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 enlarge | Author: John Grisham
Publisher: Doubleday
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  454 reviews
Sales Rank: 1360
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 368
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.4 x 1.3
ISBN: 0385515049
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780385515047
ASIN: 0385515049
Publication Date: January 29, 2008
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Familiar ground. February 7, 2008
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
Like almost all of the reviewers, I have read all of John Grisham's books (since my first year of law school). I do not share Mr. Grisham's politics in general, but I enjoy his writing as diversionary reading for a couple of nights. You need to be aware that this book is very political and that is central to the thing. I stay away from Tort (Personal Injury) Law because I agree it is way out of control, (Mr. Grisham does not.) and I think there are some huge scumbags who get away with doing some really dirty things that make you weep when a verdict is read.
This is well-covered ground for Mr. Grisham; a very evil chemical company knowingly does something horrible to really destroy a community. A young, earnest Attorney (in this case two) face dangerous situations from bodily harm to no money. I would ask please Mr. Grisham in your next novel take on another issue besides cancer.
The story is good, and legally correct from a way that appeals to an average person. However, the villains are predictable, which is a downgrade. The young Attorney who is their pawn goes through good-bad phase. But honestly, he is quite boring and his wife is so wooden as to be just distracting. The improvement in this area could have added a lot to the story. Frankly the way he deals with his "conversion" is just bad writing (but hey he's John Grisham, and I am talking about his book.) Here is my main point - please use your favorite search engine and type Justice Penny White Tennessee 1996. You will see what I think is 100% of Mr. Grisham's inspiration for about this whole novel. It was a nice diversionary read, but has a few major flaws that bring it down to a mediocre performance.
 the appeal February 6, 2008
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
I am so glad to have John Grisham "lawyer books" back! Many of the customer reviews I read said that they didn't have any character to 'love'. I loved & respected the Paytons. I was disappointed with the ending but I guess it was true to life.
Another brilliant rollercoaster February 6, 2008
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
Like many of Grisham's books this one is based loosely on a true story involving W.R. Grace and its subsidiaries dumping chemicals on a farmstead and casuing illness. But this takes the story one step further and examines the way in which Carl Trudeau, the famed wall street raider, is trying to manipulate the system using any means possible. While the lower courts deal a smashing verdict the case must now be appealed to the Supreme Court of Mississippi and now it appears everything is up for grabs. Grisham returns to his old themes that are tried and true; the court. With much interest today focused on the American Supreme Court this is such a story in microcism and examines how politics and business and courts are all interelated.
A brilliant book that once again proves Mr. Grisham as the master of the court room drama.
Seth J. Frantzman
 Like reading a newspaper February 5, 2008
While reading this latest novel from Grisham I couldn't help but feel like I was reading and endless Article in a newspaper. Filled with facts and no character developement at all! I do like his work very much and will continue to read his latest books, but I was very dissapointed in this one.
Grisham ran out of energy February 5, 2008
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
I have been a long time Grisham reader, and this did not strike me as his best effert. It was as if he used up his writing energy or his word quota by page 330 and just pasted on an unsayisfying conclusion to his story, ending abruptly by page 355. His sympathetic lawyer character has a "come to Jesus" experience which in the end doesn't count for much.
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