The Partner (Audio CD Edition)

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Summary: A Real Page-Turner (just to get it over with!)
Review: Unlike most of Grisham's novels, I couldn't wait to put this one down, i.e., finish it, forget it, and use my time reading something better - like a cereal box. From reading other reviews,the book jacket, and the first 2 chapters, I expected classic Grisham - unpredictable plot twists and turns, a person on the run and always on the verge of getting caught, surving on brains and luck. Instead, we get a main character, Patrick Lanigan, who is not sympathetic or "unsympathetic" (a point on which most negative reviews seem to focus and characterize as the major drawback) but is just pathetic - no real personality, no underdog or super-achiever traits, just plain boring (other than his amazing ability to lose weight quickly and control his ravenous appetite - apparently the only interesting trait Grisham found in this man). Lanigan is inserted in a similarly boring plot - mainly due to its lack of creativity or ingenuity. As he details his "brilliant" faked death to a friend, I thought that there had to be a reason as to why he was spilling all the info - lies? manipulation? surely something brilliant and completely unpredictable that would justify the time I had spent reading so far, and I couldn't wait to find out what. The answer? No reason at all. Just telling a boring story. With most of Grisham's novels, you end up thinking - "what would I have done in that situation? Could I have escaped or gotten the upper hand? Would I be that smart?" or, at least "Yeah, right - like that would EVER happen in real life..." With Lanigan, well, you just end up an average guy, doing average things, with your average cheating trophy wife, in the middle of an average mid-life crisis, who wants to quit his job, run away and find a new, younger woman, and happens to know where to get fake id's (like any college student doesn't) and buy surveillance equipment (like any paranoid parent with a nanny doesn't) and decides to spice up his boring escape from his average life by intercepting millions of dollars. The latter point holds promise. Why does he do it? Not clear. Any guilt? Not clear. Any satisfying feeling of revenge? Not clear. Any adventures in his four years on the run? Not clear. The only things that are clear is that Grisham is coattailing on past successes to get on the bestseller list... and that he "stole" my money in the process

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Summary: very good reading the plot was excellent
Review: very good reading the plot was excellent the characters fitted the storyline well bit hard to understand the terminology that john grisham had put into the boo

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Summary: Definitely not you best work, John
Review: Dear John: You have fallen a long way since "A Time toKill", "The Client" and "The Firm". The leadmale and female characters in The Partner and Runaway Jury were much too similar, not to mention the plot to get hold of the money. Cloning may the new wave in technology, but I don't think it will work in fiction writing. Take your time John, don't be in such a hurry to crank out novels. When you write another high caliber novel such as I am accustomed to from you, I'll still be here, prepared to storm the bookstore; still your number one fan!

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Summary: Karma!!!
Review: I still enjoyed the book but Grisham has lost his touch since Atime to kill...Maybe he should've made the title of the book Karmainstead of the partner?

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Summary: Pure Crapola
Review: I think Grisham has lost his touch from his days of A TIME TO KILL I mean THE PARTENER was close to no brainer except for the twisted end. Grishams is at his best in A Time to KIll, The Chamber, and The Rainmaker. Very close to them is THE FIRM and if i may say THE Client. Run Away Jury and THE PARTENER seemed to be one and the same. Run away Jury had some valued information on tobacco Industry's Garbase. and The Partener Well you figure it out. I think the partener was a give away story without the ending.

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Summary: Horrible Ending.
Review: Wait for the paperback

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Summary: good read but the ending needed work
Review: Lots of twists and people getting what they deserved as the book wore on. Somehow the ending appeared hurried or just not well thought out. It was like a good date gone awry after the lights went out. I just didn't know what hit me, but I knew I wasn't satisfied

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Summary: Disappointing ending
Review: John G had another good one going. Until the end, that is. Grisham has always provided satisfying endings in the past. For some reason, he dropped the ball here. I probably won't buy the next Grisham novel until after, I have heard from others. I talked to one other reader who said she didn't like the ending either. Norman Sharp, Noblesville, Indian

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Summary: A few drawbacks but still a good read
Review: The character of Patrick Lanigan was very much reminiscent of Nicholas Easter in "Runaway Jury". It was almost as if they both shared the same thought process. I attribute this to the fact that the novels were written with such a short time span in between that Grisham did not have enough time to evolve a totally unique protagonist. I also felt that Grisham did not develop Eva's character in a way that would allow the reader to accept the ending of the story. Throughout the book she was made to seem totally devoted to Patrick and her father. For her to do what she apparently did in the end was totally out of character. On the other hand, I enjoy Grisham's style of starting his books with the climax and then filling in the details that surround it. This style of writing has the advantage of immediately drawing the reader into the story. The delight comes not in trying to second guess the protagonist, but in finding out all the deceptions and intricacies woven into his story. Altho

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Summary: Great reading, but...
Review: It sure kept me reading and, for most of the book, on the edgeof my seat. Until the ending, that is. I really wonder what Grishamwas thinking when he decided upon the ending. Or was he thinking? Overall, I liked it a bunch. I'd read it again if I knew there was going to be different, more satisfying ending!