A Time to Kill
by John Grisham | Mystery & Thrillers | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0099134012 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0099134012 Global Overview for this book
Registered by foxygirlACT of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory Australia on 1/25/2015
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
2 journalers for this copy...
Journal Entry 1 by foxygirlACT from Canberra, Australian Capital Territory Australia on Sunday, January 25, 2015
"Amazon.com Review
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"
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"
Journal Entry 2 by foxygirlACT at --- wild released somewhere in Canberra in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory Australia on Saturday, January 31, 2015
Released 9 yrs ago (1/31/2015 UTC) at --- wild released somewhere in Canberra in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory Australia
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left in a geocache at the Pinnacle: http://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC4BB66_the-golden-standard
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Journal Entry 3 by 
goldenwattle
at Canberra, Australian Capital Territory Australia on Monday, August 10, 2015
goldenwattle at Canberra, Australian Capital Territory Australia on Monday, August 10, 2015
Out caching on this lovely sunny day in the Pinnacle Nature Reserve near the suburb of Weetangera, ACT and found a couple of BC books in 'The Golden Standard' (GC4BB66) cache. Nice surprise. They had been in the cache for over six months, so time they moved on. This cache has had several visitors in this time. Don't other people read!!!Photograph of view from Cache.
Journal Entry 4 by goldenwattle at Memorial Gardens in Tuross Head, New South Wales Australia on Tuesday, September 1, 2015
goldenwattle at Memorial Gardens in Tuross Head, New South Wales Australia on Tuesday, September 1, 2015
Released 8 yrs ago (9/1/2015 UTC) at Memorial Gardens in Tuross Head, New South Wales Australia
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Released on a bench in the Memorial Gardens, overlooking the ocean, Tuross Head, NSW.S36°03.297 E150°08.517
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