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Summary: Attention Keeper
Review: I thought this book was great. He contiues to get my support everytime he writes a book. The only problem I had with this book was the ending. Dont get me wrong it was a good ending but I think it could have had at least another chapter...
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Summary: The Summons: Awesome!!!!!
Review: A judge with two sons mysteriously and suddenly dies. After his death, his son (a lawyer)finds a mass maount of money which has no trace of where it came from.- John Grisham has wriiten many legal thillers. Such as the Firm and the pelican brief. He has worked in the courtroom and the writings in his homes in Virginia and in Mississippi. He is a family man with a wife and two children. - This book was about greed, hate, love, and the law. I liked this book because the book had all the charachteristics of what life is all about and how each person in their own ways, even though selfish and twisted, can end up making a book great. Thsi was something which you had to think about morals and how you percieved the book. The sons are backstabbing each other without the faintest idea that they are fully getting the other one in enough trouble. The whole thing is the money, which is always a bait and snatch. The money got my attention straight away. I fully followed how much of the hidden money was spent and how much was thrown away...This book is one of Grisham's best and you haven't read it yet, you are way too far behind...pick it up!!!!!
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Summary: The Summons
Review: NOt one of John Grisham's better books. Got pretty dragged out in the middle.
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Summary: Grisham treads slowly and carefully
Review: John Grisham is one of my favorite authors, and apparently I am in good company (or at least a lot of company!). Many of his books are rightly called thrillers, with a lot of legal beagle goings-ons. For instance, his "The Runaway Jury" was a convincing and realistic story taken right out of contemporary headlines and had great characters you could either identify with or hate. You got to know the jurors, thus you could care about their predicament. A daredevil scheme was played out. A great story that built up to a stunning and powerful conclusion. But to me, "The Summons" is a good story that also happens to be a mystery. Like its Southern setting, it seems to move slowly, with lots of character and locational mood development, and finally gains momentum and ends up being a good chase back and forth between Mississippi and Virginia. It's a good chase because neither the hero (Ray Atlee, son of a famous judge)nor we know who is after him. All we know is that Ray has found a few million bucks stashed in his father's house and he can't decide how to safeguard it after his father dies. He doesn't even know how his well respected father could have possibly acquired it, as he was a career judge in rural Mississippi, which pays very modestly. But an unknown person knows about the money, as Ray finds out soon. He has to investigate the situation while driving around with the loot in the trunk of his car. So it's a good story, and the suspense finally starts building. The last few chapters really gear it up for the exciting finish. I listened to the unabridged version on tape over several days driving around the countryside, and I must say I enjoyed the characters that gradually evolved. If you don't want all the homespun character development and local color, try the abridged version. Personally, I like a good story, so I thoroughly enjoyed the longer version. Maybe not Grisham's best, but that is still pretty darned good!
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Summary: Better Look for a Day Job
Review: This was definately not Mr. Grisham's finest work. It seems like a classic "formula" book that was written more for the bucks than for the bang. It is very readable, but you will be left wondering if you might have better occupied your time. If this was his first, it would have been his last.
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Summary: Like watching a train-wreck in progress!
Review: Mostly I loved it. Watching the main character change as the story progressed was awesome. There was also the aspect of watching the story develop that was like watching a train wreck. You know what's coming, but you can't look away!
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Summary: Trapped reading it on a plane
Review: WOW...This book was slow and boring....
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Summary: A Good Read, But Not Outstanding
Review: This was my first reading of a John Grisham novel, so I read it without preconceived expectations. I enjoy stories set in the deep South and saw in Judge Reuben Atlee some very real and personal characteristics: my Uncle Happy also had a large picture of General Nathan Bedford Forrest on his wall, and it was there glaring at us when we visited for my uncle's funeral. Touches like this add realism -- Grisham knows much about the people and region he likes to write about. I thought Grisham dropped the ball a couple of times in this novel, however. He spends a lot of time describing a flirtatious and beautiful college student of Professor Atlee, but then drops her, ending the expectations he had created in the reader. Did he change his mind about the plot? Also, his characterization of Forrest Atlee was inconsistent -- at first, portrayed as an irresponsible addict, by the end of the novel he has morphed into something quite different without a basis for the change. The ending is also anticlimactic. What did the major characters learn from their adventure? Not much, I'd say.
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Summary: THE SUMMONS
Review: JUDGE ATLEY WAS A RESPECTED LAWYER IN CLANTON MISSISSIPPI. HE HAD 2 SONS, RAY AND FORREST. RAY WAS A LAW PROFESSOR IN VIRGINIA, AND FORREST WAS ADDICTED TO DRUGS AND COMMITTED CRIMES. BOTH WERE 'SUMMONED' TO MISSISSIPPI WHEN THEIR FATHER DIED. HE LEFT THEM WITH HIS ESTATE, AND A SUSPICIOUS 3 MILLION DOLLARS THAT RAY FINDS. OVERALL THIS BOOK WAS PRETTY ENTERTAINING, IT HAD A LOT OF TWISTS AND SURPRISES. MOST OF THIS BOOK IS PRETTY SIMPLE THOUGH, LEAVING LITTLE TO THE IMAGINATION.
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Summary: The Summons
Review: Didn't like the ending. Also, thought the main character, Ray, was weak. I'd like my UVA law professors more forceful. The character's background didn't support the character's actions. Hope the next book is better.
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