The Seven Minutes

by Irving Wallace

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671203592
• ISBN13: 9780671203597
• Release Date: September 1969
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 607 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Great book

I loved this book. It may start out slow but keep reading, it gets alot better. I liked it so much that I have read it two times.

Excellant Narrative

Built around a popular topic of pornography, Wallace tried defining the difference between artwork and pornography. Excellant writing craft by carrying the reader with the story without bringing him under the huge set of information used to build the trial. The very idea of the fictional work 'The Seven Minutes' which is the central charecter around which the whole story revolves is very attractive and artistic. The line between art and pornography is normally very thin and Michel Barret, the petty lawer who believes that this is an art work rather than hard pornography gives us excellant account of the topic in historical perspective.

Fascinating Reading

This is Irving Wallace at his best. In this book his is a combination of John Grisham's dramatic court scene in "A Time to Kill", Sidney Sheldon's nail-biting suspense in "Bloodline" and his own narrative as in "The Word". Need I say more?

still the greatest book about lawyers in action

Many years after it's initial printing, Seven Minutes is still possibly the best book about Lawyers in action ever written. Taking a stand in the face of incredible odds, the main character risks his personal and professional life to defend a book that has stirred up controversy due to it's rather titilating subject matter. It's a wonderful story, not only life affirming but exhilerating in it's twists and turns.

Interesting legal fiction re pornography and trial of a book

This is a remarkable book about a book fictional supposedly written in the 1930s, entitled "The Seven Minutes," and written by fictional writer J. J. Janeway, which details the thoughts and passions that a woman experiences during the seven minutes from the commencement of intercourse to orgasm. The book, which is read by a minor and who then is supposedly is so aroused that he rapes a woman, is accused itself of rape. The concepts are novel and the court scenes are highly realistic. (I am a trial lawyer, and I don't often say this about any book or movie).