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Overall, I enjoyed this book but at times it did seem to drag on.

Carl Lee Hailey has taken the law into his own hands. His ten year old daughter was raped and let to die by two white men. This story is set decades ago when racial tensions were very high in the south. There is repeated use of the N word which people can find offensive but based on the time period of tbis book it is something that was said frequently and people not give it a second thought.

Jake Brigance is an attorney who has agreed to represent Carl Lee who is a poor black man in the South. Jake to the case with less than a $1000 given to represent him. Carl Lee was upset when he learned that Billy Ray Cobb and Pete Wilard took his daughter and repeated raped her and disgraced her and left her foe dead. Carl wanted justice and did not think he would get it for 2 white men abusing a little black girl. Carl took matters into his own hand and served his own justice by killing those two. Now Carl is on trial.

This book follows the tensions in the South and the KKK and Carl planning to kill them and then also how Jake had to deal with the outlash from the community for representing a black man.

It was an interesting read in that this is how things were common back in the day with names said and threats. It also has Ellen, Jake assistant, a 'yankee' feom up North who views things differently than those who live in the South. I admit it was refreshing to see Jake tease Rufus Buckley, the opposing counsel and he get so mad when called the governor. Harry Rex who is in other John Grisham novels also shows up in this story as well.

The verdict at the end of the trial could go either way. I won't spoil it for you. The book could have been a bit shorter as no need to repeat about the national guard being out and the groups gathering for support but, still a good read and one of my favorite authors


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A Time to Kill A Novel John Grisham Books Reviews

I was prompted to buy this when the sequel came out last year I thought I better tackle the 1989 original first. The great strength of the book is how easy it is to read despite the legal subject matter as the locations are described and the characters sketched out in flowing prose, you feel you're there and part of it. You can breathe in the small town atmosphere in which everybody knows everybody else and black and white people live separate lives and support their own. The language will take your breath away the 'n' word is so liberally used by all parties that it's uncomfortable; I guess some of that might survive in small southern towns today but not to the extent portrayed in this era. There are some annoying features in Grisham's early writing everybody is always "screaming" or "yelling"; and in the immediate aftermath of Carl Lee Hailey, a quiet, thoughtful family man, taking revenge with a rifle for the rape of his daughter, he is portrayed as cackling with cartoon-like laughter, something which is so far removed from his characterization as to be ridiculous. That, plus the intervention of Carl Lee's criminal friend from Memphis offering the services of his crooked lawyer, who came and went with no consequence to the story whatsoever. But once you get into the plot you'll be gripped and you'll be rooting for Carl Lee will he get away with his act of revenge, or is that too good to be true for the time and place?
Everyone has that one book they've meant to read but hadn't gotten to it. A Time To Kill was that book for me. After listening to John Grisham's podcasts, I decided to rip the book open and plow through. There was so much against Carl Lee that I was concerned Grisham had taken things too far but in the end I enjoyed the controversy and the only part I would change is a final scene for Row Ark. She deserves some kind of recognition. A wonderful novel and one that I recommend any thriller fan to read.
My girlfriends turned me on to John Grisham this year. This is the third book of his I read this year, and I just want to know why I waited so long. Most people probably know the story about the African American man that kills the trash that rapes his daughters. The killing was premeditated, there were witnesses. He confessed to doing it. Now was he guilty, or was he innocent.

Yes this was in rural Mississippi, near Tupelo in a white majority county, set in the 1980's possibly. You shouldn't need much more than that for a story, but Grisham brings in some interesting side characters that border on sleazy and dishonest to assist Jake.
Imagine if you will, you have a 10 year old daughter. She might be white or black, or quite literally any race for that matter. In any event, two young men of a different race than he, tie share spread eagle to a tree and proceed to rape and beat her within an inch of her life. What would you do as the parent of the young child? Would you wait for the legal system to run its course and mete out appropriate punishment, or would your first instinct be to take justice into your own hands? Suppose you lived in a part of the country where the system was biased almost entirely against you, how would you as a parent respond? This is the premise of John Grisham's first novel, A Time To Kill. The book is a page turning thriller that studies this question while giving an in depth look insight as to how the legal profession works behind the scenes. We visit hope and we visit despair knowing that vigilante justice is not allowed in our society while our hearts cry out for justice to be extracted to the fullest. The novel keeps the reader hanging on until the very final pages and is well worth reading in its entirety because it not only looks at seething racial hatred in a fictional time ans place, it brings attention to the reality of hatred that exists in present day America. This is the second Grisham novel I have read and I can say he is on the list of one of my favorites!E
Overall, I enjoyed this book but at times it did seem to drag on.

Carl Lee Hailey has taken the law into his own hands. His ten year old daughter was raped and let to die by two white men. This story is set decades ago when racial tensions were very high in the south. There is repeated use of the N word which people can find offensive but based on the time period of tbis book it is something that was said frequently and people not give it a second thought.

Jake Brigance is an attorney who has agreed to represent Carl Lee who is a poor black man in the South. Jake to the case with less than a $1000 given to represent him. Carl Lee was upset when he learned that Billy Ray Cobb and Pete Wilard took his daughter and repeated raped her and disgraced her and left her foe dead. Carl wanted justice and did not think he would get it for 2 white men abusing a little black girl. Carl took matters into his own hand and served his own justice by killing those two. Now Carl is on trial.

This book follows the tensions in the South and the KKK and Carl planning to kill them and then also how Jake had to deal with the outlash from the community for representing a black man.

It was an interesting read in that this is how things were common back in the day with names said and threats. It also has Ellen, Jake assistant, a 'yankee' feom up North who views things differently than those who live in the South. I admit it was refreshing to see Jake tease Rufus Buckley, the opposing counsel and he get so mad when called the governor. Harry Rex who is in other John Grisham novels also shows up in this story as well.

The verdict at the end of the trial could go either way. I won't spoil it for you. The book could have been a bit shorter as no need to repeat about the national guard being out and the groups gathering for support but, still a good read and one of my favorite authors