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Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption: A Story from Different Seasons
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bookshelves: genre-mystery-thriller, rated-5-stars, read-2015, reviewed, writer-stephen-king, novellas, movie-adaptation-seen
Nov 01, 2015
bookshelves: genre-mystery-thriller, rated-5-stars, read-2015, reviewed, writer-stephen-king, novellas, movie-adaptation-seen
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Usually, I'm struggling with trying to review my favorite books, because apart from expressions like 'awesome', 'mind-blowing' or 'must-read', not too much can be said about stories like these. Perhaps this is one of the reasons why I tend to enjoy writing snarky reviews of books I disliked way more than trying to compose a decent review on a story I loved and want everyone else to read as well.
"Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption" is one of them. I have to admit, I am a huge fan of prison stories and the way they are able to explore what imprisonment and isolation from society can do to a human's mind. Stephen King managed to explore this in such a perfect way, allowing hope and despair to flow into his words simultaneously. I've read many other reviews emphasizing it, and I can only sign what they are writing: this is not only a story about life in prison (which, by the way, is depicted in a very realistic way - not that I would be able to judge how life in prison really feels like, but at least King managed to convince me this is how it would feel like to be imprisoned for more than thirty years), but also a story about hope. And it is perfectly done. Not many stories before have been able to nearly reduce me to tears at the ending, but "Shawshank Redemption" is one of them.
It's no long story and, thus, will not take much time to read, so I can highly recommend giving it a try. Now, watching the movie version with Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins will gain a high place on my to-do-list (right beneath reading more Stephen King novels), as nearly everybody seems to have watched this movie - and loved it - except for me.
"Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption" is one of them. I have to admit, I am a huge fan of prison stories and the way they are able to explore what imprisonment and isolation from society can do to a human's mind. Stephen King managed to explore this in such a perfect way, allowing hope and despair to flow into his words simultaneously. I've read many other reviews emphasizing it, and I can only sign what they are writing: this is not only a story about life in prison (which, by the way, is depicted in a very realistic way - not that I would be able to judge how life in prison really feels like, but at least King managed to convince me this is how it would feel like to be imprisoned for more than thirty years), but also a story about hope. And it is perfectly done. Not many stories before have been able to nearly reduce me to tears at the ending, but "Shawshank Redemption" is one of them.
It's no long story and, thus, will not take much time to read, so I can highly recommend giving it a try. Now, watching the movie version with Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins will gain a high place on my to-do-list (right beneath reading more Stephen King novels), as nearly everybody seems to have watched this movie - and loved it - except for me.
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Nov 07, 2015 11:06AM
I agree, and have you read The Green Mile? The book and movie are great also
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ahhhhh you haven't seen the movie to this!??That must be corrected. My favorite movie. It's even better than this story.
Bonnie wrote: "I agree, and have you read The Green Mile? The book and movie are great also"Unfortunately I haven't yet, but the book is on my to-read-list as well. I'm kind of trying to catch up with Stephen King's books and the adaptions, and apart from the movie 'Carrie' and the book 'Under the Dome' I haven't yet watched/read anything penned by him. Something I'll definitely change :)
Shelby *wants some flying monkeys* wrote: "ahhhhh you haven't seen the movie to this!??That must be corrected. My favorite movie. It's even better than this story."
Nope, unfortunately I haven't *blush*. I'm sort of a newbie to King's works, but already a fan of it.
Will correct it as soon as possible!
Love all ofstephenKing
Sabah wrote: "I Love Shawshank and The Green Mile, both outstanding films. Shawshank tanked at the cinema, faded at first in to obscurity and then resurfaced like a Phoenix rising from the ashes, A film which ga..."I've only seen The Green Mile, but it's definitely one of my absolute favorite movies. So great. So, so, so great. I'm really glad you love it too!
Thank you, Sabah :)
Outstanding review, Fabian! ... I've seen the movie, maybe, like a gazillion times! I am perfectly aligned with the universe in that why this movie has retained its numero uno status in IMDB Top 250 for over a decade straight now.Actually I find it difficult to imagine that any book can do more than what the movie already did to me! But after your (and Sanjay's ) review, I can feel those doubts creeping up. This book is now in my reading list for this year. ... :)
Abhishek wrote: "Outstanding review, Fabian! ... I've seen the movie, maybe, like a gazillion times! I am perfectly aligned with the universe in that why this movie has retained its numero uno status in IMDB Top 25..."Thanks, Abhishek! I encourage you not to go into this novella thinking it's going to be the same as the movie, because it isn't. The perfect movie added a lot of intriguing material to the story, which is why I ultimately loved the movie even more. The novella is still written on a high literary level, though. I hope you will enjoy reading it :)
