The Last Juror
by John Grisham
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Author: John GrishamEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-04-25
ISBN: 0385339682
Number of pages: 416
Publisher: Delta
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Book Review: A Flurry of False Notes
Summary: 2 Stars
Juror is written in the familiar Grisham style--lots of local color and engaging characters. But here's my beef: every once in a while, like a faulty rendition on a piano, Grisham hits some false notes that leap off the page and jar the reader's brain. These are occasioned by his ignorance of people, geography or whatnot. And you wonder what happened. Where's his research? Where's his editor? Some examples: A character named Piston cleans offices in the downtown area. Grisham writes that no one knows where Piston lives. You can be damn sure in a small town almost everyone knows where everyone else lives! Small error? Sure, but careless. Grisham describes a river as running straight as though a cut channel. Geologists, cartographers, and other people familiar with landforms know rivers never take a perfectly straight course; they meander. He describes a dinner cooked by Miss Callie as featuring lamb stew. I challenge anyone to find lamb meat outside of the larger cities in the South during that period. In those days most fresh meat was local or within no more that 200 miles. There were no sheep ranches south of the Mason-Dixon. Even today most southerners do not eat lamb. We know nothing about the hero's love life outside of a couple of one night hook-ups. Are we to believe he lived in a small town without a love life? Or if he had girlfriends over, he wasn't the subject of gossip? Come on! Has Grisham got a tin ear? There are merits to the book, but, for me, they do not outweigh a series of false notes.
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