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Title: The Last Juror by JOHN GRISHAM, MICHAEL BECK ISBN: 0-7393-0901-3 Publisher: Random House Audio Pub. Date: 03 February, 2004 Format: Audio CD Volumes: 10 List Price(USD): $59.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.49 (274 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The characters come alive in this novel!
Comment: John Grisham's latest, THE LAST JUROR, is his first novel since A TIME TO KILL to be sent in Ford County, Mississippi . . .
I've never been to the either the fictional setting or state, but it sure feels like I know it from reading this latest legal thriller . . . the characters all come alive, in large part because the author is so talented in using dialogue that helps move the pace along at near-breakneck speed.
JUROR is about a 23-year old college dropout who assumes ownership of a once bankrupt newspaper . . . when a brutal murder occurs, circulation increases as all the gruesome
details are reported . . . when the murderer is released after
nine years because in Mississippi in 1970, "life didn't necessarily mean life," all hell breaks loose.
I really feel like I got to know Willie Traynor, as well as many
of his colorful friends and acquaintances . . . in addition, I
liked the book's ending . . . Grisham--after a few disappointing
efforts--returns my list of authors whose books I will seek
out when they first get published.
Rating: 5
Summary: Grisham's Still Water Runs Deep
Comment: "The Last Juror" is neither "The Firm" nor "the Pelican Brief", nor is it similar to "A Time for Killing" which shares "Juror's" Ford County, Mississippi, setting. But it is a powerful novel in its own right, combining the elements of classic Grisham courtroom drama with a nostalgic study of life in rural Mississippi. The main story is of the brutal rape and murder of a young widow. The alleged murderer, Danny Padgitt, is the youngest son of the wealthy but reclusive local gentry. Protagonist Willie Traynor, Memphis-born and Syracuse-educated, migrates to Clanton and, with the help of a rich aunt, buys the dying local newspaper. So while the story is ostensibly one of the crime and subsequent retribution, it is also a poignant tale of the decade-long relationship that develops between Traynor and "Miss" Callie Ruffin, matriarch of a poor but proud black family of Clanton. Just as the Big Brown River and its creeks and sloughs wind through the meadows of Ford County, Grisham's prose meanders through sub-plots, anecdotes and banalities of the small-town south. Grisham is in no hurry to get to the climax - indeed the recipe for Miss Callie's pot roast is hardly a page-turner. But the pace of the prose is a conscious and necessary element of the author's message, and seemingly unconnected events eventually tie together to complete the portrait of Grisham's South. And if the weighty topics of civil rights and Viet Nam are axes Grisham chooses to grind, he treats them with sensitivity and respect, and is neither heavy-handed nor judgmental in his delivery.
The reader looking for a thriller along the lines of Grisham's fine earlier works may be disappointed, but it would be vastly unfair to dismiss this novel. "The Last Juror" is thoughtful and thought provoking literature; an example of a fine American story teller broadening his scope and delving deeper into familiar topics.
Rating: 1
Summary: Chick Flick
Comment: I was ready for a great story in typical Grisham style. What I got was a chick flick. I usually quit a book like this after 90 to 100 pages. I should have this time. However, I kept hoping the story would get better. Save your money and re-read the firm.
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