1996 5 0 false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Tue Mar 10 07:06:44 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 10 08:02:42 -0700 2009
Have you ever read a book and been so affected by it that it moved you to tears? I just finished reading The Green Mile by Stephen King and I sat there tearing every few pages or so. It's incredible - the emotion, the feelings... Just the starkness of what's present...more...]]> 76005303 2886881 1445728 0671047213 9780671047214 1 <![CDATA[The Green Mile]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183681443m/1445728.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183681443s/1445728.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1445728.The_Green_Mile 4.00 1 Hear this history-making serial novel -- from cliffhanger to cliffhanger -- in its entirety.

When it first appeared, one volume per month, Stephen King's The Green Mile was an unprecedented publishing triumph: all six volumes ended up on the New York Times bestseller list -- simultaneously -- and delighted millions of fans the world over.

Welcome to Cold Mountain Penitentiary, home to the Depression-worn men of E Block. Convicted killers all, each awaits his turn to walk the Green Mile, keeping a date with "Old Sparky," Cold Mountain's electric chair. Prison guard Paul Edgecombe has seen his share of oddities in his years working the Mile. But he's never seen anyone like John Coffey, a man with the body of a giant and the mind of a child, condemned for a crime terrifying in its violence and shocking in its depravity. In this place of ultimate retribution, Edgecombe is about to discover the terrible, wondrous truth about Coffey, a truth that will challenge his most cherished beliefs...and yours.

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When it first appeared, one volume per month, Stephen King's The Green Mile was an unprecedented publishing triumph: all six volumes ended up on the New York Times bestseller list -- simultaneously -- and delighted millions of fans the world over.

Welcome to Cold Mountain Penitentiary, home to the Depression-worn men of E Block. Convicted killers all, each awaits his turn to walk the Green Mile, keeping a date with "Old Sparky," Cold Mountain's electric chair. Prison guard Paul Edgecombe has seen his share of oddities in his years working the Mile. But he's never seen anyone like John Coffey, a man with the body of a giant and the mind of a child, condemned for a crime terrifying in its violence and shocking in its depravity. In this place of ultimate retribution, Edgecombe is about to discover the terrible, wondrous truth about Coffey, a truth that will challenge his most cherished beliefs...and yours.

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