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THE GREEN MILE
STEPHEN KING
I remember when I first saw this movie. I loved it! Tom Hanks was Paul Edgcombe. I was also glad that I had not read the book first. Most any time a book is adapted into a screenplay they butcher it (especially Steven Kings books). Since I love to read I wanted to read this book even though I already knew the story. I was also curious to see if I would like it as much as the movie. I will say I was pleasantly suprised.
The Green Mile is one book that I have now read many times and my copy is getting very careworn and dog-eared looking but it still comes out on a regular basis and is read again and again.
About the Book
In the beginning of the book we are introduced to an elderly Paul Edgcombe. He is living in a nursing home called Georgia Pines. He is writing the story of what happened to him in the year 1932. He was a prison guard back then in the state penitentiary. He worked in what was called E block. E block was like what is called death row today.
That was the year that the mouse showed up. A little mouse just walked right up to the desk station and looked at all the guards. One of the guards gave him a piece of food and the mouse just sat there all prim and proper and ate the piece of food. The guards started calling him Steamboat Willy. Later a prisoner came in named Del Delacroix and he named the mouse Mr. Jingles. He told the guard’s that the mouse told him that was his name. The mouse was very special and could do all sorts of little tricks. Another thing about the mouse, he would only take food from the permanent guards, never the floaters.
In October of that year John Coffey showed up. He was a very big black man, the biggest man any of them had ever seen! He was there for raping and murdering two little girls. The first thing that Paul noticed (other than John’s height) was the endless stream of tears that John sheds. Paul did something he has never done with any other prisoner; he shook John’s hand. There is something special about John Coffey. If you want to find out what it is, you will either have to read the book or rent the movie.
What I thought about the book
There are a few differences between the book and the movie. But, for the most part the movie followed the book. While I was reading I kept seeing bits of the movie in my mind. As I said in the beginning Tom Hanks was Paul Edgcombe. Even though I already knew what was going to happen, I still stayed up late reading this book, it was that good! King did very well developing the characters. These characters feel like our friends and we want to keep reading to find out what happens to them (even if you have seen the movie, you will keep reading).
I do want to tell you about the forward in the book. Stephen King tells how this story came about and I thought it was interesting. He said that he has insomnia and instead of counting sleep he thinks up stories. He decided this one was too good to keep at bedtime and so he wrote the first paragraph. Later his foreign rights agent called him and asked him what he thought about doing a serial-novel like Charles Dickens had done in his time. And the rest is history…
In conclusion
I cannot really say more - it's a great book by a great author and it truly is captivating from the start.
I cannot really recommend this enough - if you like a good story, this is a great one.
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character-driven storytelling. The setting is the small "death house" of a Southern prison in 1932. The charming narrator is an old man looking back on the events, decades l...
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