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crabdude 's review for:
The Green Mile
by Stephen King
The book, different from the usual cultural expectation of Stephen King, is not scary. It is not attempting to be scary. It is a rumination more on prejudiced people in a corrupted system of justice wrestling with the consequences of that. There is no great escape, no fantasy of getting John out and letting him roam, the horror of it comes from that there is no way to stop what has been put in place. They know he didn't do it, they know he is a good person but they still have to roll on two and fry him until he is dead.
Everyone who reads the book knows, I imagine, that he dies. They've watched the movie or simply heard "boss, I don't like the dark" and know that, at the end, John will die. It's knowing that Jekyll is Hyde. The book then becomes all that surrounds that; the fact that John is innocent, the journey to discover that, and what that means for the people whose job it is to execute John.
Everyone who reads the book knows, I imagine, that he dies. They've watched the movie or simply heard "boss, I don't like the dark" and know that, at the end, John will die. It's knowing that Jekyll is Hyde. The book then becomes all that surrounds that; the fact that John is innocent, the journey to discover that, and what that means for the people whose job it is to execute John.