A time to kill~~~~

[staropeace]

Does anyone else really enjoy Jake Brignance the southern lawyer? John Grisham is a super fantastic writer and I love this character. I have to ask if folks in Mississippi still use the N word so much? In his two books on this character, his white characters AND his black characters use the word a lot. Is that the way it is? I have always hated that word. It sounds so very ugly.

 

[GNTLGNT]

...I enjoy his work, and as far as the "N" word?....I'd say it's still being used on a regular basis-but not so publicly, and it's not just isolated to the South-ignorance is nationwide...

 

[Lina]

John Grisham is great, he has a great style and his stories are extremely interesting. I have A Time to Kill on my bookshelf, it's waiting for its turn. So far the book I remember most is The Firm. Read it about 4 or 5 years ago, but I still remember liking it very much.

 

[doowopgirl]

A Time to Kill is one of my Grisham favorites. I would say the N word is used, but not as publically. Have you read Sycamore Road? A real cracker, if you'll pardon the pun.

 

[staropeace]

I read Sycamore Row....great. My fav is The Street Lawyer. I ran a homeless shelter and Grisham told the story true....very believable.

 

[kingricefan]

I recently read A TimeTo Kill. Really, real enjoyed the film. I really liked the character in the movie, not so much in the book. He just came off alittle too self-serving to me in the book. I haven't read Sycamore Row yet, so hopefully I will come to like this character more afterwards? I enjoy Grisham's novels as I always learn something about the legal system that I didn't know about. He may not be the best writer out there but the man can spin a yarn!

 

[roseannebarr]

a time to kill is my all time favorite grisham book. looking forward to sycamore row! my mother in law loved sycamore row.

 

[staropeace]

A time to kill was Grisham's first novel. I did not like the way Jake treated his personal assistant Ethel in it. Sycamore Row is written after many years have passed...Jake is a much more developed character in it. His second book was The Firm.....that was right on, too.

 

[kingricefan]

A time to kill was Grisham's first novel. I did not like the way Jake treated his personal assistant Ethel in it. Sycamore Row is written after many years have passed...Jake is a much more developed character in it. His second book was The Firm.....that was right on, too.

His treatment of Ethel is one of the reasons I didn't care for him. In the movie he's much nicer to her. It just seemed to me that (in the book) he wasn't so much concerned about justice being served (like in the movie) as he was about making sure his name got in the public eye.

 

[SutterKane]

Does anyone else really enjoy Jake Brignance the southern lawyer? John Grisham is a super fantastic writer and I love this character. I have to ask if folks in Mississippi still use the N word so much? In his two books on this character, his white characters AND his black characters use the word a lot. Is that the way it is? I have always hated that word. It sounds so very ugly.

I can't speak for Mississippi but I think no matter where you live, as far as modern times go, your going to hear that word everywhere. Perhaps it's just because I'm so much younger then many on this board (31), and raised in a variety of very mixed ethnic neighborhoods, but I've heard that word used by people of all races my whole life, 90% of the time as a term of endearment. I think there is less racism in my generation and the ones since, the sting has been taken out of it in general. I'm not denying that racism still exists, but a majority of the time when I hear that word it's being used as a greeting rather than an insult.

 

[Lets Rock]

Thought people here might appreciate this. Was a poster on wall of tube in London in 90s.

 

[EMARX]

I'm reading Two Lives by Vikram Seth and The Cuckoos Calling, by Robert Galbraith.

 

[rocker1972]

I have been a fan of Grisham Since the Firm with mr cheesy smile tom cruise saw the film read the book, I have read 3/4 of his output. I always get his new book on release. as for that word. I would like to think no, but in the area I live some people used that word, I get so annoyed and disgusted. so yes I would say it's used.

 

[Scratch]

I go to work in Oxford Missisppi every day and the only time I hear the word is when someone says the phrase "nigguh please" but that's gone out of favor within the past few years so... maybe when doors are left open at convenience stores blaring rap. Loved a Time To Kill but thought it exceedingly odd that a jury would have to imagine the little girl as white to feel the full impact of empathy. Who wouldn't want to kill the bastards who did that to a little girl? Any little girl. Color don't enter into it whatsoever. How hardcore racist would you have to be for it to? I don't like to imagine.

As an aside, I just missed King and Grissom when they stopped at my one store town on the way back from the Fat Coon restaurant to get toothpicks.