In Kindle County, a woman is killed in an apparent random drive-by shooting. The woman turns out to be the ex-wife of a prominent state senator and...
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Sep 27, 2010
Author Anna del C.
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I was excited to get this book on tape and hoped it would be a good match for me. It started quite well and I looked forward to the next segment of the story. Soon enough it started into swearing and got to the point that it was hard to follow the tale because of the heavy swearing. Even during the court trial one of the witness swore very heavily and not even the judge protested for far too long. I don’t buy it. I think the author didn’t know how to express himself and thus recurred to the obje
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Jul 30, 2011
After reading 'Presumed Innocent' & being blown away, I immediately put Scott Turow on my list of favorite authors. I was excited to read another book from him, but could not be more disappointed. Like some of the other people who reviewed the book on here, I could not get into the story or the characters & was often forgetting who was who. The revolutionary issues of the 1960's & '70's didn't interest me much - not my generation, couldn't relate - nor did I find myself too interested in the ghe
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Jul 31, 2011
Kurt
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After about fifty pages, I was tempted to give up on this book, but I stuck it out and really enjoyed it by the end. The basic story is that a new judge (who I guess was a character in an earlier Turow novel) finds herself with a murder-for-hire case in which the defendant was once a little neighbor boy who her boyfriend used to babysit, and all of the important figures from her 1969-1970 life come back to haunt her 1995 existence. The problem with the opening chapters is that Turow tries to wri
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Apr 21, 2009
Marcus
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I went through a period last summer where I wasn't reading, or I was reading fiction. This was the last book in that run. It is the first book by Turow that I have read. My reads all of his books, so if I ever want another one, I can just borrow from him.
The main story follows the murder trial of a young man who has killed his mother. He didn't actually do, but he made it happen. The book also attempts to give the back story of the main characters and how they all have a past toge More...
The main story follows the murder trial of a young man who has killed his mother. He didn't actually do, but he made it happen. The book also attempts to give the back story of the main characters and how they all have a past toge More...
Nov 17, 2011
Shannon
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I read the first fourty pages but this novel just didn't work for me.
The hero was time warped by some type of deity just before the fall of a previous civilization. So we then spend too much time as this character meets a potential love interest. To add to it, the meeting is flat, prosaic and predictable. Lastly, the mentalities are little too contemporary to fit into the equivalent of a medieval, agrarian culture without a special explanation.
My feeling is that this story woul More...
The hero was time warped by some type of deity just before the fall of a previous civilization. So we then spend too much time as this character meets a potential love interest. To add to it, the meeting is flat, prosaic and predictable. Lastly, the mentalities are little too contemporary to fit into the equivalent of a medieval, agrarian culture without a special explanation.
My feeling is that this story woul More...
Apr 19, 2011
Muriel
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We listened to this novel on our way home from North Carolina. It was entertaining with lots of twists and turns, and a surprise ending much like the one in "Presumed Innocent." There is a lot of very foul language throughout the book, some of which is gratuitous. AS for his other books that I have read, I didn't like "Burden of Proof," which I read just after "Presumed Innocent" many years ago. But, I think it was because I thought it was a sequel to the first o
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Oct 23, 2011
Francine
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Liked the beginning of this, the case is a good set up, wondering what really happened.... but THEN we go down a memory lane chapter or two (no, actually, the book is half flashbacks) which seems to be an excuse for Turow to revisit his days at UC Berkeley in the 60's... assuming he had some... and it's a little BOR-ing. I was there and it was more interesting than this. It's Ok, but could have been handled in a few pages... Now that I have nearly finished it, this is NOT a legal mystery or th
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Aug 04, 2009
Bonnie
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I was disappointed in this book. I have read probably three or four other books by Mr. Turow and liked all of them better than this one. It moved at a snail's pace for me. His other books that I've read are also somewhat slow reads, but are nonetheless engrossing and build to a very satisfying and frequently unexpected conclusion. I especially liked "Ordinary Heroes" for that reason. The language in certain parts where the narrator is a gang member is highly offensive (but realist
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Feb 25, 2009
Nancy
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Another good Scott Turow book for me. I liked "One L," "Burden of Proof" and "Presumed Innocent," all legal thrillers. This brought back memories of my days as a law clerk in the DC criminal courts. The legal drama was set against the backdrop of revolutionary, anti-war, anti-authority culture on college campuses during the Vietnam War era. The plot was moving (but not terribly fast-paced), the characters were well-drawn and the legal proceedings pretty realisti
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Jun 08, 2009
Sam
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I started this book and almost gave up on it from the beginning. The first chapter was written in this gangster's tone of voice, and it just pissed me off. But I didn't have anything else to read, so I stuck with it, and a few chapters in it started to get really interesting, and never went back to the gangster's point of view again. Then I got to the last 50 pages or so and completely stopped caring, and consequently stopped reading. Oh well.
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Nov 23, 2008
Hillary
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Got this book for free, and it was one of my easy read books that have been helping me return to reading (seriously did not read for pleasure for a *long* time). I wouldn't necessarily recommend it, or search out any other books by this author, but it was an enjoyable story. I'm now in the habit of reading (I know, completely sad that I wasn't), so I will be a bit more picky about the books I choose.
Aug 30, 2010
Ram
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a fine legal story with detailed and captivating characterizations and ver appealing to all those who were or knew of the flower generation. Scott Turow is readable as always and his novels raise several moral questions in my mind as usual. It also is disturbing to read of the cancer of corruption being so widespread in the American judiciary ... though comforting perhaps to Indians!!
Jul 23, 2009
Tom
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A trio of friends from the San Francisco area '60's are thrown together again in Turow's Kindle County. One is a judge, one is an attorney representing one of the prinicpals in a court case, and the third is a defendant (he was a child in the '60's). The judge, the main character, must deal with a great deal of angst, trying to sort out the role their pasts play in the current scenario.
Aug 22, 2010
Dan
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I didn't finish this book. I like Scott Turow, but I could not get through the flashbacks to the 70s in Berkeley. I grew up after all that was over, and cannot stand to read yet another Boomer flashback. Sigh. :)
Jun 09, 2011
Susan
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Just didn't love it. I do admit that I had to continue reading halfway through to find out what happened. Revolution, gangs, drugs, politics, strange parent-child relationships... this book is full of intrigue.
Jul 24, 2009
Jonna
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Ugh. Couldn't get through the first 30 pages. There are ways to express a character's dialect without actually trying to write in that dialect. Horrid. If I'm missing out on a good story, shame on the author.
Aug 21, 2011
Dick
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If Turow could figure out a way to tell his story without the first 200 pages and the last 200 pages, he'd have a five-star novel. Those middle 400 pages were golden.
Aug 20, 2011
Susan
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Because I've read other Scott Turow books and liked them, I forced myself to finish this one. But it was drudgery. So much so that the final Turow book I have to read will be put on a shelf for some time to come. I don't think I could stomach two within a few weeks of each other if the other one is like this one.
Dec 13, 2010
Evan
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Meh. Not really recommended, but for its genre, it's decent. The problems with book exchanges where all the books are German!
Aug 11, 2011
Great command of the language and able to give the reader the impression one is watching the events
Mar 13, 2011
Stephen
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Very riveting book. A very intricate look into relationships, the sixties, street culture, and justice.
Oct 05, 2011
Jean
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Was very surprised how much I enjoyed this story...great development,kept me going till the end.
May 17, 2011
Connie
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Disappointing read. Usually like Scott Turow, but not this book. Should have given up halfway through, very confusing and off-point, didn't think it would ever end.
