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Summary: Such A Dissapointment
Review: I had hoped that this book would redeem Grisham for the past couple books he wrote, but alas, it has not. I thought that it could not get worse from The Summons, but again, it has.The story had no real direction, and I could not figure out the moral of the story. There was no restitution or retribution like there usually is in his other novels. It's just a story about a greedy lawyer. Nothing else, just his greed, and the extent he will go to get it. I will say nothing else but hope that his next book will be an improvement.
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Summary: Definitely makes for a great lazy Sunday afternoon reading!
Review: After making a brief foray into a new genre in 'Skipping Christmas' and 'The Painted House', Grisham returns to his home turf with the 'King of Torts' Yes, he is back to zillion dollar lawsuits and the men who file and fight them. Only here, there's a slight departure from his standard formula. There is no clear demarcation between the good and the bad guy. They blur into one. But having said that, it is only fair to say that the minor variation notwithstanding, the book remains a quintessential Grisham. In his disdain for money-making, mega law firms, legal malpractice, he retains his original flavor. The story takes an unexpected turn when the poorly-paid, savior-of-the-downtrodden, public prosecutor at the OPD, Clay Carter, falls prey to avarice and ambition. He abandons his rather hapless client, the victim of an experimental anti-addiction drug, resigns and sets up his own law firm. A relentless craving for power, money and recognition pushes him to take on the life on a mass tort litigator. He digs around for dirty laundry on big corporations, jumps at the first opportunity to sue them, arm-twists them into out-of-court settlements worth millions of dollars. But just when the champagne-caviar life is hits the zenith, a bunch of disgruntled clients, who feel they have received a raw deal, decide to go after the 'King of Torts' himself.
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Summary: Tort Lawywers are bad, and so is this book
Review: As I began to read the King of Torts, I was under the impression that Clay Carter of the Public Defenders Office was going to sue a drug company and make billions. I thought this would be just like the Rainmaker or the Street Lawyer with Grisham taking on evil, corporate America. Clay Carter does get this chance and he makes a quick fortune through dubious methods and then takes on a case that could make him millions of dollars. At this point, the King of Torts switches gears and becomes something totally unexpected and also pretty boring and dissappointing. Clay Carter started out as an underdog with a chance to change his life. But then Clay turns into the person we all hate, the evil tort lawyer. Grisham shows his obvious distaste for the evil greed of the bigtime tort lawyers, and that redeems this book in some fashion. Yet the story it is trying to tell takes on more of a biographical tone of Clay Carters life. There are no twists or turns or good guys or bad guys. Things just happen to Clay Carter, good and bad, and we are along for the ride. I didn't totally hate this book because its message is against tort lawyers and their greed, but the King of Torts is a big disappointment. There is no depth to the characters. All characters are just an accessory to Clay's life from the bimbo girlfriend to the jilted fiance to the other lawyers who work with him. Grisham has definitely been in a slump lately, with the Painted House being his best work. Grisham is still obviously a great writer, I just hope he soon decides to write a thriller type novel instead of a biography of a greedy tort lawyer.
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Summary: the ending could have been better
Review: I probably should have given it 4 stars. The book was a quick enjoyable read. The main charachter Clay is someone you root for. I just thought he could have put a better ending especially because Grisham set up and ending that would have been awesome , but he didn't go that root. But how can i rip on a book that took me 2 days to read and didn't want to put it down.
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Summary: Better!
Review: "The King of Torts" by John Grisham reminded me a lot of "The Firm". No one can write a sleazy lawyer better than Grisham. I haven't liked his more recent books as well as the first ones, and this one is more like the old Grisham. "A Time to Kill" is still my favorite, though. That's Grisham at his best.
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Summary: No Real Insight into the Legal World but a Fun Read!
Review: I enjoyed reading this book although I was hoping for something more. As an aspiring lawyer, I was hoping for a captivating insight into tort law and the life of a mass media ambulance chaser. However, I found this installment of Grisham's legal series to be a lot like watching reality tv (All entertainment, no substance). The story had all the drama and romance a popular novel enthuiast could ask for and I found the story line to be a page turner. I would recommend this book for the person who likes a good drama and cares little about the legal field.
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Summary: The King of Torts
Review: The story just seemed to go no where. Just about a lawyer who took an underhanded deal to make a lot of money and just kept on doing the same thing when other opportunties came along while missing his girl friend the whole time inspirt of the honey on his arm. Of course he lost all the money, never helped out the little community that he broke the biggest employer in and after getting beat up won the old girlfriend back and headed to the islands with some money his over paid employees gave him. John's run out of good lawyer stories.
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Summary: Had my attention for 75% of the book
Review: It held my attention through 75% of the book and then I got lost in the boring end. I really like Grisham as a writer and always expect a lot. He's always good and this started great but I did not like the latter part of the story. I'll continue to read more Grisham books but this was not one of his better works.
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Summary: Grisham spins a good yarn
Review: Clay Matthews is an attorney laboring in the halls of public defender when an unbelievable offers falls into his lap. Max Hayes arrives on the scene and convinces Clay to leave behind his meager career and move into swank offices and become the hotshot in the legal world. The money scenarios he throws at Clay are
unbelievable and the case he is giving him I have read before in a novel. What makes this novel work is Grisham can take a yarn and spin into a masterpiece. Before Clay can catch his breath he is raking in millions of dollars and has more cases for civil action that he can imagine. His colleagues who traveled this
path with him are starting to get preoccupied with the money and don't see the bridges burning underneath them. In the end Clay gets what he really wanted when he took the first case. Grisham last two novels were lackluster in my opinion and wrote for the big screen. In this novel he wrote with passion and didn't let the lure of Hollywood force his characters into stereotype situations and the ending wasn't abrupt. Since
I read this book in 24 hr. I must rate it a 10 which it greatly earned in my opinion.
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Summary: Same old
Review: Same plot, different names. Lawyer gets suckered into shady dealings, after many problems complicated by his own character flaws, sees the light and tries to redeem himself. I just wish that the main character could, for once, do some jail time for his misdeeds and not end up on a jet to some foreign paradise with a faithful lover and a couple of mil stashed in a Swiss bank. I did enoy reading about the machinations of class action suits. This book is a good way to spend a few hours on a plane, if one doesn't mind stereotypes.
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