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Nineteen Minutes | 
 enlarge | Author: Jodi Picoult
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
Category: Book
List Price: £11.99
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Rating:  38 reviews
Sales Rank: 348142
Media: Paperback
Pages: 512
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 5.9 x 1.4
ISBN: 0340933747
EAN: 9780340933749
ASIN: 0340933747
Publication Date: April 19, 2007
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 A real page turner September 15, 2008
M. McDyer (Ireland)
Nineteen Minutes This has to be the most disturbing book I have ever read but I was absolutely hooked from the begining. Piccolt has managed to protray a school shooting in a most realistic manner, her characters were believable and the story addictive. I was unable to put this book down. I have read quite a few of Piccolts books and found some brilliant and some just so so, I totally recommend this book.
Definitely worth reading! September 5, 2008
If nobody spoke of remarkable things... (Northampton, UK)
Having never read a Jodi Picoult book before, I was unsure what to expect. The subject interested me and having read the first chapter, I was gripped by Picoult's style. She really gives you a feel for each character. She writes with great insight into people, events and the atmosphere of the courtroom.I liked the way the book chapters go back and forth in time.
It's just over 500 pages long...but doesn't feel like it. I enjoyed every minute and will definitely be picking up another of her books very soon!
Gobsmackingly GOOD April 14, 2008
Mrs. F. Mulligan (UK)
WOW what a story and so beautifully written and soo sad..
I have read "My Sisters Keeper" and loved that but this is so much better.
Read it a weep for all the characters
Stunning read April 8, 2008
L. H. Healy (Hertfordshire, UK)
I have finished this book in a few days and it is long but I never felt it was padded out or dragging, in fact I am glad there was so much to read! I loved the way it is written from so many different characters' perspectives, all the way through, and that we don't stay with any one person for more than a page or two so it really moves along and grips you, and also how the narrative cleverly moves back and forwards in time, so that we view the current events, then we learn about the history and early life of some of the key characters, and then we come back to the present - brilliant structure and ideal for this story.
The tragic premise is of a school shooting by a lonely boy, Peter, who has been bullied throughout his schooldays for being 'different' and can't take anymore torment. But intriguingly, Picoult allows us to hear his thoughts as well as those of the victims, and his parents, his former friend, Josie, who is not all that she at first seems in that she also does not fit into the social groups of the school as well as she pretends to do. Additionally we have the viewpoints of the lawyer defending Peter, Josie's mother who is also a local Judge, the detective who arrives at the crime scene just as the shootings have happened. The soul searching of Lacy, Peter's mother, which we witness, is heartbreaking, and equally as heartbreaking, his father, who ironically has a career studying happiness, when he realises what an unhappy isolated son he has.
The build up and the trial is all gripping stuff. I did guess part way through what the final twist was going to be based upon, but that didn't deter me at all from continuing. A very compelling novel, one that made me pick it up at every spare second to get back to the events and the next happenings!
I've read one other Picoult and was impressed by that, and Nineteen Minutes was also very impressive at what it tries to do, namely tell an intriguing, emotional, painful story and invite the reader to think about how they themselves would judge this situation, and it certainly does succeed in making you think about these tragic events from many different angles.
UN PUT DOWN-ABLE! April 7, 2008
Bg Davies
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
i'll make this short and sweet.
After reading 'my sisters keeper', also by Jodi Piccoult, I never thought that i'd find a better book.....until i read this!
Don't be daunted by the fact that its a big book, i read it in a few days, and i found that even when i wasnt reading it, i was thinking about it!
This is DEFINITELY my favourite read and i recommend it to anyone that wants an un-forgetable book!
20/10!
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