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| Author: John Grisham
Publisher: Doubleday
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  407 reviews
Sales Rank: 199
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 368
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.1 x 1.3
ISBN: 0385515049
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780385515047
ASIN: 0385515049
Publication Date: January 29, 2008
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 You used to be so good... June 23, 2008
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is by far the worst novel Grisham has written. It was convoluted, boring, drawn-out, too many useless characters, too many side stories, and a really lame ending. Grisham is so much better than this in his older novels. It took me around six months to read this book because I was so bored with it... but I had to finish it. If I had cheated and went to the end immediately, I would have chucked it aside. Sorry.
Starts out so very slow June 23, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book starts out extremely slow. Really slow. So slow that I can't believe I even finished it. The first third of the book is boring. After that, it picks up speed and reminds me why I love Grisham's legal books.
I was hoping for a happy ending. Where the bad guys get theirs and the good guys win. A hope that someone changes their moral views. No such luck. In this sense the book is realistic. It does get me thinking about how often seats really are bought by large corporations or trial lawyers. I think it's this idea that makes me dislike the book, voting, lawyers, politicians...right now I dislike them all. It's not even Grisham's fault. It's just the whole idea behind it. It makes me not even want to vote anymore...which I know is stupid.
Thank you John Grisham for luring me out of my happy bubble of a world for a short while. I will be retreating back to it now and staying there until after this years election season is over.
Anyway, three stars for being insightful.
 Don't know what the hype is all about! June 23, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
I don't know what all the "hype" about this book is all about..in my opinion, the book is horrible! The author has a lot of great thoughts, but the book goes on and on forever about nothing! The library, book clubs, ect.. have marketed this as a great #1 seller..I can't understand why!
Mediocre plot, bad entertainment, depressing and w/o value June 23, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I am a long time Grisham fan, but this book is disappointing and depressing.
Characters are cardboard and cliche ridden...evil big business, good guy attorney pushed to the wall. It is as if he took Erin Brockovich and transferred it to Mississippi, then removed most of the financial ooomph from the defense counsel.
The bad guys have all the good cards and win almost every confrontation. The good guys have no cards, and draw nothing better. Finally, in a bizarre plot contrivance, Mr. Grisham uses a Little League baseball game to try to rescue this hopelessly depressing and ridiculous novel from itself.
This is the first time I have ever been completely disappoited with a Grisham novel...thank goodness it was a regift or else I would be in agreement with the earlier reviewer who suggested that this book is a walking class action suit for bad writing, bad plot development, cardboard characters, a complete lack of professional skill in writing the book, and inflicting a waste of time for the reader in taking the time to read it.
I realllllllllllllllly consider this book a disaster. it has no redeeming value, and should be recalled immediately.
Save your money. Save your time. Avoid this book.
A 350pp Brief for Trial Lawyers June 22, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I've enjoyed several of Grisham's novels--most notably The Partner-- but this one is different, very different. After a promising beginning including a number of humorous takes on New York's moneyed aristocracy, the novel veers off into a bad place: Agenda-Land. If you are somehow gratified by cardboard characters who scream "Big Business Is Evil" or crusading small practitioners who whisper "We Are Noble," you might be able to make it through without cringing so many times your shoulders ache. And in case, by some slim chance, you might miss the really (really, really) obvious point of this whole exercise, the author will help you along by making every case anecdote a tort lawyers dream.
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