Shutterrelease
May 14th, 2009, 04:43 PM
I figured that this would be as good a place as any to talk about this book I've just read/listened too. It's The Shawshank Redemption. If you have seen this movie with Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins than you really need to read the book. Like I said I just finished it, through an audio book from Audible.com.
It's written by Steven King but it's not some scary thriller. It's a story about how a mans spirit cannot be broken, and hope is never lost. The movie is actually not that different from the book. The only major change that I could tell was that Andy Dufresne went through many wardens in the book because he was there for so long and in the movie there was only one if I remember correctly. Not a big deal, but in the book you really get a feel for how long Andy and Red were incarcerated in Shawshank.
This is one of the few books that you can read that is actually enhanced by seeing the movie. The characters are played out exactly as you'd think Steven King had written them.
Everyone knows that you get so much more detail out of a book, and this is very evident in The Shawshank Redemption. In the movie you know that life is tough in the prison walls, but in the book I was horrified by the terrible things that the innocent Andy had to endure. At least until he got the upper hand.
The audio book from Audible is read by Frank Muller, and he does a fantastic job. He doesn't attempt to "act" out each character as he reads. He doesn't need to. His reading voice is like listening to a cello play Mozart. No joke either. This guy could read tax law and you would just listen.
Check this book out if you haven't read it. I'd recommend the audio book just because Frank Muller narrates it so well, but I'm sure reading it yourself is just as inspiring.
It's written by Steven King but it's not some scary thriller. It's a story about how a mans spirit cannot be broken, and hope is never lost. The movie is actually not that different from the book. The only major change that I could tell was that Andy Dufresne went through many wardens in the book because he was there for so long and in the movie there was only one if I remember correctly. Not a big deal, but in the book you really get a feel for how long Andy and Red were incarcerated in Shawshank.
This is one of the few books that you can read that is actually enhanced by seeing the movie. The characters are played out exactly as you'd think Steven King had written them.
Everyone knows that you get so much more detail out of a book, and this is very evident in The Shawshank Redemption. In the movie you know that life is tough in the prison walls, but in the book I was horrified by the terrible things that the innocent Andy had to endure. At least until he got the upper hand.
The audio book from Audible is read by Frank Muller, and he does a fantastic job. He doesn't attempt to "act" out each character as he reads. He doesn't need to. His reading voice is like listening to a cello play Mozart. No joke either. This guy could read tax law and you would just listen.
Check this book out if you haven't read it. I'd recommend the audio book just because Frank Muller narrates it so well, but I'm sure reading it yourself is just as inspiring.