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Book Reviews Title The
Green Mile Fiction-Net
Rating Buy It
From Amazon.co.uk - BUY
NOW! Cover
Story 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. We
Say There aren't too
many people who haven't read a Stephen King novel
or seen one of his movies. While he is famous for
horror it is perhaps his ability to prey on our
worst fears that makes him as successful as he is.
King's serial novel, The Green Mile, is an amazing
novel. I do not consider myself a die hard King
fan. I haven't read all of his books and I don't
consider him a favourite author, but I found myself
caught up in this story. King has done an excellent
job of telling John Coffey's story through Paul
Edgecombe's eyes. This novel is not only about the
horrible things man is capable of doing but also
about our inability as humans to do the right
thing. When one thinks
of death row, one thinks of hardened criminals who
deserve to be in prison. If we do not think of them
as individuals, we can justify the death sentence.
We distance ourselves and focus on the nature of
the crime, not the person who committed it. If
something bad happens, we are so eager to place
blame that we will convince ourselves that we are
right in our assumptions no matter how wrong we may
be. King creates characters on death row that are
not only hideous, but pitiful and heartbreaking in
their weakness. Once again King
does an excellent job exploring human nature in
this novel. The horror of this story is that in
each of us is the ability to kill, directly or
indirectly. The beauty of this novel is that the
good in many of the characters provides the reader
with hope in the face of hopelessness. While some
aspects of the novel were predictable, the 'why'
was not. At times, you knew something was wrong or
was going to happen, but you didn't know why or how
the story was going to play out. Overall I was
impressed the most by the characters King created.
As with many of King's novels, the battle between
good and evil rages on without a fairy tale ending.
While I could continue to tell everyone that this
is a great book, I won't. You will just have to
read it for yourself. Review by: Yumi
Nagasaki-Taylor |
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