Every jury has a leader, and the verdict belongs to him. In Biloxi, Mississippi, a landmark tobacco trial with hundreds of mi...
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Jun 25, 2011
Ben
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Nicholas Easter, juror number 2 and a mysterious woman known as Marlee conspire to manipulate the jury to secure a verdict in a landmark trial involving a widow plaintiff (whose husband died of lung cancer because of cigarette addiction) and a big tobacco company. They have to play with both sides (the plaintiff and the defense) and go up against a cunning jury consultant Rankin Fitch who is an expert in jury manipulations. Fitch works for the defense.
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Mar 06, 2009
The Runaway Jury by John Grisham
The Runaway Jury by John Grisham draws you into a story of power. While the widow of a man who was killed by lung cancer, after smoking for most of his life, is suing a tobacco company, the reader finds out that this is not a normal trial case. Usually the side with the most votes gets their verdict, but now there is a single powerful person who controls all of it.
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The Runaway Jury by John Grisham draws you into a story of power. While the widow of a man who was killed by lung cancer, after smoking for most of his life, is suing a tobacco company, the reader finds out that this is not a normal trial case. Usually the side with the most votes gets their verdict, but now there is a single powerful person who controls all of it.
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Jan 27, 2009
Eric_W
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Runway Jury, is the more traditional Grisham, but a nifty suspense-filled story. I really enjoyed it. Lawyers will hate it, as it portrays them as terrible blood-sucking-win-at-any-cost malevolent characters. Fortunately, in this novel they get their due.
In this novel Grisham dissects the tobacco industry. Given the absolutely stunning amount of money involved in the recent class action suits against the tobacco companies, Grisham starts with the assumption, a quite reason More...
In this novel Grisham dissects the tobacco industry. Given the absolutely stunning amount of money involved in the recent class action suits against the tobacco companies, Grisham starts with the assumption, a quite reason More...
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Sep 26, 2011
Shane
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This book was quite entertaining, although it wasn't anything special. I was amazed at how much drama Grisham could milk out of a civil lawsuit, and I appreciated it that he didn't try to forceably "spruce-up" the action with random gun battles or kidnappings or something like that. The thriller was in the prose, and that was good.
Unusually, I felt this was a book with no sympathetic hero. Nicholas Easter, the main juror, is conniving, as is his partner Marlee; neither set of lawy More...
Unusually, I felt this was a book with no sympathetic hero. Nicholas Easter, the main juror, is conniving, as is his partner Marlee; neither set of lawy More...
Mar 31, 2011
Carol
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In this saga, Grisham examines more closely than in his other novels the process of choosing a jury that can best respond to both the plantiff and the defendent without filling the 12 chairs with people who have too much prejudice for either side. There are people hired to help in the jury picking process, and they study every aspect of a potential juror's life. The culprit on trial in The Runaway Jury is the tobacco industry and the plaintiff is someone who lost a family member to lung cancer
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Jan 06, 2011
Remi
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Wendell Rohr is a lawyer taking on the gun lobby for Celeste Wood. Rankin Fitch is for the defendants. Between them, they have to fight ot see if their is any advantage they can take from the jurors selected. But there is someone on the inside. Nicholas Easter is a juror with a girlfriend, Marlee, on the outside. they have a past together and their own plans for court.
When a day trader is shot where he works, his widow sues a major gun manufacturer and blaming them for his death, since t More...
When a day trader is shot where he works, his widow sues a major gun manufacturer and blaming them for his death, since t More...
Jul 23, 2010
Jerry
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Solid Grisham effort, a little preachy, great end suspense...
We tend to categorize Grisham’s novels into three groups: fast-paced thrillers, like the “Pelican Brief” and “The Firm”; slow paced dramas, like “The Chamber” and “A Painted House”; and a middle group of “message stories” that mix the characteristics of the other two. “Jury” falls into that third class, featuring mostly courtroom drama but with the intrigue of jury tampering and manipulation thrown in for good measure. More...
We tend to categorize Grisham’s novels into three groups: fast-paced thrillers, like the “Pelican Brief” and “The Firm”; slow paced dramas, like “The Chamber” and “A Painted House”; and a middle group of “message stories” that mix the characteristics of the other two. “Jury” falls into that third class, featuring mostly courtroom drama but with the intrigue of jury tampering and manipulation thrown in for good measure. More...
Jul 11, 2010
Crystal Starr Light
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With all the new interest in non-Star Wars material, I decided to give John Grisham a chance. My mom recommended this particular book for me to start off with.
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The setting is Biloxi, Mississippi. The cast: twelve men and women. Their purpose? To determine if the widow of a man that smoked three packs of cigarettes per day should be compensated for her loss. The problem? There are people who will do and pay anything to see that the lawsuit turns out to their benefit.
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The setting is Biloxi, Mississippi. The cast: twelve men and women. Their purpose? To determine if the widow of a man that smoked three packs of cigarettes per day should be compensated for her loss. The problem? There are people who will do and pay anything to see that the lawsuit turns out to their benefit.
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Oct 02, 2009
Lynda
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The Runaway Jury is marked as suspense, but I didn’t think there was much suspenseful about it. Nicholas Easter is selected as a juror in a tobacco trial. He’s a friendly guy with two years of law school behind him and all the jurors respect him and sometimes even look to him to explain what’s going on.
Inside the courtroom, the plaintiff is trying to prove that a man died directly from cigarette smoking. They throw in all sorts of obscure facts about advertising and targetting kids. More...
Inside the courtroom, the plaintiff is trying to prove that a man died directly from cigarette smoking. They throw in all sorts of obscure facts about advertising and targetting kids. More...
Apr 25, 2009
Joe
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Reviewing a John Grisham book? I know, I can't believe it either. But I've read this book about half a dozen times, and every time, it pulls me in.
I've read an incredible number of John Grisham books. They're always very readable, but sometimes the story seems pretty stretched, or just not very compelling. This book doesn't have those problems. The plot focuses on a civil trial, involving the widow of a cancer patient that is suing a cigarette manufacturer. The twist is that on More...
I've read an incredible number of John Grisham books. They're always very readable, but sometimes the story seems pretty stretched, or just not very compelling. This book doesn't have those problems. The plot focuses on a civil trial, involving the widow of a cancer patient that is suing a cigarette manufacturer. The twist is that on More...
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Apr 07, 2011
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Aug 24, 2009
Julaybib
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Buku ini sangat tipikal Grisham, memanfaatkan celah dari hukum yang ada untuk membuat suatu cerita yang luar biasa (karena dilebih-lebihkan dan didramatisir tentunya). Intinya, sistem yang ada tidak akan pernah sempurna dan selalu dimanfaatkan oleh orang yang tidak bertanggung jawab atau tidak memiliki etika untuk memaksimalkan keuntungan pribadi. Celah dari sistem yang dipilih oleh Grisham kali ini adalah proses pemilihan dan fungsi juri dalam peradilan.
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Dec 30, 2011
Dana
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After being asked more than a billion times to write the causes and effects of smoking in an essay, or to pursuade someone to stop smoking in an essay, and after having to set up an anti-smoking campaign with the rest of my class for biology last year, when no one in the entire student body smokes (atleast not in the girl section), and moreover after my grandmother passed away from lung cancer that I'm pretty sure was a result of second-hand smoking, and now, having finished this book, I c More...
Dec 05, 2011
Michael
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This is the first time that I have seen the movie before I've read the book. I thoroughly enjoyed the movie (despite its faults) and I was curious to see if the book would be as interesting. No let down here. The book (not surprisingly) had room for much deeper character studies and the suspense and surprise were just as potent. There are times when I think Grisham would benefit from a sparser story telling, but the added shades in this story were (mostly) to the benefit of plot.
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Nov 20, 2011
Beverly.reid
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I have always wanted to be on jury duty. Perhaps that is why I enjoyed this legal thriller by John Grisham. It is about a widow suing a tobacco company because her husband died of lung cancer and he smoked their cigarettes for thirty years. The verdict, especially a verdict involving large punitive damages, would have ramifications for the entire industry. The “Big Four” companies CEO’s band together and contribute money to help the defense against the plaintiff and resort to some dirty tricks t
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Jul 06, 2009
Helynne
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In this saga, the prolific Grisham examines more closely than in his other novels the process of choosing a jury that can best respond to both the plantiff and the defendent without filling the 12 chairs with people who have too much natural prejudice for either side. The culprit on trial in The Runaway Jury is the tobacco industry and the plaintiff is someone who lost a family member to lung cancer due to smoking. The process by which a certain man-woman team manages to gerrymander a jur
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Sep 21, 2010
Kelli
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Climax. That is what stuck out to me most about this story. Through out the story you always wanted to know what was up with the main character. He was someone that you just couldn't figure it out. And just when you thought you knew where the story was going bam! the author hit you with the climax.
As a writer I greatly admire Grisham's use of climax. This isn't the first book of his that I have read where he implores this use of climax. As a writer of a story of suspense or a th More...
As a writer I greatly admire Grisham's use of climax. This isn't the first book of his that I have read where he implores this use of climax. As a writer of a story of suspense or a th More...
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Jan 10, 2011
Christopher
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My mother in law, who doesn't speak English, gave this book to me. I hadn't read a JG book since I was twelve, but I ended up on the toilet with it, and that's where I read 99% of it. It's a good book for the toilet, because you end up getting your business done sooner. I highly recommend it for that purpose.
Literature it is not. The prose is as flat as old roadkill, the characters dull, vague, and interchangeable, the plot perfect for some Ashley Judd feature film (I assume there is a More...
Literature it is not. The prose is as flat as old roadkill, the characters dull, vague, and interchangeable, the plot perfect for some Ashley Judd feature film (I assume there is a More...
Oct 27, 2010
Steve
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The Runaway Jury was a great book about a tobacco trail in Mississippi. The leader of the defense, a Mr. Rankin Fitch, had been involved in many trials like this - and had won every one. He was even able to pull out a mistrial in a case that wasn't working in his favor.
Nicholas Easter became a member of the jury, but could he, with the help of his friend Marlee, ultimately control the jury and force them to vote in honor of the plaintiff? Nicholas and Marlee were previously involved wit More...
Nicholas Easter became a member of the jury, but could he, with the help of his friend Marlee, ultimately control the jury and force them to vote in honor of the plaintiff? Nicholas and Marlee were previously involved wit More...
May 05, 2009
Ellen
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I am a big John Grisham fan, and I really enjoyed this book. It's my favorite so far of the ones that I've read. It keeps you guessing the whole time, and and it is more humorous than I expected. The characters are complex and interesting, and the legal matter in the story is real and riveting. It deals with the tobacco industry and its lack of compassion for the people that buy their product and suffer many medical problems. It will have you convinced that smoking results in a one-way ticket to
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Mar 16, 2009
Genna
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A great book. Well written and the twist in the end was quite unexpected. The only thing was that it was hard for me to relate to the book in anyways. I guess it's just not a book for chemistry students as the story itself is based on courts, law, manipulating peoples minds and most of all greed. The story did have a good insight of how greedy large industries were when it comes to money but it's not really new news as we've all lived through it at least once in our lives. Story was plot out wel
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Apr 02, 2011
Jane
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Very entertaining. Very worthwhile. I wish more romance authors would write like him, but add romance.
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For another book someone wrote “literary slugger John Grisham returns with a story about...” I thought how true. He is a literary slugger – almost always on the New York Times best seller list. I periodically read John Grisham to remind me of great writing.
I have loved several John Grisham’s books, and this is another one. A number of thin More...
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For another book someone wrote “literary slugger John Grisham returns with a story about...” I thought how true. He is a literary slugger – almost always on the New York Times best seller list. I periodically read John Grisham to remind me of great writing.
I have loved several John Grisham’s books, and this is another one. A number of thin More...
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Mar 01, 2011
Mackie
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This book did not keep my attention as much as I had hoped. I spent the first 400 pages or so unsure of whether or not I actually liked the main characters. Nicholas Easter seems like a nice enough guy at first, but when you get a vague idea of what's going on his likability diminishes a lot because you know he's lying to and messing with everyone. But worst of all, you don't really know why until the very end of the book, so you stay lost and confused as to what his motives are almost the whole
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Aug 14, 2011
Amanda
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I decided to give this book a try, since people are always raving about Grisham and his court room dramas. I found it mildly enjoyable, although a tad predictable and a bit redundant at times. I felt like it dragged on for much to long, and could easily have been trimmed down a few hundred pages and still keep the same story. The characters were well-developed for the most part; there were a few who quietly faded into the background, only to re-appear occasionally as though to remind the reader
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Sep 27, 2011
Matthew
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Nicolas Easter, juror number two, worked his way into the jury of the highest profile tobacco case to date. He has help from a mysterious woman who's pulling strings named Marlee. A story of deception on many levels, The Runaway Jury, is a fun and fast paced legal thriller that will leave your skin crawling after reading about the tactics used by the defendants, Pynex Tobacco, to win the case at any cost.
This book was originally published in 1996, my junior year of high school. Luck More...
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Sep 15, 2009
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May 21, 2010
Fran
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Maybe I'll have to read this book again. . .From the reviews of others it seems to have been an excellent book. I was lost in the enormous number of characters, those who were important to the story, and those who seemed to have nothing to do with the story. . . It seemed everyone was corrupt due to power and/or greed - there was no good guy. Not one of the main characters were likable. They were either dishonest, deceitful, spineless, or unkind. It was one of only a few books I've read that I
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Sep 17, 2009
Keegan
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One of my favorite teachers in high school disdained Grisham, but even if it's not deep literature, I enjoy his books once in a while. They are a fast read and the twists are fun. I've read this one before and I remembered liking it. I even remembered vaguely the twist, but I couldn't remember exactly what was going on. This made it very easy for me to skip anything that wasn't relevant because I didn't care about the excess. I just wanted to read the story. I probably didn't feel that way the f
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Dec 19, 2009
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Sep 03, 2010
Terri
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I loved this book. Classic Grisham!
The story is constantly moving at a fast pace, and there are some pretty great surprises in it. Once you think you've got it figured out, Nicholas throws out a Trump card. It's witty and fun, and all at the same time sad. Sneaky and savvy are words to describe Nicholas; and you love him for it.
On another note, I thought the movie was really good, too. Of course there are some differences as well as omissions, but the excitement is ther More...
The story is constantly moving at a fast pace, and there are some pretty great surprises in it. Once you think you've got it figured out, Nicholas throws out a Trump card. It's witty and fun, and all at the same time sad. Sneaky and savvy are words to describe Nicholas; and you love him for it.
On another note, I thought the movie was really good, too. Of course there are some differences as well as omissions, but the excitement is ther More...
