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Dec 17, 2009

Dan rated it:

it's not that this book necessarily deserves a 1, being the worst score possible, but... it's just so fucking dumb. I only finished it because I'm stuck in between 4 rice fields in japan, and the only reading I had available in english was. well. the label on my pepsi bottle.
IF you happen to be a 40-50 year old (white)man, and like reading about "6 figures", then I'll understand you liking this book.
Hhere's a taste.

"And, don't worry McDeere (former star co More...

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Dec 12, 2008

Alex rated it:

The Firm by John Grisham
The Firm by John Grisham will draw you into a situation where the choices you make not only affect you, but also the people who depend on you. When a young lawyer named Mitch McDeere has to choose between staying with a corrupt business or doing the right thing.The decisions that are made throughout the book are told by the lawyer Mitch.
The story is centered around Mitch McDeere. He finished 3rd in his class at Harvard Law School. All the top law firms are t More...

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Feb 08, 2008

Cj rated it:

An absolutely amazing book. One I wish I had wrote.

Mitchell McDeere is sought after by one of the country's top law firms. Bendini, Lamdert & Locke from Memphis wants Mitchel and offer him wealth and a chance to start his promising legal career in ernest in exchange for his loyalty and service. They agree to pay his student loans, find him a new home, even offer him a brand new car. All this is too much for Mitchell to pass up, so he forgoes offers from firms in New York and Chicago More...

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Dec 16, 2009

Chris rated it:

Snap! I forgot all about Grisham when I putting in the crap books - thanks Conrad. Summer of '92, we were staying in a cabin off Devil's Lake in Michigan near my aunt's; I finished off the books I'd read and was unable to convince anyone in my family to play "D-Day To the Rhine", the WW2 strategy game I bought in Anarbor, but luckily my aunt had stocked our cabin with a whole slew of Grisham.

I think I read this in a day, and since the last paragraph was pure memoir that h More...

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Oct 08, 2009

Kristine rated it:

I just finished the book on tape and then last night the movie "The Firm" was on lifetime.
I always enjoy John Grisham's books.
I have read the first a least a dozen times and each time I find something new that I seemed to miss when I previously read it, but we find that with all the books we read.
It is just a great story of a person who was poor and accomplished so much, and is able to get over the obstacles that happen in such a short time.
It is a must read boo

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Sep 26, 2011

سمية عبد العزيز rated it:

تحذير: لا تقرأ الملخص الخلفي لأنه يحرق مفاجأة الرواية*

فكرة الرواية مختلفة, طالب في قسم المحاماة, من الأوائل على دفعته, يتلقى عروض عمل من أكبر الشركات, لكن أحد العروض كان فوق مختلف عن كل العروض الأخرى

سيحبها كل من يميل لروايات الإثارة والأكشن
حولت إلى فيلم بنفس إسم الرواية الإنجليزي
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Oct 21, 2011

Mimin rated it:

"Jangan nulis novel dulu, kalau belum baca The Firm karya John Grisham," begitu komentar Mas Sakti Wibowo mentor novelku.
Setelah pesan di tobuk langganan, akhirnya dapat juga buku secondhand versi terjemahan.

Novel ini menceritakan tentang perusahaan Bendini yang memiliki usaha legal dan ilegal. Mitch seorang pengacara junor melamar kerja di perusahaan itu.Awalnya dia menganggap perusahaan itu bagus karena berani memberi gaji tinggi. Mitch bertemu orang FBI dan diberi ta More...

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Sep 01, 2011

Amy rated it:

I've always been a John Grisham fan, ever since I read A Time To Kill back in high school. His stories are compelling, fast reads. Who knew lawyers and courtrooms could be so interesting?

The Firm is Grisham's second novel, published in 1991. Mitch McDeere, number 3 in his class at Harvard Law, has job offers from all over the country, including one for a small firm in Memphis with Bendini, Lambert, and Locke. The Bendini firm paid off his school loans, leased him a BMW, and arranged th More...

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Jun 24, 2011

Chidambaram rated it:

Mitchell McDeere graduates from Harvard Law and is about to begin his career as a lawyer. Blessed with superhuman capabilities handed down generously by Mr.Grisham himself, Mitch finds no trouble in getting nailing three top job offers: two from from Wall Street, one from Memphis. Among other things, Mitch graduates with top honors, is among the top five in his class, was a quarterback at school, is an athlete (but his diet is mainly alcohol and cheeseburgers for the remainder of the novel), wor More...

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Apr 26, 2011

Remi rated it:

Mitchell McDeere was born into a coal mining family, yet he has worked hard for everything in his life like finishing third in his class at Harvard Law. He's young, bright and ambitious. Who couldn't want him? Having the choice to work for the big, top notch firms in New York, he chooses Memphis tax firm of Bendini, Lambert & Locke instead. They're choose very few, have big time salaries and no turnover rate. Mitch will soon find out why they choose him. Somthing was wrong with this picture; T More...

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Mar 27, 2011

Vytas rated it:

Very involving, captivating and brilliant book by John Grisham. Finished in a few days, reading through the night.
Mitchell McDeere is a Harvard accounting graduate with a CPA, top 5 of his class and hungry for work. He is offered many jobs by top Wallstreet firms but accepts an offer from Bendini, Lambert & Locke with a salary of $85,000 per year, a new BMW and a mortgage with very attractive conditions. Little did he know that the firm was established by the Mafia and all of its operation More...

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Feb 25, 2011

Michael rated it:

Mitch McDeere takes a job with a Memphis law firm specializing in tax law.

As he begins work, he learns that two of the newer associates were killed while boating in Grand Cayman.

Then an FBI agent approaches Mitch. The agent tells him that the firm is filing false tax returns for many of their clients and that the firm is owned by the mob. In addition, the agent tells Mitch that his home, office and car are being bugged and that he's being followed.

Mitch hires More...

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Jan 13, 2011

Travis rated it:

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Jan 07, 2011

Brooke rated it:

This book was fantastic! Loved every second of it. A few weeks ago it came on TV and I was saying "this is a great movie!" but within minutes I realized I had NOT seen it! I was thinking of A Few Good Men! Who knew I had never seen The Firm?? My husband said he'd read it years ago and it was one of the best books he'd ever read. So, I DVRd the movie and went to get the book (I didn't watch the movie yet, but I've heard it was a disappointment from the book... of course right???)
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Sep 10, 2010

Jane rated it:

Wow. Great action, mystery and suspense. Can a smart young lawyer overcome unbelievable odds and outwit the Mafia and FBI?

STORY BRIEF:
Mitch is graduating from Harvard Law School in the top 5 of his class. He has several job offers from top wall street firms as well as a 40-man law firm in Memphis. The Memphis firm offers him more money and perks than the others, so he takes the job. He does not know that the firm is run by the Mafia. They have listening devices in every e More...

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Sep 10, 2010

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Jul 19, 2010

Thomas rated it:

The pacing was good, and the plot was interesting, but I felt that Grisham failed his characters miserably by trying to force them to be what they weren't. It's been over 15 years since I've read this book, but I'll never forget the scene where the federal agents, who had been infiltrating the firm for years, found out that one of their own had been feeding the firm information about what the agents were doing. They dragged him into a room, smacked him around, confronted him, and then said, " More...

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Jul 07, 2010

Ryan rated it:

I was bored and desperate for something to read so I broke my rule of not reading books about lawyers. This is why I haven't read The Firm before now. There is nothing like missing the hottest bestseller by about 20 years.

Reading The Firm almost 20 years after first published, one notices how dated it is. However, overall the suspense and intrigue hold up fairly well. A lawyer is recruited by a firm who turns out to be shady and wants him dead. But he's the boy-next-door-to-some More...

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Jun 13, 2010

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The Firm is about Mitchell Y. McDeere is a law student who graduated third in his class at Harvard Law School. Mitch has offers from law firms in New York and Chicago but eventually decides to join Bendini, Lambert and Locke, a small tax law firm based in Memphis. Soon after he joins, his new colleagues help him study and pass his bar exam. Two of Mitch's partners die in a scuba diving in the Cayman Islands in the frist week he starts. Mitch finds the deaths weird, he works hard, and works towar More...

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Jan 25, 2010

Liz rated it:

It's very, um, thick. Full of detail. Like, so much detail that it's about a third of the way through before the plot actually really begins. Mitch was kinda flat, though. Everybody was treating him as though he was a much more rounded character than he really was.
I mean, I'm not complaining: John Grisham still managed to keep me reading, but maybe that was just because there were people conducting subterfuges.

Still, the lawyers not suspecting what was going on, when they had a More...

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Jan 21, 2010

Tony rated it:

Hard to believe, but there was a time when the word "lawyer" wasn't synonymous with "criminal," and the idea of a law firm controlled by the Mafia was an outlandish proposition. This intelligent, ensnaring story came out of nowhere--Oxford, Mississippi, where Grisham was a small-town lawyer--and quickly catapulted to the top of the bestseller list, with good reason. Mitch McDeere, the appealing hero, is a poor kid whose only assets are a first-class mind, a Harvard law degree More...

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Nov 02, 2011

Ed rated it:

I read the firm back when it first came out as Grisham appeared to be a promising writer even when he first started... The book is a realistic look into the lives of criminals and the lawyers that choose to protect organized crime. Due to its huge success, it was made into a film -starring Tom Cruise- which was a disappointment in comparison to the book. The movie mainly concentrated on the struggles of the failed relationship between the main character and his wife, as opposed to the framewo More...

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Mar 31, 2011

Carol rated it:

This book was really great! Loved every second of it though it isn't an easy story to read. I seriously couldn't put it down. The premise drew you in--everyone that works hard wants an offer like the one Mitch McDeere is offered by the Firm. It's intoxicating! I wanted to get that offer! There's no way you could say no. Grisham was a master at pulling you into Mitch's shoes, which is impressive since its written in 3rd person. You feel his stress as the work is piled onto him, and the expectatio More...

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Sep 27, 2011

Robin rated it:

I saw the movie when it first came out and the other day when a friend referenced "The Firm", I realized I had forgotten much about the movie. So I picked up the book, and what we basically have here is the screenplay to a Tom Cruise movie. Excellent in terms of its action, pace and snappy dialogue, but ridiculous in terms of its plot line: What seasoned detective just gets into a car with a complete stranger? What lawyer stops to eat an apple when he is running for his life?
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Jun 13, 2008

Sirpa rated it:

My first Grisham book I read. I was expecting my first child and my husband walked in. The characters were just figuring out how to escape the situation they were in without being caught... no spoilers here - I was SO in the book that when I came back to present, my legs were jelly! I honestly don't think I could have gotten up from my chair. '') This was a really good read. I enjoyed the suspense, and after reading this one, I have read most of John Grisham's books.

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Jul 29, 2010

Abby rated it:

I enjoyed this book, but now it's over. My urge to read thriller non fiction has been satisfied, probably for a few years.

I was interested, but not blown away. Is that because thrillers have gotten so much more exciting in the past 20 years, since this book came out? I will find out. I checked out the first 4 episodes of the first season of 24 from the library yesterday. Weirdly enough, I just now connected my strange sudden attraction to fictional thrillers to each other. Hmmm... I More...

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Mar 11, 2009

Alaina rated it:

This is quick, because I can't imagine anyone who has never read a Grisham novel/watched a 'film' adaptation of a Grisham novel/read a book review of a Grisham novel/watched that episode of 3rd Rock From the Sun all those years ago where the family goes into Witness Protection for some reason and they're all reading different Grisham novels, and when they realize the plot is exactly the same, they switch books and continue reading and sure enough, the plot is exactly the same. And yes, I've jus More...

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Jan 08, 2010

deLille rated it:

I saw the movie when it first came out and the other day when a friend referenced "The Firm", I realized I had forgotten much about the movie. So I picked up the book, and what we basically have here is the screenplay to a Tom Cruise movie. Excellent in terms of its action, pace and snappy dialogue, but ridiculous in terms of its plot line: What seasoned detective just gets into a car with a complete stranger? What lawyer stops to eat an apple when he is running for his life?

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Jul 26, 2011

Bonnie rated it:

The weird thing on this one is that I remember liking the book when I first read it. A lot. I remember staying up way into the night to read all 500 pages, practically in one sitting. And I don't remember hating the movie. It's not in my top ten or anything, but I like it well enough to own it. But it's so very different from the book and that's usually something that really turns me off of a movie. I'm sure I've seen the movie way more than I've read the book. I'm not sure I have read th More...

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Sep 23, 2011

Criss rated it:

Not one of Grisham’s best pieces, but a good book to read nonetheless. The plot unfolds nicely, the characters are defined by rather strong features, and the action is somewhat intense. Technically speaking, the book meets all the requirements. Unfortunately, the general sensation that surrounds the book leaves you wanting for more fervency, for a slightly faster pace, for deeper emotions and connections.

Overall, a really good book – if you are to compare it to similar literature, bu More...

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