Cons: A small bit of reiteration at the beginning of each novel.
The Bottom Line: One of King's finest works--without a spooky thing about it, to boot!--all neatly packaged for you; except for a little repetitivness at the beginnings, a must have!
Paneless's Full Review: Stephen King - The Green Mile: The Complete Serial...
It's almost impossible to write a review of this novel after seeing the film, never before has a motion picture embodied the heart and soul of a written work and its characters. And that almost makes reading the novel pointless, all the principals and themes presented in the book are all there on the screen for you, three-dimensional and in color.
Ah, but you miss so much without the written page! King's works are always cerebral and what's going on in the character's heads always drives the story, and let's be honest, voice-overs can only do so much in the movies.
Without reading The Green Mile you would miss character development on Chief Arlen Bitterbuck, Delacroix, and Paul's lady friend Elaine at the nursing home where the beginning and ending of the film take place. In the novel, the retirement home is where Paul decides to write all about the summer of 1932, the summer of John Coffey and the worst bladder infection...
The only negative thing I can really express about The Green Mile is that because it more or less takes the six paperback serials, rips off the covers and sticks them in one book, you get all of the reiteration at the beginning of each novel, sometimes word for word summaries of past events, making the first chapter of each book a little trying.
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