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Summary: Average at best
Review: This starts off well, in classic Grisham style, and that's a good thing. It's fast-paced, interesting, a real page-turner. At some point though, about half of the way through, it starts becoming a little too predictable. You know the hero is going to stumble, and he does, but not badly; there is too little conflict here. There needs to be a lot more drama here. The hero is never in any danger, except financially, and who really cares about that? The pharmaceutical industry is also too easy a target to demonize; we already know that it's not exactly the most moral of industries, and Grisham never presents the good about the industry to balance the bad. There is too little character development, and the girlfriend/fiancé character is cookie-cutter at best. Maybe a good beach read, but don't expect too much.
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Summary: Interesting story line...... Needed more though
Review: I've read a bunch of Grisham's novel, not all of them, and this was ok. I found the story line to be rather interesting and learned a lot how the tort system works. Yet, my main problem with this book is that Grisham seemed to start a dilemma with the main character and then it was quickly resolved and onto a new problem. I felt a lot of this book was rushed and it could have gotten into more detail. I also noticed that many of his newer works seem to to be almost exactly the same length in pages. I am wondering if he has to meet a page limit and a lot gets cut out of the finished product. Overall I think this was a decent work but still doesn't live up to his very early works. Also, after reading the Summons, a lot of the info regarding torts was discussed in The Summons and it seemed like a copy and paste job was done.
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Summary: A Dramatic Rise But Oh What A Fall
Review: John Grisham returns to fine form in The King Of Torts. Unlike his previous novel, The Summons,The King of Torts remains consistent and captivating from start to finish. The story depicts the sudden rise and even greater fall of lawyer, Clay Carter as he dabbles in Tort Law. Its interesting to view the different changes in Carter's lifestyle and personality as his firm rakes in settlement fees as well as when Carter turns from hunter to hunted. Many characters are introduced and depicted quite accurately at an appropriate level of detail. Maybe not on the level of The Firm or The Chamber but certainly a return to form for Grisham.
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Summary: Better than some but no courtroom thriller
Review: I will always read Grisham since there may be another book as worthy as The Firm someday. But this book is not it. Granted the book is entertaining and educational about the world of tort lawyers but suspense is not an element included to make you care about the outcome or the characters involved in this novel. Check it out at the library.
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Summary: Enjoyable listening!
Review: I thoroughly enjoyed listening to this audio book on CD. The reader has a wonderful voice and kept the story very interesting. I liked the story, couldn't wait to hear what happened next although it got pretty predictable. You won't go wrong with this CD. There are 5 CD's, 6 hours of listening so it is great for a long trip, or a lot of commuting!
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Summary: Just Awful!
Review: Grisham has finally sold out completely. A man of his intelligence could write this shallow waste of time in a day, and he probably did just that. If a book was ever written simply to profit on the author's name (or what's left of it) this is it. The plot is preachy and predictable, the characters are unremarkable and poorly developed, and the ending is incredibly flat. What's worse; a book written by a lawyer is packed with legal errors, from ethics to procedure. Grisham seems somewhat apologetic in his afterword, and he should be for stamping his name on this thoughtless wonder. Save your cash and spend it on an author who's still hungry enough to put some effort into his writing. Grisham's interests now seem to lie in other realms.
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Summary: Same old same old story
Review: Grisham does a very predictable story thats has been done a million times but this time with lawyers big deal .Leave it on the shelf
Rating: 
Summary: Dull
Review: Grisham usually delivers quick, easy, and enjoyable reads, but this book fails to hold the reader's attention past chapter eleven. At that point, the book becomes incredibly boring and difficult to finish. Don't waste time or money on this one.
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Summary: 4 1/2 Stars...Maybe He Hasn't Lost It!
Review: Should I risk another legal thriller by the dethroned king? That was my question as I bought "The King of Torts." Reviews of this book range from one extreme to the other, and, after laboring through "The Summons" (thin plot) and "The Brethren" (no protagonist), I feared this latest would be a disappointment too. What a pleasant surprise. Grisham opens with a random killing, drags in an unwilling public defendant, then mixes it up with a global corporate coverup and millions of dollars at stake...I was hooked. Clay Carter is our sympathetic hero, a man wrestling for recognition and love. He rises meteorically to the status of multi-millionaire when he uses insider information to file a class-action lawsuit against a pharmaceutical giant. Despite the sudden riches, he despises the greed in the mass tort law industry, and he also bemoans the loss of his girlfriend. Soon, however, the temptations drag him down into the very quagmire he despises, and Clay finds himself to the be one of the villains he swore never to be. "The King of Torts" takes on the form of a modern morality play, a bit preachy but effective. At times, it reads more like a nonfiction account...very believable, but clinical in its presentation of facts. Other times, Grisham reconnects with the passion and emotion of his earlier classics. Although he leaves a few plot threads hanging--whatever happens to Max Pace, for example?--he swings mightily and accurately in this latest novel. Maybe he hasn't lost the legal touch after all!
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Summary: Only a Jack of Torts
Review: I keep hoping that Grisham will find that spark, that certain something that kept me riveted to his books. But perhaps he's just run out of ideas. His last few attempts (The Brethren, The Summons, A Painted House) have been nothing short of total disappoint. In this attempt, Grisham gives us Clay Cart, a discontented attorney in DC's Public Defender Office who's life has rutted into the dull routine we all dread. But enter Max Pace, a mysterious visitor with information for Clay that could make him millions. And Clay goes for it, learning quickly the greasy ways of class action lawsuits where the only winners are the attorneys whose only goals are to make millions, buy Lear jets, yachts, tropical island getaways, while avoiding actually going to court. Clay follows this script to a letter, including a model/bimbo girlfriend. I quickly became disgusted with Clay and Grisham's attempt to give his a conscious toward the end of the book rings extremely hollow, as Clay is more dispondent about everything falling apart, rather than the more important moral issues that a person with a soul would have demonstrated. Grisham left much undone at the end of the book, leaving me wondering if a sequel is in his mind...a sequel I can definitely wait for. If you don't have anything else to read, then a few days going through the King of Torts isn't a total waste of time. But if you're eagerly anticipating the Grisham that gave us The Partner, A Time to Kill, The Firm, The Client, Runaway Jury, The Testament, etc., I'm afraid you'll be as disappointed as I was.
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