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Audio CD Description 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. The Green Mile won a 1997 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel; and Tom Hanks stars in a film of the novel by Frank Darabont, the director of The Shawshank Redemption (from King's collection Different Seasons). --Fiona Webster

Customer Reviews A knockout! King exhibits his range as a writer with this spectacularly emotional books. like his other novels, the prose is jampacked, but the entertainment quotient is extremely high and will leave the reader entirely satisfied. Great premise Like King's other books, this one has an amazing premise: A peaceful, confused man is put on death row for the rape and murder of two little girs, but the prison guards soon realize that this man has a special healing gift. However this novel still has some of the problems found in King's other works: major suspension of disbelief and overly dramatic descriptions. That being said, this is the best King novel I have read. For being written in different segments it is very well structured, and the parallelism of characters and themes is extremely effective. Who's The Nice Guy On Death Row? He Don't Exist, Son!!! Reading this book requres an immense 'Suspension Of Disbelief" on the part of the reader which I was not quite able to accomplish. The reader is introduced to John Coffey (note the initials) who is awaiting execution on Death Row.While he is waiting for his sentence to be carried out he spends most of his time crying like a baby and bringing a dead mouse back to Life!!! Is this unbelievable or what?I think King should have paid a visit to any Death Row in America where he would discover that anybody who bawls his eyes out like a kid who has lost his favourite toy would survive for about ten minutes!!!I give this book 5 stars because once again King has successfully managed to write yet another book which is 5 pounds of horse manure packed loosely into a 10 pound bag!!!