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Sycamore Row
by John Grisham
This review is from an audiobook, rather than a written copy on my kindle.
I am a huge fan of John Grisham and the only book I haven´t read is A Time to Kill with Jake Brigance, but I remember seeing the movie a long, long time ago but I have forgotten the story in itself, so I re-watched the film and really, really enjoyed it.
This is all about race, blacks and whites in the southern states of USA. A tough subject to write about, but John does a wonderful job, even if the ending is rather disturbing, I can still see it in my head.
I actually found I didn´t enjoy this completely, it was slow going for quite some time, but I stuck with it to the end and I am very, very glad I did. But be prepared for a rather disturbing ending as I mentioned earlier. As I listened to the book I found the voice of the narrator at times to be really annoying but there were also times when he really got me inside the book, as if I was there watching from the sidelines. The writing is typical John Grisham, no surprises there of course but the most irritating thing was the wait until the trial, it went on and on, with loads of background information, occasionally with some basic information from A Time to Kill specially what has happened to the young lawyer since then, enough information that you don´t need to have read it.
One of the funniest things were the names, where did the author get those names from, I have no idea if these are typical southern names but they are certainly different. This is a good book, but I don´t think it is one of his best, I would imagine most of Grisham´s fans will have already read this or at least have it on their to be read lists, but if this is your first choice to read of his books I think there are better. It wouldn´t surprise me if loads of people are also buying A Time to Kill.
I am a huge fan of John Grisham and the only book I haven´t read is A Time to Kill with Jake Brigance, but I remember seeing the movie a long, long time ago but I have forgotten the story in itself, so I re-watched the film and really, really enjoyed it.
This is all about race, blacks and whites in the southern states of USA. A tough subject to write about, but John does a wonderful job, even if the ending is rather disturbing, I can still see it in my head.
I actually found I didn´t enjoy this completely, it was slow going for quite some time, but I stuck with it to the end and I am very, very glad I did. But be prepared for a rather disturbing ending as I mentioned earlier. As I listened to the book I found the voice of the narrator at times to be really annoying but there were also times when he really got me inside the book, as if I was there watching from the sidelines. The writing is typical John Grisham, no surprises there of course but the most irritating thing was the wait until the trial, it went on and on, with loads of background information, occasionally with some basic information from A Time to Kill specially what has happened to the young lawyer since then, enough information that you don´t need to have read it.
One of the funniest things were the names, where did the author get those names from, I have no idea if these are typical southern names but they are certainly different. This is a good book, but I don´t think it is one of his best, I would imagine most of Grisham´s fans will have already read this or at least have it on their to be read lists, but if this is your first choice to read of his books I think there are better. It wouldn´t surprise me if loads of people are also buying A Time to Kill.