Books : Limitations
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780312426453
ISBN: 0312426453
Label: Picador
Manufacturer: Picador
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 197
Publication Date: November 14, 2006
Publisher: Picador
Release Date: November 14, 2006
Sales Rank: 83982
Studio: Picador
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A Picador Paperback Original
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Presumed Innocent comes a compelling new legal mystery featuring George Mason from Personal Injuries. Originally commissioned and published by The New York Times Magazine, this edition contains additional material.
Life would seem to have gone well for George Mason. His days as a criminal defense lawyer are long behind him. At fifty-nine, he has sat as a judge on the Court of Appeals in Kindle County for nearly a decade. Yet, when a disturbing rape case is brought before him, the judge begins to question the very nature of the law and his role within it. What is troubling George Mason so deeply? Is it his wife's recent diagnosis? Or the strange and threatening e-mails he has started to receive? And what is it about this horrific case of sexual assault, now on trial in his courtroom, that has led him to question his fitness to judge?
In Limitations, Scott Turow, the master of the legal thriller, returns to Kindle County with a page-turning entertainment that asks the biggest questions of all. Ingeniously, and with great economy of style, Turow probes the limitations not only of the law but of human understanding itself.
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Rating:  -
This was not one of ST's best novels. It tried to mix law with mystery. The "Limitation" refers to whether a crime can still be successfully prosecuted after a certain period of time has passed i.e. whether the limitation period has passed. There was a little bit of philosophical posturing around the subject but not enough to warrant much interest or excitement.
This is a concept, which might be marginally interesting to lawyers, and I am one - so it was slightly interesting. But to all non-lawyers? I doubt it.
The mystery story line centred on a spate of evil sounding emails to a Judge -and the hero of our story. There were some half arsed attempts to track down the sender - but it hardly got a head of steam. Quite honestly it was an incredibly weak story line.
When the perpetrator was revealed it went off like a damp squib.
That is it folks: the total sum of this book.
It was a lazy and uninspired effort from a great writer. ST needs to have a holiday and return to writing some great novels.
But this one? Forget it
Rating:  -
This is the "serial" that was published in the NY Times Magazine a few months back, and being a big Turow fan, I was interested in reading it. I started reading it in the Times and then had to quit after I missed a few chapters. This is definitely not Turow's best work, but it was a good and easy read. Held my interest until the end, though the conclusion was a tad weak. It's less than 200 pages long too, it can easily be read in one day. Fans will recognize some characters from Turow's fictional Kindle County setting that he uses in most books. Recommended reading, but don't expect to be blown away.
Rating:  -
If you are looking for what the commercial reviews have billed as yet another classy "legal thriller" in vintage Turow style, then you'll be disappointed. "Limitations" is unlike any of his previous work, and delightfully so.
Not a grave departure, mind you. Not like John Grisham doing a Pavlovian swerve into Italian vistas or football towns. It is still couched in a legal setting: a judge receiving threatening emails from an unknown spammer. The techie stuff is pretty accurate and the plot is, well, conspicuously devoid of your usual twists and turns.
Instead, it is atmospheric and mulling, almost like a suave noir version of The Practice directed by, say, Sophia Coppola. Expect to find similarly gritty themes on the issues of crime and forgiveness (inter-racial rape, juvenile gangs) argued with an educated balance that calls our more fundamental prejudices into question.
The novel is written in a present continuous tense. I found this distracting at first, but soon warmed up to it. In a way it lent a delicate immediacy to the proceedings. The spotlight is not so much on the police procedural bits as on coping with the dusk of one's career and having that introspection exacerbated by threats to all that one holds dear. In this case, for example, the precarious health of his wife dwells more in our judge's mind than his own imminent death. The couple's grown-in sense of love was one of the highlights for me.
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Rating:  -
The book's tepid story line doesn't rise to the level of its eager melodrama.
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I am new to Turow, having read "Ordinary Heroes" just recently. I liked "Heroes" and was in need of a book for a long flight so I picked up "Limitations." I was really disappointed. I completely agree with the reviewer who commented on the lack of suspense. This was a book with a few loosely pulled together subplots: the threatening emails/text messages, the ailing wife, the current court case and the past incident from college might have worked in a different context, but they didn't really build on one another here. I am usually easy to please, but this book was uninspiring and lackluster.
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