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- Narrated by: Frank Muller
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Publisher's Summary
Welcome to Cold Mountain Penitentiary, home to the Depression-worn men of E Block. Convicted killers all, each awaits his turn to walk the Green Mile, keeping a date with "Old Sparky," Cold Mountain's electric chair. Prison guard Paul Edgecombe has seen his share of oddities in his years working the Mile. But he's never seen anyone like John Coffey, a man with the body of a giant and the mind of a child, condemned for a crime terrifying in its violence and shocking in its depravity. In this place of ultimate retribution, Edgecombe is about to discover the terrible, wondrous truth about Coffey, a truth that will challenge his most cherished beliefs...and yours.
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- Richard Welsh
- 2022-12-23
Love it so much did it twice in a role
It’s way better than the movie, one of king’s best books and did it multiple times
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- Michael W.
- 2022-09-01
I think this the best Stephen King book.
I think you are going to love it as well, just a very different book all together.
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- Edison young
- 2022-08-16
I've always heard a book is better than a movie
If you watch the movie you should read the book it's amazing it takes you in so many different directions that you haven't even thought of All I can say is great job Steven king
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- Sonja
- 2022-06-23
A Keeper
I loved the movie and the book and now the audio book. I've listened to it a few times. It's my go to when I'm stuck for something to read.
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- metalxjamie
- 2021-06-28
Exceptional!
Absolutely loved everything about this experience. I honoured the original publication schedule by listening to one part per week, and I'm glad I did, because it resulted in a surprisingly different read than a regular, non-serial novel. It was more fulfilling to read it the way it was intended and I felt more in tune with the original experience. The Green Mile is emotional and touching and beautiful; I cried at times, and I'm not much of a crier. It was also horrifying, funny, macabre, frightening, infuriating, and seemingly every other emotion. I don't think I've loathed a character as much as I hated Percy, and Coffey is such a beautiful, unique, innocent character. Frank Muller had kind of an old-timey delivery, and it was perfect. Nice voice, riveting narration. Not only one of King's best works, but one of the best books ever, period.
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- Chi
- 2023-09-30
My first ever Stephen king book!!
This was my first time EVER reading/listening to anything by Stephen King. I had started reading it on my kindle first, but found that it was too slow and I kept getting distracted so I abandoned it for a while. I just recently decided to try the audiobook and BAYBEEEY I was NOT disappointed! First of all Frank Muller gave a PERFORMANCE YOU HEAR ME!! 🗣️🗣️🗣️ From the cadence and baritone of his voice, to how he gave each character their own sound and brought them to life! I was never confused about who was speaking. Now on to you Stephen… you motherfucker. The way this man goes into DETAIL about all the characters is what made me quit reading in my kindle, but listening to the audiobook oh boy was it WORTH it! I was HOOKED. The suspense was killing me and it felt like listening to a really good true crime podcast that has all the episodes out. 😭😭😭 JUSTICE FOR JOHN COFFEY DAMNIT! Mr. King, YOU’VE GOT A FAN IN ME 🙌🏾🙌🏾
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- Brad MacDonald
- 2023-09-19
Awesome!
I have watched the movie probably 25 times, the book was amazing loved it. Huge King fan.
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- Anonymous User
- 2023-08-14
Excellent narrator
The narrator made this already exceptional story come alive. I was hooked on the story right from the start.
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- Brennen
- 2023-07-23
amazing
this was not my favorite Steven king novel, that goes to pet cemetery. despite that this book made me emotional, to the point of having to fight back tears, I don't really think of myself as emotional, particularly over fiction, but this was hard to listen to at the end, it was everything I hoped it was and more
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- Anonymous User
- 2023-06-17
Another masterpiece from King and Muller
I loved the setting. The perspective from Paul was superb. Nobody writes characters quite like the King. Amazing book.
Muller once again absolutely nails the narration. Now, when I read my King books, I sometimes accidentally read them in Muller's voice!
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- Bryan J. Peterson
- 2010-03-21
An excellent narrator and an excellent story.
I first read The Green Mile back in 2000 after wondering for some time whether the movie was the same as the book. I casually mentioned this to my sister and received the audiocassette version of this book as an Easter present. At the time I hadn't yet been exposed to the narration of Frank Muller or even had much exposure to Stephen King's work. I liked this book best out of those books that I had read. It's the story of Depression era Death Row, but more accurately it's the story of one prison guard's questioning the morality of his profession when an unusual prisoner, both in terms of his size and his personality, is sentenced to death for the brutal rape/murder of a pair of twin girls. Only the man's physical appearance (he's a nearly seven-foot-tall, musclebound black man), seems to support the charges of murder. His gentle, gentle, childlike personality however, doesn't fit, and when he is later revealed to possess a strange gift for healing, Paul Edgecomb begins to question not merely the nature of his own job, but whether or not the man accused of the unspeakable crime is the one who committed it. Frank Muller, a narrator who will be sorely missed, narrates this book with expression, giving each character a distinctive personality. So far I haven't found a book he's read that he didn't do justice. As I said above, he'll be sorely missed by those who loved his works. For those who don't know, Frank Muller was in a motorcycle accident some years back and, though he was wearing his helmet he nevertheless sustained severe head injuries. Two years ago this June he passed away, presumably having succumbed to his injuries. Regrettably however, even had he survived it's likely that his career as a narrator would have been finished. But at least he gave us many excellent works by which to remember him.
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- Stuart
- 2005-08-08
Right Book, Right Reader.... Enjoy!
The Green Mile is a great book. Originally released in 6 "episodes", the best thing about the narrative is the way Stephen King meters out the story to the reader.Just enough to keep you hooked at every point, but told with a "slow burn" and a style that gives you the feeling that everything that you are being told is leading up to something big, which it is!
The Characterisation is awesome in that you connect with these people, and you are given a clear idea of how to feel about the characters (with one exception, who you will learn to judge as the book progresses) without being patronised! Very satisfying.
This book is primarily about people, but it places them in a well realised environment that you do feel a part of as you read.
This book is read by Frank Muller, who has such a distinctive style, that after you've finished this audiobook, you'll find it hard to listen to any other book read by him without thinking you're listening to The Green Mile.
He is quite simply, the perfect reader for this particular book.
I warn you now that if you start this book, there's a good chance that you'll be hooked, and you'll want to listen to it again and again........... and you'd be right to do so.
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- Orita
- 2003-03-30
Both the book and the reader were just plain great
To me this was the kind of story that seeemed like I was there. The descriptions and characters had a vivid reality. Most of all I was filled with the emotions of the book. The little mouse was wonderful. He added so much to the story. I spent an awful amount of time listening instead of doing the stuff I should have been doing. The book needs no revision to keep the suspense for the several sections. It still reads very well.
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- Jeff
- 2007-12-01
OOOOWWWEEEE
Man, the King can write, can't he? From word one, I was hooked. You know when you buy a really good watermelon at the store? You get home, cut that sucka up, take a tentative hopeful first bite and then sit back and think 'I am in good hands.' That's what I felt like hearing this book -- it's got everything -- great characters, incredible plot, just enough outlandish fantasy to keep things Kingesque.
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- Victor @ theAudiobookBlog dot com
- 2018-08-06
One of my favorite books from Stephen king
This book is absolutely amazing and the narrator gives life to all the characters with different voices and accents .
The story is very well written, with life like characters, but also has a touch of supernatural .
I Laughed out loud and I cried I felt good and also felt very bad in the hours I spent with these masterpiece
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- Jane
- 2012-09-27
An unusual story, makes me admire the author.
I was intrigued and interested with many characters. Of course I loved the character John Coffey. I was so sad for him. And I cried for him. I kept thinking of what I would have done to save his life. I wanted the other characters to do more than they did, but that would have been a different story. So I reluctantly accept the story I got. At one point John says he’s tired of being alone, wished he had someone with him to tell him where they’d been and where they were going. Another line in the book that will stay with me was about a type of killing: “it happens every day all over the world. If it happens, God lets it happen and when we say I don’t understand, God replies I don’t care.” I think the idea of God not caring is behind a number of Stephen King books. So, I know I won’t always get a happy ending from him. But the way he writes dialogue and events and characters are so worthwhile that I’ll keep reading.
I have two complaints about this book - technical. This was written as a six part series, each part published separately. Therefore each part has a recap of prior events to refresh the reader’s memory. This “refreshing of memory” was redundant. I wish the author would have taken those parts out when publishing the single book.
My second complaint was the jumping back and forth in time. The narrator is an old man recalling and writing about what happened in 1932 with John Coffey. The 1932 story is frequently interrupted with things happening in the old age story. I was ok with some of it, but not when he jumped in the middle of a critical scene. That was artificial suspense, which made me mad at the author and took me out of the story. Both stories are good and important for each other, but I would have liked the switching done at logical stopping points, not in the middle of conversations.
The narrator Frank Muller was wonderful - as usual.
Genre: mystery with fantasy, death row fiction.
Ending: mostly sad, but interesting for some.
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- David
- 2007-11-09
Excellent!
Entertaining from start to finish. Naration wonderful. This story is about inmates on death row and the effect on guards (Screws) in charge of their care. Do not let the "short story series" aspect deter you from listening. This is not a collection of "short stories". Rather it is a complete cohesive book that was originally published as a serial. It is one complete book that has been knit together masterfully by the King of suspense, Stephen King. I enjoyed every minute. Characters and story line are easy to follow. You will laugh, cry, cringe and be dismayed by the "system". You will not be disappointed. Buy this book, it is one of the best ever written.
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- Christine
- 2010-10-26
The Green Mile
An incredibly written book with a narration just as incredible. You can't go wrong with this one.
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- scott
- 2007-11-27
Exceptional
This was a terrific audio book. The characters were well drawn, thestory was riveting and moving and nearly brought tears to my eyes, and the narration was flawless. I have never read nor listened to Stephen King before, and was very dubious about this book, but I was very, very pleased that I downloaded it.
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- Dennis
- 2003-07-07
Intriguing story that makes you want to believe
There is just a little bit of what I'd call supernatural in here, but for the most part it's just good fiction set in the 1930s (with flashes to later years). Methodical and interesting detail about the world that revolves around the electirc chair, with a compelling story about one inmate. I thought it was more main stream than other Stephen King works that I've read and found it thoroughly enjoyable.
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