What is your "Green Mile"?

[Matthew.Degnan]

After I finished the Green Mile I was sat holding the book for about 5 minutes and thinking about those last few lines. "oh god, The Green Mile is so long". This has real meaning to me because it is the novel that inspired me to be a novelist. The Green Mile is long to me because the emotion and feelings I felt when reading it will stay with me forever.

As you read this story you feel as if these characters are becoming your friends and when bad things happen to them you feel how they would feel and when this happen as you read something you know that it will stay with you forever. Never before have I experienced such a thing in any novel, let alone a 400 page one. To me it feels like an epic rather than an average length piece.

As it happened I finished reading The Green Mile during a few months of depression, and when I read them last words suddenly it went away and I was left with a genuine lust for life and I was instantly saturated in this great desire to write. I wrote three short stories in the hours that followed. All about friendship and heartache and the loss of something close to you- in the Green Mile it was John Coffey, but not only did the Green Mile lose him, I lost him as well.

My Green Mile is my novels to come, and my children to come and my wife to come. My Green Mile is the rest of my life. Is this what it feels like to be truely inspired by something?

Thank You Stephen King for bringing me through these terrible times and showing me the light at the end of the tunnel. I will find my own way now. I love you for that.

[youngfibre]

Green Mile is my very best SK. I am happy it had such an impact on someone else.

Me not alone.

[BTRNYC]

"We each owe a death, there are no exceptions; but, Oh God, sometimes the green mile is so long."

My favorite King last line!!

I love the quote because you can interpret it many different ways.

[marew1]

I'm glad you were inspired by SK's The Green Mile. I wish you the best in all your endeavors.

[wally wonder]

hi matthew. you are not alone. met someone the other day who was inspired by something from the green mile and this someone also writes. my green mile is the unwavering support of my community, the impossible dream, and i can't figure out why.

[nevermind]

This book was the only book that made me cry, I don't know if the reason was the book or just me It's my favorite, I love it!

[Charms7]

Every time I find I must reinvent myself, that is probably my Green Mile. But change is good, right? That's what they keep telling me anyway.

[bio_chem06]

I'm reading The Green Mile now for the 1st time. I read during my lunch break and find it hard to return to work...lol.

[thymeoperator]

the ending to that book surprised me because it didn't go in the direction i expected and instead threw in that twist, and i just thought it was one of the best books i'd ever read. i'm really surprised there are only 2 threads for this book!!

[catnoel]

I feel ya on that one. Uncle Steve has helped me through some very difficult times too.