The Times
...Turow at his best... complex and elegant.
Sunday Times, 17 November 2002
Turow is a wonderful stylist... a gripping, moving novel.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I found Turow's first novel, Presumed Innocent, one of the most gripping crime novels of the last twenty years. Since then, there has been a steady decline, but I started Reversible Errors hoping that there might have been a return to his original form. Unfortunately, my hopes were disappointed. This story of the final legal battles to prevent the execution of a mentally subnormal petty criminal for a triple murder contains plenty of shocks and surprises, and Turow's coarse one-liners are as amusing as ever. But his four central characters fail to engage the reader, their philosophising about the human condition is banal and tedious and, at 550 pages, the book often feels interminable. Good story that would have been better at 300 pages.
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I try to avoid consulting reviews before I read a book, preferring to come to it with an uninfluenced mind. In the case of Reversible Errors I struggled to page 150 before abandoning my principles, whereupon I discovered a number of other readers who had suffered similarly.
Scott Turow made his reputation, and first seduced me, as a skilled purveyor of courtroom dramas. Sadly, it now looks as though success has gone to his head, tempting him to essay The Great American Novel. Reversible Errors begins with a suggestion that a murder conviction may not have been valid. Presumably, the novel ends in the court room, but far from being the substance of the story the pursuit of innocence becomes merely an excuse to investigate the problems and neuroses (and there are many) of the conflicting characters (and there are many). From chapter to chapter, the focus changes so that the reader, confronted say with 'Muriel', has to turn back several chapters to reconnect with that strand. The technique stalls the narrative flow. So, too, does the psychological interpretation of words spoken or thought within the chapters.
Reversible Errors is certainly a page turner, but the turning is back. Turow's reputation suffers in parallel.
Scott Turow made his reputation, and first seduced me, as a skilled purveyor of courtroom dramas. Sadly, it now looks as though success has gone to his head, tempting him to essay The Great American Novel. Reversible Errors begins with a suggestion that a murder conviction may not have been valid. Presumably, the novel ends in the court room, but far from being the substance of the story the pursuit of innocence becomes merely an excuse to investigate the problems and neuroses (and there are many) of the conflicting characters (and there are many). From chapter to chapter, the focus changes so that the reader, confronted say with 'Muriel', has to turn back several chapters to reconnect with that strand. The technique stalls the narrative flow. So, too, does the psychological interpretation of words spoken or thought within the chapters.
Reversible Errors is certainly a page turner, but the turning is back. Turow's reputation suffers in parallel.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I last read a Turow book some years ago and returned to him as an author with this effort.
What has happened in the last few years ?
I found this book like treading through treacle. It was slow and worse still boring. No twists ,turns excitement at all, instead it seemed to concentrate on rather elongated love stories.
Sad to say I will not be looking out for the next effort from this author
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Interminable courtroom yawn-fest
Hell's teeth, this is boring! More than 550 pages long, with a plot that could be written on the back of a matchbox, and peopled with deeply flawed and repellent characters, all of... Read more
Published 17 months ago by Bill
excellent read
I discovered S. Turow with Presumed Innocent. I have already and unfortunately read most of his novels by now. Read more
Published on 7 Dec 2009 by Jabocho Ciudal
A Court room mystery with two love stories
Reversible Errors is Scott Turow's seventh novel. As with Turow's other novels, this is set in the fictional Kindle County.
Arthur Raven, is the protagonist. Read more
Arthur Raven, is the protagonist. Read more
Published on 7 Oct 2007 by M. A. Ramos
Very Average
This was a major disappointment and I share the views of a couple of other reviewers. The book was very long-winded and without the twists and turns which could reasonably have... Read more
Published on 5 Aug 2005 by johnverp
Of Love, Duty and Compulsion
Reversible Errors has a grand sweep, much like the great Russian novels of the 19th Century such as Crime and Punishment. The book is filled with passion, conflicts, and hopes . . Read more
Published on 21 Jun 2004 by Donald Mitchell
Of Love, Duty and Compulsion
Reversible Errors has a grand sweep, much like the great Russian novels of the 19th Century such as Crime and Punishment. The book is filled with passion, conflicts, and hopes . . Read more
Published on 11 Jun 2004 by Donald Mitchell
Not wholly gripping but worth the time to read!
Turow has got back to his previous high standards (although not the peak of Presumed Innocent) – does not stink of being massed produced churn another out vis-a-vis Grisham... Read more
Published on 2 Jun 2004 by "rcbarnard2"
Of Love, Duty and Compulsion
Reversible Errors has a grand sweep, much like the great Russian novels of the 19th Century such as Crime and Punishment. The book is filled with passion, conflicts, and hopes . . Read more
Published on 2 May 2004 by Donald Mitchell
Turow's twisted tale of a last minute death row appeal
I thought it was strange that at the end of "Reversible Error" I found myself enjoying the romance in Scott Turow's latest novel, although I suspect that has something to do with... Read more
Published on 15 Jan 2004 by Lawrance M. Bernabo
Is it a book or a film script?
While I did not dislike the book, with so many legal thrillers turned into movies I had the impression that the book was just that, a film script. Read more
Published on 25 Aug 2003
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