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  • 42 of 42 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 7 MALU

    Member since 04/07/2002

    Reviews written: 413

    4 Stars Cold Capital 12/08/2012
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages easy read, gripping

    Disadvantages Disadvantages none really

    I've just finished the third Grisham novel. I had known the author's name for a long time but it took me an equally long time until I opened one of his novels. The reason was that what I knew was a) He's an extremely successful writer b) He isn't known for his literary excellence b) He writes thick books. Something got muddled in my mind and I mixed him up with the authors Dan Brown and Terry Pratchett* for whom the same can be said. Pseudo-religious mystery? Bah! Sci-Fi? Double bah! But then an acquaintance forced The Partner on me and told me categorically, "Read it. You'll like it." I did ... more
  • 53 of 53 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 8 Andy.mack

    Member since 29/08/2002

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    4 Stars Would You Give Up Riches For The Street? 17/11/2003
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages The best start to a Grisham book I have read

    Disadvantages Disadvantages A few of the twists can seem to be a little far fetched

    The next book on my trip through my John Grisham shelf of my Bookcase is The Street Lawyer. I know a lot of people will be thinking I only have Grisham books on my shelf and it certainly seems that way to me. His books make up just under half of my collection of fiction works and although one of his recent works didn’t fill me with the same desire to read, the older ones such as this certainly did. Grisham, a former lawyer has made a very good living out of writing Novels, since his debut effort A Time To Kill. Despite his move away from practising law he writes his books on the subject ... more
  • 44 of 44 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    christopherj84

    5 Stars Unputdownable 25/07/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages everything

    Disadvantages Disadvantages none

    The Street Lawyer John Grisham As some my regular readers (I wish…) will know, I am a John Grisham fan and am currently reading and reviewing all of his books. As with all Grisham books, this is based around the law and lawyers. The Street Lawyer, as the name suggests, deals with a lawyer who works the street. In this sense, I mean in an office helping the homeless - not ambulance chasers. The Characters John Grisham has always been good at character building and this gives the reader a good insight into every detail. By the middle of the book, you feel as if you know them. This is good ... more
  • 5 of 5 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    LukeCroll

    4 Stars Grisham delves into the world of the homeless 01/04/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages A Grisham fan is likely to pick this up straight away

    Disadvantages Disadvantages It is not quite the same as his normal legal thrilers

    The main character in this one is Michael. He is a lawyer earning a lot of money at a massive law firm in Washington, DC. However, a homeless man takes him hostage one day. He and his fellow lawyers survive the incident, but their assailant is not so lucky, killed and buried in a pauper’s grave. This shocks Michael greatly. He digs into the man's past and discovers a dirty secret, relating to the law firm where he works. The ladder that he was climbing collapses and Michael flees the firm, taking a secret file with him. He lives on the streets, becoming the eponymous street lawyer, but ... more
  • 2 of 2 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Lucilock

    5 Stars Grisham excels himself once again 03/10/2000
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Well-written, moving, excellent plotline

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Too short!

    What really gives this story its power, is the way the writer forcefully brings the homeless up to the same 'level' as so-called middle and upper-class society. The lead character's apparent fall from high society to the lowly depths of street life, and the way he gradually begins to realise and accept that the homeless are human too, touches something deep inside the reader's soul. The story centres around a case involving seventeen homeless people who are wrongfully evicted from the building where they were staying, resulting in several of the evictees dying of exposure on the streets. The ... more
  • 2 of 2 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Mohammed

    5 Stars Power to the Homeless! 26/07/2000
    User recommends the product
    There is no stopping John Grisham As talented as he is prolific, Grisham has all but owned the best-sellers lists for the past seven years. The Street Lawyer is the one such success. Of course, such a tremendous run of success brings its own pressures, as witnessed by some of the trite passages in his last few books. Fans should be celebrating this latest offering however, as The Street Lawyer is Grisham's most complete book since The Chamber. And like The Chamber, the reason for the quality is that Grisham again has an issue to get passionate about, in this case the homeless. With his usual ... more
  • 38 of 38 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 5 aspebbles

    Member since 19/10/2004

    Reviews written: 126

    3 Stars Streets ahead 26/11/2006
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Gritty and honest thriller

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Strong on plot, less character development

    1998, Arrow, pbk Every now and again a book or film comes along which changes your perception of how the world could be. As I had only ever come across multi-million selling author John Grisham as the name behind the film of his hit The Firm (and an uninspiring performance from Tom Cruise) I was not expecting great guns from this book. Michael Brock is about to undergo a life changing experience. A top attorney in firm in Washington DC, he turns up for work one day and innocently crosses the path of Mister, and homeless man with a stolen gun. While Michael survives the encounter, Mister does ... more
  • 15 of 15 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Whizzdom

    5 Stars A chain is only as strong as its weakest link 10/11/2007
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages a brilliant story, the kind which perhaps society as a whole should study at school level.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages none at all.

    This book opens up at the journey of a person on his way to work who is portrayed as being, a young, professional person in a fairly comfortable job with certain expectations for himself, life and society. On entering his workplace, he finds himself accompanied in the lift, by a foul-smelling black person who looks entirely out of his element because of his apparent lack of money, that which the main character seem to ooze with such implied ease. We are informed of the person's colour which leads us to assume that the protagonist is probably white. These might appear small, trivial aspects of ... more
  • 3 of 3 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    mrighart

    2 Stars Not Grisham's best 29/07/2000
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages Grisham focusses attention to homeless problem

    Disadvantages Disadvantages The story is not exciting

    John Grisham's "The Street Lawyer" is a different kind of book than Grisham normally writes. It is not so much a thriller as a way of focussing the public's attention to the problems of the homeless in the United States. My attention was not captured by the story, the characters were fascinating as ever but all through the book I kept waiting for the excitement Grisham usually creates in his books. But that did not happen. From the end of the story, which seemed to be written in great haste, I gathered that it was more important to the writer to attract attention to the homeless than to write ... more
  • 36 of 36 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    katzen

    5 Stars The Street Lawyer - hard hitting and powerful 11/10/2003
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Excellent plot, ingenious characters

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Too short for me

    Once again I seem to pick up John Grisham novels on the fly, running past the book shop at the airport and so on. So far I have never regretted my choice and this is no exception. As to the plot: Mike is a successful lawyer, one of those who works all the hours God sends, with a withering marriage, when he is held up at gun point in his office. The subsequent emotions he feels and the discoveries he makes about the homeless man who had the gun, lead him to leave this expensive office and lifestyle and become a street lawyer, literally working with the people who live on the streets. He takes ... more
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