After a long, VERY LONG, drawn out court scene in which Richard Wright uses the last third of the book as his soapbox for everything from blacks vs. whites to rich vs. poor to communism (He was a Communist), Bigger is sentenced to death by the electric chair. Bigger goes to his death thinking he killed for a reason, but the reader is not that convinced.
The book is a good action filled book for the first 2 thirds. Bigger kills in the first book, is hunted and pursued in the second book and then tried in the last book. The last 1/3 of the book is the lawyers waxing poetically for or against the way Bigger was treated in his life. It fizzled out at the end and I was happy to be done with the 502 page book.
I am actually happy that I finished it. I am happy because I can now say I have actually read it cover to cover, but also happy to be done with it. Sad as that sounds. I know that I won't love every book that I read on my TOP 100 list, but this one was l-o-n-g.
I found it interesting that I the first 2/3 of the book (the action packed part, the story, not the point) read really fast. I zoomed through it. But when I got to the court scene and, through the lawyers, the point of the book was made, I had trouble getting to the end. What does that say about me?? Hmmm . . .
On to a different book . . . a shorter book!
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