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Summary: Easy read, liked the ending.
Review: This book moved along at a crisp pace, with good character development. The ending was not the predictable one I had expected. Would recommend.
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Summary: I thought it would be good, but . . .
Review: Looked like a good book on the stand, but when I started reading I was shocked. I kept on falling asleep when I was reading it, now I don't know if this is my problem or the book. But, anyway, it was to big. Who is this JOhn Grisham guy anyway, in my day we read some good Mark Twain. I'm not a lawyer, it should be written so that people who aren't lawyers can comprehend the big words.
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Summary: Not one of his best...
Review: I love Grisham, however, I MADE myself get through this book, often skimming pages. I was so disappointed--I heard on Amazon that he was bringing back several characters from other novels, and I couldn't wait to read it. This did not happen. This was definately "OK, I read it, now what?"
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Summary: You want it to be the best but it is not.
Review: You want this book to be a great adventure but it is only half a ride.You get bored in the middle and at the end you wonder if you have lost your time. Grisham has better books.
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Summary: Not one of his best
Review: This is probably one of his weakest books. The first 2/3 of the book are up to his usual standard, but near the end the book becomes kind of rushed. It is almost as if he needed to meet a deadline and had to finish the book in a hurry. It was a disappointing ending.
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Summary: His worst work yet.
Review: Grisham, like Clancy, now churns out formulaic novellas that are pumped up with predictable big plot twists that Hollywood would like. There are no heroes in this novel, just a bunch of greedy idiots and third-world bumpkins treated with equal indifference by Grisham. If this book was written by an unknown author, it will be rejected by almost all publishers, due to lack of merit. However, Grisham is now internationally famous, so he can sit back, relax, and churn out knock-off of his earlier and best efforts. For a page turner, try Brad Steiger's 'Alien Rapture', an exciting conspiracy thriller, or ANYTHING by Connelly is better, especially 'the Poet,' and Blood Work.
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Summary: Reaches a new and higher level as a writer of substance
Review: I've read all but one of Grisham's novels, and I've always had very ambivalent opinions of them and of Grisham as a writer. I've always described Grisham as a great storyteller but a mediocre writer. Until now I had always considered A TIME TO KILL to be his best. THE TESTAMENT has displaced that earlier work at the top of the list. For the first time since A TIME TO KILL, Grisham has written passionately about his subject. For the first time EVER, he has found a spare and graceful writing style. I would have given 4-1/2 stars to A TIME TO KILL and 3's and 4's to his other novels. THE TESTAMENT, however, is unquestionably a 5 star work.It is very difficult to write a good novel of universal appeal where religious faith is an essentially integrated element. But Grisham has done it and has eschewed his erstwhile formula of courtroom tactics and intrigue. For the first time, I eagerly await his next.
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Summary: What else do you expect from Grisham?
Review: Another great book of Grisham's, you keep reading the book disapointed it ever ends. A book that keeps you on the edge of the seat, a surprising ending and an Excellant book oh John Grisham's
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Summary: A par for the course for Grisham's latest novel
Review: The Testament is now what the public has become used to reading from Grisham: the underdog attorney reaching the moralized cliche of midlife crisis. The novel is interesting for the first half of the novel, then it meanders its way to a predictable ending. With this novel as well as The Street Lawyer, Grisham seems to be internalizing all of the protaganist's thoughts. Grisham needs to bring back the brashness and cockiness that permeated novels like The Firm, The Pelican Brief and The Partner. If you decide to go ahead and read this novel, wait for paperback.
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Summary: Thrilling experience,feels like you are there personally
Review: The book describes what to do in an emergency crisis. It feels like you are in the history personally.Easy to read also,even if you are not a lawyer your self. Lawyer language is a special language,and Grisham describes the testament document easy even if you can not read lawyer talk.Over all an interesting book.
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