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Summary: Grisham fails again!
Review: With all the hype,I really thought Grisham was back. I was wrong. This book drags on with very little excitement and no great charactars. What a waste of money.
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Summary: Grisham,s always good
Review: I believe John Grisham is truly one of America,s greatest writers , not only one of the most popular. He spoiled me with " King of Torts" , which I believe to be his best and one of the best books I,ve ever read. Bleachers followed and was excellent illustrating how we idolize coaches and team that are successful and overlooking that this same were not always hero,s to their children and friends. The Last Juror is an very good read bringing Grisham back to his boyhood Mississippi. There are a lot of little stories along with the main theme. This is almost the differance between just eating and dining. It,s Good.
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Summary: tedious and not up to speed
Review: I am a huge JOhn Grisham fan and thus I was soooo disappointed in this book. It was neither compelling nor mysterious.. The novel reads more like a memoir of life in rural Mississippi.. I had to force myself to finish.. It is not up to the quality of other books by this author. Save your money!
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Summary: Grisham losing steam?
Review: If you're looking for the typical Grisham "thriller", this is not the book. The Last Juror is disappointing at best! The story that is outlined on the book jacket takes more than one third of the book to unfold. In other words, the book jacket told us the same thing that a full one third of the book told us. The second third is barely readable! It has absolutely nothing to do with the plot. The book is certainly not what the reader is looking for when reading a Grisham novel. Grisham has indeed earned the financial freedom to discover other genre's, but I wish the publisher wouldn't try to fool the reader into thinking this is another legal thriller.
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Summary: Return to his Roots!
Review: In this book, John Grisham returns to his southern small town roots such as in "A Time to Kill". This book shows what life is truly like in many small towns in the rural South. I could see many characters that I grew up with incorporated into this story. I think it is one of his best ones lately. John Grisham is an excellent auther and can hold his own with any mystery writer anywhere!
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Summary: Southern Comfort
Review: What probably throws most people off with this book (and I'm speaking of Grisham fans here) is that it isn't like anything else he's written. "A Painted House" probably comes the closest, but even that's not a good comparison. The wonderful thing about Grisham is that he's constantly growing and changing--refusing to get tied down to one style or get in some kind of a rut. The problem with this is that his devoted readers want him to always be the same. Tough situation. But regardless of his style changes, he does remain constant in one way: his books are all done well. The characters are all believable and human, and his prose is finely crafted. The story in "The Last Juror" isn't that shocking, but this is Grisham's attempt to blend his courtroom thrillers with his more "literary" attempts, and it works wonderfully. Also recommended: McCrae's "Bark of the Dogwood" and Conroy's "Prince of Tides."
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Summary: Makes a promise it doesnt deliver
Review: It's apparently true that each great writer has only a few great books in him. For those who enjoy Grisham's story-telling talent and dont care if a book goes absolutely nowhere, "The Last Juror" may be tolerable. But dont lie to us and tell us it's a mystery. Dont tell us it's about a murder and the additional murders that take place when the killer is released from prison. Be honest with us -- tell us it's just a simple, easy-going story about a small-town newspaper guy and the small-town people he meets. I got 7/8 of the way through this one and realized I was just wasting good time on a bad book. I couldnt finish it.
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Summary: It's not really a mystery, but it's still a great read!
Review: John Grisham's The Last Juror is a very good read, but it is not a mystery. It's the story of a college dropout, who finds acceptance after becoming a newspaper publisher. Grisham sets the story in Clanton, Mississippi. The setting of his first novel, A Time To Kill. Several of the characters from that book are back in this one. The unusual characters are what makes the book so enjoyable.
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Summary: John Grisham at his Best
Review: Willie Traynor, a long-haired twenty-three-year-old, who drives a Triumph Spitfire, arrives in Clanton, Mississippi in 1970, with the bright idea of buying the Ford County Times with money he'd borrowed from his grandmother. According to one of his friends the paper would be a gold mine as long as he stayed away from controversy and just covered local news and local events, like church socials, basketball games and obituaries. But controversy comes calling when a young widow is stabbed and bleeds to death, naming Danny Padgitt as the man who raped her in front of her children before she dies. The Padgitt clan is a corrupt and vicious group of former moonshiners who've shifted the family business from booze to drugs. When Padgitt is convicted and sentenced to life, he swears revenge on the jurors and under Mississippi law, a life sentence can be as short as 10 years. In less than a decade, Padgitt is released and the first two jurors are killed. The juror of the title is Miss Callie Ruffin, an elderly black woman who takes a liking to Willie and begins inviting him over at mealtimes. She is the matriarch of a black family and is the last juror picked for the trial. Willie is worried about all of the jurors' safety, but he is particularly worried about Miss Callie, who in the years Padgitt had been in prison, had become a very close friend. Not only is THE LAST JUROR filled with the tension and suspense you'd expect from a book by Mr. Grisham, it also paints a detailed portrait of a small southern town, peopled with residents readers can't help but like. By the time you finish the book, you'll feel like you've been reading about family. Haley Lawford, S/V Cheerleader Too
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Summary: COULD NOT WAIT TO PUT IT DOWN
Review: MY WIFE READ IT, SAID IT WAS OK. SHE AND I HAVE READ EVERY GRISHAM BOOK AND LIKED MOST. THIS BOOK BORED ME TO TEARS. IF IT WAS 10 CHAPTERS INSTEAD OF 40 PLUS IT WOULD HAVE BEEN A GOOD SHORT STORY. DONT BUY IT, BORROW IT IF YOU MUST READ THE LATEST GRISHAM.
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