Rating:  Summary: This should have been as good as his legal work! Review: This book has a compelling and a great idea behind it. But it fails to live up to what could have been a great novel. It's thought provoking, but the execution is weak. Too much happens at the end, and it's too neat and for my part, unrealistic and strained. And I believe there is an error in the section on the judge's instructions. If this book were as good as the author's legal work, we would have a pulitzer.
Rating:  Summary: Sequel to The Advocate's Devil. Review: Introducing us to the characters of lawyer Abe Ringel, his daughter and Abe's Israeli girlfriend and partner in his previous book, The Advocate's Devil, Alan Dershowitz now has readers wondering at what cost can revenge really satisfy one. Just Revenge also explores the legal ramifications when one man takes the law into his own hands to settle the score over incidents which occurred almost 50 years ago.By now many of us have read accounts of old men brought to trial for crimes committed during WWII and the Holocaust. And when as a lawyer Abe is asked to defend an old friend who has meted out his own form of justice, it not only becomes a questions of legality but one of historical significance as well as ethical and moral questions as well. The book moves along at a good and interesting pace until almost the end when it becomes much too convoluted, unlikely and even predictable for those readers who like a happy ending.
Rating:  Summary: I highly recommend this book for bookclubs Review: This is a wonderful book for a group discussion. I hope Mr.Dershowitz writes more books..I will read them!
Rating:  Summary: what a book Review: this book was very compelling and i just couldn't put it down. there was a certian apeal to it all and it just sticks in your head of what a man can do
Rating:  Summary: what a great book Review: this was the greatest book i have read in years and has a very good revenge mark for the holocaust.
Rating:  Summary: Couldn't Put it Down! Review: It only took me about three days to read this novel and I can't wait to read more from Dershowitz. What an excellent tale of survival and revenge (the revenge is brilliant!) There is not a slow moment in this book, yet the character shaping never suffers. Dershowitz forces the reader to examine one's own thoughts regarding justice, revenge and qualitative punishment.
Rating:  Summary: Excellent book - page turner Review: I read this book on a flight to Europe. Thoroughly entertaining. You'll only wish that the justice served wasn't fiction.
Rating:  Summary: Just Revenge good story line but>>>>>>>> Review: The story line was very good, one recommendation and request to Mr. Dershowitz, the word "sweetie" was definitely overused. It gets to the point that you just dread the next time he talks to his daughter as he has to call her sweetie almost ever time. Reading about the holocaust is a worthwhile subject (even for us Christians) as this could happen at any time and place for any race or religion. Hope to see further stories that does deal in this subject and that gives us further insight in how a race of people can survive such a terrible atrocity.
Rating:  Summary: Some flaws, but thought-provoking Review: While I agree with the criticisms that the character development is week, and the dialog often unrealistic, the story is strong, and the concepts presented are thought-provoking. Given the material he wanted to present in a fictional setting, I think Dersh did an admirable job of crafting a story around it. Despite the dialog problem, the English flows well. And the ending, while somewhat saccharine, was, I felt, appropriate.
Rating:  Summary: Compelling! Review: A haunting yet compelling read
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