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  • Written by: Stephen King
  • Narrated by: Frank Muller
  • Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins
  • 4.9 out of 5 stars (352 ratings)

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The Green Mile

Written by: Stephen King
Narrated by: Frank Muller
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Hear this history-making serial novel - from cliffhanger to cliffhanger - in its entirety. When it first appeared, one volume per month, Stephen King's The Green Mile was an unprecedented publishing triumph: all six volumes ended up on the New York Times best seller list - simultaneously - and delighted millions of fans the world over.

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.

©1999 Stephen King, All Rights Reserved (P)1999 Simon & Schuster, Inc., All Rights Reserved, AUDIOWORKS Is an Imprint of Simon & Schuster Audio Division, Simon & Schuster, Inc.

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"A literary event." (Entertainment Weekly)

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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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  • 2021-05-03

A gem

I wish I’d read/listened to this sooner. Got hooked on the characters. Such emotions for them...so well done. Excellent writing and Frank Miller’s narration is amazing (like all his other readings).

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Great, but...

As this was released in instalments they haven’t changed the format for the audiobook. Be prepared for recaps of events every couple of hours. Otherwise, this is one of my favourite King books.

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Awesome!

I have watched the movie probably 25 times, the book was amazing loved it. Huge King fan.

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  • 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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Took awhile to get into but...

I found this one took awhile to get into - there was four chapters describing a mouse, which I found started to drone. From there the pace picked up considerably and got much better. The performance was very well done.

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One of my favourite King movies

This is my first time reading/listening to The Green Mile. I’ve watched the movie a countless number of times. I’m not sure about the narrative format for this audio piece. Perhaps I’m just too accustomed to the movie version. Stephen King’s stories are still my favourite to read. This version just wasn’t in my top 10.

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Great story and great voice work

The story by Stephen King was excellent. I would highly recommend this to any Stephen king fan. The Voice Work was also extremely well done, and really captured the characters.

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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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Narrator extraordinaire

I knew the story was good. I had seen the movie and heard from others who had read the book. But the narration in this audiobook was phenomenal and made the audio version of this book, I think, far superior to the written medium. Mr. Frank Muller didn’t read The Green Mile, he performed it like the stage actor he was. I was so captivated by his performance and drawn in by his voices that I looked him up to learn more about him. He sadly will not be narrating any more books as he died, quite tragically, but it turns out he was one of the original audiobook narrators, narrating audiobooks starting in 1979 if I remember correctly and became the main narrator for Stephen King as well as Grisham, Le Carré and others. I will definitely be basing some of my next purchases on books that he has performed.

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