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發表於 2005-5-1 08:56 PM
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The Runaway Jury
http://www.26fun.com/bbs/attachm ... a5cd&download=1
Title: The Runaway Jury
Author: John Grisham
Price: Around HK$100
Where to buy: Any major bookstore
Plot: Every jury has a leader, and the verdict belongs to him. In Biloxi, Mississippi, a landmark tobacco trial with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake beginsroutinely, then swerves mysteriously off course. The jury is behaving strangely, and at least one juroris convinced he's being watched. Soon they have to be sequestered. Then a tip from an anonymousyoung woman suggests she is able to predict the jurors' increasingly odd behavior. Is the jury somehow being manipulated, or even controlled? If so, by whom? And, more important,why?
[Source: http://www.randomhouse.com]
Why I like this book? This is yet another novel-turn-movie by John Grisham - he's the guy who wrote The Firm, The Client and The Pelican Brief, to name a few. I believe the movie was shown in HK last year or the year before but I am not sure how it did in terms of box office.
John Grisham loves to write legal thriller, and I like legal thriller so I've read most of his books. Almsot all of his works are lawyers related, but this one he took a minor turn and focused on another party in a trial procedure - the jury. Essentially, he is addressing the question whether a verdict can be bought and more importantly, how.
What I like the most is plot, which is quite intelligent. Of course, part of it was exaggerated but generally, it's fairly convincing. More importanly, it shows how the main character - Nicholas Easter - manipulate the others smoothly without being noticed. I would that is something handy for all of us in our daily lives.
I have seen the movie myself and I was disappointed as it did not capture half the brilliance in the book. If any of you have seen the movie and liked it, you should definitely read the book.
Excellent description + comment, +20:cool:
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