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Summary: So Disappointed
Review: We listened to this book on tape during a very long drive across the country. That is the good part. It was better than random FM or AM stations. I was very disappointed in the lack of conclusion. It was as though his time was up and he quit writing. Morality tale? The main character ... had a few million flowing around him .... Not like he was a pauper or back to OPD. Characters were dropped off and not resolved. Story lines were abandoned. Sure this is a wonderful morality tale. Don't fall for the Grisham hype again.
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Summary: Good, but not Grisham's best
Review: Now that John Grisham has established himself as a leading author of legal thrillers, just about anybody will pick up his books, regardless of how good or bad they may be. His publishers may even be pushing him to finish a book a year. The result, however, are books written very rapidly, or at least they appear to be. This is not my favorite Grisham book by far. But it is not a bad book either. And regardless of how fast his books continue to come out, I will still read them. Why? Because I have read enough great Grisham books in the past that I have the hope that his next book will be his best. In other words, I still believe that Grisham's shallow, rapidly-constructed stories of the past several years can return to be the great legal thrillers of a decade ago. And it is this that keeps me reading his books.
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Summary: "The Summons" Retread
Review: The Summons - burned out lawyer has immense wealth dumped on him unexpectedly, indulges his greedy desires, goes one step too far and loses the money, and is now a better man for having gone through it (oh, and he bought himself an airplane).The King of Torts - burned out lawyer has immense wealth dumped on him unexpectedly, indluges his greedy desires, goes one step too far and loses the money, and is now a better man for having gone through it (oh, and he bought himself an airplane). It seems that Grisham called up his manuscript for The Summons, made a few changes to the plot (how the lawyer acquires the money, the setting, etc.), performed a "Find and Replace" with the names of the characters, and voilla, a new book for 2003. I enjoyed The Summons a great deal, and thought Grisham was back to his old form after some disappointing efforts. I read The Summons a second time, but didn't realize it until I was almost all the way through it because it was cleverly disguised as "The King of Torts." This would have been a good and enjoyable read if it weren't a retread.
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Summary: King of torts
Review: Among his most recent disappointments King of Torts is quite reasonable but in no way near the quality of books which John Grisham has written in the distant past. The start of the book is good but the end is abrupt. I suspected halfway in the book that what if the hero gets beaten up badly buy a grieved client and the book ends. And exactly that happened. I wonder what has happen to this talented and used to be entertaining writer. I am glad that I did not pay for this book, got it as a gift.
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Summary: Pure [doo-doo]
Review: Not only is the plot stupid (a shady character tips a lawyer off who proceeds to roll the dice and hopes his mega-suits settle) but the main character completely violates the main rule of fiction - he is so greedy and evil that you hope he goes down in flames. By virtue of the fact that he's the main character, and therefore ought to be sympathetic, his final come-uppance is deeply flawed. He doesn't pay for his crimes and his redeeming vlues are so meager you can't help but feel that the time spent reading this has been wholly wasted. It's time to send Grisham to Iraq.
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Summary: Check It Out At The Library
Review: I never bought a Grisham book. Would always check them out at the library. And I really like his writings and always look forward to them coming out each year. This time I purchased the hardback, and I was really dissapointed that I spent all that money.
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Summary: SOLID GRISHAM
Review: I always look forward to John Grisham's new novels. Sometimes I'm disappointed, sometimes I'm pleasantly surprised. I really enjoyed this book. Reading Grisham you try to figure out how it's going to go at the end. I'm still getting over the last page of THE PARTNER. I enjoyed this book and I liked the ending. I breezed through this novel in two days. That's how into it I was. Not his best work, but solid work.
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Summary: Yawn. No suspense. None.
Review: Could this book be any more boring? Okay, possibly there's some mildly interesting information about mass tort litigation in the United States, but that's about it. There was no suspense about what was going to happen in the end. We all knew Clay Carter's greed and profligate spending would bear a hefty price tag at the end. It did. We knew he'd get the girl. He did. I'm a fan of Grisham's earlier works ("Skipping Christmas" excepted, of course), but this book comes nowhere close to the level of the others. I kept waiting for something interesting or unexpected to change the course of the story, but it never did.
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Summary: Grisham at his worst
Review: John Grisham past the peak of his writing with the Rainmaker and now continues to publisher a book every March, whether he has written anything worthwhile or not. He has the potential to write great popular fiction, but quite obviously didn't devote much time to character or story line development in this sad effort. Perhaps Mr Grisham should disregard any contractural agreements and leave the story writing until he feels creative. How much longer can his novels wear the title "bestseller" merely based on his old reputation as a great fiction writer.
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Summary: Cautionary Tale of Corruption and Greed
Review: Medicines that have some nasty side-effects are put on the market and lawyers, like ambulance chasers, file class action suits to make a killing on other people's misery. This book personalizes this scenario to make it real for the reader. I'm not sure what negative reviewers were expecting as this is pretty much like other Grisham novels. It's a topical story about the legal profession. Not great writing, but a good story well told.
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