One of John Grisham's best.

Loved this book. Always enjoyed Grisham, and even though this book originally came out 20 years ago, its still relevant. You can almost feel the horror of being on Death Row, knowing you only have a certain time to live. Good characters, believable storyline.....the end, almost made me cry which never happens! Please read this, I think everyone in America needs too.

Death penalty books are tough to read whether it is fiction or non-fiction. Grisham has a point of view, he did a good job of grappling with some of the thorny issues in this one.

I may stop reading Grisham books. Things just seem to be lacking for me.

It could have been half the length and a lot more effective in terms of the story.

Makes you really think that everyone, even those we think of as evil, love someone and are probably loved BY someone.

Though I haven’t read this book entirely, it so far is actually quite captivating. As a whole, it has kept hold of my attention. It also has a hint of humor in it, too. John Grisham having a background in law has put his knowledge and experience in his books.
t“The Chamber” is about a young, bright lawyer, Adam Hall, who joined the Kravitz & Bane firm solely to represent and defend his grandfather, the infamous ex-Klansman Sam Cayhall, who is in Death Row for the bombing of the Kramer Firm, killing two children. Sam Cayhall is due to be sent into the gas chamber for the two murders. Adam risks everything to give his grandfather another appeal and to learn more about his family’s dark history in the process.
tI was moved by Adam’s bravery and courage for exposing himself as the grandson of an infamous Klansman. While the other family members hide and disregard Sam as an embarrassment to the family, Adam comes out of hiding to save his grandfather. No matter how racist or horrible his grandfather was, he is still willing to fight to represent and get his grandfather out of Death Row and give him a second chance in life no matter the cost. t
tI actually have two favorite parts. I liked the second chapter because it’s about when Adam reveals himself as one of his firm’s client’s long-lost grandson to his superiors at the firm and struggles to get the chance to represent his grandfather. My other favorite part is when Adam learns more about his family. He learns of a first cousin who fled to Europe from his aunt who is the daughter of Sam Cayhall.
tIn my opinion, I think this one of his best books, because it shows the horrors of the death penalty. He really brings out in detail of the different death penalty devices in history and their horrible effect on the people they are made to kill.

i loved reading this book,anotha great offering from the king of law/court genre..John Grisham

Very interesting Grisham legal novel that I found hard to put down, but it can be quite depressing and sad in many ways, as it is about Death Row and an Inmate there. If you have ever wondered what that situation and things surrounding it are like, this novel has much detail. A solid addition to the Grisham corpus.

In some metafictional world, I suppose, the painfully slow pace of this novel could be seen as an intentional strategy meant to reproduce the agonizing waiting that is involved in ensuring that a condemned prisoner keeps his appointment with the death house, but the book’s slackness is much more likely a simple reflection of the enormous difficulty Grisham encountered in telling a story whose ending was inevitable and which was, thus, incapable of producing any genuine dramatic tension. As it is, Grisham walks a thin line between depicting, on the one hand, the gruesome pitilessness of Sam Cayhall's crimes and the anguish of his victims and their families and, on the other, creating sympathy for the suffering of Cayhall and his own family (especially his grandson, Adam, the young lawyer who attempts to save Cayhall's life). In the end, the book comes down squarely against the death penalty, doing what it can to make clear that Cayhall’s crimes rippled far beyond his immediate victims, engulfing his own children and grandchildren in a legacy of suffering that permanently shapes their lives and threatens to have no end. (The demons, says Cayhall's daughter, Lee, in the book's final chapters, are never destroyed; they just go off to haunt someone else.) In that way, Grisham lets Cayhall stand as a symbol of the decades of hate in the South, the lynchings and racism, the crimes condoned, the horrors institutionalized, and his death is meant to suggest not that such an era has disappeared but rather to signal the end of a time in which no other choice was possible. “If I’d never heard of the Klan,” Cayhall declares in his final hours, “I’d be a free man today.” And so would the South, Grisham seems to suggest. At the conclusion of the novel, Grisham permits Adam and his aunt, Lee, to walk away with some small hope, but with their pain fully intact. Whether Cayhall’s death brought relief to his victims’ families or closed an agonizing chapter in Mississippi history, as the spineless, politically ambitious governor intones, remains an open question. Grisham nonetheless makes his own beliefs clear, and any reasonable reader would have difficulty discarding them: Cayhall’s execution changes nothing, resolves nothing, serves no tangible purpose. It is a last, useless act in the history of useless acts that Grisham traces. And perhaps that is what makes The Chamber such an utterly melancholy read.

I'll probably remember this one. I appreciate books that have some sort of real life meaning. In this book, Grisham creates a story that plays out the complexities of capital punishment. He uses each chapter to approach the issue from a different angle, challenging the reader to consider their position and then reconsider it, then reconsider it once again. In the end, the story plays out naturally without an unbelievable turn of events. It feels like real life might feel, with a marriage of legal and emotional implication along the way.

It was, as most of Grisham's books, absolutely fantastic! I am amazed how he manages to make his books so much about the legal stuff of a lawyer's life and still put so much soul in it that it turns into some mind boggling story! The rythm of the book is fast, constantly coming up with new things, the action is complex and sometimes even sick, and the ending is amazing!
Though it treats legal problems, as I said before, he manages to make his way up to the human mind and study it at close range. It's a story of a disturbed man (Sam) who has had a really messed up life, just to realize at the end that he is sorry for everything. His name is Sam and he is a Ku Klux Klan member, trying to eliminate black and jewish people. His nephew, Adam Hall, finds him in prison and tries to save him from the death penalty. He does everything he can to take his grandphater's life out of death's hands, and he sacrifices things and people on the way.
These two people are the important people in the book, but then others pop up and make the story even spicier : Adam's aunt, Lee, his father, Eddie (Sam's son) and other people that have no connection with his familly : Goodman, a lawyer, and others. These characters all come with different stories and personalities and make the story that much more interesting.

All in all, John Grisham managed with this book to put the reader into somewhat a dilemma : is it right to kill a person just beacuse it, at it's turn, killed?