false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255843540m/32542.jpg 32542 63 This addictive tale of a young lawyer defending a black Vietnam war hero who kills the white druggies who raped his child in tiny Clanton, Mississippi, is John Grisham's first novel, and his favorite of his first six. He polished it for three years and every detail shines like pebbles at the bottom of a swift, sunlit stream. Grisham is a born legal storyteller and his dialogue is pitch perfect.<p> The plot turns with jeweled precision. Carl Lee Hailey gets an M-16 from the Chicago hoodlum he'd saved at Da Nang, wastes the rapists on the courthouse steps, then turns to attorney Jake Brigance, who needs a conspicuous win to boost his career. Folks want to give Carl Lee a second medal, but how can they ignore premeditated execution? The town is split, revealing its social structure. Blacks note that a white man shooting a black rapist would be acquitted; the KKK starts a new Clanton chapter; the NAACP, the ambitious local reverend, a snobby, Harvard-infested big local firm, and others try to outmaneuver Jake and his brilliant, disbarred drunk of an ex-law partner. Jake hits the books and the bottle himself. Crosses burn, people die, crowds chant "Free Carl Lee!" and "Fry Carl Lee!" in the antiphony of America's classical tragedy. Because he's lived in Oxford, Mississippi, Grisham gets compared to Faulkner, but he's really got the lean style and fierce folk moralism of John Steinbeck. <I>--Tim Appelo</I> 1804929 book 1989 A Time to Kill total:60300|5:16235|4:20670|3:16756|2:4565|1:2078| 60300 225317 70325 903 4 2 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 29 15:49:28 -0800 2008 Mon Mar 03 14:23:52 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false true Thu Mar 13 14:06:53 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 13 14:11:12 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 22 11:43:48 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 30 09:21:17 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 1 false false Wed Nov 19 16:33:20 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 19 16:36:30 -0800 2008 0 1 false false Thu Jun 04 10:06:13 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 18 11:00:15 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Tue Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004 Tue Jan 06 10:22:25 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 06 10:24:19 -0800 2009
I thought the movie was a decent adaptation. A few interesting exceptions -- Sandra Bullock's character shows up early in the movie. In the bo...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Dec 10 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Sat Nov 29 18:20:45 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 29 18:25:03 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun May 17 10:30:31 -0700 2009 Sun May 17 10:31:32 -0700 2009
When I first bought this book I was really excited. I had seen the movie years ago and I had always known that it was a book I just never had the chance to read it. Now that I have read A Time to Kill I am very glad that I have, ...more...]]> 0 1 false false Mon Mar 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 12 01:25:48 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 23 00:44:42 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 4 false false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 1997 Mon Feb 02 19:34:33 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 26 07:59:22 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Fri Nov 21 10:42:47 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 23 05:50:11 -0800 2008
This was the question posted in "A Time to Kill," the first book of JOhn Grisham. Though it was his first time to write after serving as a congressman, he seemed not neophite in writ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon May 04 17:47:29 -0700 2009 Mon May 04 18:42:29 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Aug 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 08 11:05:24 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 30 21:02:04 -0700 2009 Synopsis: In Clanton, Mississippi a 10-year old black girl is brutally raped and beaten by two white redneck racists - Pete Willard and Billy Ray Cobb. The girls father, Carl Lee Hailey, takes justice into his own hands and blows the two boy's brains out as they are leaving a courtroom. He is immedi...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1993 Tue Jan 20 06:57:28 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 20 07:08:23 -0800 2009 more...]]> 0 1 true false Sun Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2000 Thu Jun 12 07:06:09 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 16 02:03:04 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Wed Jul 22 05:03:32 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 22 05:07:57 -0700 2009 I LOVED the movie and the courtroom scene when Matthew McConaughey gives his closing arguments has to be one of the top 10 courtroom scenes in a movie.
I will say that i was slighly disappointed with the book. I grew to dislike Jake Brig...more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Mar 18 16:04:06 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 18 16:05:34 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 1997 Mon May 25 14:25:54 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 30 14:19:29 -0700 2009 A T...more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jun 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 26 18:09:48 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 26 21:14:54 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Jun 16 00:11:31 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 16 00:43:15 -0700 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=32542