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Summary: Quick and entertaining read
Review: Just a good story - quick and easy read - ideal for a long plane ride - relaxing in the sun or at the beach. Entertaining characters - good plot twist. Not a great book - but an entertaining one.
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Summary: MediaGab Review
Review: Ray Atlee, a Virginia Law Professor receives a official looking summons from his father to return home at a set time and date. Ray assumes that his younger brother Forrest also received a similar summons as their father, honorable and very respected Judge Atlee had cancer and was dieing. Ray arrived early only to find his father had died on the couch the night before. He also found a new will typed and placed on the Judges desk. But what Ray found in the chest drawer behind the couch scared Ray. $3 million . Ray wanted to know more about the money before telling anyone about it. Where did it come from? Was it legal? Also did anyone else know? Turns out someone else did know about the money. This someone starts to follow and intimidate Ray about reporting the money. But Ray's greed gets the better of him and starts hide the money. Looks into buying a new airplane. But he always needs to look over his shoulder because the someone is one step behind him. The plot of "The Summons" is very intriguing. However the story takes a long time to develop. The ending of the book leaves you with wanting more, not because you want to read the sequel but because there are to many loose end left untied. John Grisham seemed to take a break from the legal courtroom and wrote about a family that lived around the courts and how they deal with death and the greed that money can do to someone.
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Summary: Another Great!
Review: Another great Grisham Law Suspence! Unlike many other people I enjoyed this book. Like all John Grisham books, it was a very easy read. This was the first book I was able to sit down over a weekend and read the whole thing.
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Summary: Won't be fooledagain
Review: I thought 'The Painted House' was one of the worst books I have read but 'The Summons" tops it. What has happened to you, Mr Grisham? I will not be fooled again. I was a real fan of yours but now have lost all interest. It was apparent soon after the strange events began to occur who the real 'bad guy' was. Why couldn't 'the hero' figure this out for himself? Who else knew all about him? Oh well,I finished the book and tossed it so won't have to
look at it again.......nor will I buy any of Grisham's future writings.
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Summary: Sibling Rivalry
Review: Ray Atlee is a self-righteous and rather soulless yuppie law professor with a drug addicted brother and a distant father. Ray and his brother Forrest each receive a "summons" from their dying dad, requesting their presence at the family home in Clanton, Mississippi at a set date and time to discuss wishes regarding his estate. Ray gets there first to discover his father died just before he arrived. He pokes around the house, spots a handwritten will naming Ray executor and splitting everything 50-50 between the two brothers. Ray then stumbles upon three million dollars in cash, neatly packed in stationary boxes. So what does Professor Atlee, executor of his father's estate, officer of the court, do? Well, he sure doesn't tell his brother, who would get half after taxes if Ray followed the law, since he is sure that Forrest would use the money to buy drugs. He sure doesn't tell his attorney, since the cash would be subject to onerous estate taxes that would eat up half of the bounty. He scoops up the cash in garbage bags and hauls it back home to Virginia, shuffles it to a series of storage rooms and then just drives it around in the trunk of his car, paranoid that no other place is safe enough. Meanwhile, he's trying to learn where his father got this money and he's receiving ominous threats from someone who seems to know all about it. I thought it was amusing that Mr. Grisham had to - for once - find ways for a character to move money around, physically move money around, without the benefit of several numbered offshore bank accounts. The ending was a nice twist, but Grisham signals that twist about halfway through the book. It's sad that he still can't come up with an honest lawyer who follows the rules, even in a peripheral role. Nevertheless, THE SUMMONS is a lightweight and mildly entertaining way to kill some time and it is definitely better than some of his more recent legal thrillers.
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Summary: Grisham's Greats
Review: I have read almost all of John Grisham's books and The Summons was very enjoyable. I read it non-stop as I do all his others and I finished it in about a day. It has suspense, intrigue, greed, and everything else that can be found in a Grisham novel.
I am readily waiting for the King of Torts next month and I plan on getting it. By the way, I am also sixteen.
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Summary: Not the Best, but it's still worth read it
Review: I was a little behind on Grisham books since I read The brethem, and when The Painted House came out, I was one of the fans that declined to support his twist from legal thrillers. I read The Painted House anyway , and I liked it.
With The Summons, old pal grisham is back with a story that develops in a slow way from the beggining and most of the book, but what makes you read the whole thing is to find out where the money is comming from and for sure, the ends that , I, at least, didn't expect.
I Highly disagree with all the bad reviews there could be because this is a typical JGrisham book with all the elements that make it readable. Of course it's not The Firm. I take JGrisham would never acomplish anything as good as The Firm but He will always come with a new thriller to keep us interested on his work.
I don't give this review 5 stars because John Grisham could polish a little bit more the caracthers, the plot was ok.
If you are a Grisham fan you'll enjoy this book and If you are not I recommend you to start with The Firm, the book obviously, not Tom Cruise's Movie...
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Summary: Grisham shows us how not to finish a good mystery
Review: This one goes along like a good mystery - not too fast, and not too slow. The hero finds a good sum of unexplained money, and knows that somebody is onto him. It gets very exciting near the end, as he feels the noose tighten around his neck, but then, Mr Grisham lets us down in the last chapter. The book ends in a very unspectacular whimper. Left unexplained were several events, such as: Why the arson events? Why the threat to the IRS? Why didn't the bad guy just steal the money in the first place? Why didn't the bad guy know where the money was, given the extreme surveillance our hero was under (e.g., the photos of his secret storage sites)? Some ... no, correct that... most of the actions done by the bad guy didn't seem to be in his best interest.
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Summary: WOW!
Review: Grisham does it again. The legal thriller is taken to a new level in this vivid novel with many twists and turns. A Grisham fan's dream come true.
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Summary: Not my favorite but a decent diversion
Review: This wasn't as fast paced as The Firm or The Pelican Brief but it was more interesting than The Rainmaker. If you are looking to read Grisham's books, start with the other two I mentioned. If you overall like those, try the Summons.
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