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Summary: SUPERB FIRST PERSON NARRATION
Review: Grisham's latest legal thriller is set in a minimum security federal prison, Trumble, which houses the expected assortment of crooks - drug dealers, bank robbers, embezzlers - plus three former judges who have dubbed themselves The Brethren. In addition to meeting daily to handle cases for other inmates, this ingenious trio also comes up with what appears to be a successful mail scam. It works well until the wrong victim is caught in their net. Michael Beck's superb first person narration injects greed into a syllable and projects cell blocks of true-to-life voices.
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Summary: another good read
Review: i've never been a reader until this year and i picked this up from my local library because it sounded interesting. it delivers on everything i expected. great.
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Summary: Hanging Judges Left Hanging (***1/2)
Review: I listened to Grisham's The Brethren on tape and was pleasantly surprised by this wildly popular writer's tale of CIA director Teddy Maynard who engineers a nuclear incident to propel the seemingly clean-cut (but secretly gay) candidate to presidency in order to increase arms sales for defense contractors. Grisham uses his courtroom familiarity well to tell the tale of three incarcerated ex-judges who set up a kangaroo court and a homesexual extortion ring from their Florida prison. Reality has a funny way of trumping fiction and it makes you wonder if this political-legal tale cut a little too close to the bone to be made into a movie. It sort of ended in media res, leaving one hanging (though not by said judges).
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Summary: The Brethren
Review: ****
The Brethren is an exiting book that focuses on three judges that have been sentenced to a low security prison. They figure out a way to become very rich by black mailing rich people who have something big to hide. But when they start to mess with the future president of the United States things start to get very messy for the three judges.
I thing the major story in the book in the plot as the same with most of his other books. The way it was written it make you want to turn the next page because you can get so involved in the characters and their story.
The only problems I have found about the book was that with going back and for the between the two stories it was sometimes hard to follow. I also think he did not focus on each set of characters as much as he should.
I would recommend this book to anyone who has liked any of his past books and to anyone who is not afraid of his style of writing.
In my view this is still a very good book despite the ending. I would definetly read this book again.
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Summary: NICE READ BEFORE BEDTIME
Review: Well...put it this way..this book helped me sleep. Sometimes I just toss and turn, think about work, listen to the kids giggling in their slumbers, the wife snoring (quietly. But thank you John Grisham you work miracles. In fact I was dropping off mid way through a page. The story is a good one, with a nice mix of naughty legal people, money laundering, surveillance, good cops, bad cops. The usual cocktail. I liked the story. But the ending was lame lame lame. Why doenst Mr Grisham make an effort with the endings. It seems to me that he simply loses interest and is probably already thinking about his next novel. This is a real shame becasue he writes well and creates believable characters. The ending just lets him down and he needs to speak to the ending...tell it that he needs a spark, a firework and an explosion. He must not let it all fizzle out, to apologetically depart with tail between legs. He needs to get tough with his endings. So much more could have been done with the book, but I had such a good time as I slumbered...and I feelso refreshed.
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Summary: Where's the ending?
Review: I have not read other Grisham novels except for the chamber. I found The Brethren to be a very interesting read and really built interest up until the end where it concluded in a very disappointing way.
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Summary: Typical Grisham - bad ending
Review: Grisham may be an ambitious writer, he tried to touch on new topics in each of his new novel. For this one, he tried to touch president campaign. However, the topic is much explored by many successful writers, it just can't stand out in this novel. Together with the typical flaw like many of Grisham's novel - sudden and bad ending, this certainly is just a so-so novel from Grisham. I still like his old novel, with more courtroom drama - like A Time to Kill. Much more interesting to focus on his legal expertise, may be.
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Summary: review of "Bleachers"
Review: This is the most boring book I have read in a while. The Bleachers. I am afraid that JG is churning out books too fast and that his stories are becoming crap. Reminds me of Harold Robbins....I think JG should go back to the first book he wrote...A Time to Kill, and reflect some before churning out another book. I was very disappointed in The Bleachers and am now hesitant to read his next one...I would wait till it came out in paper back before purchasing any more of his books.
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Summary: We Are A Band of Brothers....!
Review: Someone once said that John Grisham's novels were "White collar crime novels in which you root for the criminal." After reading a number of his books, it seems to me that these are modern Arabian Nights tales: Ordinary people finding a genie in a bottle who will grant all their wishes and help them live happily ever after. In this case, the "ordinary" men are three former judges serving time in a minimum-security federal prison for (relatively) minor crimes. Bored with dispensing jailhouse justice for other inmates, they stumble upon their genie: a personal ad, placed in a gay magazine, seeking companionship, with a killer (no pun intended) photo as bait. The bretheren ensnare several men, blackmail them, and watch their secret bank account in the Bahamas grow. The lawyer on the outside who helps them has his own dreams: to purchase a sailboat and spend the rest of his days cruising (again, no pun intended) the Carribean. Suddenly, the drama intensifies: their well-placed ad snares the wrong man, a rising congressman who has just been hand selected by the longtime CIA director to be the next president of the United States! Life is now exciting for congressman and new presidential candidate Aaron Lake: he is young, vibrant, and with plenty of money behind him, sure to win in November. But, behind the scenes, his life and his every move are now controlled by CIA Director and puppetmaster Teddy Maynard (modeled, no doubt, on J Edgar Hoover; Grisham has a fascination with the man, as he has been a character in one form or another in several novels). How these two unrelated stories intersect and entangle, how millions of dollars changes hands, and how one of the above characters meets a surprise and premature ending---all these events and more are deftly woven together in Grisham's masterful style. At novels end, the genie is uncorked (so to speak), our three judges enter Paradise (but is it heaven...or only Europe?)and now-President Lake is able to pack his prior life back in the closet where it belongs. But, be sure to read to the very end. Could it be.....deja vu? Only the genie (Grisham) knows for sure!
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Summary: Law Drama
Review: This is an interesting book in the sense that it has a lot going on. It seems like everyone has an agenda. It could have been more in depth though and the pace could have been faster. There weren't really that many surprises for me.
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