The Chamber (Large Print)

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Summary: Another excellent novel by John Grisham. Gets you thinking!
Review: John Grisham outdoes himself once again on this extraordinary novel. If this book doesn't make you think twice about the death penalty, you didn't read it right! Grisham evokes emotions I never knew I had--it is definitely a heart-wrenching story with what I thought was the perfect ending. Although in my heart I didn't want Sam Cayhall executed, the book wouldn't have seemed complete if somehow an appeal had been successful. This book had me biting back tears the entire time. Although some reviews said that this book is long and, in places boring, I feel that every word in every sentence contributed to the novel as a whole. I loved this book--congratulations, John Grisham, on another book excellently written

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Summary: A somewhat prolonged story, but good page-turning suspense.
Review: Grisham delivers yet another powerful novel about (what else?) law and the justice system. Sam and Adam Cayhall are believable characters whose contrasting traits give the novel a more rousing and realistic tone. The ending particularly will grab the reader's suspense. The sublime subject matter of a family member's sentence to death is definitely something that will come up later at the dinner table. The one weakness of the book is that it is slightly overwritten and sometimes dull, which makes you rather want to watch Court TV. But overall it is good, solid entertainment, and gets your noodle thinking!!

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Summary: Oh no: Not Another
Review: And in the "Big Surprises" category, we have a Grisham book with a young lawyer who is a pastiche from "Friends" and "Captain Planet;" who embodies Grisham's own unoriginal politics; who looks suspiciously like he could be played by Brad Pitt, or even Keanou Reeves; who engages in a shallow moral milieu with benighted society without actually making a damned bit of substantial difference; who worries up banal (if not completely trivial) moral fodder; who catapults from obscurity to a Momentous Event; whose every emotional twitch is described with complete lack of authenticity; who undergoes character development so minimal that we believe he really IS a lawyer. Welcome back to the bookstand, John: you fit like an old shoe with broken laces and no sole

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Summary: Grisham delivers an imformative novel about death row.
Review: This novel was overall good. It shows how a famly has been ashamed of their grandfather`s and their great grandfather`s racist actions. Somehow Adam Hall, a member of this particular family, defends his grandfather from getting the death penalty. At the end it shows a moral lesson about racism. It does have flaws, though. One of them is it is too long and it really gets boring sometimes. A good thing about the book is the author`s style.

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Summary: A really good book with an ending that wasn't expected.
Review: It was a really good book, but I wish that Sam hadn't died at the end.That would be cool. I love the book, eventhough it isn't as suspensfully gripping as his others, it is more psychologically gripping.

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Summary: Top of the line Grisham, don't miss it, a high recommend!!.
Review: One of the best of Grisham's batch of legal bestsellers. You'll find it hard to lay down once you start and before you're done you'll laugh, you'll cry and you'll surely question your own views on the death penalty. I was an avowed advocate of capitol punishment before reading this book;now I'm not so sure! It's hard to imagine caring about the fate of a confessed killer, but under Grisham's skilled pen, Sam becomes a real person and somebody you actually feel like you know.The idealistic young lawyer, Adam, who finds the grandfather he never knew and a cause he never imagined, is a hero who is both likeable and plausible.Definitely a recommended read.

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Summary: Excellent, gripping reading.
Review: This story is more about the lawyer representing the death-row inmate than it is the inmate.... I didn't think it would be a good candidate for a movie, but perhaps they are about to prove me wrong (movie is forthcoming). An excellent read.

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Summary: Great - but unnecessarily long
Review: Quite interesting topic , that is: a grandson wants to save his grand-father from cruel and unfair execution. But it was too long. If you are on vacation and desperately need something to read, this is it, I wouldn't recommend it for readers who like suspense since they might get bored easily.



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Summary: A Werid Subconscience Ride
Review: The story is about a racist, who was involved in a murder, of two children, and disfiguring their father. He is being sentence to death via the gas chamber for this murder, that he only helped, but did not fully commit (Although he had committed many other crimes in the past)

As one writer said the first half of this book is about this terrible racist man who deserves to die. The second half on the book was about the same man, but he is now portrayed as a guy with a heart, and was truly sorry, and thru the true story you learn that he didn't wish for anyone to die, just a different kinda crime to be committed.

I wasn't able to finish this book, because the plot became very predictable, and the facts about what happens when someone suffers at the hands of the chamber became too much for me.

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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.