The Firm

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Summary: Awesome!
Review: This was one of the best books I've ever read. Seldom do I find a book that keeps me on the edge of my seat from the first word to the last. I recommend this book for any reader.

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Summary: Legal Thriller
Review: When a Memphis law firm makes Mitch McDeere an offer he can't refuse, he jumps in, only later to learn that no one has ever left the firm on his own terms. The pace is fast, the characters interesting and the story is entertaining, but the ending is a little flat. A good, quick read. Having seen the movie before I read the book, I think Grisham should put his legal skills to use and sue Sydney Pollack for the lousy film adaptation of his novel.

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Summary: I love it!
Review: This book is what got me started to read as a hobby. I totally loved it and went back to A Time to Kill which is another wonderful book. This book is two big thumbs up!

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Summary: must read for fans of grisham
Review: This book was one of the few that I've read having seen the movie 1st. While reading thinking of Mitch as Tom Cruise. The book is very good, will hold your attention, and make you want more Grisham. Real good stuff here with Mitch, the other members of the firm, the mob, the firms security, and the FBI. I recommend it to all readers of novels.

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Summary: Rip off ending.
Review: Starts off pretty well but the more I read the worse it got. The ending was totally bogus. In the beginning I was wanting to know more about the characters. It could have been interesting. More depth of character. Didn't get it. The characters are one dimensional and get old quick. Like a novelized version of a not great movie. Quick read though.

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Summary: Give me a break.
Review: A law student gets wooed by a "small firm in Memphis" paying top dollar and promises huge returns. Yeah, that wasn't suspicious. Okay, suspend belief. Greedy lawyer takes obvious bait. Now, go cheat on your beautiful wife with a stranger on the beach? Please. Who does that? Mitch is endeared to his wife, Abigail. Grisham makes that abundantly clear, so he cheats? A bit too convenient, don'tcha think? Photos for blackmail - whew, couldn't see THAT one coming. Come on. The worst thing about the book is that the last 30 pages feels as though Grisham is trying to figure out a way to clear McDeere. He runs around the south east, to Florida, gets on a boat to escape, blah, blah, blah. I think the ending of the movie was more creative than the book. At least the mail fraud was plausible.

The central idea of the book was my favorite part. I thought the mafia cover up for laundering money was a great idea, and sucking in unsuspecting lawyers was smart. But Grisham could have done better with the twists and turns, and could have developed a better escape path than just having McDeere run around until he fell onto a boat. Further, having the Firm's security team doctor fake photos of McDeere and mistress would be far better than tarnishing his reputation. Same effect of blackmail without the shame.

"The Firm" is an easy read with shallow characters and shallow, convenient plot line, and a lame ending.

Enjoy the movie. Cruise is a perfect McDeere, and the ending is better.

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Summary: The Firm
Review: The book The Firm, written by John Grisham, is a powerful and intriguing novel filled with mystery and suspense. I would recommend this book to people who like John Grisham and people that like a lot of foreshadowing in their books. I really think this a great book to read if you're into mystery and murder. This is a book that can really get you hooked. It doesn't tell you much in the beginning, but it gurantees you a great ending. I'm glad I ended up reading this book. It's not usually a book that I would ever pick up and read. I promise anyone who reads this book will have something good to say about it.

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Summary: The Firm,
Review: The Firm a book written by John Grisham is a suspenseful and intriguing book about a remote law firm in Memphis Tennessee, called Bendini, Lambert, & Locke which the FBI suspects of dealing with illegitimate money. The main character of the story, Mitch McDeere a recent graduate of Harvard Law School, is the top recruited graduate in the country. Mitch has been sought by all of the top law firms around the United States. The firm that caught his attention was the tiny, forty-one-lawyer firm that offered unbelievable benefits to their new recruits. He would receive a new BMW, an extremely low mortgage rate, his student loans would be paid off, and the firm would finance his new house. For Mitch McDeere this sounded too good to be true, because before all of this wealth, he was living in poverty. He starts off at the firm, and things are going great until two soon to be partners, Marty Kozinski and Joe Hodge were killed in a very suspicious diving accident in the Cayman Islands. The investigators looking into the killings think that this was no accident. Soon, FBI agents, who tell Mitch they have been watching the firm, approach him. They believe the firm is handling illegal and illegitimate money, and the FBI wants Mitch to help them shut the firm down. I loved this book because the plot kept you wondering what was going to happen next. You always had to keep reading, because you needed to know what was going to happen with Mitch's situation. John Grisham really did a wonderful job developing the characters, because as the plot thickened you knew the characters well enough that you knew how they would react in different situations. The story is exciting, eventful, and the words are extremely descriptive so you can really get a good sense of what is going on. This book is a lot like John Grisham's other book, The Client. The Firm and The Client are similar because they both are action packed thrillers, which keep getting better as the story progresses. If you are a fan of John Grisham's or you like nail biting thrillers it is imperative that you read The Firm.

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Summary: Really Freakin' Good
Review: This book was so good it made lawyers seem interesting. Not respectable, but interesting.

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Summary: Grishim is head of the Class
Review: This is the best book that Grisham has ever written. For any new fans, I would suggest reading ths book first, because if you don't like The Firm, than Grisham will never appeal to you. What is even more amazing is the fact that I can enjoy this book, even though I'm not an avid reader. This was the first novel I had read in a while, and it set the standard so high, that any book I now read not written by him is almost unbearable. Grisham is able to keep oyu turning the pages because of his great skill of character development. He gives you an intamamcy with the characters (which are unique and beleivable), that will have you wondering what they will do next. He also gives you a geat feeling for the settings in thsi book, if not always a physical discription. This is one of his weaknesess, as are his usually disapointing endings. With the excellent 400+ page buildup in this book, you would expect more than a 10 page conclusion. However, the book is great if yoy just pretend it ended differently