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by: John Grisham

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Average Rating: Rating: - The King Doesn't Get His Crown Back Just Yet. John Grisham began his writing career with a bang, publishing one great legal thriller after the next, a feat that brought him to the top of the publishing world very quickly. But in the last few years, his legal thrillers have been less than steller. Aside from his sweet, heartwarming A Painted House (which, ironically enough, was not a legal thriller), Grisham's novels have been on the boring side. Now, he returns with his yearly offering, a fun little novel called The King of Torts, a novel that brings him once step closer to regaining his title of King of the legal thriller. In the book, we find a young public defendent named Clay, who is given the opportunity to earn 15 million dollars with just a few months's work. Soon enough, he is thrown into the world of mass litigation, where lawyers sue big corportations with thousands of claims. The millions start pouring in and Clay soon finds himself at the top of his game. But what goes up must come down, a thing Clay does not seem to know. Halfway through the story, Clay realizes that he's in way over his head. In Clay, Grisham creates a character you will both love and hate. His rise to success his fun to watch, but his downfall is much more interesting. It's the part in between that's problematic. Because, while Clay is on top, he becomes so obssessed with money and fame that he becomes a character you will despise. It's hard to like someone who's complaining about life when they own a yacht, a million dollar house, a penthouse in the south, and their own 45$ million jet. So when his downfall arrives, it's hard to feel sympathy for Clay. The story is predictable, yet fun to read. Maybe the book would have been better had Clay been faced with harder, more problematic challenges and situations. As it is now, The King of Torts is a fund read that doesn't require much involvement from its readers. A good beach novel, but not much more than that. Rating: - A fantastic work of prose - suspenseful & captivating. I always enjoy reading one of John Grisham's books and King of Torts was no different. I like how John exposes the behind the scenes world of 'class action' law suits; the frantic pace to run scare ads getting consumers to call the lawyers 800 number, rushing thru medical testing, posturing with other tort lawyers to win mega-million paychecks while their clients get a paltry settlement. I especially enjoyed the bit of romance thrown into the story, although it's obvious Grisham loves to write about the law not love! An unexpected twist at the end . . . couldn't put this book down until I finished it all. Well Done! Rating: - The book without a story. I like to listen to books in the car, and I usually pick something trashy yet entertaining. Grisham almost always fits the bill. Unfortunately, while building this new by-the-numbers courtroom-lawyerdrama, he left out the numbers. Like it was a tumor, anything resembling a plot has been sliced out of the book. It just rambles along, resembling nothing so much as a drunk, stumbling down the street, mutterng incoherently about how things used to be. It's a book without a story, and the mindless entertainment Grisham used to be so dependable on producing has been reduced to simply mindless. I had more fun tossing the CDs to the dog like frisbees than I did listening to them. Yuck.

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