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Nabaza.net-The MarketPlace - One L: The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School
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Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 340.07
EAN: 9780446673785
ISBN: 0446673781
Label: Grand Central Publishing
Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: 1997-09-01
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Studio: Grand Central Publishing
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Memoirs adapted from the author's diary chronicle his emotionally and intellectually challenging first year in law school and records the fierce and sometimes hysterical competition that is faced by Harvard Law School students. Reprint. Tour. NYT. "
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Summary: LAWTASTIC
Comment: This book was incredibly lawtastic. It's like fantastic, except with law in there too. If you like lawtastic things, this book is for you.
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Summary: fascinating
Comment: I have read most of Scott Turow's books. This one is different, but extremely captivating. Reading of his life as a first year law student will be entertaining to anyone who contemplates law school or simply wonders what law students go through to obtain their degree.
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Summary: Other law students assume you have read this book
Comment: I hear references to this book all the time in the halls of my law school and on fellow student's face book message boards. I do not go to a top tier law school like the author (he went to Harvard). I also have a different background than the author and our political views are not similar.
Nonetheless, this book does relate a lot of the experiences and attitudes a law student can expect to run across during the first year. The overly aggressive professor, the students who have a problem with those who succeed, the students who do not know how to succeed but annoy everyone with their efforts, the students who panic, the students who mooch, and the ever present fear that no person could ever master the amount of information a law student is expected to know by the time of the final...but someone will and they will push down the curve. Every law student has run across these types of people and experiences.
I do not think law school is as hard or stressful as the author seems to think it was. I am not sure he played up that aspect of the school for dramatic effect, he just can't handle stress, or life at Harvard Law School is really just that much more intense than my own. Still, reading this book gives a prospective student a taste of what is to come.
The book is very readable and I finished it quickly; however, it is not a classic I would recomend to everyone. I am not sure a person who has no interest in going to law school will really be that excited about reading "One L," but if you are thinking about going to law school, you should read this book.
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Summary: I have a better title: "Confessions of a Spoiled Overacheiver"
Comment: This book was a joke. I have no doubt that Turow and his fellows at HLS did indeed conduct themselves with the frantic lunacy that he so wearyingly describes in this book. I'm sure he simply told the truth and that law school was indeed that miserable for him, but that is exactly the problem. Having been through 1L at a somewhat less elite school, I can assure you that its only as bad as you make it. That HLS is an even more competitive school than mine only adds credence to the one thing I must say to Turow and the rest of the HLS graduating class of 1978: Get over yourself. You graduated from HLS. You could have finished with a 2.00 GPA and still drowned in the job offers that many top performers of other law schools can only dream about.
"One L" is a severe disappointment. As I know that books about the law school experience are very popular gifts to students entering their own "1L," I have a duty to go ahead and tell you that for 99.992% of all students, this book is of absolutely no help in preparing someone for what they will face when they get to law school. Turow's view from America's tallest ivory tower not only presents an experience totally divorced from the real world, but does so in a ridiculously dramatized manner that forces upcoming law students to respond with either incredulity or sheer terror. Don't bother.
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Summary: Good book to read before law school
Comment: I thought this book is a good book to read before starting law school. Granted people must take into consideration that this is Harvard Law, set in the 70's and from one man's point of view. I enjoyed the book and found it interesting and insightful. I'm not taking everything he says in it as an absolute truth, but it does help to gain some insight into how one may feel while going through your first year of law school. I would recommend it to other people.
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