Have you ever came across the weird and wonderful articles about healers possessing powers beyond the human imagination? In the Phillipines, healers are able to operate without slicing into the human body. Healers such as these individuals are few and far between, sprinkled across the globe to give respite to the living. Stephen King has taken the theme of an innocent healer turned into a murderer sentenced to death in this book.
Those who walk the Green Mile do not return, because at the end of that walk is the room in which sits Cold Mountain Penitentiary's electric chair. In 1932, the newest resident on death row is John Coffey, a giant of a black man convicted of the brutal murder of two little girls.
But nothing is as it seems with John Coffey, and around him unfolds a bizarre and horrifying story. Evil murderer or holy innocent - whichever he is - Coffey has strange powers which may yet offer salvation to others, even if they can do nothing to save him.
As the Master of Horror, the author has to inject some macabre scenes but overall it came of as highly emotional to me and I even shed a few tears. That was how sad this story was. For those of you who want to see a different side to Stephen King, this may very well be the book for you to pick up.
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