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4 Seizoenen met The Shawshank Redemption
The Shawshank Redemption (De Ontsnapping) is het openingsverhaal van 4 Seizoenen, het boek waarmee Stephen King zich een meester toont als verhalenverteller.
Vier verhalen met zo'n zeggingskracht dat filmregisseurs er prachtige speelfilms van maakten.
In De Ontsnapping - als The Shawshank Redemption een onvergetelijke film met Tim Robbins en Morgan Freeman - is een man ten onrechte tot levenslang veroordeeld wegens moord op zijn vrouw…
In De Leerling - als Apt Pupil een indrukwekkende film van Bryan Singer, regisseur van The Usual Suspects - ontdekt een scholier dat een stadgenoot een gezochte ex-nazi is…
In Het Lijk - als Stand By Me een ontroerende film van regisseur Rob Reiner - leren vier jongens de waarde van echte vriendschap kennen…
In De Ademhalingsmethode wil een zwangere vrouw op huiveringwekkende wijze triomferen over de dood...
Vier verhalen met zo'n zeggingskracht dat filmregisseurs er prachtige speelfilms van maakten.
In De Ontsnapping - als The Shawshank Redemption een onvergetelijke film met Tim Robbins en Morgan Freeman - is een man ten onrechte tot levenslang veroordeeld wegens moord op zijn vrouw…
In De Leerling - als Apt Pupil een indrukwekkende film van Bryan Singer, regisseur van The Usual Suspects - ontdekt een scholier dat een stadgenoot een gezochte ex-nazi is…
In Het Lijk - als Stand By Me een ontroerende film van regisseur Rob Reiner - leren vier jongens de waarde van echte vriendschap kennen…
In De Ademhalingsmethode wil een zwangere vrouw op huiveringwekkende wijze triomferen over de dood...
621 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Published January 1, 2007
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Stephen King
2,452 books887k followersStephen Edwin King was born the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. After his father left them when Stephen was two, he and his older brother, David, were raised by his mother. Parts of his childhood were spent in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where his father's family was at the time, and in Stratford, Connecticut. When Stephen was eleven, his mother brought her children back to Durham, Maine, for good. Her parents, Guy and Nellie Pillsbury, had become incapacitated with old age, and Ruth King was persuaded by her sisters to take over the physical care of them. Other family members provided a small house in Durham and financial support. After Stephen's grandparents passed away, Mrs. King found work in the kitchens of Pineland, a nearby residential facility for the mentally challenged.
Stephen attended the grammar school in Durham and Lisbon Falls High School, graduating in 1966. From his sophomore year at the University of Maine at Orono, he wrote a weekly column for the school newspaper, THE MAINE CAMPUS. He was also active in student politics, serving as a member of the Student Senate. He came to support the anti-war movement on the Orono campus, arriving at his stance from a conservative view that the war in Vietnam was unconstitutional. He graduated in 1970, with a B.A. in English and qualified to teach on the high school level. A draft board examination immediately post-graduation found him 4-F on grounds of high blood pressure, limited vision, flat feet, and punctured eardrums.
He met Tabitha Spruce in the stacks of the Fogler Library at the University, where they both worked as students; they married in January of 1971. As Stephen was unable to find placement as a teacher immediately, the Kings lived on his earnings as a laborer at an industrial laundry, and her student loan and savings, with an occasional boost from a short story sale to men's magazines.
Stephen made his first professional short story sale ("The Glass Floor") to Startling Mystery Stories in 1967. Throughout the early years of his marriage, he continued to sell stories to men's magazines. Many were gathered into the Night Shift collection or appeared in other anthologies.
In the fall of 1971, Stephen began teaching English at Hampden Academy, the public high school in Hampden, Maine. Writing in the evenings and on the weekends, he continued to produce short stories and to work on novels.
Stephen attended the grammar school in Durham and Lisbon Falls High School, graduating in 1966. From his sophomore year at the University of Maine at Orono, he wrote a weekly column for the school newspaper, THE MAINE CAMPUS. He was also active in student politics, serving as a member of the Student Senate. He came to support the anti-war movement on the Orono campus, arriving at his stance from a conservative view that the war in Vietnam was unconstitutional. He graduated in 1970, with a B.A. in English and qualified to teach on the high school level. A draft board examination immediately post-graduation found him 4-F on grounds of high blood pressure, limited vision, flat feet, and punctured eardrums.
He met Tabitha Spruce in the stacks of the Fogler Library at the University, where they both worked as students; they married in January of 1971. As Stephen was unable to find placement as a teacher immediately, the Kings lived on his earnings as a laborer at an industrial laundry, and her student loan and savings, with an occasional boost from a short story sale to men's magazines.
Stephen made his first professional short story sale ("The Glass Floor") to Startling Mystery Stories in 1967. Throughout the early years of his marriage, he continued to sell stories to men's magazines. Many were gathered into the Night Shift collection or appeared in other anthologies.
In the fall of 1971, Stephen began teaching English at Hampden Academy, the public high school in Hampden, Maine. Writing in the evenings and on the weekends, he continued to produce short stories and to work on novels.
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November 30, 2017
I read this book many, many moons ago and it's still as good as I remembered it to be. This time around I listened to the audiobook. Frank Muller's voice is sublime, his narration is always on point.
August 22, 2017
5 Stars
"I guess it comes down to a simple choice, really. Get busy living or get busy dying."
Shawshank Redemption is perhaps the most famous novela written by Stephen King found in the book 'Different Seasons'. If you are from planet Earth you have also have seen or heard of the movie titled after the novella, which displays some of the most masterful acting by Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins.
I am please to say the short novel is just as good as the movie. The writing is told in the third POV, narrated by 'Red', one of the convicts and close friends to our protagonist Andy Dufrein. The writing is fluid, witty and full of explicit jargon that just a state prison convict will be able to replicate! The amazing thing about Stephen King's work is his ability to tell a a damn good, entertaining story and at the same time elicit deep human feelings of Hope and friendship. A must-read!
"Remember Red, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies."
5 Stars
"I guess it comes down to a simple choice, really. Get busy living or get busy dying."
Shawshank Redemption is perhaps the most famous novela written by Stephen King found in the book 'Different Seasons'. If you are from planet Earth you have also have seen or heard of the movie titled after the novella, which displays some of the most masterful acting by Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins.
I am please to say the short novel is just as good as the movie. The writing is told in the third POV, narrated by 'Red', one of the convicts and close friends to our protagonist Andy Dufrein. The writing is fluid, witty and full of explicit jargon that just a state prison convict will be able to replicate! The amazing thing about Stephen King's work is his ability to tell a a damn good, entertaining story and at the same time elicit deep human feelings of Hope and friendship. A must-read!
"Remember Red, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies."
5 Stars
November 11, 2024
I only read The Shawshank redemption due to my copy only included Shawshank. Movie did a fabulous job with this novella. So yes, sometimes the big screen does get it right.
September 7, 2023
حیف که از قبل پایان داستان رو میدونستم😶
January 9, 2015
Please don’t judge me.... I’m sure the movie is fantastic… but I hated the book.
There are a few things that just make me want to throw this book outside into the rain. I don’t even know how to order my argument so it’s just going to begin.
Ohhhh my god. The narration/storytelling here is just so god damn dull. I think I was about 60 pages in before King stops damn waffling on and starts telling us about what happened. Whenever some hint of plot was mentioned, he kept saying ‘but we’ll get to that later on’. What the hell do you think you’re doing?? I’m going out of my mind bored shitless here! Personally I don’t think it’s a good idea to waffle on about how everyone is raped in prison and how they all had it so bad because they do manual labour for 100 pages and then cram the entire story into the last 10 pages with no bloody detail. It just did nothing to make me want to keep reading. It was actively making me angry, checking how many pages were left to go and realising I’d only gotten through 20 or so pages in an hour because I kept throwing the book across the room every few paragraphs out of frustration.
This may have been the most frustrated I have ever been reading a book. It’s between this and Bridget Jones’s Diary; except this got half a star more because at least it was half the length. Just… ungh. I could have spent my day reading something lovely… or watching Blackadder… or learning to juggle… that’s a whole 7 hours or so I’m never getting back.
There are a few things that just make me want to throw this book outside into the rain. I don’t even know how to order my argument so it’s just going to begin.
Ohhhh my god. The narration/storytelling here is just so god damn dull. I think I was about 60 pages in before King stops damn waffling on and starts telling us about what happened. Whenever some hint of plot was mentioned, he kept saying ‘but we’ll get to that later on’. What the hell do you think you’re doing?? I’m going out of my mind bored shitless here! Personally I don’t think it’s a good idea to waffle on about how everyone is raped in prison and how they all had it so bad because they do manual labour for 100 pages and then cram the entire story into the last 10 pages with no bloody detail. It just did nothing to make me want to keep reading. It was actively making me angry, checking how many pages were left to go and realising I’d only gotten through 20 or so pages in an hour because I kept throwing the book across the room every few paragraphs out of frustration.
This may have been the most frustrated I have ever been reading a book. It’s between this and Bridget Jones’s Diary; except this got half a star more because at least it was half the length. Just… ungh. I could have spent my day reading something lovely… or watching Blackadder… or learning to juggle… that’s a whole 7 hours or so I’m never getting back.
July 28, 2021
Całkiem spoko, muszę przeczytać resztę jakoś niedługo.
January 10, 2024
Szybkie, łatwe i przyjemne(obym polubiła Kinga)
September 13, 2025
Just watch the movie. It’s the same thing.
June 18, 2015
This is one of the best film adaptations I've seen. Loved both the original book and the movie. The way it was written gave a lot of opportunity for creativity in the movie version without ruining the storyline. The story, the lead characters and the message are inspiring.
November 7, 2015
2.25-2.5 stars
June 2, 2023
Wreszcie
Książka, która autentycznie mi się podobała, aż się waham pomiędzy 4, a 5
Książka, która autentycznie mi się podobała, aż się waham pomiędzy 4, a 5
October 30, 2021
Lepsza niż film
July 18, 2022
Myślałam że film był dobry, ale książka jeszcze lepsza
February 1, 2025
Jedna z najlepszych książek jakie przeczytałam (jeśli nie najlepsza) 🙏🏻
February 29, 2024
The Shawshank Redemption is likely my favorite movie. I've watched it countless times, yet it feels fresh every time I do. What a wonderful day spent revisiting the Stephen King novella that inspired the movie. Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption, the full title, is such a beautifully crafted story and is always my recommendation for people that say they don't read King because they're not into horror. Well, there are clearly different types of horror. Life in prison likely counts as one of them. Different Seasons is a collection of four novellas, which also includes The Body, the inspiration for the classic 80s "coming of age" story, Stand By Me. Again, not a horror story, but a study of friendship and a nostalgic trip back in time when four young friends set out on an adventure that would alter their outlook...on just about everything. King is a masterful and versatile storyteller regardless of the genre. Happy reading all of you awesome book peeps!
January 31, 2024
jako ze byly cztery opowieści to ocenie cztery
Skazani na shawshank:
Bardzo podobała mi się, narracja bardzo fajna, fajne zakończenie, chwilami przynudzało ale calkiem g 4/5
Zdolny uczeń:
Ta część wyjebała mnie trochę z butów, zajebista 5/5
Ciało:
Taka bez pierdolniecia, srednia 3/5
Metoda Oddychania:
Naprawdę fajne chociaż nie jest to poziom zdolnego ucznia 4/5
Skazani na shawshank:
Bardzo podobała mi się, narracja bardzo fajna, fajne zakończenie, chwilami przynudzało ale calkiem g 4/5
Zdolny uczeń:
Ta część wyjebała mnie trochę z butów, zajebista 5/5
Ciało:
Taka bez pierdolniecia, srednia 3/5
Metoda Oddychania:
Naprawdę fajne chociaż nie jest to poziom zdolnego ucznia 4/5
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
February 15, 2024
Najpierw oglądałam film, który mnie zachwycił. Teraz opowiadanie również trzymające poziom. Zazwyczaj jeżeli film powstaje na podstawie książki to część treści jest ominięte. Tu było na odwrót, w filmie sporo dodali. Mimo to opowiadanie czytało się bardzo przyjemnie, narracja kojarzyła mi się z dziełami Edgara Allana Poe.
October 15, 2025
This was free on my kindle so I thought why not as I LOVE the movie. It was amazing I loved it!! I do think that there is a big reliance on the plot twist/ shock factor at the end (which I of course already knew from the film).
December 24, 2022
4,75
King trzyma poziom
PS. Wreszcie mogę obejrzeć film 😆
King trzyma poziom
PS. Wreszcie mogę obejrzeć film 😆
March 17, 2023
Przepiękna historia, cudowna książka i film
❤️❤️❤️
❤️❤️❤️
April 25, 2023
Bardzo podoba mi się to co zrobili scenarzyści z materiałem wyjściowym ;)
March 4, 2024
Great read; could be finished in a day. Not as disturbing as a typical King story.
May 9, 2025
Zbyt dużo schizowych rzeczy się wydarzyło jak na moją psychikę😳
May 10, 2025
Totalnie inaczej się czyta niż ogląda film. Samą historię znałam, ale tutaj wygląda ona inaczej.
Krótka, wartościowa, każdy według mnie powinien ją przeczytać.
Krótka, wartościowa, każdy według mnie powinien ją przeczytać.
August 5, 2025
Lepsze i gorsze fragmenty, ale overall good shit. Na pewno zostaje w głowie.
February 9, 2024
Zawsze porusza i zachwyca tak samo
October 10, 2025
4,5/5
cudowne zakończenie, całość książki bardzo przyjemnie się czytało
cudowne zakończenie, całość książki bardzo przyjemnie się czytało
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