Nineteen Minutes: A novel
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In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn, color your hair, watch a third of a hockey game. In nineteen minutes, you can bake scones or get a tooth filled by a dentist; you can fold laundry for a family of five....In nineteen minutes, you can stop the world, or you can just jump off it. In nineteen minutes, you can get revenge. Sterling is a small, ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens-until the day its complacency is shattered by a shocking act of violence. In the aftermath, the town's residents must not only seek justice in order to begin healing but also come to terms with the role they played in the tragedy. For them, the lines between truth and fiction, right and wrong, insider and outsider have been obscured forever. Josie Cormier, the teenage daughter of the judge sitting on the case, could be the state's best witness, but she can't remember what happened in front of her own eyes. And as the trial progresses, fault lines between the high school and the adult community begin to show, destroying the closest of friendships and families. Nineteen Minutes is New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult's most raw, honest, and important novel yet. Told with the straightforward style for which she has become known, it asks simple questions that have no easy answers: Can your own child become a mystery to you? What does it mean to be different in our society? Is it ever okay for a victim to strike back? And who-if anyone-has the right to judge someone else?
Spotlight Customer Reviews:
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great
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This audio book was read very well, The writer and story were simply great, very thought provoking and timely.
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A realistic look at an increasing crisis.
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Jodi Picoult has attacked a very painful and difficult subject, school shootings/bullying, in a very, non-hysterical, "everyday people" way. It is eye opening, un-sentimental and "can't-put-it-down" riviting.
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Good but not Picoult's Best
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I have read a few of Jodi's books and was really impressed. I read Nineteen Minutes looking for a surprise ending...it wasn't a large surprise to me. I knew how it was going to end. But on a good note Jodi really uses alot of strong words to enforce everything happening. I love how she used flashbacks and doesn't just stay as one persons view, it changes. And well heres my summary:
Josie Cormier and many others walked into the doors of Sterling High on March 6th like it was any other day but that wasn't how the day ended up. Peter Houghton never fit in, since the first day of school he was teased and bullied and he had had enough. Detective Patrick D. always felt as if he never got any where in time to do anything. Alex Cormier is a succesful judge trying to singley raise Josie. Lacy, well she is trying to survive since Joey's death and make Peter stronger. On March 6th all there lives change as a high school shooting occurs at Sterling High School, in nineteen minutes a person can do many things, one being killing ten people.
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Her best.
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Picoult is such a talent. Perfect for infomaniacs who like all the psychological, biological, and legal intelligence. But this is the first time she shows she can be a Stephen King too. Realistic portrayals of the bullies, the mean girls, and the horrors of public humiliation and the pressures on an American teenager.
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Just OK, Choppy Time Frames
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This author has written in choppy time lines before. It is especially annoying in this book. We bounce back and forth between early childhood, the actual event, time periods after the event, the past again, time frames prior to the event, etc. It is very frustrating. If she would have kept the book in chronological order I think it would have made a stronger story.
Not one of her better books.
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