The Tenth Justice

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Summary: This book was a huge waste of time. It was juvenile.
Review: I had great expectations of this author and this book. Unfortunately, it read like a Hardy boy novel. The plot, development of characters and the overall premise that the character's who are supposedly brilliant could be so gulible is a laugh. Please do not put him in the same class as Grisham.

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Summary: Elective oral surgery would be more enjoyable
Review: the only good thing i can say about this book is that it had an ending. unfortunately, by the time i got to it, i was completely disgusted and couldn't care less. the characters were self righteous and underdeveloped and the plot was thinner than thin. give me a cookbook john grisham any day.

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Summary: An enjoyable debut for an author with promise
Review: It has sadly become a rare occurence for me to be sufficiently absorbed to read a novel in one sitting. in the case of Brad Meltzer's "The Tenth Justice", however, I made an exception. Whilst the plot ran out of steam somewhat towards the end, ones overriding impression was that the author has managed to write a story which was not only entertaining, but also managed to include the kind of credible dialogue that is too often missing from this genre of novel. I look forward to sampling his next offering and would reccomend this book as perfect holiday reading.

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Summary: Great! One of the year's best!
Review: This book is a great legal thriller! It combies not only legal action but it transends past all of the world into the mind, getting different emotions to come out when people are faced with challenges! This author has shown great strength in this book, and I hope we will be seeing more of him. Between undercover FBI agents to Supreme Court clecks to friends and love this book has it all! I challenge any one to read this book and not like it! -a@r*n C0lter

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Summary: "Friends" meets "Harriet The Spy."
Review: An awkwardly written, obvious, Generation X take on a thriller. The author appears to be a frustrated TV writer, law degree not withstanding, who has overdosed on all the buddy sitcoms. The book simply doesn't read true, which probably means that Meltzer will be the next John Grisham.

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Summary: Incredible!!
Review: This was definatly one of the best books I ever read! A must for everyone. The audio cassette version is also excellent. A worth while investment. I lent it to a friend just recently and they shared my opinion. You can't go wrong with this one. Blockbuster movie potential for sure!

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Summary: Don't editors read books before they get published any more?
Review: Nothing rings true about this book. The plot is based on a ridiculous pretense: a law clerk is suckered into breaking major securities laws by a con man who breaks even bigger securities laws. The clerk's only solution at this point is obvious: Keep his mouth shut -- THE CON MAN WON'T SAY A THING OR ELSE HE'LL GO TO JAIL FOR DECADES. Instead, the clerk mounts on a quest to find the con man. The pathetic excuse for plot is that once the con man is found, the clerk is now safe.It takes 348 pages for our legal geniuses to even get close to grasping the situation. Finally, his co-clerk points out that if they *do* manage to find the con man, they can't really do anything with him, or else the clerk goes to jail too. Well....DUH. That's obvious in the first 40 pages. But now it's too late, because the clerk and his Friends have completely antagonized the con man to the point that he HAS to react to them.As if the ridiculous excuse for a plot weren't enough, there are so many holes in the story it is insulting. For instance, the clerk rents out a PO Box in an assumed name. The con man rents another box in the same assumed name and sends the bill back to the clerk's parent's house. Hmmm. The clerks parents must by pyschic, because they tell him that he has a bill. In an assumed name? Give me a break!Then there's the supposition that all they have to do is get a picture of the con man and the computers in the State Department will certainly be able to "ID" him. Oh, right, the government has pictures of every person in the country in a datebase that can be searched like fingerprints. Not only is the technology not yet available, the database certainly isn't either.While I actually enjoyed the moronic banter between the characters (in a Beavis and Butthead kind of way), I definitely wonder if they could definitely work the word "definitely" into the dialog any more than they definitely did. Definitely...not.

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Summary: Excellent Idea, Execution Needed Something
Review: The plot held me for the first three chapters or so, but I rapidly lost interest once the initial premise had been laid out. If properly supported with character development, mood, setting, etc., I can see how the rest of the book could have been fun. Lacking these elements, however, the subsequent twists and turns sounded kind of like the bad movie that the characters often mocked. In all fairness, though, this is a first novel from a young writer. I'll give his next effort a try before I close the book on Brad Meltzer.

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Summary: Fantastic! Fun to read and kept me guessing!
Review: I bought this last week from Amazon after reading other reviews. Now I can't wait to read Dead Even. Loved the characters, especially the relationship between Ben & Lisa. Very enjoyable.

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Summary: A very entertaining "Book-Of-The-Week" kind of read.
Review: I love thrillers, mysteries. This book fulfilled that lust in me. However, too many passages consisted of the same scene, namely, the roommates telling each other to shut up. Was it only me, or did all the guys seem awfully gay? The living situation of the roommates seemed a bit too cozy as evidenced in their banter with one another. Liked Lisa. I could see that gal in NEWSRADIO play her in the movie version. And Ben? Thomas Gibson.