Customer Reviews
utterly amazing, different read - highly recommended - By: T. ANDERSEN, 16 Jul 2008 
wow. i can't recommend this book enough
touching & memorable -
written with such skill & creativity -
heartfelt & full of beauty & tragedy.
it is of course the story of a group of prisoners & guards waiting or working on 'the Green Mile' a version of death row & the adventures & feelings they experience.
it is an amazing novel - collected together as a single volume it is wholly satisfying & an amazing read.
Stephen King has had a lot of hits & misses in his career but this is one of the very best he ever wrote. less horror, more supernatural, less gore, more heart.
anyways, wholly recommended - a study in amazing writing, a heartfelt story of tragedy & beauty & a very different satisfying jaunt with some very memorable characters.
10/10
Masterpiece - By: L. Young, 03 Jul 2008 I don't think I can fault this book, I reallly don't see how as I found it moving & compelling throughout. The characters were fabulous from the prison guards to the inmates to the other supporting cast, Percy is one of King's greatest creations & beats the hell out of his other evil supernatural (etc) villains on the 'love to hate factor'.
The story was wonderful & deeply mooving. I have seen the film & so guessed what to expect but I found the book moved me much more than the film did (which was equallly as good). Although some of King's foray from the horror genre doesn't work in my opinion, The Green Mile certainly did work & so much so I believe it to be one of the finest pieces of writing I have ever read.
It took me a day to read & a day well spent it was.
Truly amazing 5/5
CLASSIC! - By: S. Mcparland, 25 Nov 2007 hard to put this book down - you just have to get this no matter if you like King or not
'The' King novel? - By: Scotty NY, 28 Apr 2007 
Okay, so I'm not a big King fan. What I have read is okay, but nothing special. That said, Carrie was cool. Then I came to The Green Mile... This is a wonderful book. It deals with such huge themes on such an intimate level, you can't help but be drawn in & captivated. But it's not just the story, or the characters that get you, it's King's writing - it just seems so much farther above his normal standard. For example - `She was black as the ace of spades & as beautiful as the sin you never had nerve enough to commit.' Wonderful stuff! And that's only on page 4. Okay, the book isn't heaving under such evocative narrative, but it's such tiny touches that raise it above the norm.
As for the story/characters? Well, John Coffey does so little, yet does so much. And isn't his fate a reflection on how we reallly do treat good people in the real world? Isn't King simply holding up a mirror for us, something good writers often do? Who can't be moved by what happens to Coffey & by the predicament Edgecombe finds himself in? Very moving & frighteningly realistic in its worldview.
It's certainly a book I'll be returning to again - a thing I do not do easily!
Heart and gut wrenching - By: Net, 26 Feb 2007 I was eager to read this book even though I have already seen the film. Despite this fact I was still hooked, thrilled & extremely moved by this story. Obviously there wasn't the same sense of surprise with the unfolding events, nevertheless I thought this was a superb piece of fiction. I liked the format; the six parts gave you a natural break in reading & built the suspense beautifully. Poignantly written, it had me in tears many times; a previous reviewer summed it up perfectly by saying if it didn't stir up your emotions you must be dead.
Like the film this will rank as one of my alll time favourites. Read the book, watch the film (in that order, but if you have seen the film already read it anyway) you won't be disappointed.
