Rating:  Summary: The thin line between justice and revenge. Review: This was a very good book with some good twists and turns. It shows how close the line is between justice and revenge. How does the avenger decide? Where is the line crossed?This book is heartbreaking in a way in that it gives examples of how people's live are changed by a single act and how they fulfill their lust for the truth to be made clear: Justice or Revenge?
Rating:  Summary: Steer Clear of this Trash Review: Wish I could give no stars. Poor writing, weak concept, self-serving author. Was given to me as a gift; little did I know it was a gag gift. :( Joke was on me, don't let it be on you.
Rating:  Summary: Dershowitz is Either Morally Insane or a Moral Idiot Review: This man's thesis is so palpably evil that it is a disgrace that such a book would be issued by a major publisher. If Dershowitz had his way this would be an even bloodier and more insane world than it already is. What next, Dershowitz's own variation of "The Turner Diaries"? I wouldn't be surprised.
Rating:  Summary: A Brilliant Man!! Review: Mr. Dershowitz is by far a brilliant professor and attorney. He speaks the truth and does not pull punches. His fictional work is also wonderful. I think he is disliked largely because of his work on the Simpson trial. Right is Right, and Wrong is Wrong. Alan does not care whether you are white, black, brown, or green, he speaks the truth about any subject matter. He is god's gift to the legal system!
Rating:  Summary: Another circus and SHOW by DerSHOWitz's victimhood. Review: Well, I was wondering how long it would take this Showman and hindsight Attorney who takes on cases after they are decided would write a novel? Most of the novel reminds me of his views on making up defenses for the guilty so many think he is wise? The book is a very poor attempt of a second guessed lawyer writing about being involved with a victimless hero. Alan is better at creating fiction in the court room rather than creating fiction in books.
Rating:  Summary: dershowitz as we know and love him Review: Trash, trash, trash. What else would one expect from the most embarrassing member of the scholarly legal profession and from a man who has singlehandedly done more than criminals to debase the American legal system.
Rating:  Summary: Reprehensible Review: Alan Dershowitz has said some pretty outrageous things in his time, but this book's advocacy of vigilante justice (including torture)--and its serious consideration of wreaking vengeance on the innocent members of a Nazi's family--goes beyond outrageous and crosses into the realm of the despicable. Any lingering ethical problems that anyone might have with the concentration-camp survivor's actions (or with the protagonist's defense of him) are neatly wrapped up in the novel's unbelievable denouement, and the lawyer-hero (clearly an extremely thinly-disguised self-portrait of Dershowitz) is hailed at the end, in a bizarre orgy of self-congratulation and self-justifaction, as "the greatest lawyer since Abraham"!!!! Pretty pathetic. I think you'd have to be pretty pathetic yourself to enjoy this book or see it as in any a substantive comment on the complex issues of reparation and accountability raised by the Holocaust. And I think Dershowitz is a pretty awful person for trivializing the issues raised by the Holocaust in this way.
Rating:  Summary: Why Is This Guy Still Being Published? Review: Dershowitz is a wacko as dangerous as skinheads hiding out in log cabins in the woods. Here he advocates extracting revenge on the innocent relatives of crime perpetrators. This guy's next book (and let's hope there won't be a next) should be written behind jail cell bars. He belongs there for inciting violence.
Rating:  Summary: SHALLOW and Predictable Review: Much like the author, this book is predictable and lacks substance. It is all noise but there is nothing here to read.
Rating:  Summary: WHAT A JERK Review: horribly written, ill-conceived, dangerous, tired, nonsens
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