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Title: Laws of Our Fathers, The by Scott Turow ISBN: 0-446-60440-2 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.81 (95 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: A MAJOR DISAPPOINTMENT
Comment: After reading such novels as PLEADING GUILTY and BURDEN OF PROOF, I was looking forward to reading the next installment.
But, this novel was was of a lesser quality: flatter characters, not as much pacing and, just an overall lesser sense of emotional resonance.
Note that this was after reading about 40 pages, but, my feeling is: if a book can't hold me after 40 pages, it isn't worth reading.
Rating: 4
Summary: An ambitious attempt
Comment: I read this book after reading Robert B. Parker's recent BACK STORY, and this book definitely benefits from the comparison. It's Turow's take on the 1960s that gripped me. Where Parker's take on the late 1960s and early 1970s is smug, judgemental and wholly unsympathetic, Turow manages to be both romantic and honest. Loyell Eddgar is at the center of both major plots -- the murder in the 90s and the radicalism of the 60s -- and he personifies the worst of "The Revolution." A blowhard and a narcissist, he exploited issues like civil rights and the Viet Nam war to gain the power and attention he cannot live without. But in the characters of Sonny and especially young Seth, Turow captures the idealism, the pain, the compassion and the genuine desire to change the world for the better that was as much a part of that generation as its indulgence. And it's fascinating to revisit Sonny and Seth decades down the line, to see where the long, strange trip has taken them. This book tries to do a lot and isn't wholly successful on all points -- I'd have cut the romance during the trial to eliminate a little of the confusion. But on balance, it was a good, entertaining, thought provoking read.
Rating: 2
Summary: Literary Quicksand
Comment: Reading this book was like pulling teeth. What I love about Turow is the character development he brings to his books, tightly woven with tight, sharp legal thrills. Grisham's best is a comic book next to Turow's worst. Quite simply, Turow treats his readers like adults, while Grisham treats his like ignorant children.
BUT: In "The Laws of Our Fathers" Turow has gotten carried away. I can only surmise that he awoke one day and decided to write the Great American Legal Novel, as Laws of Our Fathers reads like a combination of Hermann Melville and Saul Bellow. The issues covered -- race and war in the 1960s; religion, separation, parenting, and isolation in the 1990s, are all sigificant and all worthy of a novel. What they are not worthy of is being combined into a single "mass market" novel. The plot simply collapses beneath the weight of the Important Social Matters about which Turow writes.
As I say, Turow writes for the thinking person and one expects to be challenged when one buys his work. But in Laws of Our Father the endless pages of 75-line paragraphs made me time and time again put the book aside. There needs to be a periodic tease that makes the reader want to continue, and in Laws of Our Fathers they were too far apart by scores of pages.
Fortunately Turow returns to form in Reversible Errors, so one can hope that Laws of Our Fathers is an anomaly.
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Title: Pleading Guilty by Scott Turow ISBN: 0446365505 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1994 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Personal Injuries by Scott Turow ISBN: 0446608602 Publisher: Warner Vision Pub. Date: 01 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Burden of Proof, The by Scott Turow ISBN: 0446360589 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1991 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Reversible Errors by Scott Turow ISBN: 0446612626 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow ISBN: 0446359866 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 05 December, 1989 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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