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The Testament

The Testament

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The Verdict Is In: It's A Winner!!!
Review: Is there anything our favorite legal "eagle" can't do? The only way it could have been any more realistic was if it was written in Latin. (Relax, it's not!)

It's another fast paced thriller that takes you through all the trials (get it?) and tribulations of our messy law system, but wraps it up neatly in the end. And what an ending it is! You'll never guess it either!

The only part I wasn't entirely sure of was the symbolism of the young female law clerk, but sometimes his books can be read on so many levels, it's hard to keep track.

All in all a great offering from a great novelist. The best parts call to mind the workings of a young Turow or Patterson. He's almost enough to make you like lawyers. Just kidding! (That's a joke - the just kidding part.)

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Currently the best in the genre !!!
Review: Grisham has become the best known American writer in Russia. This story is truly his best in years. Captivating plot, a keen insight into the legal system. Gripping, absorbing, thrilling, unputdownable ! A must for any Grisham fan, and a cool chance to become one for the uninitiated readers.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: It made my head hurt
Review: This is the worst piece of Grisham trash yet!!! Every book is about a southern lawyer, Doesn't he understand that no one likes southern lawyers?!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Realism Sense
Review: I like this John Grisham's newest book, and give it 4 stars. Like his anothers book, Grisham showed a realism sense again. It's sense, however, always bring the readers to flow in his story, and drive us to ask "what more happens?" But sometimes I asked my self, why Grisham always write a law story? If he write another genre, I think - with his realism sense - he can build more greateful tales. Like we ever know, in A Time to Kill, Grisham explored the facts so realism. It continued in his coming books, expecialy in my oppinion is the best, The Testament. More, he bring us to the world of laws, lawyers, and firms. No just a story, but it was like an encyclopedia of laws. Grisham self, like a prof. in his jobs. In other word, 4 stras are enough for him.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Another Grisham Winner
Review: You can't but help just loving Grisham's accurate legal and law accounts on books, that's why his fictions feel like biographies instead of what they're made to be. The Testament falls under the same lines of what the author does best: reality. Though this book wasn't as great as his widely acclaimed The Firm, it's just as intense and creative.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: I never put the book down the whole weekend
Review: It was absolutley amazing I liked how it was in away tied into all the other great Grisham books. I honestly got it from a book club, and honestly never put it down for a whole day in which I finished the book earliy the next morning.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Strong Recommendation...If You Like Law Novels
Review: This is another great lawyer-story from Grisham. It takes many twists and turns with a good cast of characters, eventually ending with something that was a suprise to me. The varied characters and the adventures they immerse themselves in helps keep the pace and enjoyment level of this story afloat. Sometimes the legal jargan gets to be a bit much, but its rare and not too bad. Great story!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Outstanding Book!
Review: This was my first John Grisham book and I certainly enjoyed it.
In this book one of the ten richest men in the country(Troy Phelan) has a ceremony to read his last will and testament to
his greedy family.He has three psychiatrists on hand to verify his sanity.After the ceremony ends and the family leaves he
produces a holographic will disinheriting his family and leaving
the entire estate to an illigitemate daughter who is a missionary
in Brazil.Phelan has left each of his children $5 million dollars
on their 21st birthday.They have all squandered the money.In the
meantime the daughter Rachel Lane must be found.
That job is given to lawyer Nate O'Reilly(a rehabbed drunk).He
makes a perilous trip to Brazil to locate the missing heiress.He
discovers that she wants nothing to do with her 11 billion dollar inheritance.Nate returns to America emptyhanded.In the meantime the disinherited heirs and their lawyers are trying every type of legal manuevering to overturn Troy Phelan's will.
It is imperative that Nate return to Brazil and talk to Rachel
Lane again.
This was a very good book that I enjoyed reading.The ending was
shocking.Buy it and read it.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: It sounds like Mr. Grisham enjoyed himself with this book
Review: I am disappointed when I read reviews of people who found the ending to the Testament unsatisfying but I suppose I should not be surprised if readers expect every time for the "bad guys" to die, and the good guy to ride off into the sunset with the girl and a fortune to boot. I loved Grisham's refusal to give us "good guys" and "bad guys" in this novel. We are all part of the same human family and should be routing on each other. I also am shocked at those who insist that Grisham stay "true to form." I am an amature writer myself, and if I were Grisham, I would have been bored to death of following the same Hollywood template to generate year after year what was "expected of me." I enjoyed Grisham's excursion out of the court room and into the jungle. And I thought the plot was rather realistic in that an alcoholic might find a balm for his sickness by escaping the materialism of America and facing some true life and death adventure. I also liked that Grisham chose such a large, mind-boggling sum of money to put on the table so that our interest could be peaked at the thought of what the missionary found more valuable than $11 billion. I could not put it down, and after I was finished, I could not stop thinking about it.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: John Grisham scores again
Review: In the midst of the fast-paced world of litigation, this book provides us with a glimpse into a less cluttered, more serene lifestyle where none of the former matters. The main character's life is transformed by his contact with a young woman whose simple, selfless existence is in direct contrast to his own. John Grisham has a definite talent in making the reader feel as though he wishes that he knew the characters personally. This book is one of my personal favorites.


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