The Green Mile

by Stephen King

Audiobook, 2000

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I remember reading this one when it was first released as a series of chapbooks, one every month for six months. I bought each one as it came out and devoured it, waiting impatiently until the next installment would be released.The storyline is one of King's best, about the experiences of the "bull

goose screw" on E Block, death row at a Southern prison in 1932, and the three condemned prisoners who change his life forever.

I re-read this one now because it's next month's selection in my RL book club. Unbelievably, I could only find 5 of the 6 little paperbacks from that original edition on my shelves — where on earth could the last one be?! So I had to resort to listening to the audiobook, which was pretty good despite a narrator whose voice was fairly grating to me. He had a way of speaking the non-dialogue text in a sort of clenched-teeth half-whisper that was like fingernails on a chalkboard after a while. Fortunately the story was strong enough to keep me listening all the way to the end.

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Fiction. Literature. Suspense. Thriller. HTML:Masterfully told and as suspenseful as it is haunting, The Green Mile is Stephen King's classic #1 New York Times bestselling dramatic serial novel and inspiration for the Oscar-nominated film starring Tom Hanks. 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," the lime-colored linoleum corridor leading to a final meeting with Old Sparky, Cold Mountain's electric chair. Prison guard Paul Edgecombe has seen his share of oddities over the years working the Mile, but he's never seen anything 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. And in this place of ultimate retribution, Edgecombe is about to discover the terrible, wondrous truth about John Coffey�??a truth that will challenge his most cherished beli… (more)