The Runaway Jury

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Summary: Best Book to date by Grisham
Review: Grisham has matured and his subject matter is very timely. Hard to put down. Unusual twist at end.

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Summary: Interesting, captivating, a real page turner.
Review: I found this book to be neato

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Summary: For a sample chapter or to send email to John Grisham...
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Summary: Another un-put-down-able Grisham thriller
Review: After dissapointing many loyal fans with "The Chamber"this latest offering once again confirms his well deservedand widely publicised title of "the master storyteller". No wonder he's raking in the big bucks!!! "The Runaway Jury" provides a facinating, gripping account of a tobacco trial and a lively jury who decide to bend the rules, (some more so than others). As both sides struggle to ensure a victorious outcome, the jury members endure many surprising problems of there own. I won't spoil the ending for you - you will probably know it anyway by about halfway through the book. If you're prepared to suspend reality and delve into the facinating and cynical mind of John Grisham, then prepare yourself for a great read and a few sleepless nights (until you finally finish the thing!). - Rachel McConaghy, Brisbane Australia -

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Summary: Stinking
Review: This book is a stinking pieece of garbage. It is so disgusting I can't bear to read it anymore. John Grisham and his idiotic juries! Why is every stinking book he has ever written has the word jury in the title and has something to do with them. And the jury in this book isn't even runaway. I bought this book thinking that it would be about a jury who refuses to do a case and runs away. Instead, it's about some jerk who tries to bungle a case involving a tobacco company and some ol' Southern drawler. For garbage, this is your best bet.

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Summary: Complex questions, but awfully slick answers.
Review: Grisham poses a lot of interesting questions in this book. "Are tobacco companies responsible for the damage done by the products they sell?" is the most obvious one. However, when it comes to trials, we are familiar with the manipulation of the press, public opinion, changes of venues, all attempts to affect the judicial system by working on external forces. So, what happens when judicial manipulations occur from the INSIDE system? An organized attempt to first rig, then influence the judge and jury adds a third protagonist to the usual dual advisaries of prosecution and defendant. Other questions; is money adequate compensation for all damages? Do large judical awards compensate for death and punish for it's infliction? Is an attempt to tamper with the judicial system acceptable if you believe your cause is just enough? Do the poor have to unite against the wealthy to obtain a judgement in our current system of trial practices? This book is rich with those and other meaty questions. What is missing is characters who you can like. The cast ends up being opposite sides of the same coin, each determined to use whatever means they have availabe to win. Each side is just as morally repellent as the other, and point seems to be that the meanest, trickiest, and richest will win, and having won, nothing further is required from them.

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Summary: Grisham's Best
Review: I thought this was one of Grisham's best works. There were enough plot twists and secrecy to keep me guessing until the end. Unlike some of Grisham's other works the ending is not bitter-sweet. This book is a good, fast, entertaining read.

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Summary: Grisham's Best Work
Review: Ever hear all those rumors or inneundos about how the tabacco industry fights lawsuits with sleazy tactics and jury manipulation? Or about jury consultants, and how trial lawyers use them to try to deliver a verdict favorable to the client? Or how about the huge sums juries award to people who have been hurt by products? Grisham has, and he put it all down in writing in The Runaway Jury.

What makes the story work is that somebody else knows all about jury manipulation, and if big tabacco are masters at working it from the outside, somebody else has figured out how to work it from the inside. And that one juror is working it masterfully...

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Summary: Not exactly Hemingway
Review: Look let me stipulate I am not the biggest Grisham fan, but you have to admire the fact that the guy has found a winning formula. This book does keep you interested eventhough anyone who has ever read a Grisham novel knows most of his trademark twists and turns. Having said that I believe people that read and enjoy Grisham know that he is not Faukner or Tennesee Williams, but they don't read them anyway and really don't care. If you like other books by Grisham like The Firm and The Rainmaker you will like this book as well, I mean frankly it's the same book. I do agree with the writer of a previous review that the ending is not plausable, but his endings never are. The protagonist always ends up rich and set with stolen money he or she swindled from a baaad group and ends up on the Riviera or on an Island in the south Pacific. Sic transic gloria.

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Summary: Grisham's Best Work!
Review: I'll cut to the chase: The is John Grisham's best work yet. It's fast-paced and fun to read. You'll get a good behind the scenes perspective of how jury pools are manipulated and orchestrated. The plot is current and believable. And the characters are well thought out.