发表于2025-03-17
A Time to Kill 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书
First, about racism. I am Asian, I was brought up in a country with few whites and blacks. I don’t have prejudice to black people or white people. When I read the book, I could not feel much about racism. Carl Lee received fair judgement, actually, he’s p...
评分此书乃John Grisham的处女作,看了他的很多作品后,还是最喜欢这本。 以下是我对本书的感慨: 本书很有哈伯·李的《杀死一只知更鸟》的影子,这本1961年出版的经典小说至今仍遭受各种人的口诛笔伐。想必本书受这本名著的影响颇深。 先提一下John Grisham,美国著名庭审罪案...
评分Then the time moved on to last April. When the judge was still deliberating Yao’s murder case at the end of his first trial, the angry question took on a new appearance: “Why the hell does it take such a long time to find a filthy rich and socially privi...
评分Last March, when the court in Xi'an started to hear Yao Jiaxin’s murder case, the national conversation was dominated by one question: Why waste taxpayers' money to give a filthy rich and socially privileged little punk a trial? Isn’t it a no-brainer th...
评分Then the time moved on to last April. When the judge was still deliberating Yao’s murder case at the end of his first trial, the angry question took on a new appearance: “Why the hell does it take such a long time to find a filthy rich and socially privi...
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Book Description
In this searing courtroom drama, best-selling author John Grisham probes the savage depths of racial violence... as he delivers a compelling tale of uncertain justice in a small southern town...
Clanton, Mississippi. The life of a ten-year-old girl is shattered by two drunken and remorseless young man. The mostly white town reacts with shock and horror at the inhuman crime. Until her black father acquires an assault rifle -- and takes justice into his own outraged hands.
For ten days, as burning crosses and the crack of sniper fire spread through the streets of Clanton, the nation sits spellbound as young defense attorney Jake Brigance struggles to save his client's life... and then his own...
Amazon.com
This addictive tale of a young lawyer defending a black Vietnam war hero who kills the white druggies who raped his child in tiny Clanton, Mississippi, is John Grisham's first novel, and his favorite of his first six. He polished it for three years and every detail shines like pebbles at the bottom of a swift, sunlit stream. Grisham is a born legal storyteller and his dialogue is pitch perfect.
The plot turns with jeweled precision. Carl Lee Hailey gets an M-16 from the Chicago hoodlum he'd saved at Da Nang, wastes the rapists on the courthouse steps, then turns to attorney Jake Brigance, who needs a conspicuous win to boost his career. Folks want to give Carl Lee a second medal, but how can they ignore premeditated execution? The town is split, revealing its social structure. Blacks note that a white man shooting a black rapist would be acquitted; the KKK starts a new Clanton chapter; the NAACP, the ambitious local reverend, a snobby, Harvard-infested big local firm, and others try to outmaneuver Jake and his brilliant, disbarred drunk of an ex-law partner. Jake hits the books and the bottle himself. Crosses burn, people die, crowds chant "Free Carl Lee!" and "Fry Carl Lee!" in the antiphony of America's classical tragedy. Because he's lived in Oxford, Mississippi, Grisham gets compared to Faulkner, but he's really got the lean style and fierce folk moralism of John Steinbeck.
--Tim Appelo
Amazon.com Audiobook Review
With a chillingly calm, even delivery, Michael Beck, a regular Grisham reader (The Rainmaker, The Runaway Jury), turns the narrative of this disturbing tale of racism, ignorance, and brutality into an almost visceral experience. "Cobb strung a length of quarter inch ski rope over a limb ... he grabbed her and put the noose around her head." The story is frighteningly believable and expertly crafted around a horrible crime and the tragic consequences that follow. At times, Beck's character voices can be distracting, but his efforts are generally applied to good effect, adding another level of tension to this already suspenseful look at a small Mississippi town's struggle for justice. (Running time: 17 hours, 12 cassettes)
--George Laney
From Library Journal
In this lively novel, Grisham explores the uneasy relationship of blacks and whites in the rural South. His treatment is balanced and humane, if not particularly profound, slighting neither blacks nor whites. Life becomes complicated in the backwoods town of Clanton, Mississippi, when a black worker is brought to trial for the murder of the two whites who raped and tortured his young daughter. Everyone gets involved, from Klan to NAACP. Grisham's pleasure in relating the byzantine complexities of Clanton politics is contagious, and he tells a good story. There are touches of humor in the dialogue; the characters are salty and down-to-earth. An enjoyable book, which displays a respect for Mississippi ways and for the contrary people who live there. Recommended.
- David Keymer, SUNY Coll. of Technology, Utica
Book Dimension
length: (cm)17.9 width:(cm)10.5
"The problem with the death penalty is that we don't use it enough."
评分关于各种美国社会常见冲突不细述,法律问题其实很老生常谈,本人也非常讨厌同态复仇,但谁能说最后的结果不正义呢?但这本书最重要的是这个point—人并不是因为伟大善良正确而成为万物之灵,人类社会之所以有如此瑰丽的过去将来,是因为人性的复杂。
评分终于把这厮给看完了,看起来好费劲,厚厚一本。关于racial discrimination这个话题,我始终得不到其中的分寸。这样的一个故事,竟然还被拍成电影,那什么是taboo的呢
评分平铺直叙得实在是太冗长了 (读到50%左右)
评分老格十年磨一剑的处女座 远胜the firm, the pelican brief,却靠后者的成功才被人关注
A Time to Kill 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书