This was okay. I read it as the serial, and Mr. King got some of his facts wrong. He could not avoid some of this since the serials were published on time restraints. Overall, it's average King. ( )

I thought The Green Mile was a very moving book, but it also has a lot of problems, which have been pointed out in many other reviews. For me, the biggest is an over-reliance on sentimentality to evoke emotion, but I still think it is a powerful denunciation of capital punishment. ( )

This is more than generic horror: It’s a human story that makes you question your views and values. Does a death-row inmate deserve respect? Is capital punishment justified at all? What is the significance of the electric chair when it just speeds up the inevitable? Is human vengeance ever warranted?

I thought this book might loose something by being released in serial format. Now I’m convinced that its progressive released helped the story. In order to draw the reader back into the story each installment, King used a frame-narrative. An old man in a home for the aged spends the entire book writing out his memoirs (which become the book). In the end, the frame-narrative and the main story interact in marvelous ways.

King is prolific enough to have some stinkers under his belt (like Rose Madder). Fortunately, most of his work shines. While this story doesn’t quite stand up to the scope of The Stand or The Dark Tower, The Green Mile (along with his other prison narrative: Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption) is one of his best. ( )

WARNING!!! This book could seriously disrupt your life on the grounds of it being almost impossible to put down. Originally written in six novellas in the Dickensian tradition The Green Mile tells the story of a group of prisoners and the guards who watch over them in a small 'death house', waiting their turn at the electric chair in 1932. It stands alongside his Dark Tower books as being some of King's finest work. I can only imagine what it must have been like having to read them novella by novella with time in between: It must have been like Hell and Christmas five times in a year. ( )

I'm a firm believer that Stephen King is a strong character writer and this book, bereft of his more famous horror tropes, proves it. ( )