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Summary: Great Novel
Review: Even though A Time To Kill was a better story, The Rainmaker is a classic story about law. Rudy Baylor was an amazing character with a great talent for litagation. Keep writing things like this Mr.Grisham and you'll have your self a #1 fan.
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Summary: This fast paced law novel includes not just law but action.
Review: If you are looking for a good novel, read this book. So far it is the best Grisham novel (I haven't read them all). It includes a fresh, new law student struggling to make it work. This book is not boring like other law novels. I seriously recomend it.
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Summary: Great Book - until the end
Review: From the first chapter until nearly the last I was thoroughly engrossed into this book. A real page turner, and then, the last chapter - I felt let down, betrayed. Rudy went to a lot of trouble just to walk away from it all.
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Summary: Same Old Grisham
Review: The Rainmaker is as good as any of Grisham's books, but unfortunately that is where the problem lies. It was still just the same old Grisham. More young overachieving lawyers, more wire tapping, and more grossly underdeveloped characters. To its credit, the book is extremely fast paced as are all of Grisham's books. However, I think that it is time that Grisham try something different...
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Summary: A refreshing twist on Grisham's stale formulaic template
Review: John Grisham's first popular novel, The Firm, was an excellent book that revitalized the tired genre of law thrillers. Unfortunately, Grisham's novels quickly became formulaic to the point of being boring ... there was always the innocent protagonist being hunted/persecuted/stalked by the sinister underworld/corporate entity bent on keeping some kind of secret. In The Rainmaker, Grisham still loosely adheres to the same formula, but manages to craft an immersive plot around Rudy Baylor, a down-and-out law student who prosecutes a case against, you guessed it, a corrupt insurance company. One of the elements, however, that Grisham uses to freshen the stale formula is that of romance, namely between our hero and domestic-abuse victim Kelly. Usually the protagonist is too busy defending his/her life and protecting/revealing incriminating evidence against the bad guys to be much interested in sex or any semblance thereof, but Grisham's Rudy manages to cultivate a pretty decent relationship with Kelly in between court appearances. I suppose that, if I stuck to my guns, I could write this off as more Grisham schlock but, to tell the truth, I rather enjoyed the interplay between Rudy and the various other characters in the novel such as Miss Birdie, Deck and especially Kelly. Perhaps Grisham simply spent more time developing the characters in this novel. Whatever the reason, The Rainmaker stands out as one of the few books in my Grisham collection worth reading more than once.
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Summary: Grisham Succumbing to Formula Novel???
Review: In the four-tape abridgment I heard, Grisham still produces an attention-getting -- and attention-keeping -- novel, but I'm beginning to find the pattern of his books annoyingly similar. There's that point in the plot where you say, "Whoops! One too many good breaks for our hero! Goodbye, believability!" And that point further on, where you say, "Well, obviously, everything will come out all right, or there goes the story." But the fun is in the detail -- with Grisham, getting there is half the fun.
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Summary: Must be Grisham's best
Review: I spent a total of three days reading this book, and they must have been the most fulfilling in a while. Of the many John Grisham books I have read, this one had to be the most exciting and interesting. Many things were going on in Rudy's life, and they just kept coming, which kept me interested in the book, and they were cleverly connected! I loved the plot, the characters, and the writig of this book, and I would highly recommend it to anyone who is a Grisham fan, or who just likes to read a good book.
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Summary: NL-S Approved Book
Review: John Grisham's book, The Rainmaker, is a touching, yet action-filled story of a young lawyer trying to make it in the big leagues. The thing that caught my interest about this remarkable book is that it is by John Grisham. If you enjoy books about lawyers and their cases you will definitely enjoy any book written by Grisham. Grisham has a way of writing that really draws you to the stories being told. He has such good description of characters that you will feel you have known them forever. There is Rudy Baylor, a young lawyer who gets his first job and his first big case in the book. There is Rudy's associate, Prince. He is the man who will teach Rudy what real lawyers do. Then there is Kelly, she is a young innocent girl who is in the hospital for being beat by her husband Cliff, who is a rough cruel man. One of the most important characters in this story is Donny Ray Black. Donny Ray is a part of Rudy's first break through case, Black vs. Great Benefit. Donny Ray suffers from leukemia; he is in pain and hurt, he has lost trust, but hasn't lost hope in many things and is not afraid of death. His parents, the Blacks', are confused by the insurance company and wondering where or who they can turn to. Each character has a special quality about them, they make you love or hate them. The lessons that this book teaches all of us is that we are to never give up. Donny Ray fought for his life, Kelly fought for her freedom from her husband, and Rudy fought for his case. It is a compelling book that everyone will love.
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Summary: Magnificent. A Masterpiece !
Review: How can someone turn the tedious legalities of paperwork so interesting and human? Well Grisham did it. With a impressive humanitarian approach, the author focus on two cases: health plans versus a dying man and a widow`s will. Both cases, simultaneously, will take us through the legal issues. And with this he plays with our hearts! I had tears down my face reading the last page.
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Summary: If you need to read a Grisham book: read another book
Review: The case was too easy. Where's the thrill in that??? They made a movie out of this??? Hopefully the movie is better and not as much a waste of time as I spent reading this book.
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