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The Client / The Street Lawyer
ACE 0091872774 (ISBN13: 9780091872779)
458 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1993
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John Grisham
482 books89.4k followersJohn Grisham is the author of more than fifty consecutive #1 bestsellers, which have been translated into nearly fifty languages. His recent books include Framed, Camino Ghosts and The Exchange: After the Firm.
Grisham is a two-time winner of the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction and was honored with the Library of Congress Creative Achievement Award for Fiction.
When he's not writing, Grisham serves on the board of directors of the Innocence Project and of Centurion Ministries, two national organizations dedicated to exonerating those who have been wrongfully convicted. Much of his fiction explores deep-seated problems in our criminal justice system.
John lives on a farm in central Virginia.
Grisham is a two-time winner of the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction and was honored with the Library of Congress Creative Achievement Award for Fiction.
When he's not writing, Grisham serves on the board of directors of the Innocence Project and of Centurion Ministries, two national organizations dedicated to exonerating those who have been wrongfully convicted. Much of his fiction explores deep-seated problems in our criminal justice system.
John lives on a farm in central Virginia.
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October 28, 2013
I did not read these together, I read The Client a long time ago and enjoyed it. But then I read The Street Lawyer. It wasn't altogether bad, just not something I could get into since it became obvious that Grisham just want to spout his political views rather than giving an honest story. Unlike Grisham, I do not merely research the homeless through some interviews, I have lived in areas where they reside and work in areas where I have to clean up after them. To really get a feel for this story, I would have to accept every premise he writes, and I don't. Call me cruel, or heartless, but I am not all that tender towards the homeless. Living in areas they inhabit means that anything not tied down will be stolen since they have a huge sense of entitlement. If a person has something and they don't, they feel they have a right to take it or break it. And working around them means I have to wade through their trash and excrement, be threatened on regular basis, and generally take their abuse as they hide behind the pity. And I can't really relate to a story of a man who felt guilty for working for 12 hours a day, as opposed to wandering around demanding that someone take care of them. I know they are not all bad, I help the ones who truly wish to change their circumstance by having the phone numbers of the agencies they can turn to. But I also know that many of them aren't all that unhappy with their choices, they prefer sympathy to working at changing their life. If Grisham didn't want to sit secure at his writing desk and make a political statement based on one side of the story, he should have actually taken the time to see it for himself and try offering something a little more balanced. It is really fiction, that's for sure.
February 7, 2021
The Client
When you add a smart, cute but gutsy 11 year old, a single mother, a single lady lawyer with a sorry past, throwing in the bad mafia, you get a long novel with lots of sentiments. This is exactly what John Grisham has achieved here. Since it concerns a young, fatherless boy, good triumphs over evil. I can say very objectively, that I read this one through purely because of my sensibilities. The story tends to be repetetive, any normal child doing any of the things given here would fall into n number of problems after the 1st few steps. But since this is fiction, nothing untoward happens during the span of this story. All the bad has already happened and is narrated as history.
The Street Lawyer
Even if the premise of this story is honourable, it is long drawn and tedious. This could have been a much more touching narrative, having a lot of potential for emotional appeal. Somehow, accepting all the sadness and hopelessness, this story did not touch the heart nor the soul.
When you add a smart, cute but gutsy 11 year old, a single mother, a single lady lawyer with a sorry past, throwing in the bad mafia, you get a long novel with lots of sentiments. This is exactly what John Grisham has achieved here. Since it concerns a young, fatherless boy, good triumphs over evil. I can say very objectively, that I read this one through purely because of my sensibilities. The story tends to be repetetive, any normal child doing any of the things given here would fall into n number of problems after the 1st few steps. But since this is fiction, nothing untoward happens during the span of this story. All the bad has already happened and is narrated as history.
The Street Lawyer
Even if the premise of this story is honourable, it is long drawn and tedious. This could have been a much more touching narrative, having a lot of potential for emotional appeal. Somehow, accepting all the sadness and hopelessness, this story did not touch the heart nor the soul.
June 5, 2013
The Street Lawyer is about a protagonist named Michael Brock who survived being a hostage of a homeless man going by the name "Mister" The protagonist of the story becomes traumatized by the event and experience's survivor's guilt, a feeling of guilt when you survive a situation but someone else dies. Throughout the book, the protagonist spends his time trying to figure out the life of Mister and changes by becoming less focused at his work.
Although this book was very suspenseful, I didn't like the book because I believe that the majority of the book was the protagonist investigating the life of the homeless man who was killed for holding lawyers hostage.
Although this book was very suspenseful, I didn't like the book because I believe that the majority of the book was the protagonist investigating the life of the homeless man who was killed for holding lawyers hostage.
November 12, 2009
I read the street lawyer and happened upon it by chance when at a party of a friends friends apt. :-)Probably my first John Grisham book and it was a good solid book to read and it made me realize about the homeless more than I used to.
May 16, 2025
1. The Client ⭐⭐
A disappointing thriller that drags its feet
The Client by John Grisham often adorns bestseller lists of legal thrillers, but its reputation is little more than an overrated delusion. This is a novel that begins with promise and swiftly descends into a vacuous journey brimming with banalities, predictable beats, and characters as shallow as their dialogue—dialogue so shallow, in fact, that a mouse would struggle to drown in it.
The premise—a boy stumbles upon a secret capable of overturning a major legal case—holds a certain intrinsic interest. However, the leap from an interesting idea to a good book requires work. And that work, in this instance, is entirely absent. It was missing, lacking, perhaps even promised by the mayor to arrive in a tanker truck—but no. The execution of this so-called brilliant concept is plodding, overstuffed, and astonishingly dull. The supposed suspense is so carefully packaged and sanitised that it inspires not anxiety but yawns. It’s like opening a tin of butter cookies and finding sewing kits inside: not a surprise since 1972.
Grisham here appears to be resting on his laurels. His language is pedestrian, devoid of the faintest literary spark, and his descriptions function more as ornamental hindrances than as devices that drive the plot. The protagonist—the preternaturally clever and composed wunderkind—is less a believable character than a caricature, a cipher that practically shouts: “FIND A KID LIKE THE ONE FROM THE SIXTH SENSE AND WATCH THE BOX OFFICE ROLL IN.”
His lawyer, Reggie, represents the sole faint glimmer of light, but even she is drowned in repetitive exchanges and narratorial clichés. The FBI agents, the mobsters, the judges—they all feel like refugees from a mediocre '90s television movie.
The book’s real problem is that it has absolutely nothing new to say. What begins as the promise of a taut thriller devolves into a tiresome legal melodrama that spins in circles and goes absolutely nowhere. The reader feels no tension; merely a growing desire for the whole thing to be over. Johnny, old chap, there was a time when your legal thrillers raised the hairs on our arms—and occasionally took the skin with them. Now? We’re yawning so hard our jaws have locked.
Things we must “give” to the book:
1. It had a beginning, a middle, and an end.
2. That’s all.
2. The Street Lawyer ⭐
At the moment when junior partner (promising, eager young lawyer and wannabe yuppie) Michael Brock is wiping off the blood and splattered brains of the homeless man—who had taken a group of corporate lawyers hostage, including Brock himself, only to be shot dead by a police sniper—he experiences a full-blown crisis of conscience and resolves to fight for what is right and what is just.
Since, at the time the book was written, the internet was still non-existent (fax machines were all the rage), instead of launching an OnlyFans account on Insta, spouting conspiracy theories on Facebook, or having earnest SJW-style online spats with strangers, Brock is forced to act in the real world: he takes up a post at a legal aid office, parts ways with his already emotionally distant wife (a doctor, who is utterly appalled that Michael will now be working for less moneyyyAAARGHH), starts feeding people at soup kitchens and dicing onions for the homeless stews, and, quite suddenly, begins to genuinely care whether each of his addict clients has stayed off crack for more than 24 hours.
In short, he becomes one of the vanishingly few lawyers in Washington with anything resembling a conscience—while all the other jaded cynics are still charging rabidly after MONEYYYAAARGHH.
Tragic and poorly written works like this are precisely the reason I no longer pre-order Grisham’s books. I simply wait a few months post-release and pick them up for… approximately £0.99. Because that’s all they’re worth. A pity, really, given that the author has, in the past, delivered some truly fine novels.
A disappointing thriller that drags its feet
The Client by John Grisham often adorns bestseller lists of legal thrillers, but its reputation is little more than an overrated delusion. This is a novel that begins with promise and swiftly descends into a vacuous journey brimming with banalities, predictable beats, and characters as shallow as their dialogue—dialogue so shallow, in fact, that a mouse would struggle to drown in it.
The premise—a boy stumbles upon a secret capable of overturning a major legal case—holds a certain intrinsic interest. However, the leap from an interesting idea to a good book requires work. And that work, in this instance, is entirely absent. It was missing, lacking, perhaps even promised by the mayor to arrive in a tanker truck—but no. The execution of this so-called brilliant concept is plodding, overstuffed, and astonishingly dull. The supposed suspense is so carefully packaged and sanitised that it inspires not anxiety but yawns. It’s like opening a tin of butter cookies and finding sewing kits inside: not a surprise since 1972.
Grisham here appears to be resting on his laurels. His language is pedestrian, devoid of the faintest literary spark, and his descriptions function more as ornamental hindrances than as devices that drive the plot. The protagonist—the preternaturally clever and composed wunderkind—is less a believable character than a caricature, a cipher that practically shouts: “FIND A KID LIKE THE ONE FROM THE SIXTH SENSE AND WATCH THE BOX OFFICE ROLL IN.”
His lawyer, Reggie, represents the sole faint glimmer of light, but even she is drowned in repetitive exchanges and narratorial clichés. The FBI agents, the mobsters, the judges—they all feel like refugees from a mediocre '90s television movie.
The book’s real problem is that it has absolutely nothing new to say. What begins as the promise of a taut thriller devolves into a tiresome legal melodrama that spins in circles and goes absolutely nowhere. The reader feels no tension; merely a growing desire for the whole thing to be over. Johnny, old chap, there was a time when your legal thrillers raised the hairs on our arms—and occasionally took the skin with them. Now? We’re yawning so hard our jaws have locked.
Things we must “give” to the book:
1. It had a beginning, a middle, and an end.
2. That’s all.
2. The Street Lawyer ⭐
At the moment when junior partner (promising, eager young lawyer and wannabe yuppie) Michael Brock is wiping off the blood and splattered brains of the homeless man—who had taken a group of corporate lawyers hostage, including Brock himself, only to be shot dead by a police sniper—he experiences a full-blown crisis of conscience and resolves to fight for what is right and what is just.
Since, at the time the book was written, the internet was still non-existent (fax machines were all the rage), instead of launching an OnlyFans account on Insta, spouting conspiracy theories on Facebook, or having earnest SJW-style online spats with strangers, Brock is forced to act in the real world: he takes up a post at a legal aid office, parts ways with his already emotionally distant wife (a doctor, who is utterly appalled that Michael will now be working for less moneyyyAAARGHH), starts feeding people at soup kitchens and dicing onions for the homeless stews, and, quite suddenly, begins to genuinely care whether each of his addict clients has stayed off crack for more than 24 hours.
In short, he becomes one of the vanishingly few lawyers in Washington with anything resembling a conscience—while all the other jaded cynics are still charging rabidly after MONEYYYAAARGHH.
Tragic and poorly written works like this are precisely the reason I no longer pre-order Grisham’s books. I simply wait a few months post-release and pick them up for… approximately £0.99. Because that’s all they’re worth. A pity, really, given that the author has, in the past, delivered some truly fine novels.
June 18, 2018
I bought this cheap on the toss-out table at the city library. I already have The client in separate binding, and read it more than 20 years ago, so I just read The street layer.
The street lawyer is bit didactic, but still quite readable. Michael Brock works for a big law firm in Washington and one day a homeless man comes in and takes hostages. This leads him into the
world of street law and advocacy for the homeless, and quite a large chunk of the book is devoted to teaching about the lives of homeless people and how lawyers and social workers go about helping
them with their problems.
The street lawyer is bit didactic, but still quite readable. Michael Brock works for a big law firm in Washington and one day a homeless man comes in and takes hostages. This leads him into the
world of street law and advocacy for the homeless, and quite a large chunk of the book is devoted to teaching about the lives of homeless people and how lawyers and social workers go about helping
them with their problems.
October 30, 2025
Suspenseful, clever characters, follows the law correctly, good portrayal of somewhat flawed lawyer protagonist and risk prone adolescent client. Storyline was unique and believable for the most part. Movie was good, too!!
May 18, 2017
The first story of the book was very good.
The second story was a tad too preachy.
The second story was a tad too preachy.
November 15, 2025
enjoyed the book. It opened my eyes to two different worlds.
April 5, 2014
In the book, The Street Lawyer, by John Grisham, Michael Brock, a big time lawyer working for the firm, Drake & Sweeney, for seven years now, experiences many changes in his life. Michael is held hostage with his fellow coworkers when a homeless man named Mister keeps them hostage and asks how much money they donate to homeless people from their salaries every year. After every lawyer says little or no money goes to the homeless, Mister is shot to death by the police, and this leaves Michael to experience some trauma. He volunteers at a soup kitchen with Mordecai Green and meets the Burton family. Mordecai offers Michael a job and he decides to quit the firm and work for the 14th Street Legal Clinic, that helps homeless people with legal issues. He ends up filing a trial with the help from Mordecai against his old firm when he finds out that the Burton family had been evicted by the firm when they were paying tenants. The lawyer, Braden Chance, who organized the eviction tried to hide the fact that the evictees were paying tenants. Michael found this out from stealing a file from Drake & Sweeney. The eviction caused the family to head out back into the streets and die from bad air in the car they were living in, Michael thinks there should be a price paid for the deaths. The two sides agree on a settlement of five million dollars and Michael looses his law license for nine months because stealing a file is a criminal offense. More lawyers from Drake & Sweeney will volunteer to help with homeless cases as part of this whole incident. A theme of this story is to help people. Michael Brock left the high paid firm to work for homeless people and get paid almost nothing to help them. He answered the higher calling of him. This quote explains the theme, "We got into this business because we thought the law was a higher calling. We could fight injustice and social ills, and do all sorts of greats things because we were lawyers"(p.198.)
Michael Brock would have to be my favorite character. He is my favorite character because he did such a good thing by leaving his high paid firm for getting paid little to nothing at the clinic. He left to help people that needed money more than he did. Michael will change lives of many people for the greater good. The fact that Michael is willing to change his whole life is so inspiring for other people to get involved in the world and help people. "I didn't dare think of the future; the past was still happening"(p.372.) This is the last sentence Michael says in the book and its important because he means he doesn't care what will happen to him as long as he's helping people and is happy doing it.
I would recommend this book to other people. I would recommend it because it has a great meaning to help people. I would also recommend this book because you can switch the type of law you practice from being corporate law to street law and still be satisfied with encouraging people to change their lives. This book also shows how someone changed their job in a week with no thought about it and was happy with it. I would recommend this book to anyone who has interest in the law or in becoming a lawyer. Also, anyone who has ever had trouble with the law or kept a secret from the law should read this book because you can always get out of a situation if you know how to deal with it properly.
Michael Brock would have to be my favorite character. He is my favorite character because he did such a good thing by leaving his high paid firm for getting paid little to nothing at the clinic. He left to help people that needed money more than he did. Michael will change lives of many people for the greater good. The fact that Michael is willing to change his whole life is so inspiring for other people to get involved in the world and help people. "I didn't dare think of the future; the past was still happening"(p.372.) This is the last sentence Michael says in the book and its important because he means he doesn't care what will happen to him as long as he's helping people and is happy doing it.
I would recommend this book to other people. I would recommend it because it has a great meaning to help people. I would also recommend this book because you can switch the type of law you practice from being corporate law to street law and still be satisfied with encouraging people to change their lives. This book also shows how someone changed their job in a week with no thought about it and was happy with it. I would recommend this book to anyone who has interest in the law or in becoming a lawyer. Also, anyone who has ever had trouble with the law or kept a secret from the law should read this book because you can always get out of a situation if you know how to deal with it properly.
May 17, 2025
I love John Grishams books. The Street Lawyer was my favorite.
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June 14, 2010The Client is about two boys, Mark Sway age eleven and Ricky Sway age eight. They were involved and witnessed the suicide of Jerome Clifford, a lawyer from New Orleans. Clifford was trying to die from carbon dioxide poisoning but Mark kept taking the hose off the exhaust pipe. Clifford finally saw Mark doing it and grabbed him and threw him in the car. Clifford then tells Mark why he’s trying to commit suicide. He figured was going to get killed from the mafia, so he wanted to die on his own terms. Clifford is defending Berry “the blade” Muldanno for killing U.S. Senator Boyd Boyette. Clifford was drinking and taking drugs. He told Mark where the senators body was hidden, Clifford passed out not too long after that. Mark escaped and found his brother lying in shock on the ground behind the car. Mark calls the police, the police and FBI find marks fingerprints in the car. The police go to Marks trailer and see Ricky in shock and bring them to the hospital. They figured he talked to Clifford before he died. The FBI knew that Clifford knew were the body of Senator Boyette was and they needed to know were the body was. The FBI goes after Mark. Mark doesn’t want to talk to the FBI. He goes and looks for a lawyer. He finds a lawyer named Reggie Love. Mark and Reggie go to look for the body. They find out that the body isn’t were Clifford said it was. They go to New Orleans to look for the body. It was early in the morning when they were getting close to the body. They get close to the body and see the mafia trying to take the body and move it. So Mark throws a rock in the neighbor’s window. The neighbor wakes up and goes outside with a shotgun and scares the mafia away. Mark and Reggie are hiding in the woods till the neighbor goes to sleep again. They go and look at the body and see the rotting body of Senator Boyd Boyette. Mark later decides to tell the FBI where the body of Boyette is. Mark then returns to the hospital to care for his brother Ricky. Mark, Ricky and their mom enter witness protection.
September 27, 2013
John Grisham's "The Street Lawyer" is the dramatic story of a mans desire to do good, at all costs. The plot focuses on how ones conscience can get turned inside out, and the journey to regain what was lost to the temptations of society.
Michael Brock, a young and very successful lawyer is on the fast track to greatness; and an even greater paycheck. One day he and several other lawyers at Drake & Sweeney are taken hostage by an armed homeless man. The crisis ends with the homeless man dead and the only injury sustained is Michael's conscience. He decides to look into the man who took him hostage and becomes obsessed with the struggle of the homeless. He leaves his high paying job at Drake & Sweeney for a job as a poverty lawyer; but not before stealing a file that could cost the firm everything.
The author uses the device of character development, almost constantly, throughout the story. As the story takes shape the main character says things like "I was not the same person I had been the week before." showing us that he is aware that he is changing rapidly. Also in many cases we see that the main character is in fact re-gaining his conscience when he goes from a job paying handsomely to one that is barely enough to get by.
I set out to read another adventurous book about the legal system and the life associated with it; but to my pleasant surprise this book offers much more. While telling a story of injustice and change the reader also enjoys the journey of a man struggling to "change the world".
If you enjoy stories about multiple issues, and combined plot lines, all encompassing the journey toward a better tomorrow, then "The Street Lawyer" wont disappoint. And when it ends you will be left with the thought that anyone can make a sacrifice, but without intent and action, true change cannot happen.
Michael Brock, a young and very successful lawyer is on the fast track to greatness; and an even greater paycheck. One day he and several other lawyers at Drake & Sweeney are taken hostage by an armed homeless man. The crisis ends with the homeless man dead and the only injury sustained is Michael's conscience. He decides to look into the man who took him hostage and becomes obsessed with the struggle of the homeless. He leaves his high paying job at Drake & Sweeney for a job as a poverty lawyer; but not before stealing a file that could cost the firm everything.
The author uses the device of character development, almost constantly, throughout the story. As the story takes shape the main character says things like "I was not the same person I had been the week before." showing us that he is aware that he is changing rapidly. Also in many cases we see that the main character is in fact re-gaining his conscience when he goes from a job paying handsomely to one that is barely enough to get by.
I set out to read another adventurous book about the legal system and the life associated with it; but to my pleasant surprise this book offers much more. While telling a story of injustice and change the reader also enjoys the journey of a man struggling to "change the world".
If you enjoy stories about multiple issues, and combined plot lines, all encompassing the journey toward a better tomorrow, then "The Street Lawyer" wont disappoint. And when it ends you will be left with the thought that anyone can make a sacrifice, but without intent and action, true change cannot happen.
September 25, 2008
Too much swearing. The situations were believable. The author painted the pictures well, you could really visualize the people and the places. It was very suspenseful. After finishing it I wasn’t sorry that I had read it, but I knew it wasn’t one of my favorite books.
You could relate to the boy Mark and to his brother Ricky. It was actually a blessing to the family that the boys went through what they went through. But the author didn’t really ever point out that fact. There was probably too much good luck and not enough smart thinking in the beginning of this story. If Mark had not hired a lawyer then no one would have suspected that he knew anything more than what he had told them... but then there wouldn’t have been any story to tell, right? I don’t know if I would recommend this book to just anyone, because of the language in it.
The brief description on the back of the book - “Mark, an 11 yr. old boy and his younger brother Ricky, were sharing a cigarette in the woods near their trailer home when a chance encounter with a suicidal lawyer left Mark knowing a bloody and explosive secret: the whereabouts of the most sought-after dead body in America. He’s caught between a legal system gone mad and a mob killer desperate to cover up his crime. His only ally is a woman named Reggie Love, who has been a lawyer for all of four years. Prosecutors are willing to break all the rules to make Mark talk. The mob will stop at nothing to keep him quiet. And Reggie will do anything to protect her client - even take a last, desperate gamble that could win Mark his freedom...or cost them both their lives.
You could relate to the boy Mark and to his brother Ricky. It was actually a blessing to the family that the boys went through what they went through. But the author didn’t really ever point out that fact. There was probably too much good luck and not enough smart thinking in the beginning of this story. If Mark had not hired a lawyer then no one would have suspected that he knew anything more than what he had told them... but then there wouldn’t have been any story to tell, right? I don’t know if I would recommend this book to just anyone, because of the language in it.
The brief description on the back of the book - “Mark, an 11 yr. old boy and his younger brother Ricky, were sharing a cigarette in the woods near their trailer home when a chance encounter with a suicidal lawyer left Mark knowing a bloody and explosive secret: the whereabouts of the most sought-after dead body in America. He’s caught between a legal system gone mad and a mob killer desperate to cover up his crime. His only ally is a woman named Reggie Love, who has been a lawyer for all of four years. Prosecutors are willing to break all the rules to make Mark talk. The mob will stop at nothing to keep him quiet. And Reggie will do anything to protect her client - even take a last, desperate gamble that could win Mark his freedom...or cost them both their lives.
September 30, 2013
John Grisham's The Street Lawyer is a realistic fiction novel. The main point is to show how a young, wealthy lawyer on the path to the "American Dream" gave it all up to help the homeless.
Michael Brock, the protagonist and narrator is a young Yale graduate who works at a top notch law firm, Drake & Sweeney, and is on route to becoming a partner in the firm. One day, a homeless man came into the office and caused a scene. Nine lawyers were held hostage and traumatized. Micheal and his wife, Claire, both work ninety hours a week and never have time for each other. They soon divorce and Michael is forced to find elsewhere to live. After hearing about the troubles the homeless man who held him hostage went through, Michael wants to learn more about the homeless and see the troubles they go through on an everyday basis. HE quits his job at Drake & Sweeney and becomes a lawyer for the homeless. His life drastically changes in such a short time and the book shows you how he deals with it.
I think a large part of this novel located around the motif literary device. Michael's motif for the story was to help out the homeless people that he had been so curious about for so long. He wants to know how
Michael Brock, the protagonist and narrator is a young Yale graduate who works at a top notch law firm, Drake & Sweeney, and is on route to becoming a partner in the firm. One day, a homeless man came into the office and caused a scene. Nine lawyers were held hostage and traumatized. Micheal and his wife, Claire, both work ninety hours a week and never have time for each other. They soon divorce and Michael is forced to find elsewhere to live. After hearing about the troubles the homeless man who held him hostage went through, Michael wants to learn more about the homeless and see the troubles they go through on an everyday basis. HE quits his job at Drake & Sweeney and becomes a lawyer for the homeless. His life drastically changes in such a short time and the book shows you how he deals with it.
I think a large part of this novel located around the motif literary device. Michael's motif for the story was to help out the homeless people that he had been so curious about for so long. He wants to know how
September 30, 2014
The Street Lawyer: If I had to describe this book in one word, I would use : extraordinary. Never have I read an excellent story about someone committing a wrong to fix a wrong. I did not realize the depth of poverty and homelessness. Before reading this book, whenever I saw a person begging on the street, I automatically would refuse assuming that said person would use the money for drugs. But after reading this book, it is fair to say you cannot assume. You just never know what situation the person is in. The world can certainly use more "Mordecai Green's". I believe this is Grisham's best work.
December 16, 2013
Publisher: Penguin Readers, level 4
Time to Read: 80min.
7 words summary: rich lawyer homeless attack research found suspicious
Discussion Question:
Do you want to be the rich in the future or want to marry the rich?
A. In fact, I want to be a rich person, but I have no desire to earn a lot of money.
Time to Read: 100min.
7 word summary: rich homeless hostage suspicious change quit new
Discussion Question:
Could you work 90 hours a week if you really liked your job?
A. I could not. I couldn't put up with such situation even if I liked the job.
I like this book. Throughout this noble, it was suspicious story, and I was looking forward to reading how this book ends.
Time to Read: 80min.
7 words summary: rich lawyer homeless attack research found suspicious
Discussion Question:
Do you want to be the rich in the future or want to marry the rich?
A. In fact, I want to be a rich person, but I have no desire to earn a lot of money.
Time to Read: 100min.
7 word summary: rich homeless hostage suspicious change quit new
Discussion Question:
Could you work 90 hours a week if you really liked your job?
A. I could not. I couldn't put up with such situation even if I liked the job.
I like this book. Throughout this noble, it was suspicious story, and I was looking forward to reading how this book ends.
July 16, 2012
I read this book ages ago (I don't really remember when it was), but it was my first John Grisham book ever and I was pleased when I finished reading it.
The Client made me feel for the two boys, especially Mark, who had to grow up quite quickly for the sake of his family. The Street Lawyer was more of a story of how a person can change their life around to find purpose and meaning.
I liked them both, it's a great combination of stories.
The Client made me feel for the two boys, especially Mark, who had to grow up quite quickly for the sake of his family. The Street Lawyer was more of a story of how a person can change their life around to find purpose and meaning.
I liked them both, it's a great combination of stories.
December 5, 2013
I picked up this book for an easy read on a train. And that is all it was.
A lawyer who has an epiphany! Great!
But an interesting, if small, insight to the problems and severity of homelessness in America. And the big money earned by lawyers.
But the ending? An old lawyer whose only aim in life ever is to earn lots of money has his own epiphany? Two lawyer epiphanies all in 350 pages?
Now that is too much to believe!
A lawyer who has an epiphany! Great!
But an interesting, if small, insight to the problems and severity of homelessness in America. And the big money earned by lawyers.
But the ending? An old lawyer whose only aim in life ever is to earn lots of money has his own epiphany? Two lawyer epiphanies all in 350 pages?
Now that is too much to believe!
May 19, 2013
I only "read" The Street Lawyer but couldn't find it listed except in a set. Plus I listened to the MP3 version. Anyway, it was a 'feel good' sort of book that makes you look at your life and realize that there are so many people who need help that if we all just gave a little of ourselves, everyone would flourish.
April 7, 2014
i only read street lawyer in this edition. the first pages were action packed. i wish every lawyer will read this and offer their services for free to those who can't afford.The main character quit his partnership dream and decide to work for the poor. slow twist of events but it made turn every page.
September 8, 2016
If you haven't read a John Grisham novel, this is a great collection to grab. The author takes readers into the lives of what feel like real people in both stories and I found both tales intriguing and believable. This is an author who knows what real people are like and how they feel when faced with challenges.
September 21, 2009
The Street Lawyer was actually a "feel good" kind of read. I liked the idea that a life changing event could change the ambitions of successful attorney and result in him making the world a better place. An up close & personal look at the life of the homeless in D.C.
November 1, 2013
Another Grisham that moves quickly, with a tight frame and an unbelievable but satisfying conclusion. Inspiring focus on the homeless. Mordecai Green is a hero that should make another appearance in a JG novel. I'd read it.
April 6, 2014
Beyond the great storytelling of John Grisham, The Street Lawyer is witty and thoughtful. His research and insights into the homeless in Washington, DC is compassionate without being sappy. I would highly recommend this as a read and will be watching for more books like it.
March 4, 2008
I love this book, I read it while traveling in Norway, and the suspense was such I could not put it down. Caused a few sleep deprived days, but it was worth it.
September 21, 2008
this book is great its a mystory read it or be a square
October 25, 2008
Kept me spellbound.
December 4, 2008
I've only read The Street Lawyer, and as you can see, I really did like this book, I was able to get into it even though it was assigned as Summer Reading for Junior Year.
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December 9, 2010Good ole Grisham book.
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