QB VII: Library Edition

from PaulaGalvan

I had no idea what this book was about when I picked it out of my library to read, and still, halfway through wasn't sure where it was going. The first half of the book is dedicated to introducing two men, one an accomplished doctor, Sir Adam Kelno, and the other, Abraham Cady, a renowned writer....

from HenriMoreaux

If not for the price of $1 I probably would have given this book a miss as the blurb is merely okay verging on being both bland and overloaded with information whilst the title is obscure and meaningless at a glance. The title QB VII is a contraction for Queen's Bench Court #7 within the High Cou...

from ksimon

This book kept me turning the pages, and even more important, kept me thinking. Leon Uris creates two sympathetic characters at odds with each other -- both protagonists and antagonists, each of them. Whose side to be on? Who to believe?This novel deals honestly with human nature under the most d...

from fuzzi

This was my second read of a work by Leon Uris, and it was superb! In the first half of this book, the author introduces you to the two men who will eventually meet in court, "QB VII". Uris takes his time building so extensive a biography, that you really feel you know these people. I found mysel...

from buffalogr

As I read this book, it seemed like a spinoff of Uris' book "Exodus" and after I researched it, I discovered that it was. Uris was sued in the same way by a Polish concentration camp survivor-- the facts essentially the same. So, he wrote a book about it and this one became a best seller. Half of...