- Paperback: 432 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New edition edition (25 Aug 1994)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140231080
- ISBN-13: 978-0140231083
- Product Dimensions: 17.6 x 11 x 3.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 299,139 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Mack Malloy is a partner in one of Kindle County's top law firms. An ex-cop who joined the firm on a wave of enthusiasm and optimism, he now feels himself to be on the way down, and possibly out. Bert Kamin, gifted, erratic and combative, is one of the firm's star litigators and he has disappeared.
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Format:Paperback
Having enjoyed many of Scott Turow's other books I bought this on a recent trip to America. I have to say I found it rather slow going and difficult to read. It was written in the style of a dictation and I found this difficult to deal with. I found the characters confusing and could not keep track of the plot. Having read it to the end I know who did it, but still not why or how we got to that stage. It is a shame because Turrow is actually a good author. If you are looking for one of his books tor ead try one of the others.
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I had read two of the author's books before Pleading Guilty and thoroughly enjoyed them and was therefore surprised to find this book so disappointing. The book is quite frankly poorly written - the author wanders off the plot so often that you lose tract of the plot and characters - and could have used a good editor to tighten it up. It is so poor compared to his previous books that I suspect Pleading Guilty was originally an unpublished manuscript written when the author was still finding his writing style, but later rehashed and published following the success of Presumed Innocent and his other books to cash in on this success. This is a common trick that publishers play with any successful writer.
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I first came across Scott Turow a few months back when I read Innocent which I thought was an excellent, well crafted read and which I rated as Five Stars. Hence I started Presumed Guilty with high hopes. However, I can only presume that in the 17 years which have elapsed since the author wrote Presumed Guilty he has learned his craft as I found this book rather hard going.
For me the main issue was that nothing much seemed to happen for a lot of the time and most of the the narrative seemed tangential to the main thrust of the plot. Now I do not have a problem with books which are slow moving, but where the description is well put together - some of my favorite books are like this. The problem here seemed to be that most of the information given was just not very riveting so I eventually found myself skipping through chunks.
At a third of the way through I took stock and reckoned I could have summarised the plot to that point in five lines. The end did not work particularly well for me, but maybe by then I was just pleased to have finished the book.
For me the main issue was that nothing much seemed to happen for a lot of the time and most of the the narrative seemed tangential to the main thrust of the plot. Now I do not have a problem with books which are slow moving, but where the description is well put together - some of my favorite books are like this. The problem here seemed to be that most of the information given was just not very riveting so I eventually found myself skipping through chunks.
At a third of the way through I took stock and reckoned I could have summarised the plot to that point in five lines. The end did not work particularly well for me, but maybe by then I was just pleased to have finished the book.
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Truly awful.
I was expecting this to be a good holiday crime thriller in the style of Grisham or something similar. But no. Read more
Published 21 months ago by Tjf Craven
Genre bender
This is more of a jeu d'esprit than Turow's other novels. It's probably the least serious but certainly not the least entertaining book he has written. Read more
Published on 7 Jun 2004 by Art Kavanagh
Scott Turow's Best Since One L!
After being more than mildly disappointed in Laws of Our Father and Personal Injuries, Scott Turow served up another deliciously dark and moral thriller which I thoroughly enjoyed. Read more
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