A Time to Kill- John Grisham

I finished A Time to Kill early last week. In the end Carl Lee Hailey was found innocent by means of insanity. I thought the end of this book was good I thought he would be found guilty, but one juror made the others picture their own little girl being raped and almost killed by those to boys. The jurors all changed their minds. The ending of the book wasn't entirely unexpected, most stories like this one the guilty are found innocent even if they shouldn't have been. I also watched the movie, not nearly as good.

The movie started out right and progressively got worse as it went along. Near the begging of the book right after Tonya was raped and Carl Lee decided he had to kill the two "red necks" a man by the name of Cat supplied Carl Lee with the gun that he shot the two boys with. In the movie they skipped that they actually skipped Cat entirely. The KKK also burned a cross in Jake's yard but in the book his family was asleep and it was 3 a.m. but in the movie it was later night and his daughter saw the cross first. They also missed many details like when Jake is shot at and Ellen (the law clerk) was kidnapped and tied to a post and beaten badly. They also skipped Tonya and her nightmares and the effect on the family. And one of the most important ones, well to me at lest, was when Cat hired a big shot, never loses, lawyer for Carl Lee and he fires Jake. But than Carl Lee's brother Lester convinced Carl Lee to fire the big shot lawyer and rehire Jake. That was a very smart move on Carl Lee's part because Jake won. But other than all of that the movie was really good if I hadn't read the book first I think I would have enjoyed the movie much more.

I just started Fletch. So far I've only gotten far enough to where I found out that Fletch is a reporter and is under cover at a beach. He's hanging out with the "washed out Druggies". A guys had been following him around for awhile and aproched him at a point and took him to his house and asked Fletch to murder him. He said yes and the man told him all the details. He has cancer and if he killed himseld his 3 million wouldn't be given to his wife and daughter so he needs to be murdered. So he planned it all out Fletch gets 50,000 for killing him and has to go to a south American country for a few years so they never find him. And that's about as far as i've gotten it's not one of the best books i've read so far but it's getting there.