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Review title: Much too dull and plodding to be worth a reader's time.
Product review: Turow is not a bad writer--but that's not exactly a selling point. Here, his story bogs down terribly in situations where there is nothing at stake we can care about, and no real jeopardy. The main female character--supposedly tough and no-nonsense, is flummoxed immediately by the protagonist, and we cannot imagine why. There is also a nauseating transparent attempt to make the protagonist more likeable, in the form of a wife with ALS, The society of ALS sufferers should really protest being used as an author's desperate attempt at manipulating his reader's emotions.
