The Pelican Brief

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Summary: a page turner?? i dont think so!!!!
Review: I am sad to say that this is the first John Grisham book that I have majorly dissed. This is how I would sum up The Pelican Brief in ten words or less: IT SUCKED. I'm sorry to all you people who liked it, but I just think that it was bad. The story is really unbeleiveable. Why would these big assassins go wiggy over some law students idea of who killed some stupid Supreme Court Justices? It just doesn't make sense. Though I do love John Grisham, I must say that this was terrible. If you want to read a good John Grisham book, don't waste your money on this one. Go get A Time To Kill, that is by far the best one I have read. I wasted good reading time with this book. I could have been reading The Rainmaker.

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Summary: Cool book
Review: Very cool book, even though I read it purely because I was told to.

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Summary: One of the worst novels I've ever read
Review: The premise of the plot is ridiculous. A law student writes a brief in which she theorizes who is behind the murder of two Supreme Court Justices. Suddenly all sorts of assassins are after her, and she manages to elude them all. It makes no sense--why would a whole cadre of assassins come down on a person, simply for expressing an opinion? After all, she had no evidence. And there was no evidence from any of the crime scenes. So why attempt to kill her? In real life, her theory would have been dismissed as just that, a theory. Attacking her would only validate her accusation. The characters are as flat as pancakes--they all have the same personality, a pithy, street-smart toughness. There is no feel for setting. The scenes in New Orleans, New York and DC are pretty much the same. The brief 2 and 3 page scenes are so undeveloped that they leave the reader with no impression at all. And Grisham's sense of language is pedestrian, there is not a single memorable line, phrase or description.

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Summary: Hmmmmmm
Review: I don't really know why this book got so acclaimed as it did. It is nowhere near the GOOD stuff Grisham writes. Everyone must have his/her ups and downs..perfectly understandable. With this book, I think Grisham was having a bad hair day... Nowhere near "The Chamber"!

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Summary: Worst book I've ever finished
Review: The Pelican Brief is without a doubt the worst book I've ever finished. (I've dropped a few worse books midway through, but I was stuck on an airplane for 10 hours with only a copy of The Pelican Brief so I had no choice but to finish it.) The biggest problem with the book is that the plot makes absolutely no sense. Think about it. The Darby character has NO direct evidence with respect to her theory. Once she's passed the information on to the authorities, killing her does nothing but validate the theory. So if they had succeeded in killing her, it's highly likely that the authorities would eventually figure out that her theory was valid. As a result, Darby's fate is irrelevant. This book is one of the reasons that I never read anything on the best seller list (except for freakish exceptions like Pynchon and DeLillo). Oh, I just remembered one book I read that was even worse (Patriot Games, further support for my policy of avoiding best sellers).

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Summary: reading this book made my knees wobble
Review: John Grisham is surely a genius! Poor Darby, killing her lover, because of a silly brief that was surely meant to go in the trash. I have read all of his books including Street Lawyer and Pelican Brief is most definitly my favourite book. Truly suspensful; yes it was unrealistic for her to outrun Khamel, government etc but who wants to read about Darby blowing up with her lover Callahan? At the beginning of the novel, what excitement is that? I'd rather read a biography on Little Red Riding Hood! I found the danger, and ducking behind the shadows to be absolutely inticing.I think the character's are exciting, especially well Darby, and Khamel I was quite intrigued with as well. When Grisham writes I see what he writes, and then I watch the movie to see how close I was for fun, im a visual person so I really enjoy Grishams writing style.

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Summary: A solid, page-turning effort. Grisham does it again!
Review: John Grisham's Pelican Brief is a very well-written, nicely detailed account of a young woman who stumbles across the truth, and unwittingly puts herself into a life-or-death situation. On the minues side, the plot is very predictable, and I could have predicted the ending about half way through the book. However, Grisham throws in a few curveballs on the way to the cliche'd ending, making this among the best books I have read to date.

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Summary: A joy to read.
Review: This book tells us the true, but fiction events that could occur in a person's life. Is deals with a struggling girl who trys to stay alive, long enough to find her boyfriends killer. It is a great suspense thriller, you never know what will happen next.

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Summary: Very loose plot
Review: Unlike what I had expected, the plot was very loose. Hard to believe that trained FBI agents could not catch Darby, President begs to drop the investigation, etc. Not upto the mark!

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Summary: STINGY GRISHAM HAS DONE IT AGAIN!
Review: I can't tell you how bad this book is: I can't say this is the worst book ever published because it's below that imagination! Those who praised the book must have been drinking or are mentally challenge and got caught up in the "Grisham-media"- if there is such a thing! BOOOOO!