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After being bombarded with endless repeats of Shawshank Redemption on AMC for the past week or so [I do like the movie very much - just not back to back every night] - I finally read the original Stephen King novella "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption" - an excellent read. I read up a bit on this novella - apparently King wrote this as part of a collection "Different Seasons" - to show he was capable of non-horror, more mainstream literary composition. I was very impressed with this novella, and am continuing on with the rest of the collection.
Of course, you are forced to hear the narrative in your head in Morgan Freeman's voice, but it's not too distracting. There were some interesting changes made for the screenplay - the novella is a lot simpler plot-wise.
[N.B. - apparently casting for the movie changed many times - The part of Red was offered to (among others) Clint Eastwood. At first this struck me as totally wrong, but as I continued reading the novella, I could indeed hear the narrative in Eastwood's voice as well.]
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