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Nineteen Minutes | 
 enlarge | Author: Jodi Picoult
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Category: Book
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Rating:  36 reviews
Sales Rank: 63094
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 512
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6.5 x 1.8
ISBN: 0340935278
EAN: 9780340935279
ASIN: 0340935278
Publication Date: April 19, 2007
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 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!
 disappointing April 4, 2008
Pauline (Norfolk)
I've read many of her books and have found them to be real page-turners. This one wasn't. Perhaps it was the topic and the knowledge that the book could only really turn out one way, whereas the others kept you guessing until the end... anyway, read the other ones!
Grab the tissues! You might need them at the end... January 10, 2008
H. Wyatt (UK)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have never read Jodi Picoult before. I picked up this book mainly because of the subject matter, because I thought it would be interesting to contrast with "We need to talk about Kevin" by Lionel Shriver, which deals with similar subject matter - a high school shooting.
On the face of it, this is an easier read than Shriver's book - the narrative is more straight forward, and more traditional in its structure. But don't be misled by the more simplistic style - there's a lot going on here.
As a previous reviewer has commented, Picoult is skilled at exploring the events leading up to (and following) the shooting from all angles, and she does it so subtly that before you know it, you are completely absorbed in the characters' lives - you feel you KNOW them, and are living the events through their eyes.
There are no easy answers in this book - It's one of the most profoundly sad novels I've read in ages, mainly because almost everyone in it comes out a loser in the end. It made me reflect on life, love, friendship and everything in between, and I can't recommend it highly enough. I did guess the slight twist at the end though!
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