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Summary: Just so disappointed
Review: From the start to the end, I was expecting somehow it would become better.
But against my expectation, it never did...
It was so frustrating to spend hours reading a book just to find out it was not worth your time, not to speak about the price of it.
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Summary: Where is the ending?
Review: All I can say is what happened? The story is pure Grisham but has the worst ending. It is as if he just said ok finished. I actually had to ask my friends if I had missed a few pages out of my copy of the book. Like the ones with the ending.
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Summary: Really poor.......
Review: This book doesn't even rate one star. The plot is non-existent, and the main characters are utterly unappetizing. Save your money on this one.
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Summary: What Would You Do with Bags of Money You Found?
Review: I enjoyed this book all the way through as I have all of John Grisham's novels in the past. In this story, Judge Atlee was a powerful figure in Clanton, Mississippi, and a pilar of the community who towered over local law and politics for forty years. Now the judge is a sickly, lonely old man who has withdrawn to his sprawling ancestral home. Knowing the end is near, Judge Atlee has issued a summons for his two sons to return to Clanton to discuss his estate. Ray Atlee is his eldest son, a Virginia law professor, newly single and still enduring the aftershocks of a surprise divorce. Forrest is Ray's younger brother who has been in and out of trouble with drugs and feels he is the family black sheep anyway. The summons is typed by the judge himself, on his handsome old stationery, and gives the time and date for Ray and Forrest to appear in his study. Ray reluctantly heads south to his hometown, to the place where he grew up and now prefers tro avoid. But the family meeting never will happen. Judge Atlee dies before that happens. Ray finds him slouched over dead when he walks in the house. Judge Atlee left a big secret which Ray will find out about as he goes through his father's things in the house. And once he finds what his father left, it is a danger to him and Ray doesn't know what to do about it. Someone is stalking. A fast moving book and hard to put down.
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Summary: Will the real John Grisham please come back!
Review: The Client, The Firm, A Time to Kill - these were the true John Grisham books. This one is mildly entertaining, but certainly not up to what you expect from him (the early him, that is). The other reviews describe the book-I'd just like to appeal to Mr. Grisham to please take more time or whatever it will take to go back to the books you used to write.
JLatislaw
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Summary: Nice Plot Twister Without Tying the Ending Up in Neat Bows
Review: Ray Atlee is a college law professor. His wife dumped him for money, his brother's an on-again, off-again addict and his father is a well-known and loved judge. When Ray's summonsed home by his father, Judge Reuben Atlee, he knows the news can't be good. The end must be near for his father to want to discuss the estate with his two sons. But when he arrives back home in Clanton, Mississippi, he's too late to see his father alive. The Judge has died in his sleep, his morphine pack still attached. While Ray waits for his brother to arrive, he discovers the unthinkable. Money hidden in boxes. Money that the Judge couldn't have possibly made in his lifetime. Could the honorable Judge be corrupt? Ray keeps the secret to himself and tries to find out exactly where the money came from. And as he explores all angles, trying to locate the source of the money, he becomes a target himself. Someone else wants the money. What Ray doesn't know is who it is and how far they'll go to get it. John Grisham always find a new way to spin his legal tales. The Summons ranks right up there with some of Grisham's earlier and highly acclaimed works. It's not one of those novels with all the bows tied in pretty knots at the end. You're definitely in for a plot twister that will leave you hanging.
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Summary: Bo-o-o-o-r-r-r-ing
Review: Don't waste your time (or money) on this one. Good fiction, or even passable fiction for that matter, should draw the reader in and make him believe in the characters and the story so that even though the reader "knows" it couldn't really be true, he buys into it anyway. (Witness the wild success of the Harry Potter books.) In this book, I could never figure out why I was supposed to believe this character would do these things. It's actually too bad, because there could have been a really interesting story about greed and the lust for money; but Grisham never actually gets there.
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Summary: Use Your Library Card on This One
Review: Grisham is a very talented, elegant writer but the story is depressing and mundane. Not a waste of time but I wouldn't invest in buying it.
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Summary: Preposterous
Review: For us to make this plot believable, we must assume that: 1. Neither a lawyer nor a Private Investigator in today's world would ever consider a GPS tracking device as a mean of being followed;
2. A seasoned law professor would not be suspicious of a "last-minute" will and would not compare the signature on it with earlier documents;
3. Said seasoned law professor would be so greedy as to put his career and liberty (aka jail time) at risk for a ridiculous amount of cash (call me naive, but...)
4. again--said seasoned law professor would not hunt down aforementioned money without his own GPS tracker and law enforcement
There's more, but you get the idea...the whole plot is preposterous, and could have been told in 100 pages. The rest is filler and cheap filler, at that. AVOID.
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Summary: Too long...too simple...what a waste of time!
Review: I've read several of Grisham's earlier novels, and I thought they were imaginative and easy to read. "The Summons" on the other hand, is about 100 pages too long i.e. very repetitive, lacks imagination, and the ending is almost predictable. One wonders whether the author just writes anything to get a book published and to make money for it. Evidently the editorial publishers don't care how poorly his books are written.
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