Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Nineteen Minutes
Book Review: Absorbing and balanced
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a highly entertaining read, thoroughly researched, as Jodi Picoult's books tend to be. I agreed with this author more on this topic than I did with Lionel Shriver. 'Let's talk about Kevin' is an obsessive book which overanalyses and presents only one view point, not a very convincing one at that. Nineteen minutes looks at many angles and provides a more credible explanation of this tragic phenomenon. The characters are more human but as there are so many of them not all of them are well etched. Her insight into teenagers' minds is astonishing though. They inevitably, are the more beleivable characters in the book compared to the adults. The police officers and lawyers come out somewhat one dimensional but the book really is about the dynamics of the life of children and teenagers today. She has portrayed it with chilling accuracy and unusaul sensitivity.You come away with sympathy towards the perpetrators as well as the victims, both direct and indirect. That is the true strength of this book. Style wise, I think she is getting into a rut. All in all thoroughly recommended. Book Review: i love jdie picoult books
Summary: 5 Stars
this book deals with real life feelings that all of us can relate to when we are in school and trying so hard to fit in and what the preasures of bulling can take upon a person and how sometimes there seems no logical way out but to do the illogical........Book Review: Another Interesting Insight
Summary: 4 Stars
Jodi Picoult gives the insight into so many different lives/minds and situations. This book showed how people are pushed into scenario's everyday and with the event of school shootings ever more present in American culture i got an insiders view. This felt like a reconstruction of what actually happened and happens in real school shootings. All seemingly fuelled by heirarchy and popularity at school. Even though we are meant to pity the victims in the story i couldnt help be compelled by the shooter and feel his pain more than any parent of the killed, and understood his situation and the attractiveness of guns to easily end a problem.
Another clever story i really enjoyed
Book Review: Sympathy For The Devil?
Summary: 5 Stars
At the time that this book was launched there had been another tragic school shooting in America. It makes this book all the more moving and shocking that most readers will be able to recall hearing of at least one such incident on the news in recent years, yet Jodi Picoult has taken a difficult subject and produced a thought provoking read which is gripping and tense througout.
Peter kills 10 students in his High School. He has been the victim of bullying in every form from his first day at school and as the book moves from the present day to the past we can shudder with him as we read the descriptions of the intentional cruelty of the so-called "cool" kids to a boy who never done them any harm.
Judge Alex is fortunate that her daughter, Josie, survived - but having lost her boyfriend and claiming she has no memory of the events of that tragic day, why do the defence want her as a witness? Could their attempt to use "battered wife syndrome" really apply in this case - that a person subjected to daily abuse may suddenly and violently re-act the only way they can see?
Meanwhile, police chief Patrick is looking into the biggest case of his life and as the small town reels from the horror of the events with every family touched at some level, he begins to piece together the events that drove the almost "invisible" student to act as he did.
This book is not an easy read as the subject is one which appears likely to re-occur at some point in a school somewhere, however it is a thought provoking study of a difficult subject and although nothing can justify what Peter did - perhaps the reader can begin to understand why?
Book Review: NINETEEN MINUTES
Summary: 4 Stars
I am a avid fan of Jodi Pichoult, her books always cover controversial topics in a thought provoking manner.
This book is no exception, is the story of a high school shoot out, in light of recent events in America it really gives you an insight as to how and why these instances in life happen. The traits some personalites portray is quite frightening!
On the lighter side it is amazing what you can achieve in nineteen minutes.......want to know more..........get the book and find out!!