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Summary: 3.5, Sometimes the good guys look like the bad guys.....
Review: Normally I wouldn't review genre fiction such as this, but I thought Turow did an exceptional job of layering his plot and characters.This is the kind of novel where quick value judgments seem appropriate, only later to realize the prudence of reserving judgment.There is a contrast in this story of good vs. evil, but with the caveat that "fighting evil....often comes to evil". A successful Personal Injury attorney is brought down by the successful machinations of the FBI, in an attempt at massive indictments of corrupt jurists. There is no question who the bad guys are. What becomes a study in the vagaries of human nature is the extreme measures undertaken by government agencies to achieve their goals. Priorities and values shift in deceptive degrees, until it seems that all have lost pieces of their souls or found pieces of their hearts.
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Summary: Suspenseful, but not very real.
Review: Robbie Feaver is a hapless attorney who leads an unlucky life. He has been doing personal injury law for a long time, but he was never licensed as an attorney. He and his partner have a secret bank account which they use to pay off judges; a common practice in Kindle County. The IRS and FBI get involved, and in exchange for leniency, Robbie wears a wire. Evon Miller is the FBI agent assigned to Robbie's side. She provides moral support for Robbie as his wife lays dying of ALS, and Robbie provides Evon with a human side of her job. The story is told from the first person point of view of George, Robbie's attorney. I didn't think that this book lived up to Turow's reputation. It seemed slow at times, plodding along through details that I thought were unrealistic. The FBI seemed too willing to bend over backwards for Robbie and George. Evon seemed almost incompetent at times. And the thought that Robbie could get away with practicing law for so many years without a license, and then not face any real formal punishment, strikes me as highly improbable.
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Summary: Nice try . . . but
Review: Started out slow and from there, went nowhere. It lacked the suspence of a Grisham novel. After finishing the book you're left with the same empty feeling you had at the beginning. However, Robbie Feaver is a very likable character. It's a shame he's not around to star in a more well-written novel!
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Summary: I thought that Fathers was so captivating.
Review: tHIS WAS SO ENTHRALLING TO READ. Great characters. I had to read this one all wekend long. UN-Down-put-able! great writing by Turow. Laws of our Fathers was so captivating, and this was so enthralling!
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Summary: Turow Does It Again
Review: I like Turow because he understands that life is not black and white and cannot be easily divided into good guys and bad guys. So we have Robbie Feaver, who oozes sleaze one minute and works hard to live up to his ideas of loyalty the next. We cringe, then we mourn for him. We have Stan Sennett (a returning character for Turow) wearing the white hat and going near to and over the edge in the name of good. Turow even does a great study of the impact of chronic illness on families and relationships in a peripheral way. This is not a formulaic book at all and it lacks some of the outrageous characters found in Laws of Our Fathers and you never like Feaver as well as you did the main characters in his first two books, but that is part of the theme. People that are genuinely so squeaky clean that you always like them hardly ever happen. Turow's love of the law always shows through in his books and he never fails to show you something about the ethical lawyer doing something twisted or unusual in the name of serving his client even though it may be against his usual judgement. And like life, the endings don't end up neat and in a row. A thoughtful book and the twists come at you suddenly and unsettlingly, like life. ...clearly it isn't a book for everyone but, to me, Turow did it again and has me lookin' for his next book.
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Summary: A masterpiece by the acclaimed author of Laws of our Fathers
Review: Great story in this one is simply the best way I could only can say! This is his masterpiece and his best ever. Even better than Presumed Innocent. Great writing.
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Summary: Tedious to read
Review: Took me several days to read this book. It was not a horrid book just that the action unfolded too slowly for me. There was quite a bit of detail on FBI tactics and ALS to give the book a realtistic setting. Robbie and Evon were interesting characters. Robbie knows himself well. He knows he is a deceiver and scumbag and that his only good features are his loyalty to his childhood friend and his attentiveness to his sick wife. Evon on the other hand does not know herself and is having a major identity problem throughout most of the story. However, by the end of the story she seems to be comfortable with her true self and with her sexuality.
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Summary: In a word - boring
Review: Although Mr Turow is without doubt a skillful writer, the book droned on without creating any kind of sympathy for the characters. I ended up hating the whole crew. A waste of time. Stick to Colin Dexter ' Inspector Morse' or someone like Dennis Lehane, at least he keeps the plot moving and doesn't drone us into a coma. Not recommended, at all.
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Summary: Robbie Feaver - One in a million
Review: I just finished this intriguing character study of a personal injury lawyer whose tactics are antithetical to the sensibilities of most ordinary people, but whose charm always saves him in the end. If you have ever known a "Robbie Feaver," you would be as sympathetic to the person as I am, while viewing his "deeds" as the outrageous and heinous actions they are. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and look forward to reading his others.
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Summary: I won't take if personal.
Review: Turow and Grisham two of the best new age legal/mystery writers. I say new age because I started my legal/mystery reading with Erle Stanley Gardner (Perry Mason). Honestly, I like all three writers. I would not call Turow's Personal Injuries a legal thriller. The characters are too well developed for this to be a thriller and the pacing seems too slow. In Personal Injuries Turow has given his fans a superbly plotted and methodical yarn. A yarn told step by step much the say way a lawyer would plan and strategize for a case. For me to enjoy a story I have to care about the stories characters. And while Turow has developed his characters very well I didn't give a flip about them. Maybe I wasn't supposed to care? We all have our own reading preferences so I would not take it "personal" if you disagreed with me when I say, I enjoyed Personal Injuries.
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