The Green Mile (The Green Mile #1-6)

The Green Mile is a great book. Originally released in 6 \”episodes\”, the best thing about the narrative is the way Stephen King meters out the story to the reader.Just enough to keep you hooked at every point, but told with a \”slow burn\” and a style that gives you the feeling that everything that you are being told is leading up to something big, which it is! The Characterisation is awesome in that you connect with these people, and you are given a clear idea of how to feel about the characters (with one exception, who you will learn to judge as the book progresses) without being patronised! Very satisfying. This book is primarily about people, but it places them in a well realised environment that you do feel a part of as you read. This book is read by Frank Muller, who has such a distinctive style, that after you\’ve finished this audiobook, you\’ll find it hard to listen to any other book read by him without thinking you\’re listening to The Green Mile. He is quite simply, the perfect reader for this particular book. I warn you now that if you start this book, there\’s a good chance that you\’ll be hooked, and you\’ll want to listen to it again and again……….. and you\’d be right to do so.

I first read The Green Mile back in 2000 after wondering for some time whether the movie was the same as the book. I casually mentioned this to my sister and received the audiocassette version of this book as an Easter present. At the time I hadn\’t yet been exposed to the narration of Frank Muller or even had much exposure to Stephen King\’s work. I liked this book best out of those books that I had read. It\’s the story of Depression era Death Row, but more accurately it\’s the story of one prison guard\’s questioning the morality of his profession when an unusual prisoner, both in terms of his size and his personality, is sentenced to death for the brutal rape/murder of a pair of twin girls. Only the man\’s physical appearance (he\’s a nearly seven-foot-tall, musclebound black man), seems to support the charges of murder. His gentle, gentle, childlike personality however, doesn\’t fit, and when he is later revealed to possess a strange gift for healing, Paul Edgecomb begins to question not merely the nature of his own job, but whether or not the man accused of the unspeakable crime is the one who committed it. Frank Muller, a narrator who will be sorely missed, narrates this book with expression, giving each character a distinctive personality. So far I haven\’t found a book he\’s read that he didn\’t do justice. As I said above, he\’ll be sorely missed by those who loved his works. For those who don\’t know, Frank Muller was in a motorcycle accident some years back and, though he was wearing his helmet he nevertheless sustained severe head injuries. Two years ago this June he passed away, presumably having succumbed to his injuries. Regrettably however, even had he survived it\’s likely that his career as a narrator would have been finished. But at least he gave us many excellent works by which to remember him.

This book is absolutely amazing and the narrator gives life to all the characters with different voices and accents . The story is very well written, with life like characters, but also has a touch of supernatural . I Laughed out loud and I cried I felt good and also felt very bad in the hours I spent with these masterpiece

To me this was the kind of story that seeemed like I was there. The descriptions and characters had a vivid reality. Most of all I was filled with the emotions of the book. The little mouse was wonderful. He added so much to the story. I spent an awful amount of time listening instead of doing the stuff I should have been doing. The book needs no revision to keep the suspense for the several sections. It still reads very well.

I was intrigued and interested with many characters. Of course I loved the character John Coffey. I was so sad for him. And I cried for him. I kept thinking of what I would have done to save his life. I wanted the other characters to do more than they did, but that would have been a different story. So I reluctantly accept the story I got. At one point John says hes tired of being alone, wished he had someone with him to tell him where theyd been and where they were going. Another line in the book that will stay with me was about a type of killing: it happens every day all over the world. If it happens, God lets it happen and when we say I dont understand, God replies I dont care. I think the idea of God not caring is behind a number of Stephen King books. So, I know I wont always get a happy ending from him. But the way he writes dialogue and events and characters are so worthwhile that Ill keep reading. I have two complaints about this book – technical. This was written as a six part series, each part published separately. Therefore each part has a recap of prior events to refresh the readers memory. This refreshing of memory was redundant. I wish the author would have taken those parts out when publishing the single book. My second complaint was the jumping back and forth in time. The narrator is an old man recalling and writing about what happened in 1932 with John Coffey. The 1932 story is frequently interrupted with things happening in the old age story. I was ok with some of it, but not when he jumped in the middle of a critical scene. That was artificial suspense, which made me mad at the author and took me out of the story. Both stories are good and important for each other, but I would have liked the switching done at logical stopping points, not in the middle of conversations. The narrator Frank Muller was wonderful – as usual. Genre: mystery with fantasy, death row fiction. Ending: mostly sad, but interesting for some.

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