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Summary: What a prolofic page turner..... just excellent
Review: I was about to come to the USA as a foreign student earlier this year. I wanted to know about the black history. Went to the library of this small town i live in Pakistan. Found "A time to kill" there. From that day onwards i am a John Grasham fan. "The Rain Maker" didnt let me sleep for two days and nights. It was a wonderful experience for me. I am here now to order more books. :)
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Summary: This was a LOUSY book!
Review: I'm afraid I can't recall the last time I read such an unrealistic book. A kid lawyer fresh out of law school takes on the super powerful legal conglomorate representing a massive insurance company... and wins, all by his widdle wonesome. The only way this could happen is if the opposing lawyers make every blunder possible... which they conveniently do. Along the way the law firm which tries to cheat our young hero mysteriously burns to the ground and a judge who is in cahoots with the insurance company's legal team suddenly dies the day before a vital ruling. I waited until the end of the book to find out who the kid's mysterious, immoral benefactor was... and there wasn't one. Nope. Just coincidence, the whole way.Along the way there are pointless subplots with a woman who claims to have millions in an Atlanta bank, a love story with an abuse victim, and the ethical dilemma of the need to be an ambulance chaser to make ends meet. WIll our young hero prevail? Who cares?
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Summary: Addictive! Finished it at 5 AM in the middle of the week
Review: Yeah, yeah, yeah. The outcome, of course, is fully predictable (after the hint that Memphis is stingy with its punitive damages awards I kinda expected a multimillion $ award), but the ease, the finesse of Grisham's plot and the story left me captive in the fictive dream until I finished the book in the morning in one marathon setting. Grisham is an amazing story-teller. I can't believe a story about a bad faith insurance case, wife abuse, and family problems of a little old lady can enchant me in such a way. I am sure Grisham can tell a story of a lawyer going to the petting zoo and make it a bestseller. Deck, Miss Birdie, Bruiser and others were exceptionally vivid characters, if somewhat one-dimensional. Rudy was actually my least favorite. Sugary nice guy, whose personality doesn't get a grain of salt even after he works for a thug lawyer and a gangster. Overall, simple but high-profile story, interesting cast, and amazing, AMAZING storytelling.
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Summary: ADDICTIVE!
Review: One of the greatest book of Grisham. Great story, with some humours and romance. The author makes you feel that you are in the story!
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Summary: Boring and the main character was a complete waste.
Review: I had no cares for any of the people in this story. This is boring and simple reading. If this was the only Grisham I ever read, it would be the last. People you are being too kind to this author. He is turning out junk by the minute.
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Summary: A great story and well developed characters.
Review: I really enjoyed this bok, it's one of the best I have ever read. John Grisham erally captured the excitement of a larger corporaate lawsuit in this book. He goes into vast detail in the procedures that a real laywer would have to in that situation. Though the insurance fraud case was incredibly simple to win, it really added something special to the book, a real-life situation. It seemed real through the whole book, from beginning to end, from the last year of Rudy Baylor's law school to the hesitation in Dot Black to file the lawsuit against the Great Benefit Insurace Company. Grisham went a little overboard with Rudy's romance, that small portion of the book is the only part I found unrealistic. Although I couldn't relate to this book in any way, of course, I'm not in law school or a lawyer, I still found it a valuable piece because of it's representaion of this decade. He was able to capture the essence of multi-million dollar lawsuits and faulty mairrages in an excellent book. It is different from most boks today because of the complicate first person narrative. It's present tense setting also sets it apart from many books. With The Rainmaker, Grisham has dared to go where most autors are afraid to. I, at first was hesitant to pick up this book because I 've never read anything in the genre before, but after the first five pages, I was hooked.
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Summary: A book that you CANNOT put down!
Review: The Rainmaker is an intence story of a young man, Rudy Baylor, finishing his years of law school and is just about to take the bar exam. Whithin this time he takes on two cases, without a lisence, one is an elderly woman with her will while the other is a mother, Dot Black, and her son Donny Ray Black, who is dieing of luekemia and their insurance company, Great Benefit, will not allow them the money they need to give Donny Ray the proper medical treatment that he needs. As Rudy takes on this case he is met with a group of "legal sharks" led by a man named Leo F. Drummend. These lawyers have power, money, and experience non of which Rudy has. I liked this book because it had a mixture of comedy, romance, mytery, and suspence giving it my attention all the way through. I believe that any one looking for a good book with intelegence and a mixture of themes will love this book every time that they read it.
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Summary: Good Job John
Review: I love the book because you get a feel for how a young lawyer has trouble getting past law school. I think any good reader should read this book.
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Summary: Typical Poor ending Grisham book.
Review: This was an exciting and funn book to read. I stayed up all night to finish it only to be increadibly dissapointed by the ending. I went away wishing I had never strted it in the first place. Grisham has a way of ruining so many books in the last few chapters.
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Summary: A delightful read.
Review: Realistic and emotional. Portraits perfectly how common people live and work, we identify with the characters and their problems. Best Grisham ever!. Avoid the movie though.
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