Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption Paperback – September 29, 2020

Good, easy reading. Each chapter makes you want to read the next.Although I have never been to prison; the description of life seems so real. You can almost feel the despair of prisoners and wardens alike in a prison environment.Reading this gives you an understanding as to why an imprisoned individual would learn to accept this life and be unable to cope with freedom. Makes you sort of understand why the freed individual would commit a crime to purposely get caught and return to prison.

Better than the movie.

THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION is one of my favorite films and it should have won THE ACADEMY AWARD for Picture Of The Year but unfortunately it was up against FORREST GUMP, which cleaned house that year. The book reads like a screenplay for the film, as it is told from the perspective of Red, Andy Dufresne’s prison pal. In spite of the criticism lodged against Stephen King by his college English professor, he is a masterful story teller and is laughing all the way to the bank from the number of his books and novellas that were developed into major motion pictures.

This is a fun story. It’s better if you’ve never seen the movie it inspired. Odds are you’re either a fan of the author or a fan of the movie. Greater are the odds that you’ve seen the movie without knowing it’s based on a short story by one of the most successful horror writers of all time. It’s worth reading. Don’t get all bent out of shape about liberties they took with the film though. There are a few significant ones.

I have seen the movie, The Shawshank Redemption many times, but this is the first time I have read the story. I hesitate to call it a book, or a short story because it is too short to be one, and is too long to be the other. At 118 pages, it was a quick and fascinating read. Andy finds himself in Shawshank Prison for a crime he did not commit. He befriends Red, who is the narrator of this story. It was fun to read the book. I felt I got to know Red so much better than the movie, his thoughts and emotions. It's a wonderful story of human endurance.

I like to read. For years I’d read a good book, (Unbroken, Boys in the Boat, etc), then sometime later I’d see the movie. I was disappointed every time. I’ve watched Shawshank at least a dozen times before reading this book. It IS the movie in print with a few minor twists. As I was reading, the movie was playing in my head. In full color. I enjoyed this book but, for the first time in my life, the movie is better.

The book is captivating

When reading this book you can almost hear Morgan Freeman.It's a good read. I recommend it.