The Firm

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The Firm

John Grisham

Mystery & Suspense

Aug 1, 2018

There are times in our reading lives when turning the page is more important than what’s on it, when the headlong rush toward what happens next overwhelms reflection—and sometimes even reason. John Grisham has made a career creating plots that deliver just such pleasure to readers. In his writing, Grisham clearly knows how to enjoy himself, as the crime fiction columnist in the New York Times noticed early in his career, flagging the “relish” with which he writes about the deadly and devious antics of the Memphis law partnership of Bendini, Lambert & Locke in The Firm, his second novel. No matter how dark—or even far-fetched—the misdeeds Grisham has described in his shelf of legal thrillers, his vivid sketches of settings and personalities are made addictively entertaining as the writer’s relish becomes the reader’s. The Firm relates the education of Harvard Law-minted first-year associate Mitch McDeere while he uncovers—and scrambles to escape—the Mob-entangled web of malfeasance at the heart of B, L & L.

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Mary Balsano Colombini Morgan

Oct 30, 2018

Nail-biter.

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Steve Jump

Dec 2, 2018

Fun.

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Dave Agrati

Apr 7, 2020

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Pat Costello

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James Mustich is so wrong about this novel. Please don't waste your time on this novel. I don't think we should encourage people to believe that, as Mustich writes, when "turning the page is more important than what’s on it." That is only true for comedies, and for very few of them. Believe me, when you spend time with a book, it leaves an influence on you. The banality and meaninglessness of the novel and its characters are not an influence that anyone should suffer under. The novel is not good enough to overcome its poor writing, poor characterization, and stupid plot.

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