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Title: Personal Injuries by Scott Turow, Joe Mantegna, Bob Walter ISBN: 0375408215 Publisher: Bantam Books-Audio Pub. Date: November, 1999 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 4 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.1
Rating: 4
Summary: What a wonderful read
Comment: It is amazing how many people missed the boat on this one. The very first review says it all. "Personal Injuries" isn't about plot or story line or fast pace or excitement or courtroom drama.
As I read the book I kept waiting for something to happen until I realized that something was happening. I was watching an author create a cast of characters who peopled any room I read this book in. Exquisitely drawn and beautifully built as seen through the eyes of not the first person narrator but the main character Robbie Feaver (pronounced "favor" as he tells us).
Further, Turow's portrayal of ALS and its effect on family members as well as the victim is heartbreaking. Such sadness!
Turow also leads us into the dark world of witness protection, the FBI and the battle of jurisdiction, political ambition and political medelling, etc.
Well done, Mr. Turow. Some of us understood where you were going and what you were doing.
Rating: 4
Summary: A legal thriller based in reality
Comment: Do you like legal thrillers, but are you somehow haunted by the belief that John Grisham doesn't really know what it's like to be a lawyer? Are you a patient reader? If the answer is yes to both questions, then this book is for you. The book, which involves a federal investigation into a corrupt judiciary scheme takes place in Turow's fictional Kindle County. We meet Robbie Feaver as he is coerced into cooperating with the investigation. The book takes off slowly and at the beginning, I confess I really did not like the book all that much. It was a little dry and sometimes had the look and feel of a legal memo (which are not that exciting, and if you've never read one, trust me on this). There was something that kept me reading and I am glad I did. I think it may have simply been the fact that the characters and what they do are truly realistic. As the book continues, Turow throws in some interesting, and yet still believable plot twists. His characters, at least the main ones are fairly multidimensional and the world they live in not all black and white, good and evil, but shades of grey. Robbie is not the most likable character, but is ultimately sympathetic. His choices, like those of the other characters, were not always good ones, but he is human. All in all this is an enjoyable novel if you have the patience to stick throught the first 100 pages or so.
Rating: 5
Summary: An excellent novel from one of the masters os Legal Thriller
Comment: First, I don't know how to review a book that you can't describe with simple words. Scott Turow is one of those rare authors that knows how to handle the craft of writing perfectly well. More than just a good plot, Scott Turow's legal thrillers books have very well developed characters. All of his characteres are completely flawless. But not to the meaning that they are perfect human beings - much to the contrary, what's interesting is that the good people are not that good and that the bad have often more to be discovered about than you think they have - , but that his characters invariably are deep people. They have self-wish and complex ideas and thoughts. That's what makes Scott Turow's characters differents of the #1 legal thriller author John Grisham - and I still wonder why he is so famous, since his books are nothing more than caricatures and books outlines or wanna-be-books. The sum of good plot and wonderful characters couldn't result in anything different than an excellent book. And that's what Scott writes: excellent and entertaining books that you read and feel satisfied and glad for having done it.
I'd highly recommend another wonderful legal thriller author: Lisa Scottoline. Her books are just amazing.
Marco Aurelio
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Title: Pleading Guilty by Scott Turow ISBN: 0446365505 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: June, 1994 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Laws of Our Fathers by Scott Turow ISBN: 0446604402 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: September, 1997 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Reversible Errors: A Novel by Scott Turow ISBN: 0374281602 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 29 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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Title: The Burden of Proof by Scott Turow ISBN: 0446360589 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: June, 1991 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow ISBN: 0446359866 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: May, 1993 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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