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Summary: Drags on for too long
Review: Nice, compelling story, but the book drags on for too long. 460 pages is too much for this story. John Grisham should've told it in half the time. Sometimes repetitive. Certainly worth reading, but John Grisham has much better books (The Testament, The Brethren, A Painted House,...)
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Summary: The Client
Review: Mark Sway,11 whose drunken father abused his mother is in the woods behind his trailer with his younger brother and they see a a guy in his car trying to commit suicide by carbon monixide. The guy turns out to be a lawyer whose client murdered Senator Boyd Boyle and buried him in his yard. Ricky flips out and so does Barry the blade Muldano because he doesn't want the authorities and Attorney Roy Foltrigg to figuree him out. Ricky is caught in a game between the mob and immoral authorities. Mark's family has no defense so they turn to Reggie Love a woman in her 50's who is trying to turn her life around by becoming a lawyer. The chase between Ricky, the authorities and the mob is on!!!
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Summary: Grisham¿s worst.
Review: I was extremely disappointed in this book. Grisham, who is one of my favorite authors, spews out this terrible book for no reason. In a contrived, boring, unbelievable story, Grisham goes through the motions in this long, drowned out novel. A young boy, from a poor trailer family, tries to intervene in a suicide, only to be caught in a web of secrets concerning the missing body of a Senator. With the mob, FBI, and an old boring lawyer, the very young boy, who Grisham portrays as the smartest, most cunning person ever for some odd reason, has to endure a lot of annoying stuff in order to get to an ending that everyone, but Grisham, knew was going to happen. A poor boy finds out a secret that puts his life in danger from the mob. Sounds like the perfect solution would be the witness protection program? Guess what, that is the ending. Of course, for some reason Grisham goes about in the most roundabout, superfluous way. There was no story here. This book is pointless, boring, repetitive, and the young kid, who Grisham accidentally blessed with a superhuman intelligence and an amazing ability to annoy, absolutely kills it. I have no idea what Grisham was thinking when he was writing this book. I could not recommend this at all.
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Summary: One of Grisham's very best
Review: Okay, I'm not a completely qualified Grisham fan having only read half (six) of his novels, but this one ranks near the top of my list, anyway, just below the sensational The Rainmaker and slightly above The Pelican Brief. I imagine this book will stay the near the top of that list for quite some time. I found the book good on several levels. The plot is simplistic, but one of those "what if" scenarios that I'm sure many writers had thought about before but never voices. What if a child overheard important information in a criminal case and refused - for whatever reason - not to tell. In this case, that child is Mark Sway, an eleven-year-old trailor-trash type with a single mother who struggles to make ends meet for Mark and his eight-year-old brother Ricky. Mark and Ricky stumble across a man on the verge of committing suicide, try to save him, and the man spills the beans on why he's committing suicide - he's the lawyer of a much-sought and dangerous Mafia man who's hidden the body of a dead senator. The lawyer tells Mark where the body is and then proceeds to kill himself, just as he'd intended to long ago. Perhaps what I liked about this book so much was that the main character wasn't a lawyer. Usually, Grisham's novels (at least the one's I've read) have had a lawyer as the main character, and it's told through a lawyers eyes. Here, we see everything with a child's innocence. Mark may be very mature for his age (having helped his mother file for divorce from his abusive father, among other things), but he still has that inner child that adds something to every scene - the questioning about whether to lie or not, the regret afterwards, the thoughts of his mother and his brother (who went into shock after seeing the suicide) and wishing he was back on a playground where things were simple, even the more mature thoughts of who he could trust. It's very easy to care for this child. I was with him the entire way. The Client kept me interested. It wasn't predictable. Many of the scenes were quite funny, actually. Grisham develops fantastic dynamics between several of the parties involve - Reggie and the FBI, Harry the Judge and the FBI, even the mob members don't get along. And it doesn't dwell too much on the legal aspect of it, I'm sure everyone'll be happy to hear, and whenever it is used, it's brought down the child's level. Still, assuming Grisham actually knows what he's talking about, I did learn a little bit about the "system", as I would hope to from a novel that uses it. But it's only there to propel the stories and the characters forward. Overall, I recommend this to any Grisham or non-Grisham fan out there. I started reading The Rainmaker last summer thinking I would set it down within half an hour, but I ended up finishing it in under a week. I'm not normally a fan of legal thrillers, but he's a fabulous, concise and easy-to-read author who has a knack for creating original and compassionate characters. Every once in a while you'll find a good moral, too, although he never preaches it to you. For this novel: Watch you say.
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Summary: A kid who knows too much
Review: John Grisham is a synonim of intriguing lawyer stories. This time he won't let you down again.
A young kid finds out by accident the key to unravel a very notorious crime of a US senator, in the meantime his little brother is in a comma and his life is in peril due to this finding.
Not only has he to save his brother's life but also escape from a very well known gangster who has been suspected of organizing the crime.
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Summary: ''A boy that knew too much"
Review: Mark, an 11 year old boy who lives in a trailer park with his mom and his younger brother Ricky in Memphis Tennessee, had to deal with many problems in his past. He had to put up with his father who was a drunk and used to beat his mom. One day while his mom went to work he and Ricky decided to steal their mom's cigarettes and go into the woods to smoke them. There they found a man{Jerome}in a car trying to commit suicide by the carbon monoxide. They try to save him by taking the pipe out, the man catches them and tells them his clients who are in the Mafia have killed the Senator Boyd Boyette. He told them that they hid his body underneath his garage in New Orleans. After telling the two boys the news he shoots himself in the head. This really freaks out the two boys. Mean while Barry Blade who was a part in the Senator's death, doesn't want the U.S. Attorney to find the body or he will have to go to prison. Soon after hearing what Jerome told them, their mother finds out. Mark later goes to Reggie Love who is an Attorney, who has recently been divorced and had an alcoholic problem. He hires her to protect him from the Mafia as well as the authorities. This was a long book and the court scenes were confusing but the ending was great. As you read this book you will understand the courage of Mark and the great barriers he has to overcome with a little help from Reggie.
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Summary: Page Turning Thriller
Review: Mark Sway and his younger brother are in the woods when they encounter lawyer, Jerome Clifford, and witness his suicide. Preceeding the suicide Mark was told by Jerome where the most wanted dead body in the nation was. Now Mark is being followed by the killer of the body and is wanted dead himself. Through this complex crime adventure, 11 year-old Mark hires a lawyer who protects and guides him through events that change everything and gives his family a new life. I rate this book as a five out of five because of the suspense and excitement it offers. There are unexpected turns, enticing events, and compelling climaxes. The Client is a must read and will etch into your mind like no other. Also, you will be able to make many connections with the variety of characters that play roles from a single mom to a vulgar cereal killer. This book gives you the motive to keep turning the pages because you want to know what happens next. I would definitely declare The Client as a top of the line, irresistible book.
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Summary: Riddled with logical inconsistencies.
Review: I don't think Grisham really thought too much when he wrote this book. I can't specifically discuss the many lapses of logic in the story line without giving away the plot. Suffice it to say that I found the story that Grisham wove to be most unrealistic, and frankly, downright silly. He paints Mark as a clever, wise beyond his years 11-year-old, yet some of Mark's reasoning towards the end of the book is weak even for a typical 11-year-old. He paints Reggie as a woman who is wise in the ways of the world, yet she makes errors of judgment that in the real world would get her disbarred, and probably land her in jail. All in all, a big disappointment.
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Summary: simple conflict, great climax
Review: Despite of the critics, I think that John Grisham's "The Client" is one of his most thrilling novels. Mark Sway was an 11 yr. old mischievous kid who learned the biggest secret of a Mafia murderer...But, he was so scared enough to tell the FBI & the police because his family was threatened by the Mob if he would tell the location of the late Senator Boyette...The prosecuters & the FBI were doing all they could do to let Mark tell them...He decided to get an inexperienced female lawyer named Reggie Love who would do anything to save his client and her life. My favorite character had to be Reggie Love because of her tough character towards Mrs. Sway's employee, the police & FBI..Ironically, she was a real sweetie to her clients...The characters were all gerat. I could clearly imagine their colorful positive or negative attitudes. To those who are starting to read John Grisham's novels, I suggest you buy this one...This is my first Grisham novel and I absolutely planned to buy more of his works.
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Summary: Great book minus the confusing events in the courtroom
Review: Even though "The Client" doesn't really have a heavy conflict, the climax is awesome!....My fave character would be the courageous Reggie Love, the attorney who defended the 11 yr.old Mark Sway...It's an easy to read book....You will be hooked from the first chapter until the last!
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