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by John Grisham
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jbarrett5 book reviews, etc
jbarrett5 book reviews, etc rated it 11 years ago
The Last Juror by John GrishamIn this book we learn about the history of the paper and how putting in controversial obits makes a difference. The new editor also posts a lot of local community news: group meetings, killings, etc.One has been sent to prison for rape and killing a woman. He tells the ...
elisas8
elisas8 rated it 12 years ago
this started out really poorly but quickly picked up. the story was alright but quite choppy. it read more like a collection of related short stories, and would have been better in that format, which maybe is why he later wrote that short story collection ford county. not one of his better ones, ...
inconceivably
inconceivably rated it 16 years ago
I really enjoyed this story. It was my first Grisham, and I expected it to be a plot-driven, fast-paced novel. It was not that at all, and I could not have been more thrilled with the direction the story took.It was, more than anything, just a slice of real Southern life. It was a story meant to be ...
Bearister's Book Blog
Bearister's Book Blog rated it 16 years ago
I thought this was one of Grisham's better books. It combined his knack for writing "thrillers" with his sense of life and the law in the south. The humor in the book was great. I read this on vacation one summer or spring and remember chuckling and reading passages out loud to my wife. There's ...
Kaethe
Kaethe rated it 20 years ago
Something about lawyers, and juries, and really complicated plot. I seem to prefer that a writer make up new names and quirks for their characters, even if they're going to write the same sort of story every time. I don't know why that would be less tiresome that a series, but for some reason, it ...
julieharrison
julieharrison rated it 21 years ago
A slow-paced book about a Southern small town in the 1970s. Covers journalism and desegregation.
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