The Street Lawyer

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Summary: A long,amusing lecture
Review: This book proves that Grisham could write any type of novel,he has written about Mobs,a trial with millions of dollars at stake & Murders,now he writes about the homeless.He is the master of thriller & suspence.But he is also a good lecturer whose language is amazingly gripping, I Loved it.

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Summary: Disappointing - not as suspenseful as usual
Review: I found the premise to be faulty and the treatment of the family to be superficial. The story pretended to explore some issues but this felt like a book written in haste.

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Summary: No More Sermonizing - Go preach in the Pulpit!
Review: I was an avid Grishom fan. I read Runaway Jury and came away disgusted with the constant, heavy anti-smoking sermons. I got The Street Lawyer from the libary...more preaching, but now about how we should all reach out to help the homeless, with the implicit message that no one who earns a good salary would willingly part from any of it except for technical toys. Grishom has demoted himself from the role of a good storyteller to a bad evangelist in order to hammer his philosophies down the reader's throat. Even when you AGREE with his ideology, it wearies...This book was TEDIOUS.

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Summary: About two hundred pages too long
Review: This book had an amazing beginning but that was pretty much it. The rest of the book just drags on with Grisham's didactic language about how we should help the homeless. Pretty much the whole book could be summed up in one line Help the homeless. If I wanted a lecture about helping others I could just go to church.

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Summary: this was a best seller?
Review: Reading this book has become a chore and it amazes me how many people have given it such good reviews. It's too bad that the only vehicle for expressing the plight of the homeless is through poorly written formula novels. From start to finish it has been boring, predictible and has only made me think less of Grisham. Having never read any of his other books I will say right now that I never will. It's a loss that the public buys into this kind of writing...the grown up version of Nancy Drew.

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Summary: Could have told it in half the time
Review: This is not one of my favorite Grisham novels. It moved slowly, and kept rehashing the same theme about the plight of the homeless.

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Summary: A boring and long-winded sermon.
Review: Grisham has gotten tired. This book has none of the well-crafted plot twists and turns that made his early books exciting. After the opening "drama" which takes up the first few chapters, nothing much happens. And the book is preachy. Grisham has a sermon for us, namely that we should help the homeless. It is clear that the only reason he wrote the book is to give this sermon. And he hammers us over the head with it for several hundred pages.

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Summary: Very hard to put down.
Review: I haven't read a book for pleasure in about 3 years. I bought this book in the Hong Kong airport while waiting for a flight. I read it all the way to China and for about 3 hours when I got home. I am hooked on Grisham novels now. He somehow seems to draw you into the story. I would recommend this one to anybody.

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Summary: A Great story
Review: I thought The Street Lawyer was an excellent book I loved the fact the one incident brought a very well-off lawyer to reality. Due to the incident that started the book, Micheal realized that money wasn't everything and that there were some very needy people around him. I found it inspiring that the very respected lawyer gave up everything to become a public interest lawyer, working for almost nothing compared to his previous salary. I also recommend this book because it is easy reading even though it is long. I am thirteen years old and read this book in less than a week, reading for about a hour each day. All in all, I highly recommend John Grisham's The Street Lawyer. Because I found this story so great I will now read other books by John Grisham.

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Summary: A book you won't put down for hours !
Review: The plot is very easy to follow, which makes it an excellent book. Thrilling from the very beginning. You'll see thirty two chapters fly before your eyes !