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Summary: Average Follow Up
Review: I thought the author slipped a bit with this book, not as good as some of his others. He constructed a good book with a step-by-step progress to the end and he can weave in a sub plot of two. I just did not like some of the writing; I found it a bit forced or dry. Overall he always delivers a good story, I would read his work over many others. You do need to pay attention with his books, they are an easy ride - he wants to keep you involved to then need. He is good at this form of book and if you like him you will like this one.
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Summary: Compelling story but not intriguing enough!
Review: I was very disappointed in this book. The characters were fairly dull and the author used a narrative that lay-people may not easily follow. I think the story was compelling but not enough to keep me intrigued. I certainly will try another of Scott Turow's novels.
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Summary: It's ok reading....but nothing spectacular
Review: I've heard that Scott Turow's other books are much better. The story is at times intense, but the ending provides no punch. You finsh the book with a feeling of "Why did I even read this thing?" I would suggest Turow's other books...
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Summary: Not as good as presumed innocent
Review: In "Burden of Proof", lawyer and novelist Scott Turow returns the character of Alejandro "Sandy" Stern, the smooth-spoken, Argentine-Jewish defense attorney introduced in the earlier novel, "Presumed Innocent". In that earlier novel, Stern defended a prosecutor in a high-profile murder case. In "Burden", Stern now has all the questions. Just when his existence seemed routine enough, Stern returns home from a business trip to find his wife dead - an apparent suicide. Reeling from the loss, Stern must also confront a grand jury proceeding against his client and brother in law, Dixon Hartnell. A web of complex (and suspicious) financial transactions involving futures-trading on Kindle County market run by Hartnell has whet the interest of the US Attorney's office, itself run by a foe of Stern. Though Hartnell is the sort of guy who routinely seems to hover at the edge of indictment for something, the charges now offer the chance of landing the embattled broker in a federal lockup and, because Stern's son-in law works for Hartnell, threaten to tear at the fragile Stern family. Into this mix of family and legal problems, Turow throws in Stern's romancing of his enemy at the US Attorney's office and of a nearby neighbor, his suspicions harbored against a neighbor who may have had an affair with Stern's now dead wife, and the story of his own romance, years ago, with Clara Mittler-Stern. "Burden" has Scott Turow's great prose and obsessive character dissection, but it's not as enveloping a book as "Presumed Innocent". The sense of an underlying secret isn't as enticing as the murder investigation in the earlier book, and the characters don't grab you as well either. Most annoying is Stern whose silver-tongued erudition was cute when he was a supporting character in the older book. Dixon Hartnell would have been a more interesting choice of main character, but the plot makes that impossible. Turow dangles the names of characters from the first book just to get our attentions (ex-PA Ray Horgan almost becomes the defense lawyer for Stern's embattled son in-law; Rusty Sabich is referred in passing as "Judge Sabich"; the specter of the corrupt Mayor Augie Bolcarro seems to hang like a smog over Kindle County) but remains it's own book. Even the fictional choice of legal venue seems troublesome - exchanging the Kindle county court in "Presumed" with the anonymous Federal Court here. Kindle County, which seemed so real and unique in the older book seems just another mid-west city. The nivel concentrates instead on the byzantine relationships of its main characters, but after you've finished, you wonder why you should care. This is a pretty good novel, but it loses something and suffers in comparison to its prequel.
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Summary: A great read that is impossible to put down until the end!!!
Review: Scott Turow at his very best. One book that you will not be able to put down. It keeps you in suspense until the very end. A great read when you want some thing to keep you awake at night, just do not be alone !!
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Summary: Excellent
Review: Scott Turow is an outstanding writer; no doubt about it. His character development is on a level way higher than Grisham. I like both writers but if you want something that goes deeper; go with Turow. Grisham has good plots but his characters are often weak. Turow has good plots and interesting characters. The only reason I didn't give this book 5 stars was becuase I feel Turow goes a bit overboard with the verbiage and the reader gets the feeling he wants to show that he is the master of the dictionary.
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Summary: The BEST novel I have ever read!
Review: Scott Turrow took me on a trip that was amazing. One hundred pages before the end of the book I put it down and figured out the ending. It turned out that I "figured out" exactly what Sandy Stern did, but both of us were wrong. This book is the model for legal thrillers. I've read the book three times. I'm upset with myself for lending it out and not getting it back. I need to order another copy from amazon.com because I discover an entirely new dimension every time I read it. Enjoy...
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Summary: Not a Fast Read
Review: Stifling details are intertwined in this thriller that could use less flowery description and more thrills. The story itself is not bad, but the ending did not make this a satisfying read.
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Summary: Keep your dictionary close at hand
Review: The plot is interesting and one that could have made for excellent reading. However, the writer made one fundamental mistake which every lawyer tends to make from time to time. He had to show off his knowledge of "big words". Unless the writer intended for this book to be read by scholars only, my advice to the average Joe is to ensure that he has a dictionary opened when he begins to read because the plot is buried in grandiloquence. I am myself an attorney and an English major and I found this book tough reading because I was basically stumbling over unnecessarily big words which made it difficult to appreciate the plot fully. A great writer is able to get his ideas across in uncomplicated language. It is after all a work of fiction, not a dissertation.
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Summary: Refreshing, down to earth and realistic.
Review: The plot of Burden of Proof twists in a way that keeps you reading on. The story about a lawyer and the death of his wife is down to earth and the main character is refreshingly straightfoward about life in general. There doesn't seem anything fictional about it. A must read.
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