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Summary: A story swampier than the landscape...
Review: Big oil as a villian: what a concept! Corrupt politicians: that's fresh! Reporters sleeping with their sources: that's news to me! A college woman outsmarting hired CIA assassins: astounding considering whats-her-name (another one of Grisham's memorable characters) didn't seem capable of grasping the concept of birth control. The assassins deserve to die. The only believeable part was someone wanting to kill Supreme Court Justices
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Summary: exceedes all other others work
Review: grisham books can't get any better he has become a legend in legal writting!!!!
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Summary: An excellent thriller
Review: This was by far the best of John Grisham's books. The characrer development was excellnet and the book was filled with mystery and suspense. Having read all of his books, Darby Shaw is my favorite character. She is intelligent, daring, and someone that I would want as a friend and colleague
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Summary: Brainless beach or vacation reading
Review: Grisham has been quoted as saying that he created the character Darby Shaw with actress Julia Roberts in mind. This girl is just too darn perfect-looking to be real. And, oh how convenient that she has a trust fund and doesn't have to work for a living. Now I realize Grisham's novels aren't necessarily about "everyday" life--but when the characters are believable and true to life, then in my opinion it's easier to suspend your disbelief and go along for the ride. I'm sorry, but I just can't work up any sympathy for this woman. I actually rooted for the bad guys in this one. By the end of the book, when she's out of the country in her little tropical paradise playing coy with her hero, I'm thinking, "what took you so long, you dingbat?" This book just felt too mass-produced--as though Grisham were starting to write with an eye on what would make a good movie rather than a good book. (The two aren't always related, you know) Still, as mindless escape fare, this one's not bad. Judging by how well it sold and how many people were reading it in Florida when I was there in 1994, it fills that bill pretty well. But that's about it. It's certainly not "must reading" in my book. Grisham's done better. .
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Summary: John Grisham's best yet
Review: I feel this is his best and most believable book yet. It leaves you wondering until the very end, and still there are some questions that never are totally answered. Marvelous book. I've read it two times
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Summary: 'The pelican became the hero'
Review: "The politicians from the governors down took the oil money and played along. All was well, and so what if some of the marshlands suffered."Years ago I would read every Grisham book that came out. John Grisham is a fellow southerner, born and raised in Mississippi, schooled at Ole Miss. His characters remind me so much of the people I grew up with, remind me of my home. The Firm is my least favorite of his books which is surprising since the setting for that story is in my hometown of Memphis, TN; the movie was even worse since whoever directed or produced it totally botched the ending. I read this book in one day in my backyard. I lay motionless in a lounge chair only moving the muscles in my thumb and forefinger; I've never read a book like that in my entire life!
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Summary: Well done
Review: This story of a girl on the run from a crazed industrialist is well done. If it seems there are a lot of clichees, remember that this book was so well done that it actually started the whole genre of person on the run from shady corporate? government? people. The protagonist is a law student who accidentally stumbles upon the solution to a crime (assassination of supreme court judges). Someone is trying to silence her. The entire story is her running, the people who are trying to help her, and the people who are trying to kill her. Not bad.
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Summary: Interesting, but stupid (the President, that is)
Review: Someone assassinates two Supreme Court justices (the assassin is a burned out terrorist named Khamel, but the powers that be are baffled. They have no clues.
Darby Shaw spends a few days in the law library and figures out who wanted the hit, in order to stack the Supreme Court. This puts her in jeopardy, and people keep getting murdered around her.
Scary? Well, it might have been, but somehow, we know (I knew) that Darby was going to make it in the end and the "bad guys" were going to have their comeuppance. That was never in doubt.
So, not so scary.
What was interesting was Grisham's description of the law firms, and the lawyers, in Washington, D.C. This was eye-opening, the numbers, the morals, and the career ladder that such people follow.
What was interesting, but stupid, was the President. It's hard to imagine a President this stupid, but I wonder was the model Mr. Ron? And this golfer President turns the real business of running the nation over to a young smoothy by the name of Fletcher Coal, who is one of the "bad guys," in a way, but he has some good traits, too: He can work incessantly and seems to be pretty intelligent. He just lacks, what, heart?
I've read better books by Grisham. There is a story here, but not a page-turning story. Just kind of, "Okay, who's going to fail to assassinate Darby this time?"
I didn't see the movie, but the book seemed to be tailor-made for Hollywood, also, another down-side (compare Grisham's Bleachers, a more recent effort, which does not seem to be targeted so prominently toward a movie script).
Diximus.
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Summary: Pelican brief for a Romanian
Review: I first saw the movie for this book a few years ago while I was in Romania. After moving to the US I badly wanted to have a copy of the book and I'm very happy I did that. This book taught me many things ranging from life in Washington DC, to the structure of the CIA and FBI, and some underground facts about the political world as we know it. Does it worth spending7-8$ to broaden your horizons in this ever changing world? For me it did, and hopefully it will be the same for you.
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Summary: One of Grisham's best
Review: I felt like how this brief was written and believed was not very realistic, but it was still a fun and exciting read. I think this is one of Grisham's best.
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