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Summary: Don't Bother With This One
Review: I was excited to read this book because I have enjoyed all of John Grisham's previous novels. However, the novel disappointed me after the first couple of chapters.The story starts off in one direction (Clay Carter assigned to defend an apparently random murder case), but immediately changes tracks when a new character is plopped in without explanation or justification. Grisham begins a tangent with the new character (Max Pace) which ends up being the rest of the book. Storylines that were presented in the first few pages do not get wrapped up until the end, and even then, unsatisfactorily. Frequently throughout the novel, Grisham throws in random events or developments that do not fit well with the story and are not credible. I plugged through the novel, hoping for a reversal back to the original story (the one Grisham had started in the first 10 pages), but it never came. A big disappointment, if you're keen to read a novel by John Grisham, try one of his earlier ones.
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Summary: Pretty good.
Review: I am an avid reader of Grisham and a collector of his legal thrillers. This book is overall a good read, compared to my experience with The Bretheren (still trying to get through it). Although The King of Torts is good, it in now way lives up to Grisham's earlier works. This book is engaging but I didn't feel it had the pull that his earlier books did. I enjoyed it a great deal and I am hanging tight for the next legal Grisham book!
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Summary: A Good Grisham Novel!!
Review: Grisham touches upon an interesting idea in The King Of Torts. Clay Carter leaves his position as a public defender and becomes a ruthless and wealthy tort lawyer. In this novel, Grisham brings out provoking thoughts: How much does finance control the law, and what will people who are involved in law do because of finance? And - overall, how is the world affected legally, financially, morally by what goes on under the surface in society. I found this book to be just as - or more - pleasing as I found "The Firm" and other Grisham firsts.
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Summary: Another rags to riches back to rags novel
Review: This book has Grishman's tried and true formula. He does an excellent job of developing the characters. The first two-thirds of the book are great. The last third lends itself to a quick crash and burn. This may work the first time. However, as soon as the course of the book changes, anyone who has read any of the previous novels will guess what is going to happen next. It is just a matter of when. The interesting part of this book was the main character's willingness to cut corners to get ahead. At the same time he is very naive as to how big business really works. This makes Clay a much more believable person for this book's storyline. One area that was totally unbelievable was the insider trading issue. Anyone graduating from Georgetown law school would know these laws.
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Summary: Not Grisham's Best, But Better Than Lately
Review: Grisham had become a disappointment to me, until "The King of Torts". Still not as good as his earlier works - I wonder what has happened to him - but better than his last few. Of course, he is still writing the same basic premise - lawyer who goes up against the "big guys" - but all in all this one hopefully shows he's coming out of the rut in which he seems to have been stuck lately. I've been a fan since "A Time to Kill" which I still consider his best, and will continue to read, hoping for one as good as that.
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Summary: Not Impressed
Review: I've read many Grisham novels and this is by far the poorest entry. It was so predictable and flat that if it had been any other author I would have put it down before finishing. If this had been a first novel, I would never read another. This may have been my last Grisham.
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Summary: A novella without a finish
Review: John Grisham's "King of Torts" seems to premise the same as his predecessor novels: When the movie version appears, it will be a vast improvement over this half-vast fin de siècle roman-flueve roman a clef novella. This tort feasor is the latest prurient excruience from Grisham's less than mighty pen.
As many have noted, Grisham takes up a current topic, in this case the Class Action law suit, and builds an autobiographical less than tour de force to teach the ignorant masses that which passes all understanding.
Barely disguised in this novella, are the phen-fen, thalidomide, and other drug histories caused by greed, need, and speed to finish the novel within his contracted for 372 pages. Race Horse Haynes must be amuzized by Grisham's portrayal.
The plot starts out with a nice premise: a new drug to replace 12-Step pogams for the addicted works as claimed: it makes the hopeless clean and sober within a respectable period of time. But with a flaw, a small percentage of its users become homicidal because of its side effects. Grisham's distaste for those addicted, particularly those of African American ethnicity seeps through like mold under a wet carpet.
From there, the young burnt out antihero becomes morally filthy, as well as filthy wealthy, and like a modern Candide, his descent into legal torment without any scruples leads us to a Dante Paradisio.
So, with all this, the reader is the true hero of each and every Grisham work: the true hero is the person, like this Hon. reviewer, who reads the book to its diminished ending. Abandon hope all ye who enter Grisham's incompleteness, wait for the movie, and rent it from Blockbuster.
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Summary: One of his better works
Review: Seems as if people either loved or hated this one. I'm one of those who liked it a lot. It's not his best work, but i think it's in the top 4. It's great to see him focus on a law novel again, as opposed to a novel about a man who happens to be a lawyer ("Summons"). It hooked me from the beginning, and he does a good job of making Clay the hero, then the conflicted hero, then the villain, then the somewhat redeemed villain. <SPOILER>...... It's also nice to see Grisham actually have some positive romantic results for the protagonist.
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Summary: Not his breathtaking best
Review: I love John Grisham and am very loyal to him. I did find this book to be not his best, however. It seems he "rushed it", and the theme is not deeply moving, the characters are not easy to identify with. I always re-read John's books, and I will with this one too. I just felt he wasn't brilliant.
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Summary: Time to inject new ingredients into a tired formula
Review: Grisham has wasted his and our time with this one. Why spend the time reading about a pathetic under-achiever who is given the golden goose. I didn't care about him from the start and it never got better. The characters are boring and, the plot line predictable and very tired. I didn't even finish the book. Don't start it!
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