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Summary: Keepin the facts Straight
Review: First of all, I would like to say who wrote the Editorial on "The Chamber" must not have been paying attention to the book. Adam was a young lawyer who was trying to save his grandfather, not his uncle from death row for killing two 5 year old boys and injuring their father, not 2 men. "The Chamber I thought was a book worth reading especially if you are into the suspense and great details about ones past and future. Along with the suspense and great details Adam and his Grandfather, get to know each other more, after they have been apart for 23 years, and they each learn about each others past whether it was about Sam's past with the Ku Klux Klan or if it was about Adams past liveing without a father or a grandfather. It also tells how it was in the south in the early 1950s. So if you are into a good book with esquisite details and this review caught your attention I believe everyone should take the time and read this john Grisham novel.
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Summary: Absolutely no plot twist/boring tale
Review: I love John Grisham. I've read most of his work and most of them are excellent. The Chamber has to be his worst book. It's a nice tale about a death row inmate, along very similar lines of "Dead Man Walking" - but there is no intrigue or plot twists, or anything else that makes for a page-turning suspense novel. I kept waiting for something out of the blue to happen, and nothing did. I even had thoughts of things that might happen, trying to guess a potential plot twist, and nothing happened. You are introduced to characters who appear throughout the story, which you expect to become a huge player at the end of the story, only to find them dissapear without a trace. Grisham seems to be building another suspensful, mind blowing story and then 3/4 of the way through the book almost every sub plot disappears never to resurface. When I got to the end of the book I thought I was missing a few chapters because there seemed to be som much left unsaid. I would strongy urge you to stay away from this book - or at least if you read it, don't expect a suspense novel, just a nice description of what someone goes through when on death row.
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Summary: Depth
Review: Clumsy. A pathetic attempt to convey emotion. Ending was a total disappointment. Plots lines went nowhere. The characters are impossible to relate to and feel for. The point of the book is lost in the cliched descriptions. Someone else could have done better on this topic. For this author, not bad though.
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Summary: A decent read
Review: The Chamber is the story of young Adam Hall who stands poised at the brink of a highly promising legal career. It is also the story of Sam Cayhall, racist and murderer, who now sits on death row and happens to be Adam's Grandfather. After deciding to take on his case, Adam heads south to Mississippi to come face-to-face with the Grandfather he's never met, and more than a few skeletons in the family closet. It is there that he meets his Aunt Lee, daughter of Sam and Sister to Adam's Father. As Adam meets with Sam and spends time with Lee, he gradually draws out the truth about the past, both about Sam's brutal crimes and about his own family. It soon becomes clear that some secrets are better left buried. The plot of this book moves along at a steady clip through most parts, but tends to get a little bit hung up on some legal explanations here or there. The average reader who isn't a lawyer won't be particularly interested in the intricacies of the appellate court system. Also a little bit irksome is the confusing way in which Sam Cayhall is portrayed. First he is a brutal racist killer, and then he's a sensitive soul who longs to get to know the family who abandoned him due to his actions. The reader is sent on an emotional roller coaster from anger towards his actions, to sympathy for his circumstance, and everything in between. Some may find feeling even a little bit of sympathy for Sam hard to swallow. The story runs long and has much room for editing, but it is hardly noticeable when the story does such a great job of drawing you in and keeping you truly invested and interested in Sam's fate.
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Summary: My Review on the Chamber
Review: The Chamber by John Grishman was an okay book. The good points of the book were the details, the legal "terms", and the realistic quality. The only downside of the book, to me, was how long it was. I felt that the story was carried out a bit more then needed. Overall, this book is decent. This book is for anyone who is interested in law, controversy, drama, and debatable topics. I also recommend this book to anyone who can stand to read 676 pages or more of John Grishman's writing.
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Summary: Whaaa?
Review: eh, the book was okay...it took forever to get to the climax, but it was alright.
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Summary: OK but not a realistic portrayal of a racist murderer
Review: The Chamber is well-written and has a decent storyline. As such, it is a typical John Grisham legal thriller, although, as it happens, it is not one of my favorites. The plot is relatively simple: a young lawyer discovers that a close relative of his is on Death Row for the murders of two young kids, who were accidental victims of an intended murder aimed at a civil rights worker. (The children were the intended victim's children). No question that the bomb was either intended to or likely to kill people. Just not the two kids. The young protagonist then resolves to defend the murderer pro bono to try to prevent his execution. The problem with The Chamber, in my opinion, is that it takes the racist murderer of two small boys, and spends the first half of the novel making this man out to be a wretchedly hateful racist. Now, this is probably accurate in the sense that the people who perpetrated the murders of civil rights workers in the 1950s-1960s certainly were by and large like that. But then, in the last portion of the novel, the novel does about a 150 degree turn and this man more or less becomes a flawed saint, who flails away at the injustice of the death penalty, and we are all supposed to realize that since this "saint" is about to fall "victim" to the death penalty, the death penalty is somehow unjust. It just didn't make sense to me. This guy deserved to die and is precisely the type of wretch that proponents of the death penalty have persuasively argued merit such punishment. The novel would have made its point much more effectively had the person sentenced to death been wrongly convicted--in my opinion this would have made the novel much more compelling. Oh, sure (**very minor spoiler**) it turns out that another person is much more involved in the deaths of the two kids than the convicted person, but that doesn't change my feeling that the convict deserved his punishment, and that this caused Grisham to miss his point by a Tennessee mile. The Chamber is not a bad read for all that, although it is too long and too preachy. Grisham could have made his point much more effectively than he does here, and also written a better and more compelling novel by doing so.
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Summary: Highly Eductional? Grusome? Great Book!
Review: The Chamber is a book that can't be put down and left unread! It gives you a true look into the racial issues from the 1960's. The detail that John Grisham gives in this book would not be recommended for the "weak" stomach! As you read the book, as The Chamber goes along, the grusome details become very clear. The best book for a true education that's put into novel form to make the story "true to life"! Be prepared! The book is great!
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Summary: THIS READER IS ALWAYS A HIT
Review: John Grisham's books are never hit or miss, they're always hits and so is this audio version of The Chamber, which centers on young lawyer Adam Hall. Affiliated with the most prestigious law firm in Chicago, Hall jeopardizes his career to defend a death row inmate, a rascist and former KKK member who is also his grandfather. Suspense mounts as Hall investigates a 1967 Klan bombing, uncovers a series of rigged trials, and digs up family secrets that were best left buried. Actor Beck who has performed previous audio thrillers by Grisham gives an able nuanced performance. Don't miss this one!
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Summary: Very Boring
Review: I like all of J.G.'s books except this one. I couldn't even finish it!I thought the plot of the story was slow and it put me to sleep.
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