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Summary: Good Insight into the Legal Profession
Review: I'm not sure how many people who wrote reviews are in the legal profession, but being a Law Student who is going into Public Interest Law the book brought out acurately what the profession is like. Public Interest lawyers work in conditions that Grisham acurately portrayed and the dichotomy that exists between Corporate/Commerical law practice and Public Sector law practice is diparaging, which Grisham also brings to light. This book is important for people to read in order to understand a profession that excites the public and at the same time alienates it.
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Summary: Quick and fairly enjoyable, but totally non-plausible
Review: I enjoyed the book, if only because of its brevity. Due to that brevity, however, some fairly serious flaws develop. Unfortunately, these flaws make the plot totally non-plausible. Character development is virtually non-existent. As a result, the main character's decision to leave "the firm" is not as strong as it could have been. Additionally, you don't get the feeling that the other lawyers from Drake & Sweeney (with the exception of Chance) are the antagonists that Mr. Grisham makes them out to be. Lastly, the conclusion seemed to be too nicely wrapped. The reader is thus left with a type of literary twinkie: something's just gone through you, you're not sure what it was, and you're left with an empty feeling.
To his credit, Mr. Grisham takes on a difficult subject. It is difficult to make a compelling story about the homeless and the lawyers that help them. It wasn't as "holier-than-thou" as I expected, although there was a fair amount of that (both implicity and explicitly stated).
All in all, a decent book. Not one of his best, though.
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Summary: Spine tingling.
Review: I just have this to say. Wonderful escapist fun.
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Summary: It's our own fault...
Review: If readers would stop buying every Grisham novel the minute it comes out, the demand wouldn't be so high and the publishers wouldn't make him write a book every 10 months. Then he would have time to write something of the same caliber as "A Time to Kill" or "The Firm". Every book is worse than the one before...but I buy them the minute they hit the stands anyway...NOT anymore!!
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Summary: My first and possibly last Grisham
Review: This is the first novel I've read by John Grisham and I'm amazed that this author has become such a bestseller. I'm encouraged to hear this is definitely not one of his best, maybe I'll give "The Firm" a try. The hero of this book is stupidly reckless and not at all sympathetic. The guy impulsively commits grand larceny, then spends most of the book trying to put off thinking about the consequences till tomorrow. And we're supposed to hang in there for this loser? His wife leaves him and he can't even get another fictitious female character to look at him till the book's almost over, why should we like him any better? I won't even mention the inane dialogue, non-plot, and endless bleeding-heart sermonizing, which have been covered well by the previous reviewers.
I've read all of Scott Turrow's stuff and even though he doesn't match the quantity Grisham has turned out, the quality is infinitely better. I hope Grisham listens to his own sermons and realizes there are more important things than amassing lots of money.
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Summary: quick read, but boring
Review: if you've read some of John's other works, you know how good a writer he is. This book ain't one of his best. You can finish it in an afternoon, but then you're still hungry. i'm sincerely hoping he contributed some of riches to help the plight of the homeless he writes about. avoid this one unless you want a quick read during a coast to coast flight...
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Summary: He just writes for getting his next check
Review: If you thought Mr. Grisham reached the top of boring books with "The Chamber" he definitely proved otherwise with his latest book "The Streetlawyer". If you are looking for something as exciting and breathtaking as "The Firm" or even "The Pelican Brief" or "The Client", you will be incredibly disappointed. I thought this book has no story, no thrill, no romance, no unexpected happenings, no sideplots, no nothing. Facit: BORING. I appreciate the fact that Mr. Grisham addresses also social issues like the homeless, however he does it in a rather "fairy-tale" style which is kind of out-of-place for his style ...
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Summary: By far Grisham's worst effort; Dull - a real snoozer!
Review: Grisham's worst yet. His first (The Firm) was excellent; now Grisham has gone to the bottom of my favored writers list. Did not finish this slow, plotless, pointless novel. Weak characters, no action and about as un-entertaining a book as I have ever started to read. Sadly, his books are getting progressively worse instead of better. Doubtful if I will read his next work.
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Summary: What was he thinking?
Review: This is the second worst book in the Grisham collection, besting only The Chamber. Mr. Grisham seems to do better when he doesn't have some sort of social message he's trying to put across. Although he means well it seems a little hypocritical on his part to preach of the evils of money when he sells every book he has ever written to the Hollywood moguls for a good-sized chunk of change.
This is the first book he wrote in the first-person and I found it choppy and a little forced. I admire his desire to expand his style of writing but I think he should stick with what he knows best: intrigue and plot twists. All in all I was more than a little disappointed with his latest outing.
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Summary: I'm still a Grisham fan, though!
Review: I read "The Firm" and found myself hooked on John Grishams lawyer world, filled with intrigues and complex plots. Although the setting almost always was the same i.e. "young ambitious, idealistic lawyer" vs. "big law firm and/or some other big cynical corporation", the plot and the captivating story telling always made me keep turning those pages. "The Street Lawyer" has the same (tired) setting but the plot is almost non-existant! Only the first couple of chapters carried some resemblance with Grishams previous work, the rest could, for all I know, have been written by somebody else. I really hope that "The Street Lawyer" is just the unfortunate result of a deadline with the publisher, and that Grishams next novel will make us forget and forgive this one.
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