John Alfred Luarca Alfred Luarca itibaren Mavrikiano, กรีซ
Harvard Law is hard. I didn't need to read this book to learn that, I saw "The Paper Chase." Scott Turow's book is still considered the gold standard as far as describing the Law School Experience, but he fails to answer (until the epilogue) my real burning question: With all the self-doubt that he, a former teaching assistant in English, expresses about going into the law, why did he ever do it? Of course, it's easier to ask that knowing what his career has been like since then. If it were me, I would have called it, "Whoops, My Parachute Was Not That Color (But I Landed Safely Anyway)." One unintended side effect of this book, however, was that it made me want to work harder at the things I was doing (none of which remotely involve law school). I guess hearing about 20-hour workdays can do that to a person.
This is a beautifully crafted novel about The Battle Of Gettysburg. I read this book in high school and loved it. Then a few months ago I re-read it (something I rarely do) with my husband. We took turns reading it aloud during car trips. This is a good book. It is extremely well written and full of a very heart-felt, gut-wrenching history. While the book is officially fiction, the writer pieced together his plot by reading all the historical documents he could get his hands on. He tried to be as faithful to the facts as he could and when there wasn't any information he filled in the details, guessing based on what he knew. The story jumps back and forth between the Northern and Southern Armies and gives both perspectives, a good reminder of how easy it is to mis-characterize "The Other Side."