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Summary: I love this book!
Review: I love Metzler's writing and have studied both his books, but The Tenth Justice one in particular, to learn dialog; I think he is a master at writing dialog. The characters are well-defined and the story is a page turner. I enjoyed his second book, Dead Even as well and was actually doing a search this evening looking to see when his next book would be released.
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Summary: What a waste of time......
Review: This book could have been much better. It grew more disappointing with every page I read. The characters are all idiots and the dialogue between them is absurd and completely unrealistic. There were also technical problems with the book that made it very hard to believe. I read some reviews on here that said this book was great. Whoever said that was either friends with the author or had the wit of a box of hammers. Don't waste your money or your time on this piece of garbage.
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Summary: What a great ride!
Review: This book is a great thriller in its own right. The characters are very believable. The plot has so many twists and turns I felt like I was on a roller coaster. Move over John Grisham, there is another author with the same caliber as you.
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Summary: The Tenth Justice
Review: Excellent plot, great characters. I enjoyed this book much more than I did The Firm. Can't wait to read more from this author.
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Summary: Plausible/Implausible
Review: Since starting law school, and continuing into being a clerk for a state supreme court, novels have become the occupation of the last ten minutes of my night, after I've become exhausted enough to stop what I was doing and drag my corpus to bed and before my eyelids slam down mid-sentence. The Tenth Justice, however, caused me to neglect friends and loved ones during my scarce 'free' time until it was finished, within two days. This book certainly scores as a page-turner. The Tenth Justice's other claim to worthiness is its premise. First, it exposes the tremendous degree of influence judicial clerks, most fresh from law school, have over the written, precedential product of the high courts. Second, the book examines how easily someone could lulled into a false sense of security by feeling 'behind the scenes' and out of the public eye. That the primary work of opinion writing is done by clerks, with experienced judges acting mainly as watchful editors and mentors, is true of some chambers. The naive sense of invisibility and harmlessness one sometimes feels as a clerk is also not far off. That the protagonist clerks write U.S. Supreme Court opinions that sail by their Justice with hardly a changed word and that a clerk might give away the outcome of a major case at a first meeting are both sheer hyperbole. They are not so far out of the question, however, as to be beyond suspending my disbelief. On the other hand, the quality of the writing probably says more about why Meltzer is writing page-turners, not being a clerk or a practicing lawyer himself. The clerks, alone in their office, frequently launch into tedious diatribes about the most basic elements of legal process; they constantly play the "designated idiot" where one character asks a stupid question solely so that the other can explain something to the reader. This is truly implausible coming from characters we presume to be the smartest that American legal academia can produce. The dialogue between friends is sophomoric, and the non-lawyer supporting cast collectively have an absurd, almost Bond-ian gadget portfolio. In addition, the book delivers no insight into the Supreme Court; not once does is the reader privy to a conversation with a Justice and the clerks apparently see their boss little more. I cannot imagine this book was the product of much research into the actual workings of the Court. Beyond the clever initial premise, I found the The Tenth Justice to be a mediocre but voraciously digested and entertaining read.
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Summary: Couldn't put it down - easy reading too!
Review: I love legal thriller novels and thought this book was one of the best I've read lately. I read the whole book in just a few days during my busy life. It reads easily and you are so engrossed in the story that you just can't put it down. I am now ordering Brad Meltzer's second novel. 5 stars!
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Summary: THE TENTH JUSTICE
Review: EXCELLENT BOOK. COULDN'T PUT IT DOWN. SURPRISE ENDING. HIGHLY RECOMMEND
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Summary: Poor excuse for a legal thriller
Review: I wanted to like this book for two reasons. First, I am a fan of the legal thriller genre and have been ever since I first read "The Firm" by John Grisham. Second, I am interested in the law, especially in the inner workings of the Supreme Court. "The Tenth Justice" let me down on both counts. The plot is both inconsistent and nonsensical, especially as to how it relates to the Supreme Court. The supporting characters are paper thin and the main character is unsympathetic. The author wants us to believe they are the best and the brightest, but for the most part, they all act like a bunch of self-centered ninnies. I agree with the other reviews that say it borders on misogynist the way the author writes the female clerk. It was a chore to even finish the book, and I did not come away with either the satisfaction of a good thriller or any further insight into what it is like to be a Supreme Court Clerk. With such a promising premise, this book could have been a lot more. I can only hope that maybe someone else will write a satisfactory thriller about Supreme Court clerks.
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Summary: Best legal writer around!
Review: It is so relieving to find a good, make that excellent law novelist who is not John Grisham. I cannot fathom how anyone could deny this as the best novel of its genre in years...with the exception of Dead Even, perhaps. Meltzer is my new favorite author.
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Summary: The most compelling book I have ever read!
Review: The Tenth Justice was the first law based crime book that I read which was not written by John Grisham. I was not expecting much and I got so much more. Once I had picked the book up I could not put it down. I absolutely LOVED it!!
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