Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption (1982)

One of my favorite books ever. The movie was great as well, which rarely happens with screen adaptations. The title really describes everything...Redemption. I could read this again and again! ( )

One of my favorite books ever. The movie was great as well, which rarely happens with screen adaptations. The title really describes everything...Redemption. I could read this again and again! ( )

I did a comparison of this and its movie counterpart, The Shawshank Redemption, here. ( )

one of the best stories i've ever read and even better movie! glad i read this one

This was an amazing movie and the story is just as great. One of the few movies that hold true to the book.
Narrated by Red, he tells the story of Andy Dufresne over the course of their life together inside prison. Andy was incarcerated for the death of his wife and her lover, a crime that he did not commit.
I won't tell much about the story as it isn't a long one and should be experienced by the reader in full.

One of the things that Stephen King does best is write horror without the obvious aspects. No one jumps out and goes BOO, no one gets murdered and there are no ghosts or ghouls. What Stephen King manages to do is show the horror of being an innocent in prison, showing the full weight of day after day and year after year. The horror of being raped and spending time in solitary for someone else's crime. The horror of wasting your life away inside when you know that you don't deserve to be there, and the horror of knowing there is absolutely nothing that you can do about it. ( )