Bracket #8: The Green Mile (1996)

[mae]

The Green Mile, 1996
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Please vote for The Green Mile (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Green_Mile_(novel)) using the following scale:


5
4.5
4
3.5
3
2.5
2
1
0
Never read


If you haven't read this book yet, please vote Never Read. Feel free to discuss your votes in this thread.

[mae]

A masterpiece. Top 3 in my view.

[Jean]

had to vote "Never read". I've never finished it, and I don't think I ever will.

[stroppygoblin]

10!!

And has the rare commodity of producing an equally good movie

[Iwritecode]

3.5

It was good. I enjoyed it. But I can’t help comparing it to Shawshank which isn’t really even a fair comparison.

[divemaster]

I was debating between 4 and 4.5. Went with 4.5.

[frik]

Another 5!

sk

[Andrew Campbell]

"5". Well-paced. Great depth of characters. Not an ounce of fat in the prose.

[BROWNINGS CHILDE]

5. Loved it. Though I know of Jean's distaste for this work, it still baffles me.

[Jean]

5. Loved it. Though I know of Jean's distaste for this work, it still baffles me.
I know, I know! Saying that I am in minority would be an outrageous understatement (or overstatement, depending on which side we look from), but I really really don't give a shit about either how American prisons work, or especially about how the criminals are people too and have their psychology and what not. I couldn't care less of their backstories, or talks, or what happens to them. The narrator just didn't get me interested, and the tear-jerking part left me altogether cold, because I am afraid my quota for wholeheartedly accepting this particular kind of protagonist (don't know which is the political correct word today - a man with special needs?) has been filled by other stories written in the past four or five decades; he just seemed totally artificial, precalculated, built according to a failureproof plan, which, alas, failed with bears. I plodded through it as far as I could, and then just stopped.

[mae]

Well, it made me cry :cry:

[Jean]

I've cried a lot over other King stuff. But I can't cry and yawn simultaneously.

[Heather19]

4.5 Very solid book. I remember rushing to the story every month to get the next issue.

[ladysai]

4.5 Very solid book. I remember rushing to the story every month to get the next issue.

I did the same thing...anticipating the next volume. It was a bit like waiting for the next DT novel, but on a much smaller scale. I adore the story told, but its the experience of the serial releases that has me giving Green Mile an enthusiastic 5.

[Randall Flagg]

I've cried a lot over other King stuff. But I can't cry and yawn simultaneously.
You've never met my wife..........






Just kidding.

[mae]

The poll has closed. The Green Mile has earned a FAS (final average score) of 4.590909091 or 91.82%. It received a rating of 5 with 12 votes.