A Time to Kill

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Summary: The Best!!!!!!
Review: This was the first Grisham I read, and I read it because I saw the movie and enjoyed it much. I was wondering how the book could be as good as the movie and I was totally blown away. Grisham's grip on dialog is the best I've ever read, and the background stories missing from the movie are enjoyable as well. All in all probably the best, heartwrenching, emotional book I have ever read and it hooked me to the rest of John Grisham's books. A definite must read.

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Summary: the best book i've read!
Review: this was my first john grisham book to read and i now want to read all his other ones. the plot was great and i never wanted to put it down. it covered all the issues people face today and it was a great book. it was quite decriptive but i think that helped put the tone into place. i can't wait to read another!

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Summary: Grisham's Best Yet
Review: I personally feel that this is John Grisham's best piece of work. Racism in the South has always been an intriguing issue for me and this story did move me.John Grisham's novel went to the heart of the problem of civil rights..the courtroom. It is a start to just make a law that someone has the freedom to vote, to eat in any restaurant and to swim in any pools..but the enforcement of this law is pertinent for there to be any change the way people think..at least we can try to.

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Summary: Very Moving - 10 out of 10
Review: A very good read. Worth buying instead of borrowing. Indefinately re readable.

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Summary: Truly heart-wrenching and thought provoking story.
Review: At first this book started as an assignment for my English class. (I am 15.) But I really ended up enjoying this book. I have read The RainMaker and many other of Mr. Grishim's Books but I found A Time to Kill to be my favorite. The story of a man wrenched between defending a poor black man, enraged by the brutal, thoughtless, rape of his daughter, and contending with the thought of two young men being brutally shot in the heat and rage of a man that has been hurt. This book will truly put fire in your heart and tears in your eyes. You will feel joy and pain, rage and calm....justice will be served.

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Summary: Gotta read it!!!
Review: This was my second Grisham book,and certainly not my last. I loved it. The suspense was so thrilling that I couldn't bear to put it down. It was one of the most enjoyable books i've ever read. Keep up the excellent work Grisham!!!

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Summary: A picture of what justice should really be like.
Review: It is fair to say Grisham has written yet another controversial book, here. Now he is toying with the concepts of the Ku Klux Klan, and a black father, bereaved by the loss of his infant daughter at the hands of two white men...so what does the black father do, in the heat of the moment?? Probably what any father would do in a fit of uncontrollable rage: take action and vengeance into their own hands and see to it the criminals get a punishment. And a punishment they do get: they are riddled with bullets inside the courtroom they are being tried, and the black father is imprisoned on the spot. Jake Brigance has to step in to try and save his client's life...and of course, most important of all, let us not forget this is Clanton, Mississipi..racial segregation, heavy discrimination and all that is in here, topped off with the Grisham cinema-style writing. A well-deserved success!

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Summary: UPLIFTING AND SOMETHING TO BE PROUD OF
Review: FINALLY A BOOK THAT MAKES YOU FEEL PROUD TO SEE THAT SOMETIMES PEOPLE GET JUST WHAT THEY DESERVE. AFTER READING WHAT THOSE MEN DID TO THE LITTLE GIRL, TO ME THE ONLY THING LEFT TO DO TO THEM WAS KILL THEM. IN THAT TIME PERIOD, IT WAS TRULY WONDERFUL TO SEE A BLACK MAN GET AWAY WITH SOMETHING LIKE THAT. IT WAS, IN A WORD WONDERFUL!!!!

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Summary: It was mostly about segregation and the Klan.
Review: The book wasn't that different from the movie. It went into more detail than the movie did though. The lawyer got more drunk in the book. In the book, one of the jurors turned the case around so it was a white girl being raped by two black men, this caused the jury to see it as if it was their little girls. (The jury was mostly white) In the movie, it was the lawyer who turned it around. I, personally, liked the movie better because some parts in the book were very sluggish.

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Summary: Grisham's best book yet!!!!
Review: I read "A Time To Kill" for the first time when was about 14. Since then I've read almost all his other books. A Time To Kill, is by far is best one yet. So many emotions are written into this book, I got angry, upset, and I cried. This book triggers emotions deep inside of us, by the end of the book, you may view society in a different light