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Summary: A Real Thriller!
Review: This amazing, "hard-to-put-down" book portrays the life of a young law student, Rudy Baylor's rather short career as a lawyer in Memphis. Very unpredictable, you will never know what is going to happen next if you do not keep on reading. It is really surprising to see an author that can change the situation of the whole story in few pages and make it sound like a real piece of of literature. John Grisham, with his amazing knowledge of law weaves perfectly the two subjects that don't seem to go together well: Courtroom/law and Suspense. It is really intriguing to see the author give great amount of details about the court that in our normal life would put us into sleep in less than 5 minutes. In this ingenious work of literature, you can experience all kinds of emotion: sadness, happiness, love, fear, hatred...Adding to all the compliments on this novel, this book is frightfully realistic and its story could happen anytime and anywhere around us. In addition, Grisham depicts the corruption of the U.S. Courtroom, the law firms, and harsh reality about insurance companies. This book can be compared to a car with a diesel engine; starts real slow but once it reaches above 100km/h just keeps gaining speed. That means the first 100 pages of The Rainmaker is rather boring but after that 100 pages, the novel becomes a really "hard-to-put-down-page-turner".
In short, this book is a masterpiece legal suspense novel, probably the best one in the 21st century. There are only two faults about The Rainmaker. It is that the book has a rather deceptive ending and that the book is only about 500 pages...Highly recommended to anyone...Guaranteed.
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Summary: My Favorite Grisham Novel
Review: This is my personal favorite novel, though I might be a little prejudice in this opinion since this was my first. The book is about Rudy Baylor, a desperate-for-a-job lawyer, who stumbles across a case to help a dying boy's family fight against a corrupt insurance company.The story is dramatic and very clever. Grisham makes this one truly about the courtroom and shows that the little guys can beat the big guys. An excellent novel that is very interesting. Like many of Grisham's other novels, this one is a page turner. Very fun to read.
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Summary: Enjoyed It, BUT....
Review: Though it was a bit slow in the beginning, in the end, I enjoyed every minute of it. Like many of Grisham's novel's there's always something more behind it. What disappointed me about the rain maker, is what disappoints me about most Grisham novels, especially this one; The protaganist (Rudy Baylor) always ends up in the same way most characters do. It's a wonderful read though and I would highly recommend it.
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Summary: Just one damn good read
Review: Now I'll be quick. I am a soldier in Iraq. With a lot of time waiting to go on the next mission, I read A LOT!. Once I pick up John's books, I find myself reading until I realize its 2 AM. You have to find a spot and force yourself to put it down. Now in "The Rainmaker", the plot is a quickly laid out, except that it is not what you think. John morphs the young life of Rudy Baylor from that of a new lawyer with a bright future to an ambulance chasing street attorney with everything going wrong. Just when things seem to start to turn, it gets worse. The only thing left, is a few clients with great potential. With Judges on his side, and powerful freinds in the background, Rudy shows the big boys of Corporate Law the new ropes. Okay, not the best review, but hey, I read it in just over 6 hours. I liked every minute of it. Just do me one favor, read John's entire collection, I just can't wait for more to come.
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Summary: Way a go john!
Review: This book is absolutely wonderful , a well written thriller so good i could'nt put it down . you follow a struggling three year law student rudy baylor near gradution almost has his license to practice law, but he needs to pass the painful bar exam to do it. rudy while doing one of his routine classroom workshops for the public for free, he stumbles on to the case of the century , now only if he can stay around to file it. plenty of twists , turns to make it great reading.
P.S. the movie is just as good. Highly recommended.
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Summary: Thoroughly enjoyable
Review: Enough detail and emotion to carry you through. You really get into the characters and the story is great! I hold back 1 star because the firm and a time to kill were a little better.
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Summary: The Rainmaker
Review: I found this novel by John Grisham very entertaining. I had a hard time putting it down until I was done reading it. It kept me guessing about what was going to happen next and I would often guess wrong Also having never read a book about lawyers before I learned a lot of new things that I would have never known out otherwise. If you like stories about underdogs you will truely love this book. Rudy is a true underdog in this story. He is a just starting out lawyer whose first case is fighting a huge insurance company for 10 million dollars. Not your typical first day on the job. This book moves at a fast pace and my only complaint is that sometimes its hard to keep up. But overall go get this book and it will not dissapoint.
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Summary: THE RAINMAKER
Review: In his first courtroom thriller since A Time To Kill, John Grisham tells the story of a young man barely out of law school who finds himself taking on one of the most powerful, corrupt, and ruthless companies in America and exposing a complex, multibillion dollar insurance scam. In his final semester of law school Rudy Baylor is required to provide free legal advice to a group of senior citizens, and it is there that he meets his first clients, Dot and Buddy Black. Their son, Donny Ray, is dying of leukemia, and their insurance company has flatly refused to pay for his medical treatments. While Rudy is at first skeptical, he soon realizes that the Blacks really have been shockingly mistreated by the huge company,and that he just may have stumbled upon one of the largest insurance frauds anyone's ever seen, and one of the most lucrative and important cases in the history of civil litigation. The problem is, Rudy's flat broke, has no job, hasn't even passed the bar, and is about to go head - to head with one of the best defense attorney's and powerful industries in America.
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Summary: The Rainmaker
Review: I was mildly dissapointed by this book. I was expecting something suspensful, a thriller, at least something that kept your interest. The meandering storyline was bland at best, with very actual storyline. The only half-way interesting part was in the last three chapters. Everything else in the book is basically just a day in the life of a unsuccessful lawyer. I wouldn't recommend this for someone who's looking for a thriller.
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Summary: Great Book
Review: This is my favorite book in Grishams series. i was hooked from page to page and never wanted to stop reading....Great book for anyone.
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