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Summary: This book is haunting!
Review: I read this book when it first came out, and the images stuck with me ever since. Pictures of the South American rain forest are vivid, alive and full of action. Unexpected twists and turns with every new page. This novel is creative, shocking and destined to be a classic. Troy Phelan's greedy relatives are masterful characters!!!
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Summary: always a great read
Review: A Grisham book is always a jewel. This emerald expressed greed as well as Micheal Douglas did in "Wall Street" with all its divested glory. Nate O'Riley the drunk was brought around in true fashion to see the light of life and throw his addicted ways to the wind to lead a good life. With that his past was lost,but it surely needed to be. Another great book by a supreme story teller
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Summary: i was disappointed
Review: usually his books are tense, suspensful, great stories, this one was just disappointing. at the end i thought - oh, ok. well. try "the bretheren", that one was fantastic
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Summary: Not what I expected, but...
Review: ...it was a good read. I was expecting something a little more thrilling, a little more intense and exciting. But the slower pace of this book still kept my attention. Grisham has a good writing style and had no trouble getting me interested in the story, the location, the people. Parts of it were like a travel documentary, but surprisingly I found it all interesting. I was never at the edge of my seat, but never wanted to put the book down.
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Summary: An allright book
Review: In an office floors above the ground Troy Phelan, a rich, angry, eccentric, old man sits awaiting his offspring, and three ex-wives' most exiting and anticipated moment of their lives, his mental examination declaring if he is of sound mind at the time of the signing of his will dividing his $11 billion estate. But when he jumps to his death all the families see are dollar signs, eleven billion of them. Then his lawyer, Joshua Stanton reads the hand-written, holographic will (to him self) he finds that the money goes to an out-of-wedlock heir, named Rachel Lane. Stanton sends Nate O' Riley, a Washington litigater, and friend, to find her. Follow with him as he goes through the jungles to find Rachel, God, and himself.Over all this was a great book. It started a little slow but after it picked up it was excellent. The ending was good as well as the middle. It is a well thought out book. I would recommend this book to all into action or law.
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Summary: Flaw
Review: How could a dead man write? John (Mr. Grisham), your first two chapters of the old billionair's autobiograhy has a flaw. When did he write this? I assume he must have written it after his death then because he wrote his last sentence "Without looking below, I lunge over the rail." from a 14th floor. And he was obviously dead. And so, how could a dead man write? John, you must check with your editor on this. It seems no else on the Amazon review list so far notice it.
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Summary: Review
Review: The Testament The book,The Testament. Is good book it gives what the reader wants to here it has stuff from the jungle to the courtroom and a good all around story. It is about a man named Troy Phelan he is in his dieing days and he needs to sign a will to pass on a multi-million dollar bussiness to one person. He must sign the will and be proved that he is in the right mind and not insane. They prove him sane he signs the will but right before jumps from his own bussinesses window he signs a new will giving the company over to Rachel Lane who lives in the thick Brazilian rainforests they must find her and solve the legal battle.
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Summary: Good Grisham, but not great Grisham
Review: Some of Grisham's earlier books were hard to put down. This one wasn't. It was still decent, but not his usual quality.
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Summary: Fascinating as myth
Review: I think I honestly liked this book. Nate, a dishonest lawyer, is one character. This is a good story with more than a few tricks in the plot. Buy it. If you be then you can see how good this book is because it isn't that bad. I'd read it fifty times and a half. Chapters are interesting; story is well written. It's filled with oxymocrins and contradictions too for you philosophers, and a rant here...and a fish coming out of the river... I don't know what to say about this guy. Five stars says it all.
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Summary: What could have been!
Review: I would describe this book as a bit of a disappointment. It has an compelling and suspenseful intro describing a millionaire's suicide, contraversial will, and the proceeding battle between his children for rights over his eleven billion dollar estate. However following the intro, the book takes a turn for the worst never really reaching a climax. The forty middle chapters between the beginning and end are basically a overly vivid description of South America. Finally,in the final two or three chapters the conflict is resolved. I must say that this was one of those books that I was relieved to finish just because I thought that I would never make it. Plain and simple, this book had the potential to be so much more!!
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