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Title: Blood Brothers by Sol Wachtler, David Gould, David S. Gould ISBN: 1-932407-01-4 Publisher: New Millennium Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.89 (9 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: I tried to like it....
Comment: My hopes were high for this book but for whatever reason, it simply did not deliver. It was not particularly well written and the character development was not believable. It missed as a serious literary effort and if the goal was to express some other perspective, it got past me. The authors need to keep their day jobs.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent!
Comment: As a youngster, I was blessed with a good mind and always excelled in school. However, I always had trouble reading. Instead of working on my shortcoming, I avoided it as much as possible. I only read what was required and seldom, if ever, read for pleasure. Now, in my seventies, I realize what a terrible mistake that was. This point was recently driven home when a friend of mine, who is an avid reader, told me about Blood Brothers written by Sol Wachtler and David Gould. Since this person is not only a friend but someone whose opinion I respect greatly, I decided to purchase a copy of this book. To my delight, it was one of the best decisions that I have made for quite some time.
I have always been a slow reader. However, when I started reading Blood Brothers, I quickly became engrossed in this exciting fictional legal thriller. I couldn't put the book down. I actually stayed awake into the early morning hours reading this exciting story of two young men, Luke and T.C. Simmons. Despite their different ethnic backgrounds, their lives became so intertwined after a separation of some forty years when Luke defends T.C. in a murder trial. The book has wonderfully compelling courtroom scenes and throughly explores the minds of Luke and his capable associate attorney as they work together to defend T.C.
Blood Brothers is filled with excitement, suspense and a unique ending. It is 381 pages of reading bliss with more than enough food for thought. I highly recommend it to all.
Rating: 1
Summary: Show, not tell
Comment: Every writer, when learning the craft, is told to "show, don't tell" when writing a novel or story. This advice is ignored totally by Wachtler and Gould in "Blood Brothers". What could have been an exciting courtroom drama unfolds instead as a not very interesting narrative about an ex-clan member on trial for a forty-year old murder. Oh, the former clansman and the attorney representing him became "blood brothers" when they were 15, before the Jewish boy who became the attorney moved from Georgia to Brooklyn - hence the title.
My beef with the novel is that it is basically just a long strung out narrative. Every scene that would have crackled with excitement and suspense if "shown" was simply "told", to the detriment of the story. I love a good courtroom drama, and the heart of a good one is the trial, the testimony of the various witnesses and the way the attorneys conduct their examinations and cross examinations. Very little of this will be found in "Blood Brothers". Only two or three witnesses are questioned so the reader can see what's going on; the rest of the trial is simply "told" to us.
I'm sorry, but I can't recommend this one. Send these guys back to creative writing class!
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Title: The Conspiracy Club by JONATHAN KELLERMAN ISBN: 0345452577 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 25 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: The Narrows: A Novel by Michael Connelly ISBN: 0316155306 Publisher: Little, Brown Pub. Date: 03 May, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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