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Summary: let down ending
Review: I like reading Grisham books- they are extremely entertaining, engaging, etc. but the endings are always a bit of a let down... everything gets "solved" to easily- like the FBI dropping the charges. Oh please!
It's a good read, if you don't expect a creative ending....
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Summary: This book is B O R I N G (and I'm sad to say it!)
Review: I'm sorry to say that this book is SO boring. It's chapter after chapter of numbers associated with 3 large cases. I have PURCHASED and listened to (I am a voracious audio book listener) EVERY John Grisham book and this one was incredibly BORING. As I came home tonight I almost laughed as I sat in my car shaking my head at how much I didn't care about the characters because there ARE no characters. But I will always buy Grisham - maybe this is one miss out of many hits.
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Summary: Typical Grisham
Review: King of Torts is a typical Grisham novel. It follows the same pattern as his other lawyer stories. However, I can say that I was suprised that it took the main character as long as it did to spend the money and then lose it. The pattern was predictable from the beginning. I'm sorry to say that this was not one of Grisham's best.
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Summary: Grisham Off-Peak
Review: This book has the appearance of being churned out quickly, with perhaps Grisham's deserved high status causing fear among editors who would normally improve any author's text.
The book's intention is apparently a lesson in ethics and greed, and to the extent that watching the hero/anti-hero rise and fall will make readers think, it is an enjoyable surprise.
But readers who care about tight, detailed writing will gnash teeth in frustration. There are also too many improbabilities and questiones left unanswered.
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Summary: A Courtroom Thriller, Without Courtroom or Thrills
Review: It's an interesting notion: follow a young lawyer's climb up the ladder of civil litigation and his subsequent fall. Too bad Grisham's Clay Carter merely coasts along. There are no stirring courtroom scenes: all the action takes place on cell phones between lawyers. There's no mystery during investigation. There's simply no investigation; a mysterious source provides everything he needs. Clay never questions the man's motives. He never questions the origin of his information. To be honest, he doesn't do much of anything. His career is handed to him, his demise mostly the result of unforseeable events. People come into his life, and most leave with barely a blip. Grisham scratches the potential of civil suits, but doesn't dig deep enough to shed much light on the topic. He implies dark secrets, but nobody bothers to search them out. This book isn't bad, just bland.
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Summary: So close...
Review: Spoiler Warning! I must say that this book is fast paced once it gets started and doesn't drop off until the very end where it unravels within a few pages and suddenly ends. It seems to me Grisham simply recycled the ending of The Rainmaker and stuck on the end of this one and that disapoints me. I loved the book up until the end and even though the end made sense, it was muddy and based on a "verdict" that came out of nowhere. But, I still greatly enjoyed the book and I'm sure in time I'll get over it!
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Summary: Enough with the Morality Lesson Already!
Review: The first half of this book is a well-written page-turner. The second half is a wrap up job that bangs you over the head with a lesson on greed. For the reader well versed in picking up subtle clues, the last half of the book will annoy the tar out of you. I read the entire book only because the first half was so good. I kept thinking it would get better, but it never did. Still a good read if you're a Grisham fan, just borrow it from the library or wait for paperback.
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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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