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November 1st 1999
(first published 1996)
by Pocket
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Mass Market Paperback, 544 pages
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literary awards
Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel (1996)
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0671041789
(isbn13: 9780671041786)
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When Stephen King originally wrote The Green Mile as a series of six novellas, he didn't even know how the story would turn out. And it turned ...more
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Read in June, 2008
Warga kulit hitam hingga pertengahan abad 20 adalah masyarakat kelas dua di AS. Karena "kepapaan" itulah, sering menjadi bidikan segala keburukan. Termasuk pelaku kejahatan yang sepertinya "wajib" disandang oleh orang kulit hitam. Proses persidangan tidak lebih hanya legalitas memberi hukuman saja. Inilah yang terjadi pada tahanan "negro" di penjara Green Mile.
Sang terdakwa menerima dengan pasrah, karena tidak ada bentuk pembelaan yang akan menjamin dia lolos d...more
Sang terdakwa menerima dengan pasrah, karena tidak ada bentuk pembelaan yang akan menjamin dia lolos d...more
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Read in January, 2007
recommends it for:
anyone especially people who arnt into horror and have avoided steven king like the plague
I have just finished this book and wow what a read. Im not at all into horror either in books nor in films and even though my boyfriend has for years tried to get me to read Steven King Iv avoided him like the plague. I did know that he wrote other types of books, namely through their re-makes into hollywood films, i.e.. 'The Shawshank Redemption', 'Stand By Me' and of course 'The Green Mile' but still i was weary of approaching him.
It was only after my boyfriend read this and nagged me into...more
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Read in November, 2006
I did see the movie before I read the book, which actually enhanced my reading. I think the actors were so successfully chosen for the various roles that I acutally pictured Tom Hanks as the narrator and Michael Clark Duncan as the death row inmate.
King weaves some important themes and messages into this story. The most enlightening of which is being comfortable with growing old.
Paul, the prison guard narrator (Hanks' character) emerges as the tragic hero of this novel. While he comes...more
King weaves some important themes and messages into this story. The most enlightening of which is being comfortable with growing old.
Paul, the prison guard narrator (Hanks' character) emerges as the tragic hero of this novel. While he comes...more
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I own a "one book" translated edition (in Italian),even if here too it was sold in six separated volumes. Here I find SK at his best: the characters are vividly depicted, and so are their emotions and thoughts. The plot is quite simple, but it's powerful and moving: a story of social complaint, crime and punishment (and its lawfulness), revenge and forgiveness, innocence and guilt and last but not least, hope - even if the ending is not a happy and reassuring one - I won't tell it, of...more
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The Green Mile was released in 6 serials. I distinctly remember finishing up the 5th book but not having the last installment since it had just come out. So I rode my morotcycle (only mode of transportation at that time) in a butt-cold sting-your-nipples kind of rain to Walmart at like 3 AM to buy it. When I got there, I was so cold that I sat down and read it. Didn't ride home till the sun was up. :)
I liked this book. The movie was good, too.
I liked this book. The movie was good, too.
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Read in January, 1995
i actually submitted to the reader's contest at the end of each installment. that was when i was working temp jobs and finished the work in a fraction of the time the job thought. oh, the good ol' days!
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If you've seen the movie, you'll be reading along thinking it's scripted. Then the end comes in and drops on you, like you wouldn't believe. I was highly impressed!!
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six book set was a great way to read this. I would never have picked up a book this size. Amazing job making the movie
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John Coffey was more mountain than man. He was seven something feet tall, but he was the type of tall you never realize until you stand next to him or see him. I f he could nonnchalantly walk up to a group of people talking, the average person would not look at him, but keep talking, and then look around frantically before finally looking up if he ever spoke with his quiet, deep voice like a mourning oboe. His head was like a beach ball sitting perched on top of his barrel of a chest and his...more
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Read in October, 2008
This is a book I have read again and again. It also became one of the best film adaptations of a book that I have ever seen.
Paul is now an old man living in a retirement home, writing the story of when he worked "The Green Mile", a prison where the only inmates are those that have been sentenced to execution by a jury of their peers. He has an amazing tale to tell of a man named John Coffey (initials JC, with many similarities to Jesus Christ), an enormous black man who was found w...more
Paul is now an old man living in a retirement home, writing the story of when he worked "The Green Mile", a prison where the only inmates are those that have been sentenced to execution by a jury of their peers. He has an amazing tale to tell of a man named John Coffey (initials JC, with many similarities to Jesus Christ), an enormous black man who was found w...more
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Read in April, 2008
recommends it for:
Anyone who can take gore
Stephen King is a great author?! Who knew? I guess a huge chunk of the world-I recently heard or read somewhere that he's the world's top novelist. That was kind of shocking, but now I'm starting to understand why. I probably didn't give him much of a chance before because I'm not a horror reader and while most movies of his that I've seen scarred me for life, some of them had really bizarre endings that seriously called into question the author's abilities. Why would you ruin what was a su...more
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Read in January, 2008
Wow!
And here I thought all Stephen King was capable of writing was cheap, tawdry horror novels. I stand corrected. This is without doubt one of the most powerful books I've read in a long time.
The Green Mile is a tragedy that plumbs the depths of human moral complexity by examining the character of death-row inmates and the penitentiary guards that keep watch over them. We find that the inflexible, pitiless aspect of laws that demands the death penalty are incapable of judging men in t...more
And here I thought all Stephen King was capable of writing was cheap, tawdry horror novels. I stand corrected. This is without doubt one of the most powerful books I've read in a long time.
The Green Mile is a tragedy that plumbs the depths of human moral complexity by examining the character of death-row inmates and the penitentiary guards that keep watch over them. We find that the inflexible, pitiless aspect of laws that demands the death penalty are incapable of judging men in t...more
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Read in March, 2003
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Narrator: Frank Muller
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio, 1999
Length: 13 hours and 45 min.
Publisher's Summary
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 best seller list - simultaneously - and delighted millions of fans the world over.
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Narrator: Frank Muller
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio, 1999
Length: 13 hours and 45 min.
Publisher's Summary
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 best seller list - simultaneously - and delighted millions of fans the world over.
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Read in July, 1997
recommends it for:
My grandma
When Stephen King issued his New York Times best selling novel The Green Mile in monthly installments, millions of hooked readers anxiously awaited each cliff-hanging episode. Now, for the first time, all six exciting parts come together in one volume to let you enjoy Stephen King's masterpiece uninterrupted, from gripping opening to shattering climax.
At Cold Mountain Penitentiary, along the lonely stretch of cells known as the Green Mile, killers are as depraved as the psychopat...more
At Cold Mountain Penitentiary, along the lonely stretch of cells known as the Green Mile, killers are as depraved as the psychopat...more
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Read in August, 2003
Moja ulubiona książka, po prostu ją kocham. Nigdy wcześniej i nigdy później nie czytałem niczego co by tak bardzo na mnie zadziałało. Momentami jest zabawna, ale głównie smutna i muszę się przyznać, że od egzekucji Eduarda Delacroix płakałem do samego końca z małymi może przerwami ;) i to właśnie jego historia wzruszyła mnie w sumie nawet bardziej niż Johna.
Nigdy wczeÅ›niej nie zdarzyÅ‚o mi siÄ™ nic takiego żebym po przeczytaniu jakiejÅ› książki do koÅ„ca zabraÅ‚ siÄ...more
Nigdy wczeÅ›niej nie zdarzyÅ‚o mi siÄ™ nic takiego żebym po przeczytaniu jakiejÅ› książki do koÅ„ca zabraÅ‚ siÄ...more
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Read in October, 2003
Die einzelnen Teile habe ich schon seit sie 1996 herausgekommen sind. Damals gab es jeden Monat einen kleinen Band im Buchladen zu kaufen, zu je 5,-DM. Da ich damals schon Fan war, war es klar, dass ich mir das zulegen musste. Wenn ich nur ein paar Jährchen gewartet hätte, hätte ich später alles komplett und mit Filmfotos für 20,-DM erwerben können. Gelesen habe ich es ja eh erst 2003...
Die Story: Ein alter Mann (über hundert!!!) schreibt die Erlebnisse auf, die er anno 1932 als GefÃ...more
Die Story: Ein alter Mann (über hundert!!!) schreibt die Erlebnisse auf, die er anno 1932 als GefÃ...more
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Read in September, 2007
I read this book when it came out & although I was a teen, I was a teen who'd been raised on the classics. Jane Austen. The Bronte sisters. War & Peace. Hell, even Hemingway. My parents were quite fanatical about the literature they 'subjected' me to. It was with just an ounce of (almost) teen rebellion that I began to read Stephen King. This was probably around the time I began to watch horror films with a vengeance, too, although I must say I easily differentiated between the good King...more
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Read in December, 2005
recommends it for:
mature readers
this is the best book Stephen King has written to this point in his already illustrious (and extensive) career. It's the best because it's not simply a thriller (like 'Salem's Lot) or straight up horror (like Carrie or Misery), instead, it's a book filled with beauty and simplicity, and at the same time brutality and murder. While at some times in his career Mr. King has become carried away with gore and sprctacle, he doesn't make that mistake in this book. The story is well set up and unbeli...more
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Read in October, 2008
I picked up this book at the library because I wanted to read a book that would be a thrilling page turner and a little scary, like other Stephen King books. However, this book really surprised me, in a good way, because it was so different than other Stephen King books I've read.
This book told the story of inmates on death row, told from the point of view of one of the guards. Each of the characters was so beautifully created. And I grew to both love and hate characters I did not expec...more
This book told the story of inmates on death row, told from the point of view of one of the guards. Each of the characters was so beautifully created. And I grew to both love and hate characters I did not expec...more
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Read in January, 1996
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What a great set of books this turned out to be. I read them one at a time which was such a great way to read the story. It was genius as it had me waiting and wanting more from King which I suspect is the purpose of the way it was released.
For those who are unaware, it was released as old Charles Dickens books were in serial format. Meaning that the story was actually being written WHILE the fans were reading the books.
Oddly King read many comments from fans while writing about the boo...more
For those who are unaware, it was released as old Charles Dickens books were in serial format. Meaning that the story was actually being written WHILE the fans were reading the books.
Oddly King read many comments from fans while writing about the boo...more
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