The Rainmaker

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Summary: Addictive! Finished it at 5 AM in the middle of the week
Review: Yeah, yeah, yeah. The outcome, of course, is fully predictable (after the hint that Memphis is stingy with its punitive damages awards I kinda expected a multimillion $ award), but the ease, the finesse of Grisham's plot and the story left me captive in the fictive dream until I finished the book in the morning in one marathon setting. Grisham is an amazing story-teller. I can't believe a story about a bad faith insurance case, wife abuse, and family problems of a little old lady can enchant me in such a way. I am sure Grisham can tell a story of a lawyer going to the petting zoo and make it a bestseller. Deck, Miss Birdie, Bruiser and others were exceptionally vivid characters, if somewhat one-dimensional. Rudy was actually my least favorite. Sugary nice guy, whose personality doesn't get a grain of salt even after he works for a thug lawyer and a gangster. Overall, simple but high-profile story, interesting cast, and amazing, AMAZING storytelling.

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Summary: ADDICTIVE!
Review: One of the greatest book of Grisham. Great story, with some humours and romance. The author makes you feel that you are in the story!

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Summary: Boring and the main character was a complete waste.
Review: I had no cares for any of the people in this story. This is boring and simple reading. If this was the only Grisham I ever read, it would be the last. People you are being too kind to this author. He is turning out junk by the minute.

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Summary: A great story and well developed characters.
Review: I really enjoyed this bok, it's one of the best I have ever read. John Grisham erally captured the excitement of a larger corporaate lawsuit in this book. He goes into vast detail in the procedures that a real laywer would have to in that situation. Though the insurance fraud case was incredibly simple to win, it really added something special to the book, a real-life situation. It seemed real through the whole book, from beginning to end, from the last year of Rudy Baylor's law school to the hesitation in Dot Black to file the lawsuit against the Great Benefit Insurace Company. Grisham went a little overboard with Rudy's romance, that small portion of the book is the only part I found unrealistic. Although I couldn't relate to this book in any way, of course, I'm not in law school or a lawyer, I still found it a valuable piece because of it's representaion of this decade. He was able to capture the essence of multi-million dollar lawsuits and faulty mairrages in an excellent book. It is different from most boks today because of the complicate first person narrative. It's present tense setting also sets it apart from many books. With The Rainmaker, Grisham has dared to go where most autors are afraid to. I, at first was hesitant to pick up this book because I 've never read anything in the genre before, but after the first five pages, I was hooked.

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Summary: A book that you CANNOT put down!
Review: The Rainmaker is an intence story of a young man, Rudy Baylor, finishing his years of law school and is just about to take the bar exam. Whithin this time he takes on two cases, without a lisence, one is an elderly woman with her will while the other is a mother, Dot Black, and her son Donny Ray Black, who is dieing of luekemia and their insurance company, Great Benefit, will not allow them the money they need to give Donny Ray the proper medical treatment that he needs. As Rudy takes on this case he is met with a group of "legal sharks" led by a man named Leo F. Drummend. These lawyers have power, money, and experience non of which Rudy has. I liked this book because it had a mixture of comedy, romance, mytery, and suspence giving it my attention all the way through. I believe that any one looking for a good book with intelegence and a mixture of themes will love this book every time that they read it.

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Summary: Good Job John
Review: I love the book because you get a feel for how a young lawyer has trouble getting past law school. I think any good reader should read this book.

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Summary: Typical Poor ending Grisham book.
Review: This was an exciting and funn book to read. I stayed up all night to finish it only to be increadibly dissapointed by the ending. I went away wishing I had never strted it in the first place. Grisham has a way of ruining so many books in the last few chapters.

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Summary: A delightful read.
Review: Realistic and emotional. Portraits perfectly how common people live and work, we identify with the characters and their problems. Best Grisham ever!. Avoid the movie though.

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Summary: Don't see the movie
Review: Not thatthe movie wan't good, but after reading the book it does not hold a candel! The book was amazing and emotional! I felt that I was right along side Rudy and there were so many things going on in his life that it was shockingly similar to the way we all actually live! The problem with the movie is that it was too short. They didn't have time to touch onthe major issues of the book, and charecters that were pertinant to the book were taken out of the movie. If you are interested in being emotionally involved in a book, read this, but please.... don't see the movie!

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Summary: Awesomeness
Review: okay, I am 16 years old and read The Rainmaker some time ago, but now I'm using it for a class assignment (400pt research paper) and I'll have to say, this is the first book where I stayed up till 3AM in the morning just to finish it, when I had school the next day. I mean, it is truly awesome! Grisham makes boring things sound so interesting and cool. Although I didn't like the ending, actually his other books have kinda sloppy endings too but other than that, I would recommend this book to everybody out there!