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3.78 AVERAGE
3.78 AVERAGE
adventurous
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
The movie is much better, leaner, tighter, more realistic.
adventurous
medium-paced
Yup, libro de papás.
A los señores les gustaría mucho.
Yo no soy un señor.
A los señores les gustaría mucho.
Yo no soy un señor.
I do not bother to write a review usually. But the hight rating of this book warrants one.
The story of this novel is full of holes. I do not want to list them, but here is a couple for sample.
A team of FBI officers simply pulls out of the search based on anonymous calls
Mitch and family coolly goes away in a boat when both the FBI and the Mafia are looking for them
Mitch reports the FBI contacting him to the Firm
The whole story, its development and the climax are very artificial.
Mr Grisham must be having a hearty laugh seeing that any crap he writes beomes a best seller.
This is most likely the last Grisham I will read.
There are so many excellect bookes in the market
The story of this novel is full of holes. I do not want to list them, but here is a couple for sample.
A team of FBI officers simply pulls out of the search based on anonymous calls
Mitch and family coolly goes away in a boat when both the FBI and the Mafia are looking for them
Mitch reports the FBI contacting him to the Firm
The whole story, its development and the climax are very artificial.
Mr Grisham must be having a hearty laugh seeing that any crap he writes beomes a best seller.
This is most likely the last Grisham I will read.
There are so many excellect bookes in the market
This is the story of Mitch McDeer the oh so brilliant Harvard Law School graduate who’s like THE BEST at everything. He could have a job at any of the big town firms but chooses a small firm at Memphis called Bendini, Lambert & Locke because of the money, and the house, and the car that they just throw at him. And then surprise, surprise it turns out that if it sounds too good to be true... Mitch finds out that the firm is owned by the mafia and is engaged in a ton of illegal activities.
The short review would be: boring and stupid. It took me ten days to finish not because of the length but because it was so bad I didn’t want to read more than four chapters every day. It was that dreadful. This is only the eight book that (at least so far) I’ve given only 1 star, the lowest possible rating. I don’t throw it around at just any other book so trust me when I say – it’s bad. Maybe after reading The Pelican Brief first I should have realized that Grisham can’t write but The Firm was kind of famous so I wanted to see what all the fuss was about.
The first part goes into the boring category, mostly. You have Mitch and his lovely wife Abby who have all the depth of weekend morning cartoon characters. You have tedious scenes of a lawyer’s life which drag on forever and make you wonder when the interesting things will begin. You also scenes of what the bad guys are doing which means there is no suspense. The bad guys say: “we’ll do X” and then surprise, surprise X happens. Not very exciting reading
After the great revelation, that the firm is shady and Mitch will have to work with the FBI, come the stupid parts. Because Mitch, who just recently graduated from the law school and has worked at the firm for a wooping one year, is apparently smarter than the firm, the mafia, the FBI and police put together. Forgive me if my disbelief is not suspended.
Added to all that is the fact that Mitch is not a likeable character. Part of that is the bad writing, another part is that what characterization there is just makes him look like an asshole. The first moment when I seriously didn’t like Mitch was when he demanded money from the FBI for handing over the documents. I was at first willing to forgive that because he would have to abandon his old life and he had a wife to support. Okay, and then he demands that his brother be released from the prison. He was not wrongfully convicted and you don’t feel from the book that they were ever that close (the book just tells us that). So why? Good guys aren’t supposed to act like this. Possibly, in the hands of a better author, the story of the corruption of Mitch McDeer could have worked but this is not it.
And after all that time spent the book just ends sort of abruptly. Our hero is barely present during the final parts of the story (that focus on the FBI and the bad guys just to show how brilliant Mitch) is and at the end we’re only briefly informed that the bad guys were caught but never actually see the aftermath. Then the heroes go on to spend their days living on beaches and with enough money to never work a job again. Because that’s all these people care about apparently.
The short review would be: boring and stupid. It took me ten days to finish not because of the length but because it was so bad I didn’t want to read more than four chapters every day. It was that dreadful. This is only the eight book that (at least so far) I’ve given only 1 star, the lowest possible rating. I don’t throw it around at just any other book so trust me when I say – it’s bad. Maybe after reading The Pelican Brief first I should have realized that Grisham can’t write but The Firm was kind of famous so I wanted to see what all the fuss was about.
The first part goes into the boring category, mostly. You have Mitch and his lovely wife Abby who have all the depth of weekend morning cartoon characters. You have tedious scenes of a lawyer’s life which drag on forever and make you wonder when the interesting things will begin. You also scenes of what the bad guys are doing which means there is no suspense. The bad guys say: “we’ll do X” and then surprise, surprise X happens. Not very exciting reading
After the great revelation, that the firm is shady and Mitch will have to work with the FBI, come the stupid parts. Because Mitch, who just recently graduated from the law school and has worked at the firm for a wooping one year, is apparently smarter than the firm, the mafia, the FBI and police put together. Forgive me if my disbelief is not suspended.
Added to all that is the fact that Mitch is not a likeable character. Part of that is the bad writing, another part is that what characterization there is just makes him look like an asshole. The first moment when I seriously didn’t like Mitch was when he demanded money from the FBI for handing over the documents. I was at first willing to forgive that because he would have to abandon his old life and he had a wife to support. Okay, and then he demands that his brother be released from the prison. He was not wrongfully convicted and you don’t feel from the book that they were ever that close (the book just tells us that). So why? Good guys aren’t supposed to act like this. Possibly, in the hands of a better author, the story of the corruption of Mitch McDeer could have worked but this is not it.
And after all that time spent the book just ends sort of abruptly. Our hero is barely present during the final parts of the story (that focus on the FBI and the bad guys just to show how brilliant Mitch) is and at the end we’re only briefly informed that the bad guys were caught but never actually see the aftermath. Then the heroes go on to spend their days living on beaches and with enough money to never work a job again. Because that’s all these people care about apparently.
An okay book. Considering it's an early Grisham I see how he has perfected his craft over the years, but this one did feel half baked. Bought it when was traveling and someone was selling paperbacks. Did keep me entertained so props for that. Did enjoy the plan reveal but climax wasn't exactly mind blowing. Will probably forget about it in a month or two.
Not bad! It took awhile to get rolling, but the last hundred or so pages flew.
I mean, it kind of works as a story, but there seems to be an excessive amount of photocopying to really engage me as a reader.
The Firm is pure entertainment. The book isn’t perfect but it’s very good. It starts out great but slips a bit in the last forth of the story. It was a book I actually wished was longer which is rare.