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Summary: The Tarantino of literature
Review: Grisham delivers, once again, another courtroom drama, but this time there are no hero lawyers outsmarting the odds and getting ungodly amounts of money. It's just the jury, with all those lovely lawyer/judge spats cut out.The absense of the "genius boy" lawyer in this novel makes it rather refreshing. The main characters are a woman trying to get ungodly amounts of money and a jury-rigging bad guy. It's no wonder that there has been such opposition to the context of the story when Grisham's signature character isn't there. Grisham's work is incredibly similar to Tarantino movies. He usually jumps around and tries to confuse you just to make the ending better and more shocking. This novel's plot is a little thin though. It's not nearly as deliberate and calculating as his former works, which makes it seem too unnessarily jumpy and belittles the new attempts at characters. For what it's worth, it's interesting, but much more predictable than his previous works.
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Summary: Great
Review: I'm a fan of Grisham,, every book that he puts in the streets, I read it very quickly. In this case, the book was read in one week. Although there are some incredibles things, the book kept me in constant attention, eager to the accion involved and the development of the concept, that Grisham has offered us. I reccomendet it, you wil have a great time reading it.
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Summary: The Runaway Jury, one of John Grisham's best books.
Review: The main question is: Are tabacco companies responsible for the products they're selling? Marlee thinks so and and it seems that with her friend Nicolas (a computer-specialist) she's manipulating the trail, the whole jury and consequently the verdict - but who in the world is able to absolutely control a trail where millions of dollars are to win or to loose? Fudge has the possibilities to pay Marlee the money she wants for speaking the tabacco companies free, but is he giving the money to the right person?
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Summary: Runaway Jury= a great and funny book
Review: The Runaway Jury is very good book. It's the kind of book that you can't put down. It is well written: it keeps your attention right through the end. It is also very funny.The book has got some twists to it.It is not a mystery, but it keeps you in suspense. Right when you think you know the answer, a new fact proves you incorrect. The ending is a good one. I recommend this book to anyone- it's good for all kinds of people.
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Summary: Greeeattt Grisham. Read!!!!
Review: This Grisham shows the other Side of the Courtroom. The Jury. At further this book have a very exiting story. The smoking and the problems of the somoking. And all this in Grisham-Style. A very greaaat Grisham!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: This one convinced me - I'll never read Grisham again
Review: "A Time to Kill" is Grisham's favorite of his own books, and it shows. He wrote it with passion and belief. The next two books ("The Firm" and "The Pelican Brief") were fun page-turners. "The Client" began to show the weaknesses (and his bragadaccio ravings about being able to turn out a book in a couple of months; don't think it isn't showing, John) -- way too much implausibility, but at least a heroine I liked. Then -- oh, my -- then he got on his soapbox. First we had his anti-death penalty novel in which he had law students so blatantly breaking the law with the phone-calling scheme they'd never be allowed to join the bar if they were found out; then came his anti-insurance company novel, in which he had lawyers tapping other lawyers' phones (grounds for disbarment), lawyers refusing to respond to discovery, lawyers LYING about discovery, and fledgling lawyers having illegal ex parte conversations with the judge -- which could get BOTH of them disbarred! Now we have the anti-tobacco industry novel, in which just about every sequestered jury rule in the book was broken AND a crooked jury member TELLING THE JUDGE HOW TO RUN THINGS. Yeah, right. Like that would ever happen. Since it begins with an improbable premise -- the "hero" (yuck) has moved from city to city trying to get on a tobacco case jury (how believable is that; how often do YOU get jury notices?), it's got nowhere to go but up -- and impossible as it may seem, it goes DOWN! There is nothing I hate more than an author who assumes his readers are stupid. Grisham just doesn't think we're stupid, he thinks we're too stupid to realize how belittling he is to his readers. Never again will I spend a nickel to read a Grisham book. (I'm not the only one; I had to try FOUR TIMES before I could give away "The Runaway Jury" -- no one I know was dumb enough to take it. I finally dumped it in the library returned-books bin; let them deal with it.) There are too many GOOD authors out there to waste my time (and money) on a writer who has the arrogance to write about the law, all the while belittling his readers by assuming they know nothing about it.
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Summary: Unbelievable, but still a page-turner
Review: I'm a fan of Grisham's, despite the predictability of his last couple of books. Although I found myself annoyed that I could predict the outcome and plot twists, and the story's treatment of the legal system was not at all realistic, I still found the book to be entertaining and fun to read.
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Summary: It Was Wow!
Review: This is one fantastic book. Every turn of the page brings something unexpected. It kept me guessing as to who are the "bad" guys and who are the good ones. The ones I thought was bad, is good. And the ones I thought was good, was bad. It has such an intelligent plot that I feel I could carry out that scandal and get away with those MILLIONS! This book is a real eye-opener. For a normal person like me, it sure is good to learn how the United States handles the procedure when choosing their juries. I actually learn that much even if the rest of the world says that the book has nothing great in it. Come on...Grisham's books are all about law and how the system works, fail or succeed. The Runaway Jury has an element of suspense as well as educational. I also like the ironic twist at the end where the 'lady' returns the money to the so-called Tobacco Giants. In short, it was a fantastic book, the best ever! So good that I've said WOW! many times and is still wow-wing over it after months. Impressive!
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Summary: Worst of the genre
Review: Successful fiction depends on a modicum of suspension of disbelief. Nothing in Runaway Jury rings true--it could never happen folks, even with a judge as bad as the presiding judge in Grisham's trial. Worse than that, the book has _no_ plot to speak of, and no likable characters--they are all crooks. Grisham's premise appears to be that two wrongs (greed and dishonesty on both sides) make a right--perhaps, sometimes. But, certainly, three wrongs (a badly written book)implodes in an incredible waste of time. I kept reading, hoping that something would happen. Nothing did, other than the cute and sticky moral at the end. Ugh----
Interested in good books of this genre, try Turow, Barbara Parker, Robert Daley, Robert Tannenbaum, etc. Grisham comes up with snake-eyes too often for me (The Chamber was another bad polemic).
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Summary: B-O-R-I-N-G; trust me; pretentious, surreal garbage drama
Review: The book starts out quick, right? Yeah, and it runs along kind of quickly except some of it starts sounding like switching back and forth from a documentary on the Tobacco Industry to a pretentious, incredulous thriller. The way Nicholas Easter controls the jurors is like a "scenes we'd like to see" scenario from Mad magazine. The book is also very predictable from the beginning, and the only thing that holds you through to the end is the anticipation of Fitch's reaction, which is not worth unveiling. Not worth the time or the money!!!
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