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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community Jun 6, 2003
Pros: Grisham is an excellent author, story attempts to teach
Cons: This isn't the Grisham we're used to- he uses this book as a discussion
Summary: I picked up The Street Lawyer to take on a trip with me. My thoughts are that it is difficult to dislike a John Grisham book, since I have enjoyed many of his books. I needed something to occupy me during a hiking trip, and couldn’t ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Nov 20, 2003
Pros: The best start to a Grisham book I have read
Cons: A few of the twists can seem to be a little far fetched
Summary: 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 ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 5, 2002
Pros: The Lawyers are unmasked.
Cons: A few dragging moments, but not many.
Summary: We mostly know that John Grisham is a lawyer. We also know that he is not typical, since there is an occasional look at a very socially conscientious man, who doesn't mind exposing some of the uglier sides of glamor. He manages to write a novel with a ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 4, 2001
Pros: Regular Grisham book, added more than just lawyer talk
Cons: Long, some dull parts
Summary: I have a few Grisham novels but my first was The Street Lawyer. I like how this book brings a new twist to the stereotypical lawyer. Bringing a high class, high paid lawyer down to work with the homeless really makes you think. After reading this novel I ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Oct 27, 2001
Pros: fast reading, informative, realistic
Cons: none
Summary: I found this to be my favorite book, so far, by John Grisham, most likely because of my interest in working with the homeless - or should I say houseless...
Regardless, in my opinion, this book ranks up there with the best of the best. The ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Oct 19, 2001
Pros: Typical Grisham, lots of lawyer stuff, smelly homeless people
Cons: Cheesy plot development, inept use of Chaos Theory
Summary: Takin’ it to the streets
The Street Lawyer is one of the recent Grisham novels that somehow slipped by me. I went on a reading jag with many different kinds of fiction and non-fiction, and I have been doing some writing myself. I had ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 26, 2001
Pros: John Grisham, great story
Cons: I wanted it to never end!
Summary: Michael Brock is billing the hours, making big bucks, rushing to the top of his law firm Drake and Sweeney and is one step away from partnership. Then one day a homeless man who calls himself "Mister" rides up on the elevator with him and takes nine ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 6, 2001
Pros: Unintended humor
Cons: Idealistic fantasy
Summary: I just flew in from Vegas .... BOY are my arms tired! ... badoompa ... Take my wife .... PLEASE! ... badoompa ... STREET LAWYER is a masterpiece ... PIECE OF ... HEY!
Let me start with some praise for Grisham's best work: THE FIRM was ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 1, 2001
Pros: Great for a teenager or a first-time Grisham reader.
Cons: None
Summary: Foreward
I have always been an avid fan of horror and science fiction. There was even a short phase of romance novels. Never would I have read something like this book. Drama, yuck. When I got the flu, my mother-in-law gave me this book to ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jun 23, 2001
Pros: Interesting story about lawyers helping and caring about homeless people.
Cons: Seems that not only the character has a little guilt feeling!
Summary: I had bought this novel quite a while ago, but never came to actually read it. I left it there on my selves and waited. The other day, I found it there and I decided I might as well read it now. I really was not impressed.
General ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jun 21, 2001
Pros: An important novel with a social conscience
Cons: Does not deliver the suspense one expects from Grisham
Summary: John Grisham is an author well-known for his legally based suspense thrillers. The Pelican Brief is an example of the type of excitement we usually expect from this author. But when a societal problem hits home, sometimes a writer feels he must ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
May 31, 2001
Pros: It is a John Grisham book
Cons: not his best work.. almost like he was just trying to make a deadline
Summary: I got this book, because it was a Grisham book that I had not read (the only one besides The Chamber) so far.
In a nut shell, a homeless bum gets into the conference room of an upper crust law firm in D.C. and holds several lawyers hostage ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
May 31, 2001
Pros: Moving, beautifully written, incredible characters
Cons: None
Summary: "The Street Lawyer" is something of a departure for John Grisham. It is much less a legal thriller than the story of a man's personal journey from apathy to action, from the pursuit of money to the pursuit of true justice. The man is Michael Brock, a ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 26, 2001
Pros: Exposes the seedy underbelly of the legal world
Cons: none
Summary: This is the third Grisham book I have read. It is by far the best of the three. It began to look like Grisham was sticking to the same plot book after book, but this one is completely different. Don't get me wrong, it still has his great writing style ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 6, 2001
Pros: Great plot, a can't put down book.
Cons: None
Summary: I am a huge John Grisham fan, and I think that I have read everything he has written, unless there is something out there that I don't know about.
The Street Lawyer is typical John Grisham. The only thing typical about Grisham is that the ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 26, 2001
Pros: Deep plot, good characters
Cons: can get a little slow at times
Summary: Although Grisham has written better books, The Street Lawyer is definitely not the worst. The book starts off in an elevator, with one wealthy, successful lawyer and one ragged, smelly street person. Not knowing the horrible turns of fate they will ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 24, 2001
Pros: Good theme, believable plot and characters
Cons: Not as fast-paced as some of Grisham's other novels
Summary: John Grisham is one of my favorite bestselling authors, and I have read almost all his books. This one was certainly different from the rest of them in my opinion, in both good and bad ways. On the negative side, it was not as suspenseful and fast-paced ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 4, 2001
Pros: good read
Cons: too short
Summary: This is the first book of John Grishams that I have read and if they are all as good as this one I will be a new fan. I have seen the movies "The Firm" and "The Pelican Brief " and thoroughly enjoyed them But I was never interested ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 11, 2000
Pros: Entertaining
Cons: Not a "must read"
Summary: I picked up "The Street Lawyer" on a whim while searching through a airport collection. I have seen most of the "Grisham" movies, but this was my first Grisham book. I was very entertained by this book, it is an easy yet invigorating ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Nov 22, 2000
Pros: It was easy to read, and it helped me fall asleep
Cons: it was kind of boring and it took me a very long time to finish a relatively short book
Summary: I have been a big fan of John Grisham books ever since “The Firm” came out in the movies. That was the very first book that I read by John Grisham and of course I enjoyed it. It was so much better than the movie. So when I saw that my mother had a ... read more
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