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3.54 AVERAGE
3.54 AVERAGE
dark
funny
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
The characters were a little much and this book had more legal minutia than other Grisham books I've enjoyed. My mind wandered when I lost interest in the prep for tort case. Now I know this is very little of what is in the typical day of a tort lawyer, but even the little that was portrayed in this story wasn't enough to keep me engaged. I needed more thriller in this legal thriller.
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Not exciting, but still good
I’ve read most of Mr. Grisham’s earlier works. This is the first book of his I’ve read in quite some time. I enjoyed this book, but it wasn’t very exciting. The characters were an interesting bunch, but I wish they had gone just a little further. The ending was entirely too sappy and completely unbelievable. A just ending was not happy enough I guess.
I’ve read most of Mr. Grisham’s earlier works. This is the first book of his I’ve read in quite some time. I enjoyed this book, but it wasn’t very exciting. The characters were an interesting bunch, but I wish they had gone just a little further. The ending was entirely too sappy and completely unbelievable. A just ending was not happy enough I guess.
The classic battle between good and evil -- Grisham does this so well with his good-hearted, idealistic, usually completely broke young lawyers taking on big, bad law firms and evil corporations (both of whom always have very deep pockets) and winning against all odds. It may be unrealistic and formulaic but, after all, one of the reasons I read novels is to escape the real world for a while. I found The Litigators to be a quite satisfying read.
David Zinc has absolutely had it. His years as a slave-driven associate at a major Chicago law firm have driven him to the brink of utter senselessness. On one particular morning, he essentially shuts down; he can’t get out of the elevator, and when he finally does, he spins around, runs back into it, and leaves the high-brow law firm forever. At the end of his first day out of work, he is entirely drunk—so much so that going home to his wife, Helen, seems out of the question. When a cabby repeatedly asks where he should deliver David, David sees through an alcohol blur the address of a law firm on a cheap flyer. He drunkenly directs the cab driver to that address, stumbles into the ambulance-chasing law firm of Finley and Figg, and collapses.
Wally Figg has long dreamed of finding a major case he can sign onto. He’s sure he can find that one defective drug that will enable him to find a victim of it to sue the company. Figg has no experience as a litigator; he’d much rather find a slick big-time lawyer where he can sign onto an existing suit with his paltry few cases, split the big bucks, and leave the company behind. Into his life comes the perfect unsafe drug Krayoxx. It apparently damages a heart valve, and Wally is good at finding people who lost loved ones to heart attacks while taking the drug.
Oscar Finley just wants a quick, cheap divorce. He wants out of an unhappy marriage of 30 years. He’s content to chase ambulances, and he looks with disapproval on his partner’s affinity for advertising on cheap flyers and bingo cards and trying to sue a drug company.
Poor David doesn’t know what to think initially. He is scandalized by Wally Figg’s visit to funeral homes to drum up business for his lawsuit. But perhaps Wally is onto something, because the Krayoxx problem is gaining steam. But is it all just a house of cards?
Keep a close eye on David Zinc. He is looking at toys with led-based paint—toys that are damaging the brains of small children in and around Chicago. But David is quiet about those toys. He isn’t mentioning these to the other members of the new company.
I found this book often humorous and constantly fun and interesting. This is Grisham in his excellence. You’ll get through it quickly, and you’ll enjoy it without having to focus on it exclusively at the expense of everything else you do.
Wally Figg has long dreamed of finding a major case he can sign onto. He’s sure he can find that one defective drug that will enable him to find a victim of it to sue the company. Figg has no experience as a litigator; he’d much rather find a slick big-time lawyer where he can sign onto an existing suit with his paltry few cases, split the big bucks, and leave the company behind. Into his life comes the perfect unsafe drug Krayoxx. It apparently damages a heart valve, and Wally is good at finding people who lost loved ones to heart attacks while taking the drug.
Oscar Finley just wants a quick, cheap divorce. He wants out of an unhappy marriage of 30 years. He’s content to chase ambulances, and he looks with disapproval on his partner’s affinity for advertising on cheap flyers and bingo cards and trying to sue a drug company.
Poor David doesn’t know what to think initially. He is scandalized by Wally Figg’s visit to funeral homes to drum up business for his lawsuit. But perhaps Wally is onto something, because the Krayoxx problem is gaining steam. But is it all just a house of cards?
Keep a close eye on David Zinc. He is looking at toys with led-based paint—toys that are damaging the brains of small children in and around Chicago. But David is quiet about those toys. He isn’t mentioning these to the other members of the new company.
I found this book often humorous and constantly fun and interesting. This is Grisham in his excellence. You’ll get through it quickly, and you’ll enjoy it without having to focus on it exclusively at the expense of everything else you do.
I always know what I get with a Grisham book: a well paced legal story, an underdog against a big firm and an education in a current legal issue. He never lets me down no big surprises, amazing character development or lovely writing - just a real good book to read
I've never read a book by Grisham that I didn't enjoy.
Quality Grisham writing, but with an almost Disney-esque ending.