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Him: Have you read The Green Mile?
Me: No - is that, King?
Him: Yeah, what are you reading right now?
Me: Prozac Nation, Watership Down, Pride and Prejudice, etc
Him: Stop reading all of that, right now. And go out and get that book. ( Sort of in a semi threatening voice. By this point i was planning my escape route )
Ahem.
Thoughts? Is it really worth putting down such wonderful books for The Green Mile?
( I have a real problem for putting books on hold like that )
Yes? No? Maybe so?
Discuss!
kiki1982
03-18-2009, 04:40 AM
One should never put book down in favour of another one, no matter that the second one is King or Scott.
Other than that you could tell that person that certain people like other things than others. So that not everyone's priority is King. You would be able to find ot what it is about and then talk about yours (make sure you take out all the boring bits).
It is difficult if someone is so convinced, but you are convinced as well, so there he goes...
novelsryou
03-18-2009, 04:42 AM
Yes, stop everything and read The Green Mile, and when you're finished that follow up with a few John Grisham novels...
Mathor
03-18-2009, 06:20 AM
I love all of the novels you've mentioned. Watership Down was one of my favorite novels growing up, so i'd take that over Green Mile any day. And you especially shouldn't read something just because someone suggests it. For me, I can take or leave Stephen King. He's a great writer, but I've never found something so profound in his books that it changes my life, so I might have some bias but I'd say stick to your original plan and finish the books you have. If you have time after that, move on to King.
The only thing from King you can't live without is his Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, which was later made into a movie called The Shawshank Redemption. But don't read that, cause it goes against my earlier advice.
read what YOU want to read.
I don't normally read books just because people recommend them to me, but this person is pretty cool. I'm willing to give it a shot.
Mathor
03-18-2009, 06:47 AM
Well it seems like you've already made up your mind. :p
mystery_spell
03-18-2009, 06:47 AM
I would say that you should keep reading the books that you are currently reading. Later, you can pick up a copy of The Green Mile and read that if you'd like to. :)
Yes but i'm still wanting to know the gist of the story. I've prevented myself from googling it too much to hear your accounts of it.
jhonerliz
03-18-2009, 07:32 AM
Keep reading, Lima... after you finished those books, then buy and read The Green Mile
LitNetIsGreat
03-18-2009, 08:29 AM
You could say to them I will read that if you will read [insert one of your books here]. That way you can compare and talk about both books productively. Very democratic.
Scheherazade
03-18-2009, 08:32 AM
You could say to them I will read that if you will read [insert one of your books here]. That way you can compare and talk about both books productively. Very democratic.I like this.
^ I've tried.
Will not budge. My curiousity is too strong to ignore this book.
The Comedian
03-18-2009, 08:55 AM
If I may ask -- why the urgency? can't you just read it along with the others that you are reading currently? or as others have suggested, read it later?
Won't this person understand an honest, "I'll read it when I'm done with these other books." Or heck, unless you're reading those book for class or something, why not read the Green Mile, then go back to your other books.
Mariamosis
03-18-2009, 10:13 AM
I don't normally read books just because people recommend them to me, but this person is pretty cool. I'm willing to give it a shot.
Well, if they are cool do you even have a choice... ? :)
I know how you feel though. I have a list of 60+ books, and someone loans me a second rate trashy romance novel that is 600 pages! (as a disclaimer: I am not saying King is trashy or second rate by any means) I have trouble saying no... so here I am trying to speed read this thing! Very painful indeed!
I suggest reading what you want to read, and when you have a lapse in your priorities read the first few chapters and see if you are sucked in... if not you know what they say "Two tears in a bucket, mf it".... ahem....
^ I've tried.
Will not budge. My curiousity is too strong to ignore this book.
If you are this curious about a book, perhaps you should submit to your curiousity. Good luck! :)
prendrelemick
03-18-2009, 12:04 PM
borrow his copy, and take ages to read it.
If I may ask -- why the urgency? can't you just read it along with the others that you are reading currently? or as others have suggested, read it later?
Won't this person understand an honest, "I'll read it when I'm done with these other books." Or heck, unless you're reading those book for class or something, why not read the Green Mile, then go back to your other books.
Not reading those ones for class, AM reading Hard Times and Washington Square though ( I do lit and english )
Basically, this thread was a playful attempt to have someone explain to me the genre of the book, why they liked it, why they didn't, etc
electricpenguin
03-18-2009, 04:36 PM
borrow his copy, and take ages to read it.
I like this idea! :)
EP xx
Mathor
03-18-2009, 06:10 PM
It's a pretty nice book, it's about spirituality, a prison guard finds a death row prisoner who has spiritual powers, and his life is changed, and you find when you finish reading it, you're the prison guard. And seeing as the whole book is in the first person narrative, it's like YOUR life really is changed. I won't give away too much, but it makes you think a LOT.
Thespian1975
03-19-2009, 04:56 AM
It's a good read but it's still only another King book. Originally published in monthly parts I read them as they came out but by the 5th part I was not too bothered about getting it (I did, but didn't rush out)
One of his better "late" books, but nothing to stop everything for :yawnb:
Him: Have you read The Green Mile?
Me: No - is that, King?
Him: Yeah, what are you reading right now?
Me: Prozac Nation, Watership Down, Pride and Prejudice, etc
Him: Stop reading all of that, right now. And go out and get that book. ( Sort of in a semi threatening voice. By this point i was planning my escape route )
Out of the books you listed, I have only read Prozac Nation and Pride and Prejudice, but I would choose either of those over The Green Mile. I like Stephen King, yet do not quite see the magic in him that his frequent readers see; having only read a few of his novels, I would call The Green Mile his best, but I would never call it worth a Pulitzer or Nobel.
wat??
03-20-2009, 01:39 AM
Him: Have you read The Green Mile?
Me: No - is that, King?
Him: Yeah, what are you reading right now?
Me: Prozac Nation, Watership Down, Pride and Prejudice, etc
Him: Stop reading all of that, right now. And go out and get that book. ( Sort of in a semi threatening voice. By this point i was planning my escape route )
Ahem.
Thoughts? Is it really worth putting down such wonderful books for The Green Mile?
( I have a real problem for putting books on hold like that )
Yes? No? Maybe so?
Discuss!
Watership Down is better than The Green Mile.
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