The Green Mile, 1996
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Bracket #8: The Green Mile (1996)
The Green Mile, 1996
Please vote for The Green Mile 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.
A masterpiece. Top 3 in my view.
had to vote "Never read". I've never finished it, and I don't think I ever will.
Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)
bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
10!!
And has the rare commodity of producing an equally good movie
"A real limited edition, far from being an expensive autograph stapled to a novel, is a treasure. And like all treasures do, it transforms the responsible owner into a caretaker, and being a caretaker of something as fragile and easily destroyed as ideas and images is not a bad thing but a good one...and so is the re-evaluation of what books are and what they do that necessarily follows." - Stephen King
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.
Hearts are tough, she said, most times hearts don't break, and I'm sure that's right . . . but what about then? What about who we were then? What about hearts in Atlantis?
I was debating between 4 and 4.5. Went with 4.5.
Another 5!
sk
"5". Well-paced. Great depth of characters. Not an ounce of fat in the prose.
5. Loved it. Though I know of Jean's distaste for this work, it still baffles me.
Sloth Love Chunk
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.Originally Posted by BROWNINGS CHILDE
Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)
bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well, it made me cry
I've cried a lot over other King stuff. But I can't cry and yawn simultaneously.
Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)
bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
4.5 Very solid book. I remember rushing to the story every month to get the next issue.
Only the gentle are ever really strong.
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.
You've never met my wife..........
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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.
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