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Title: The Summons by John Grisham ISBN: 0-440-24107-3 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 17 December, 2002 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.63 (665 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: What Did Everyone Expect - Tolstoy?
Comment: Reading a John Grisham novel is not like taking on Melville or Henry James, his books are page-turners with short readable chapters and sometimes fantastic plots, usually involving lawyers or law students up to their necks in some gigantic conspiracy. Perhaps the lack of such a fantastic plot is what disappointed many other readers, and by contrast made this book more appealing to me.
Unlike the "Mafia, FBI, and/or CIA is out to get me" plots of some earlier Grisham novels, this one involves a law professor, Ray Atlee, who loves nothing more than flying when he is not teaching at UVA law school in Charlottesville. As an old UVA law student myself, the setting was a big drawing card. Atlee is summoned home to his boyhood home and father's house in small town Mississippi, to find that his father has just passed away and left everything to Ray and his brother equally. The mystery of the book comes with the discovery of $$ million dollars in cash squirreled away by Atlee's dad, a well-known judge in Mississippi.
At this point, Grisham sends his character on one of his famous paranoid goose chases, since Ray is afraid to report the money to a bank or trust company without knowing the source, but he is equally paranoid about anyone stealing it. Instead he drives it around with the money in his trunk, convinced he is being followed. Hardly the typical behavior of a law professor, but then again the typical professor's life wouldn't sell a thousand books, much less land a novel on the best-seller list.
Overall, I thought the book was an entertaining diversion, buttressed by Grisham's choice of two strong and well-described settings for the majority of the action. While some readers apparently like the sensational old Grisham better, I'll take this over the Pelican Brief anyday.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Summons...........
Comment: Well, to be honest, this is my first time reading a book by John Grisham. Not bad, not bad at all. An easy and fast paced read.
I see why most people compare Brad Meltzer to Mr. Grisham. Well, here's the skinny on "The Summons." Law professor Ray Atlee is summoned by his ailing father to discuss his father's estate. Reluctantly, Ray concedes but is in for a surprise when he arrives in Mississippi only to find that his ailing father is now dead! To make the situation more tense, is the discovery of 3 million dollars in his father's house. Albeit his father had a respectable occupation, it was impossible to think that the old man could accumulate that kind of cash during his tenure as a judge. Just as things couldn't possibly get any worse, Ray's brother forrest, who happnes to be the black sheep of the family, arrives at the scene and starts asking questions about their father's death and the future of their father's estate. Ray being the eldest and more responsible of the two is deemed the Executor of the will per their father's wishes. Ray explains this to his younger brother Forrest who concedes with the will. What Ray doesn't tell his younger sibling is that there is 3 million dollars in question found in their father's house. Instead of being truthful with Forrest, Ray takes it upon himself to conceal the whereabouts of the money, only to find that the old adage "Money is the root of all evil", is diffinitely true. I'd say, read it if you can get your hands on it! A very good read! Got cash? Get the book! :P
Rating: 2
Summary: HAVE A HEART JOHN
Comment: Come on John, get a grip ! This book had a scrawny story line which you dragged out to the bitter end. They might be paying you by the word but please have a heart , there are people out there actually reading this stuff.
Nothing much happened did it. It certainly had an intriguing start but the story remained paralysed and just edged along at a snail's pace and then went out with a whimper.
Why on earth did you bother.. and why did I?
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Title: The King of Torts by John Grisham ISBN: 0385508042 Publisher: Doubleday Books Pub. Date: 04 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: A Painted House by John Grisham ISBN: 044023722X Publisher: Dell Publishing Company Pub. Date: 26 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Brethren by John Grisham ISBN: 0440236673 Publisher: Island Pub. Date: 26 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Testament by John Grisham ISBN: 0440234743 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 28 December, 1999 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Partner by John Grisham ISBN: 0440224764 Publisher: Dell Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 February, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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