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女性判事ソニアの担当した殺人事件裁判は、被告、弁護人はじめ知人ばかり。公判の進展とともに一九六〇年代の諸相が現代に重なる
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州上院議員エドガーの前妻ジューンが早朝のスラム街で銃殺された。容疑者は彼らの息子で保護観察官のナイル。偶然とはいえ、この家族とは旧知のソニーが判事として訴訟指揮を執り、さらにナイルの弁護人もソニーの学生時代の友人だった。母親殺しの殺人法廷は、にわかに60年代に青春を共有した者たちの同窓会の様相を呈しはじめた。
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42 人中、40人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
Some parts gripping, some parts off-putting
2000/1/25
形式:マスマーケット
There is a great 600 page thriller hiding inside the 800 pages of The Laws of Our Fathers. Specifically, I'd suggest losing the last 100 pages and most of the first 100. The central account of the trial is powerful and gripping, and the flashbacks to the sixties are well done as well. The characters, as is usual with Turow, are deep and interesting. But there are LONG detours into what I found to be excessive tangential and background material. This happens on and off throughout, but most of this is concentrated into the last 100 pages of the book, by which time you've already had the climax wrap-up of not one but -both- main plot lines, and you're thinking "and now why do I have to go through ANOTHER 100 pages?" No good reason presents itself (from a thriller reader's point of view) just a lot of wallowing around in characters' minds. I have no argument with those who say Turow (or probably more accurately, this book) "isn't for everyone", or that the book has touches of "literature" as opposed to simply mystery/thriller (One of the editorial review clips called Turow the "thinking man's John Grisham" which gave me a chuckle). But first of all I'd take exception with the view that the "literary" elements were exceptionally well executed, because they do have a tendency to bring an otherwise gripping plot to a grinding halt. And secondly I think it's fair to warn readers looking for a mystery/thriller (even a deep complex one) that it will take 100 pages or so before you start getting what you paid for. I enjoyed this book, but you should go into it with eyes open.
21 人中、21人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
Less than Presumed Innocent, but better than Grisham.
1998/5/27
形式:ハードカバー
Yes, this book is complicated and long. But for those with a keen literary eye, it delivers. I've been so disappointed with recent John Grisham novels that I found the weightiness and substantive content of this Turow novel very satisfying.
I would agree with those who say that this book transcends the genre. This is no mere courtroom drama or legal thriller. It's really several novels in one; the flashback sequences to the 60s could even stand on their own. As a post-60s Gen Xer, I was intrigued with the seemingly eyewitness account of what life was really like back then.
It is possibly true that this book may be a bit long. Yet I was so impressed with Turow's narrative voice and the authenticity of such a diverse cast of characters that it held my interest. A good deal of thought and research went into this one, and it really warrants a more thoughtful read than your average formulaic legal drama. Two thumbs up.
8 人中、8人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
Literary Quicksand
2003/7/27
形式:マスマーケット
Reading this book was like pulling teeth. What I love about Turow is the character development he brings to his books, tightly woven with tight, sharp legal thrills. Grisham's best is a comic book next to Turow's worst. Quite simply, Turow treats his readers like adults, while Grisham treats his like ignorant children.
BUT: In "The Laws of Our Fathers" Turow has gotten carried away. I can only surmise that he awoke one day and decided to write the Great American Legal Novel, as Laws of Our Fathers reads like a combination of Hermann Melville and Saul Bellow. The issues covered -- race and war in the 1960s; religion, separation, parenting, and isolation in the 1990s, are all sigificant and all worthy of a novel. What they are not worthy of is being combined into a single "mass market" novel. The plot simply collapses beneath the weight of the Important Social Matters about which Turow writes.
As I say, Turow writes for the thinking person and one expects to be challenged when one buys his work. But in Laws of Our Father the endless pages of 75-line paragraphs made me time and time again put the book aside. There needs to be a periodic tease that makes the reader want to continue, and in Laws of Our Fathers they were too far apart by scores of pages.
Fortunately Turow returns to form in Reversible Errors, so one can hope that Laws of Our Fathers is an anomaly.
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