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Does the Fountain of Youth really exist in Colorado? What is the terrible price of its discovery?
THE SPRING is the tale of a snowbound mountain town with a young woman mayor and a secret to protect from the outside world - a secret worth dying for, and perhaps worth killing for.
"An extraordinarily entertaining and thoughtful [book]. Not only is it a mystery -- on at least two levels -- but it poses troubling questions concerning prolonged life and its ultimate value.” - Booklist
"Irving drives his narrative from the fantastic to the realistic and back again, playing a game that's sure and steady. Highly recommended." -- Publishers Weekly
THE SPRING is at one and the same time a love story, a murder story, a courtroom novel, and a skiing adventure story with the most gripping avalanche scene ever written.
THE SPRING A Legal Thriller Clifford Irving Legal Novels Book 3 edition by Clifford Irving Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks
I'm pretty sure I read one of Clifford Irving's novels many, many years ago, although for the life of me I don't recall which one. Then, when he got embroiled in the great hoax - writing a fake autobiography of the reclusive Howard Hughes - I pretty much lost interest in the guy. Even after doing jail time, though, he never stopped writing - and from what information I can glean, he's always been pretty darned good at the craft.As I've noted in many reviews, I belong to a number of websites that offer free and low-cost books in Kindle format. Not too long ago, I found this book, described as a "legal thriller," on sale for 99 cents (as we speak, it's going for $2.99 at Amazon). The plot sounded interesting, so I threw caution to the wind and blew my dollar on it. And what do you know? I really enjoyed reading it.
To be sure, I'd call it weird; while it describes the life of a man and woman in love - and includes a trial in which the man, an attorney, defends the woman's elderly parents in a court of law - the whole thing is woven around a place that could be likened to a communal Fountain of Youth. Set not in Florida but high in the mountains of Colorado near Aspen, the tiny town of Springhill fiercely protects a big secret: a water source that, apparently, allows them to live almost unlimited years while retaining their youthful appearance and mental and physical strengths. Along the way, their solidarity has been augmented by the passing down of a special language ("harping," for instance, means seriously discussing issues among themselves with the intent of persuading one to a different point of view).
Cool so far? Well, hear this: The townspeople's ruling committee agreed at the outset that 100 years is the limit; any person who reaches that milestone must agree to die voluntarily. Death is accomplished humanely (the ethics of euthanasia and assisted suicide aside), and all the denizens are okay with that simply because they get to live far longer than most humans and in much better shape. Everything, it seems, has remained true to plan for generations; but let's be honest: had it remained so, this book wouldn't exist.
What happened is that Sophie Henderson, one of the townspeople and a committee member, met and fell in love with Manhattan attorney Dennis Conway, who visited Aspen to ski. Dennis, who has two young children and no wife, pulls up his New York stakes, packs up the kids and moves to Springhill to be with his love. Then, a local couple and friends of Sophie's parents are found dead, and her parents are accused of helping them commit suicide. Whether right or wrong from a moral standpoint, such assistance is against the law (this book was published in 1996, BTW) and the region's law enforcement insists that they be brought to trial. Dennis, believing them to be innocent, agrees to represent Sophie's mother, "Bitsy"; her father, Scott, himself an attorney, insists on representing himself.
From this point on, my lips are sealed; suffice it to say it was hard for me to put this one down (I even kept one eye on my Kindle while I was watching the NCAA basketball tournament. I'm thankful that I managed to finish it before the Final Four games, when two of my favorite teams - Kentucky and Duke - will take to the court against other teams and hopefully face off in the championship game.
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THE SPRING A Legal Thriller Clifford Irving Legal Novels Book 3 edition by Clifford Irving Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks Reviews
After reading his "Boy on trial" and "Trial" I was expecting it to be a legal thriller. It turned out to be a science fiction type of novel with rather convoluted plot. I was sorely disappointed. It is a novel about an attorney who unnecessarily jeopardizes his young kids and his science fiction wife's life. To accomplish what? Death of multiple people with not much to gain. An unconvincing story. First half of the book is very interesting, second half is not what I expected from such a great writer.
The book kept my interest all the way through; it was never boring. This was my first Clifford Irving book, and I enjoyed his writing enough to keep any eye out for more of his work. I was transported into the Maroon Bells wilderness, with which I'm acquainted. The trial sequences were authentic, and not embarrassing from a trial lawyer's perspective, unlike most trial scenes in current legal shows on television. My wife and I very much enjoyed reading the book aloud to each other. It was a page turner once the tension in the story rose, we read many chapters in a sitting. I'd recommend the book to anyone who enjoys immersion in a legally oriented mystery.
I loved Irving's "Final Arguement" and "Trial" and figured this would be more of the same. I'm not sure what genre this book was supposed to be. It didn't work as a murder mystery and for the Sci-fi/occult theme it was even less believable. All of the characters fit into molds that were too perfect and hence, unbelievable. It even had overtures of a romance novel. I read it until the end waiting for something to tie everything together but nothing did. Waste of time and money.
This book should be rated under the genre of fantasy as the main plot is somewhat unbelievable. It's really misleading to rate this as a legal thriller since only a small part is spent in the courtroom defending two of the characters. There are parts of the book that are unnecessary to the development of the plot such as the "mystery language". There are also parts that are "left up in the air" without explanation or seem unrealistic. Without giving anything away, what is "allowed" in the ending is quite unbelieveable - it doesn't match up with what has been disallowed in the rest of the book.
I want to like Clifford Irving's books. I loved "The Angel of Zin" and I'm waiting to love another one. This wasn't it. The plot is implausible. The end is not as suspensful as it was intended to be. The characters are not entertaining or likeable, and I can forgive a poor plot if the characters are great, but no. They are pretty much plot devices, a sort of exercise in "Hey, what if...?" and never really convincing as actual people. This reads like a rough draft to me. "Punch it up," I want to say. "Make me care about somebody." The ending is supposed to be moving, I think, but I cannot get excited about the fate of plot device people. The blurb said book clubs will love it because it opens a dialogue about euthanasia, or something like that. It doesn't. It might open a discussion about the perils of eternal life, but I doubt it. And the discussion wouldn't last long anyway.
Two thirds good, last third a whimpering let-down. Too many spoilers to explain the substance of this Ci story, but suffice to say most readers would feel horribly let down by an end phase that made no sense or logic. Personally l think Dennis should have fallen off the mountain, the artist (who forgot his paintings behind!!!!!) should have had his heart attack and the town left alone. Clifford Irving wrote some of the most amazing court room dramas...pity he thought he could write out-and-out fantasy.
I'm pretty sure I read one of Clifford Irving's novels many, many years ago, although for the life of me I don't recall which one. Then, when he got embroiled in the great hoax - writing a fake autobiography of the reclusive Howard Hughes - I pretty much lost interest in the guy. Even after doing jail time, though, he never stopped writing - and from what information I can glean, he's always been pretty darned good at the craft.
As I've noted in many reviews, I belong to a number of websites that offer free and low-cost books in format. Not too long ago, I found this book, described as a "legal thriller," on sale for 99 cents (as we speak, it's going for $2.99 at ). The plot sounded interesting, so I threw caution to the wind and blew my dollar on it. And what do you know? I really enjoyed reading it.
To be sure, I'd call it weird; while it describes the life of a man and woman in love - and includes a trial in which the man, an attorney, defends the woman's elderly parents in a court of law - the whole thing is woven around a place that could be likened to a communal Fountain of Youth. Set not in Florida but high in the mountains of Colorado near Aspen, the tiny town of Springhill fiercely protects a big secret a water source that, apparently, allows them to live almost unlimited years while retaining their youthful appearance and mental and physical strengths. Along the way, their solidarity has been augmented by the passing down of a special language ("harping," for instance, means seriously discussing issues among themselves with the intent of persuading one to a different point of view).
Cool so far? Well, hear this The townspeople's ruling committee agreed at the outset that 100 years is the limit; any person who reaches that milestone must agree to die voluntarily. Death is accomplished humanely (the ethics of euthanasia and assisted suicide aside), and all the denizens are okay with that simply because they get to live far longer than most humans and in much better shape. Everything, it seems, has remained true to plan for generations; but let's be honest had it remained so, this book wouldn't exist.
What happened is that Sophie Henderson, one of the townspeople and a committee member, met and fell in love with Manhattan attorney Dennis Conway, who visited Aspen to ski. Dennis, who has two young children and no wife, pulls up his New York stakes, packs up the kids and moves to Springhill to be with his love. Then, a local couple and friends of Sophie's parents are found dead, and her parents are accused of helping them commit suicide. Whether right or wrong from a moral standpoint, such assistance is against the law (this book was published in 1996, BTW) and the region's law enforcement insists that they be brought to trial. Dennis, believing them to be innocent, agrees to represent Sophie's mother, "Bitsy"; her father, Scott, himself an attorney, insists on representing himself.
From this point on, my lips are sealed; suffice it to say it was hard for me to put this one down (I even kept one eye on my while I was watching the NCAA basketball tournament. I'm thankful that I managed to finish it before the Final Four games, when two of my favorite teams - Kentucky and Duke - will take to the court against other teams and hopefully face off in the championship game.
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