The Green Mile
Registered by darkpunkangel of Barrie, Ontario Canada on 5/11/2007
This book is in a Controlled Release!
This book is in a Controlled Release!
2 journalers for this copy...
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When Stephen King originally wrote The Green Mile as a series of six novellas, he didn't even know how the story would turn out. And it turned out to be of his finest yarns, tapping into what he does best: character-driven storytelling. The setting is the small "death house" of a Southern prison in 1932. The Green Mile is the hall with a floor "the color of tired old limes" that leads to "Old Sparky" (the electric chair). The charming narrator is an old man, a prison guard, looking back on the events decades later.
Maybe it's a little too cute (there's a smart prison mouse named Mr. Jingles), maybe the pathos is laid on a little thick, but it's hard to resist the colorful personalities and simple wonders of this supernatural tale. And it's not a bad choice for giving to someone who doesn't understand the appeal of Stephen King, because the one scene that is out-and-out gruesome (it involves "Old Sparky") can be easily skipped by the squeamish.
Placed in Everybook VBB on bookobsessed and taken out by VeganMedusa
When Stephen King originally wrote The Green Mile as a series of six novellas, he didn't even know how the story would turn out. And it turned out to be of his finest yarns, tapping into what he does best: character-driven storytelling. The setting is the small "death house" of a Southern prison in 1932. The Green Mile is the hall with a floor "the color of tired old limes" that leads to "Old Sparky" (the electric chair). The charming narrator is an old man, a prison guard, looking back on the events decades later.
Maybe it's a little too cute (there's a smart prison mouse named Mr. Jingles), maybe the pathos is laid on a little thick, but it's hard to resist the colorful personalities and simple wonders of this supernatural tale. And it's not a bad choice for giving to someone who doesn't understand the appeal of Stephen King, because the one scene that is out-and-out gruesome (it involves "Old Sparky") can be easily skipped by the squeamish.
Placed in Everybook VBB on bookobsessed and taken out by VeganMedusa
Journal Entry 2 by darkpunkangel at Everybook VBB in VBB, A Bookbox -- Controlled Releases on Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Released 16 yrs ago (2/13/2008 UTC) at Everybook VBB in VBB, A Bookbox -- Controlled Releases
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Sent today, hope you enjoy the book!
Sent today, hope you enjoy the book!
Journal Entry 3 by VeganMedusa from Invercargill, Southland New Zealand on Monday, February 18, 2008
Thanks dpa!
Huh, I just noticed that I finished reading this book 3 years to the day from when I received it. Weird.
Stephen King is always very readable, and this was no exception. But it was a bit oogy reading this straight after Gone with the Wind - partly because it was obvious in the book how black people were still seen as inferior and animal-like, and partly because it's like a century later and our stories have just replaced the childlike/savage Negro with the magical Negro.
Stephen King is always very readable, and this was no exception. But it was a bit oogy reading this straight after Gone with the Wind - partly because it was obvious in the book how black people were still seen as inferior and animal-like, and partly because it's like a century later and our stories have just replaced the childlike/savage Negro with the magical Negro.
Released through bookmooch to Israel.
