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3.77 AVERAGE
3.77 AVERAGE
This is my first John Grisham book and I can see what all the hype is about.
His style of writing is trully interesting and entertaining. I thought the use of the different points of view was ingenious, quite the page-turner. I think that's why I reached to the middle of the book on the first day of reading.
That being said, by the second half of book, I felt like the story started to drag on. The dialogues and the situations seemed to be the same as in the first half and the book felt repetitive.
I thought the book was a very interesting read and got a sense of Grisham's writing style, which I found quite amusing.
His style of writing is trully interesting and entertaining. I thought the use of the different points of view was ingenious, quite the page-turner. I think that's why I reached to the middle of the book on the first day of reading.
That being said, by the second half of book, I felt like the story started to drag on. The dialogues and the situations seemed to be the same as in the first half and the book felt repetitive.
I thought the book was a very interesting read and got a sense of Grisham's writing style, which I found quite amusing.
Grisham defends old white men, like himself, who look at child abuse photos. Thinks they don't deserve prison. I am so repelled by Grisham it makes me sick to think I ever helped him get filthy rich so that he could have a voice that defends sexually abusing children.
Ik heb vroeger op de school de film gezien, dus in grote lijnen kende ik het verhaal al wel. De details wist ik niet meer, dus het verhaal was nog steeds spannend. Goed geschreven met genoeg diepgang voor de personages, waardoor je echt in het verhaal wordt gezogen en met ze meeleeft.
This book is great! It's really creepy at the beginning, but I loved it. It has a lot of plot twists. I borrowed it from my English teacher. The characters are all really well developed, and the story is told from all of their points of view at once. Great read.
Grisham's writing has noticeably improved since his first few novels, and the dialogue is much better.
The characters are well written and memorable, and the pacing is perfect. The segments with the main bad make you almost sympathize and want him to get away with it all.
Mark is a really sympathetic and enjoyable lead. Maybe some of his canniness and stoicism is a bit hard to believe for an 11-year-old, but it makes for good fun and twists. Some of his dialogue is the best in the book.
I'm excited to read the next Grisham novel.
I switched to audiobook for part of the book so I could knit and keep going, and I really liked the narrator and the voices he used. The recording is a bit fuzzy in places because it's an older one (it asks you to change discs despite being a digital ver), but otherwise good quality and the speed is good.
The characters are well written and memorable, and the pacing is perfect. The segments with the main bad make you almost sympathize and want him to get away with it all.
Mark is a really sympathetic and enjoyable lead. Maybe some of his canniness and stoicism is a bit hard to believe for an 11-year-old, but it makes for good fun and twists. Some of his dialogue is the best in the book.
I'm excited to read the next Grisham novel.
I switched to audiobook for part of the book so I could knit and keep going, and I really liked the narrator and the voices he used. The recording is a bit fuzzy in places because it's an older one (it asks you to change discs despite being a digital ver), but otherwise good quality and the speed is good.
Ugh, this was so so bad. I cannot count how many times I wanted to scream 'just fucking lie!!!!". Just fucking lie and all this mess doesn't happen. What is this idiotic decision making and 'oh no you cannot lie in court (because apparently you'll be struck by lightning or smth the moment you do); instead let everyone know that you KNOW this horrible secret and live your life in fear forever, that's much better than one fucking tiny lie'. UGH.
John Grisham is a Master. He writes books that the rest of our efforts are compared to, and it's not fair, but his books are so much fun to read.
There are only a few books that I have read twice. The Client was one of them. I wanted to review one of his books. I could have chosen The Pelican Brief or The Painted House or the Firm or any of the others.
In The Client, like the others, the reader is gripped from the opening pages. He develops characters that we come to care about.
William Faulkner in his address on winning the Nobel Prize said that a writer must write about the "verities and truths of the heart, the old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed – love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice."
John Grisham does that. The Client is a good example of his wonderful writing.
There are only a few books that I have read twice. The Client was one of them. I wanted to review one of his books. I could have chosen The Pelican Brief or The Painted House or the Firm or any of the others.
In The Client, like the others, the reader is gripped from the opening pages. He develops characters that we come to care about.
William Faulkner in his address on winning the Nobel Prize said that a writer must write about the "verities and truths of the heart, the old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed – love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice."
John Grisham does that. The Client is a good example of his wonderful writing.
This book made me question my entire future.
Be a lawyer or a doctor
Be a lawyer or a doctor