The Rainmaker

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Summary: Good idealistic book
Review: I really liked this book though it seemed to me like "too way idealistic" for my style.
The story goes about a young attorney-to-be who gets contacted by a woman whose Insurance company refuses to cover the medical treatment for his dying son.
Poking through the contract he grasps the concept of a great injustice being commited and the woman being entitled to full medical coverage.
He then starts a desperate fight on his own against a multi-million dollar corporation... and wins... (this is the heroical part that didnt fit in very well, making the company look dumb and clumsy)
Nice to read and entertaining at the same time, it's a good choice if you like the "lawyer type" books John Grisham writes.

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Summary: The Rainmaker
Review: When people are diagnosed with deadly diseases it is only natural that the insurance company should cover the costs of the treatment. When the insurance company refuses to pay what do you do? In The Rainmaker the 6th book from best-selling author John Grisham a young idealistic attorney named Rudy Baylor who isn't yet licensed to practice law (He hasn't yet written his bar exam) takes on a case that seems simple enough but then explodes like a wildfire. Great White Insurance is a fraudulent company that preys on the poor and uneducated. They offer insurance for a minimal monthly fee and then refuse to pay the benefits. As Rudy tries the case with the help of an associate (who has failed the bar exam more then three times) they have no idea of knowing just what kind of corporation they are up against. Another story involving a battered wife that falls for Rudy is prominent in the story as is Rudy's relationship with the elderly woman who has rented him a room in her garage. Grisham has a way with making everything that happens in his book seem plausible and not mundane. He writes about interesting characters that you feel connected to. For this book Grisham is once again at the top of his form creating a thriller with a real moral plot as the main plot device.

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Summary: Sooooooooooo Good!!!
Review: i loved this book!! it was soooo good! i thought that it started out a little bit slow, but i was uplifted after about 75 pages. The climax was the best part, when Rudy Baylor, a fresh new lawyer that just got his license and just passed the bar exam, went to his first trial. The result of the trial was surprising and wonderful. The book is very good and presents many twists and turns rather than a predictable ending. This book, along with the firm, keep me hungry for many more John Grisham books!!! i love this book! it truely was a masterpiece!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i would rate it a ten on a scale of 1 to 5!!!!

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Summary: Character Rich
Review: John Grisham has presented us with another winner, "The Rainmaker." Readers will identify with the characters in this drama of the good guys against the bad. The well plotted twists and lovable foibles of this intense tale will keep readers in suspense and eagerly turning page after page. The Rainmaker will have you smiling one minute and in tears the next. A truly great read.
Beverly J Scott author of Righteous Revenge

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Summary: One of Grisham's best
Review: From the viewpoint of sheer enjoyment, this is probably my favorite of Grisham's books, except, perhaps, for The Testament. The plot is complex, the characters are quirky, and, after the first hundred pages are so, the writing is sharp, humorous, and impossible to put down.

Rudy Baylor is a soon-to-graduate law school student to whom everything bad is happening. Even when you think he's hit bottom, things keep getting worse. He loses his girlfriend, his job prospects, his financial self-respect; he's rousted out of bed by cops and implicated in an arson, he's reduced to working for a sleazy law firm that chases ambulances and represents strip clubs, and even that job is shaky.

While the book is thoroughly entertaining, it stretches the limits of credulity at times. The evil insurance company Rudy sues, and everyone who works for it, are totally devoid of any redeeming moral traits whatsoever; the judge is unbelievably sympathetic. As a rookie lawyer trying his first case, Rudy can do no wrong in the courtroom. Still, rooting for the good guys and hissing at the bad guys is part of the fun of the book.

The book raises some sticky moral questions that are glossed over, such as Rudy's relationship with an attractive young married woman, her husband's violent death, and the subsequent cover-up. And there are some dangling loose ends I would have like to have seen cleared up, such as who actually committed the arson of which Rudy was suspected.

The ending was unexpected, and yet exactly what it should have been. It left me slightly misty-eyed, and wishing that modern authors used that device of 19th-Century writers, telling us what became of their characters in the twenty years or so after the book. My guess . . . Rudy becomes a high-school history teacher in Laramie, Wyoming, he and Kelly have three kids, and they never set foot in a courthouse again. Read the book and see if you agree.

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Summary: An Enjoyable Book
Review: In reading most of the reviews for this book I see that most of the other readers have a habit of comparing John Grisham books. I think that's a little unfair to each of the books individually. I've only read two other Grisham books and I will not do that here.

The Rainmaker is a very good book. I have only recently begun to read fiction and this book kept me involved. If you know me personally, you know that most books I start I don't finish. I usually read about 10 to 20 per cent of the book and then shelve it. (Why I do this, I don't know. Short attention span, maybe?) This one I finished. And within about three weeks. I'll admit it seemed a little slow in the beginning. Rudy, the main charactor had a lot of different stuff going on. I wasn't sure where it was all leading. The pace really picked up though. I read the last half of the book in about 4 days.

If you just want an entertaining book that deals with the law, I definitely recommend the Rainmaker.

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Summary: Standard Fair
Review: Well its another McBook from the burn and turn factory know as Grisham Inc. I am convinced he has a group of Santa's elf's slaving away in some South Carolina sweat shop turning these screen plays - sorry, I mean books out. If you have read some of the authors books in the past you have a good idea of what you are going to get. An easy to read and understandable book that is as light as cotton candy. I actually think the movie was better. Why do I read his books, for the same reason I eat junk food, it is easy to get, fast and not complicated. Sometimes you just need a little light reading to take the stress from the day and his books fit that bill.

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Summary: John Grisham At His Best
Review: I am only half way through this book and this is by far one of John Grisham's best works. John Grisham is a wonderful author and can definetly paint a picture with his words. I have watched the movie also and even if you had not seen the movie you are able to make your own movie in your head with how well written this book is. If you have not read this book yet I recommend that you pick it up today.

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Summary: Was there a plot here?!
Review: When I finished this story I was like that's it?! Where was the plot, and the conflict?! The only thing I would call a twist in the story was that it had absolutely no twists! Almost everything in the story seemed to be completely irrelevant to everything else. ...

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Summary: The Rainmaker
Review: The Rainmaker by John Grisham is Great fun to read, a captivating thriller that keeps you on your toes from beginning to end. A definite must read especially if you are into court dramas or suspense. The main Character Rudy Baylor is very likeable and the plot is complex and extremely entertaining. It's summer in Memphis and Rudy and his aspirations to breeze through law school and being set for life are crushed beneath an avalanch of creditors and shady dealings with the law. Now rudy doesn't have a job and his only chance is an insurance dispute that leaves a son dieing and par ents mourning. By the time rudy gets to court, a heavyweight corprate defense team is there to meet him. Broke and desperate to win this case Rudy exchanges yard work for rent and works endless hours in his dank office on a case that will either bury him or make him the biggest rainmaker in all the land.