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Summary: It Goes Where All Grisham Has Gone Before
Review: This is a good book. Fine plot. Great pacing, and wonderful, creepy, secretive characters.In fact, it's almost exactly like all other Grisham courtroom dramas. Oh, the focus is different, and the particulars have changed, but in essence, the same tale retold... few people fighing for what's right (if not necessarily legal) in the face of bureaucratic mercenaries. If you like The Firm, The Rainmaker, The Pelican Brief, The Partner, The Client, and most other Grisham standbys (notable exceptions to this stellar but repetitive list would include A Painted House and The Street Lawyer, both of which I found refreshing fare from Grisham), you will like The Runaway Jury. It might not surprise you. It might not challenge you. But it should amuse you, and maybe that's all it has to do.
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Summary: Another great Grisham read
Review: If you have read any of Grisham's other works, then you will surely like this one. This is story of the widow of a man who died of lung cancer who is suing a tobacco company. As the jury consultants prepare for the trial, they begin their thorough search into the background of each of the potential jurors. One of the jurors, however, has them puzzled. And he is about to continue to puzzle them throughout the trial. I enjoyed reading this book, but in my opinion, it's not his best book. As for the movie, I haven't seen it yet, but I intend to soon.
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Summary: A Real Page Turner (4.5 Stars)
Review: I thought this book was very unpredictable. This was a story with many great and corrupt characters. For the most part, it was a total page turner, especially near the end. It is a book that really makes you think about how corrupt businesses and the legal system can be. If you enjoy John Grisham's other novels, you should definitely pick up this one!
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Summary: Good theme, awesome plot!
Review: Runaway Jury is a classic! Get ready to root for the a couple of so called, apparent bad guys! I get a kick out of Nick Easter and Marlee. What's going on in the jury? See if you can put this down! The attorney battle, I LOVE the way it heats up between Rankin Fitch and Wendall Rohr. It was a good theme, an awesome plot. Grisham is usually a good read. Never lets you down! I enjoyed this very much.
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Summary: must read for any grisham fan
Review: Having seen all the movies that were made based on Grisham`s work,I decided it was finally time to read one of his books. The runaway jury has an excellent plot. The first 20 pages are a bit of a bore as Grisham goes into all the intricacies of each juror and the jury selection process. After that the anticipation of the great plot that is about to unravel is thrilling. The book oscillates between being extremely exciting to a tad boring at times(which is the only reason I give it 4 stars and not 5) but on the whole the book is great and every Grisham fan will be missing something if they decide to let this one go.
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Summary: Questionable Adaptations
Review: The fact that this book is an excellent allegory of the sleaze that is Big Tobacco seems to have escaped the people at FOX, who adapted the book to be the same story, but about guns. Why would the story be changed so significantly? While this book is excellent, the movie whose poster detail adorns the cover of the new edition should be viewed as a questionable, at best, use of the medium of film to divert attention from the issue of Tobacco to the issue of Gun rights. This might just be another case of a movie that shouldn't be seen to avoid spoiling the book.
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Summary: Villains Win
Review: This is the first book that I ever quit reading 100 pages from the end because it was obvious that the lawbreaking villians, Nicholas Easter and his partner in crime, Marlee, were going to win and would not be punished for the crime of jury tampering.
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Summary: Nichols Easter is hypocritical
Review: Normally Grisham is my Traveling compainion. Whenever I fly I read a Grisham, they are easy to get through and usually quite well written. Such was the not case - no pun intented- with the Runway Jury. It was a great book up until the last ten pages. Then the Book falls apart. The story the characters everything. Fair warning read the book but loose the last 10 pages.
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Summary: Jury was hit and run.
Review: I listened to this book on tape. The reader did an adequate job of presenting the story. The basic plot and twists are interesting. However, anyone with any knowledge of how the legal system works would not buy into this storyline. This trial would become a mistrial many times over. Fortunately our legal system is better than Grisham portrays it to be. I did not feel this book was as compelling as many of Grisham's other novels. However, the ending of this book was much more satisfactory than most of his other stories.
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Summary: Book-Too Slow, Movie-Great
Review: This is the second book I read from this author (Summons was my first). It took too much to hook me up, because of all the descriptions... But in the other hand, the movie was great!!!! I'm now starting The King of Torts and can not wait to finish it.
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