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Camara de Gas: Camara Sellada / The Chamber (Spanish Edition)

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This is Grisham at his best!!!! Although this was the first book I read of his, the latter is still very true. You will be emotionally involved and feel as if you are there with the characters through the good and the bad. I recommend this book to all who love grisham's writing and those who haven't tried him yet!!!!!!

Must Read. Excellent story line, Spanish version very, very closely equals the American version. There were a very few areas where the Spanish translation did not perfectly paint the same mental image that was intended by the author, but over-all, an superior piece of work.

John Grisham's tale of a Klan member on death row and his zealous, conflicted grandson is a hard yet tender story of complex characters in tough situations. Enric Tremps does a seamless job of translating it into Spanish, preserving the flow and emotion of the novel, a difficult task with such a uniquely American storyline. This is not great literature, but it's a well-written page-turner.

Fantástico! te lo leerás "casi" de un tirón! Tiene todo para ser un buen libro, la traducción al español es excelente, no se ha perdido nada.

A vicious KKK serial murderer, a man with a record of lifelong violence, is finally put on the death row. Then for years he spends his time at a private legal library that the taxpayers must put at his disposition on the death row. From there, he ties up the system with endless motions, petitions, and appeals. The public pays a fortune on the case. His attorneys organize deliberately perjured testimonies for him. They also PAY law-school students to impersonate residents of the state and saturate the governor's office with calls that demand a pardon for the murderer. (The saturation has the objective of preventing anyone else from getting through to the governor's office.)

Grisham's thesis is that, however vicious the criminal, the death penalty is unjustified and inhuman. In fact, Grisham implies, death-row inmates should be just released to the street, especially if they are elderly and/or have grandchildren. And there is the usual complaint that the death-row cells are not air-conditioned.

It's a pity that a writer of Grisham's stature wastes his time, and the readers', on such pretentious, sentimental, soapbox bore of a novel.

though the chamber was an interesting story, it let readers who were used to his other, higher quality works down.