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Book Review: The Broker by John Grisham

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I was on vacation last week and decided to take “The Broker” with me.  Having been in grad school for a couple of years, I hadn’t read much fiction recently so thought I’d start getting caught up.

Must say, despite being a “guilty pleasure”, I didn’t find this book all that pleasurable.  Insufficient plot, characters were OK.  I find myself being somewhat bored through about a third of the book as not much was happening other than the fact that the lead character was hiding out in Italy.

Not much else to say.  Though I’ve liked some of Grisham’s prior work, this one just didn’t do it for me.

Comments

Yes, Grisham does seem to have produced some 'non-starters'. I tried The Painted House recently and it was just about interesting enough to make me read through to the end, most of the time 'promising' to deliver something good. That promise, however, was never fulfilled and once I reached the end, I felt like kicking myself for reading the whole thing!
Posted @ Sunday, April 29, 2007 4:00 AM by Vikram
Agreed. I wasn't a big fan of "The Broker" either. I read it recently as well, but I still think it's not that bad compared to "The Bleachers". Have you read that? I thought that was pathetic. I like The Firm the best :-)
Posted @ Monday, April 30, 2007 12:53 AM by Bhavana
I agree. i have read his book Bleachers and i loved it. Although this is still a good book i also found myself bored throughout it. It did not seem to catch my personal likes
Posted @ Monday, April 07, 2008 6:46 PM by Irishpride246
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