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Summary: Sophisticated and perfected
Review: John Grisham is famous for his ability for making a story so live and real. It makes you draw into the story even more. Reading this story was almost like seeing a movie! An 11-year old boy named Mark Sway out smarts the mafia and tries to save his life as well as his family. Mark was stirred into this mess after he was smoking a cigarette in the Forrest with his younger brother. While he was smoking, he saw a car pull over and a very angry and sad man come out. The man wanted to kill himself because he was one of the mafia's lawyers and knows too much about a senator's death. Before killing himself he told Mark Sway where the senator's body was hidden. Mark's knowledge about where the body is buried alarmed the mafia. Now the mafia isn't going after the lawyer, they are going after Mark Sway and his family.
If you read the story for the first time, you will get into this atomicity. There won't be a word John Grisham say's that you won't believe. After closing the book when you start thinking about how brave Mark was, you start to realize that it isn't so easy to get away from an angry mob. The interesting part about this is that John Grisham, in the story makes it sound so real that you won't even care about it. He covers it up cleaner than how the F.B.I cover up a death crime.
This book isn't the longest book ever, but it's pretty long. If you enjoy this book at the start it would take you about 1-3 days to finish it. I remembered when I read it, it only took a few hours because I enjoyed it a lot.
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Summary: I'd Hire This Lawyer
Review: You have to suspend your disbelief a bit with the main character being 11 years old but outwitting the FBI and the Mob, but hey, it's a book. I think Reggie Love is one of the best characters John Grisham has created. I'd love to see her again sometime. This story doesn't quite measure up to The Firm, but it is still a quick, exciting read that still manages to make you think at the same time. Who knows if 200 years from now if Grisham would be considered one of the "classic" writers, but for now he's enjoyable.
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Summary: Very good
Review: I read this book for my government class. I really enjoyed it right from the beginning. He is such a phenomanal author who has made a great impact in todays society. A must read.
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Summary: One of the best
Review: I started reading John Grisham's book's when I was 10. This was the first one I read and I loved it. It only took me 3 day's to read it. That show's you how I loved it. I've made a goal to read all of John Grishams books and I have, there wonderfull. Read them!!!!!
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Summary: Disappointing Plot
Review: I find it a little too incredulous for an 11-yr old kid to outwit the might of the judicial system and law enforcement agencies. While Muldanno and his cronies were debating whether Mark knew the secret, they could have moved the body first thing as a precaution. The Mafia could not be that stupid or they did not belong to the Mafia. Mark was so afraid to divulge the location of the body that he even defied Judge Harry but yet towards the end, he was suddently so brave as to look for the body himself and insisted on doing that even with the Mafia digging up the body! I thought the ending was a little weak with Reggie making all sorts of demands and the FBI having to satisfy them.
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Summary: Bad plot
Review: I have read about half of Grisham's works. Most were ok. Until I tried to read "King of Torts" I thought "The Client" was the worst. This book just has a stupid plot, not particularly poorly written, just a plot that made no sense.
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Summary: Dull, moronic. They killed trees for this?
Review: Kid knows something that bad guys want kept quiet. But the bad guys aren't going to kill the kid to keep him quiet - only if he talks (at which point killing him doesn't do any good???) The premise is completely backwards. The kid's lawyer is such a moron, she can't figure out that if the kid's testimony is preserved through deposition, there's no point in the bad guys killing him... but that as long as the kid is the only one with the information, killing the kid is a viable alternative. The whole book is all about the "struggle" to decide what to do. A logical and more entertaining approach to the plot would have been: Page 1: Kids learns secret.
Page 2: Kid testifies to facts under oath.
Page 3: THE END ...Which only tells you how horribly bad this book is. Such a HUGE logical flaw, should have sent the author in search of another plot, but instead he blunders through an homage to bad writing, apparently unaware such gross inconsistencies reduce a book to mere wasted paper. Dumb! Dumb! Dumb! Do NOT waste your time or your money.
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Summary: Great Story
Review: The Client is my second reading from John Grisham, and I was a bit disappointed. However, after the incredible novel "The Firm," any reading by this spectacular author seems second-class. The client was, however, a great read. It was, like the Firm, an incredibly hard book to put down. The main character, Mark, has witnessed a suicide, and prior to the killing, the victim told Mark something that he should not have told any sole. Even though Mark has a loving, caring mother, the reader cannot help but notice a mother-son relationship develop between Mark Sway, and Reggie Love. Reggie is one of those characters who you love to read about, and who give you the hope that there are truly some people out there in our crazy greedy world, who do not care about money, and just want to help people. Another main character, Roy Foltrigg, is someone you "love to hate." It is with these vivid and realistic characters that make this book, and probably any other book by John Grisham great. Read it, and you will not be disappointed.
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Summary: one of my favorites
Review: This book is one of my favorite books written by Grisham. I have read several of them. The book was made into a movie and I enjoyed watching it more than once. I think what I like is that an eleven year old boy ends up having a certain control of the situation for the most part. He hears a secret from a mob lawyer who commits suicide and now the law wants his testimony but the boy is scared for his family if he tells what he knows. He finds a woman lawyer who has her own personal problems, but decides to help him. Both the mob and the law end up searching for him and there are many thrills and suspenseful events before the story is over.
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Summary: The Client
Review: This was a great book! I loved it.
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