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dinadenso 's review for:
The Litigators
by John Grisham
I got sidetracked from my current read and I didn't regret it. As my first John Grisham's in English, my admiration toward Mr. Grisham's work has not changed. If ever, the one in English captures dark humor and details more clear than his other translated works. The common problems with translation.
The complicated tedious and time consuming work of lawyers, as always, being described as interesting work to do by Mr. Grisham - and that somehow give an impression that not all lawyers are sharks and cold hearted. Seems hard to believe yet still enjoyable to read from cover to cover.
In the 3/4 part of this book, we follow three main characters who are only by fate being brought together to work as a team: An unhappy old lawyer who dreams of nice retirement without his wife gnawing on his back, an emotionally volatile counselor-at-law (who is described as has not yet passed his bar exam) trying to be sober despite the mounting pressure he brings to himself and a young lawyer who never practices in courts.
At least four cases here are mentioned and solved by the uniqueness of their 'boutique' firm. Mr. Grisham's point is to excavate the blurred distinctions of litigation lawyers from other forms of lawyer practices, which I'm able to understand.
One comment though, he mentioned a phrase 'Your neck of the woods,' more than once. Did he just get that phrase or was the phrase somehow an initial idea of this book? As a habit of not taking peculiar choice of words by an author lightly, I must say I'm curious.
The complicated tedious and time consuming work of lawyers, as always, being described as interesting work to do by Mr. Grisham - and that somehow give an impression that not all lawyers are sharks and cold hearted. Seems hard to believe yet still enjoyable to read from cover to cover.
In the 3/4 part of this book, we follow three main characters who are only by fate being brought together to work as a team: An unhappy old lawyer who dreams of nice retirement without his wife gnawing on his back, an emotionally volatile counselor-at-law (who is described as has not yet passed his bar exam) trying to be sober despite the mounting pressure he brings to himself and a young lawyer who never practices in courts.
At least four cases here are mentioned and solved by the uniqueness of their 'boutique' firm. Mr. Grisham's point is to excavate the blurred distinctions of litigation lawyers from other forms of lawyer practices, which I'm able to understand.
One comment though, he mentioned a phrase 'Your neck of the woods,' more than once. Did he just get that phrase or was the phrase somehow an initial idea of this book? As a habit of not taking peculiar choice of words by an author lightly, I must say I'm curious.