Rating: 
Summary: The Firm
Review: The Firm starts out when a poor law student gets an interview by the Bendini, Lambert, and Locke Firm. The firm offers him a BMW, a low interest loan for a house, and 80,000 dollars the first year plus bonuses. Mitch McDeere, the law student decided to take the job. Mitch was at his lunch break one day when Wayne Tarrance, an FBI agent, started to talk to him about the firm. Tarrance told him that the firm was actually ran by the mafia. The FBI wanted Mitch to either get them information so they could indict the lawyers of the firm or just keep working and when they bust the they will send him to jail. To find out what Mitch does read the book. This book was great!
Rating: 
Summary: John Grisham REALLY stinks
Review: I know I'll get flamed for this, but I just have to get it off my chest. After reading "The Firm" and "A Time to Kill" I have come to the conclusion the Grisham is one of the worst writers ever to top the bestseller list. "The Firm" starts out plausibly, but then goes totally haywire at about the two-thirds mark with an ending as believable as your average romance novel. If Grisham was as good an attorney as he is a writer, there'd be a lot more people on death row.
Rating: 
Summary: Fun story, TERRIBLY written
Review: I admit, I was sucked in by the plot. Grisham has a good story here, but his WRITING! I honestly think that a high school freshman Creative Writing student could have produced better, more interesting prose. Boring, repetitive character descriptions, an extraordinarily limited vocabulary, sentence fragments galore... For good lawyer-based fiction, I'll stick with Scott Turow-- he tells a good story AND tells it well.
Rating: 
Summary: The Firm
Review: PLOT: Mitch McDeere is fresh out of Havard Law School with an ambitious attitude and the will to succeed. He receives the best job offers from the largest firms in the country, but a small firm out of Memphis brings him in with the best pay, a new home, relief of his student loans, and a new BMW. Within his first week at the firm, two of his coworkers are killed in a mysterious explosion off the coast of Grand Cayman Island. This makes him suspicious and later finds out that five lawyers have died in the past fifteen years, all very suspicious. An encounter with an FBI agent investigating the firm arouses his curiousity with the security of the firm and starts to unravel a downward spiral of crime, corruption, danger, and possibly death. GENRE: Drama-Suspense STRENGTHS/WEAKNESSES: Grisham's character development is perfect in a sense where you know the characters, but not too well. The predictability of the book is impossible as well as the ability to put it down. The scene changes act as a stimulant for the reader, not elaborating one part of the book too much. Grisham did a supurb job in entailing drama, suspense, and humor into his work. This book was the first of Grisham's I read and it will not be the last.
Rating:
Summary: Not A Put Down
Review: Even after reading some of the other John Grisham book, The Firm still remains the best on my list! I loved this book enough to read it three times! It is full of suspense, murder, corruption, lust, and greed. It keeps you on the edge of your seat and you won't be able to put it down! Mitch McDeere, a poor guy with a Harvard law degree, can't refuse the offer he gets from a small Memphis law firm. A brand new BMW, a house for him and his wife in a nice neighbor hood even. But there is a small catch... a few associates from the firm have been showing up dead! Now the FBI wants Mitch to help them expose the firm! Will this mean going back to his old life, living in a small apartment with his wife and driving his broken down car to a minimum paying job that he hates? So now the FBI are after his testamony and his firm wants him dead. If he leaves his firm...he dies! If he stays there...he dies! I hope you can see how this is the kind of book where every time I turned the page I was jummping out of my seat sreaming "what happens next!" But to sum up this book I would have to say that it is full of many intence moments, a great deal of drama, and was VERY well written! I recomend this book to any one who likes a good legal thriller!
Rating:
Summary: Incredible suspense legal thriller
Review: Even after reading Grisham's other great books, The Firm is by far the best. This is a book that you will absolutely NOT be able to put down. This book is truly unpredictable. If you have seen the movie with Tom Cruise, read the book. That film does this book a MAJOR injustice. They are nothing alike, and the book is sooo much better. And I don't suggest you watch the movie even after you read the book. You will be sorely dissapointed. The book is everything all in one. Greed, corruption, lust, success, murder, and money. You won't regret reading it.
Rating:
Summary: The best book ever
Review: This was the best book i have ever read. It keeps you on the edge of your seat. It is the best!
Rating:
Summary: Grisham's rise to popularity
Review: This is the book that made Grisham popular. This book was the huge bestseller everyone was reading. Was it really a top-notch book though? To summarize my thoughts: "great book, horrible ending". I loved the book from start to finish. The suspense was intense from about 30 pages in. It had some major thrills, sex, suspense, everything an American looks for in a good book. But the ending was awful. With all the suspense building and building, it suddenly disappointed me in the end. It was too open of an ending, and too much was able to happen to Mitch. I did like the fact that there is a pier in the book named after me. Overall, I think you should read this intense legal thriller, but be warned of the ending, it will disappoint many!
Rating:
Summary: Fast Paced
Review: If you like genre fiction, then you will like this book. The pace starts out fast and never slows down until the end and thank goodness, there is no overly long denouement. I deducted one star only because I thought Mitch was too young to have taken on everyone like that and won. I wish Grisham had made him a little older.
Rating:
Summary: IT WAS A GREAT BOOK!
Review: THE STORY WAS GREAT, IT KEPT ME READING I FINISHED IT IN TWO DAYS. I COULDN'T PUT IT DOWN, BUT IF YOU RENT THE MOVIE AFTER YOU READ IT YOU'LL BE VERY DISAPPOINTED IT IS TOTALLY DIFFERENT FROM THE BOOK A DIFFERENT ENDING. MY ADVICE READ THE BOOK STAY AWAY FROM THE MOVIE.
| 
