The Associate |
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| Title: | The Associate |
| Author: | John Grisham |
| Publisher: | Doubleday |
| Type: | Book / Hardcover |
| Publication Date: | 27 January, 2009 |
| ISBN / ISBN-13: | 0385517831 / 9780385517836 |
| List Price: | $27.95 |
| You Save: | $9.50 |
| Amazon Price: | $18.45 |
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Editorial Review / Publisher's Information:
Product Description
If you thought Mitch McDeere was in trouble in The Firm, wait
until you meet Kyle McAvoy, The Associate
Kyle McAvoy grew up in his father’s small-town law office in York, Pennsylvania. He excelled in college, was elected editor-in-chief of The Yale Law Journal, and his future has limitless potential.
But Kyle has a secret, a dark one, an episode from college that he has tried to forget. The secret, though, falls into the hands of the wrong people, and Kyle is forced to take a job he doesn’t want—even though it’s a job most law students can only dream about.
Three months after leaving Yale, Kyle becomes an associate at the largest law firm in the world, where, in addition to practicing law, he is expected to lie, steal, and take part in a scheme that could send him to prison, if not get him killed.
With an unforgettable cast of characters and villains—from Baxter Tate, a drug-addled trust fund kid and possible rapist, to Dale, a pretty but seemingly quiet former math teacher who shares Kyle’s “cubicle” at the law firm, to two of the most powerful and fiercely competitive defense contractors in the country—and featuring all the twists and turns that have made John Grisham the most popular storyteller in the world, The Associate is vintage Grisham.
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Customer Reviews:
• Not An Advocate Of This Grisham Novel
16 March, 2010
As many others have said, this book was a big disappoint with absolutely no pay off. I could tell when there was just a couple of pages left & nothing at all had been resolved in any satisfactory way. I really do wish I had read the reviews before purchasing the book. John Grisham has not been consistant in his writings. Not being a writer I can only imagine how daunting it must be to try and hit all your books out of the park. But this is not even a base hit; more like a foul ball. Read one of his other novels instead like the Firm or Pelican's Brief.
- Amazon Customer Review
• What The Heck?
03 March, 2010
There is some good writing here. The prose, for what it is, works seamlessly. Its tight and keeps a good feeling of suspense from one page to the next.
HOWEVER...
The plot here is one of the worst i have ever come across. It hinges upon the protagonist (the story starts with 'Kyle' being picked up by a few police officers) & a just horribly conceived bit of plotting. It was painful to work through several pages of great writing on one hand that was on the other, leading to Kyle succumbing to blackmail and thus ending up in the position Grisham obviously wanted his character to be in. After this set up, I could not have an ounce of compassion for the guy as a character.
A lot of pieces are then thrown at the reader, almost all of them go down easily on their own, its just you know that Kyle is working at this place, under absolutely 100% implausible circumstances, thus this is rather unreadable as a whole.
STAY AWAY from this book.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Grisham Is Loosing It....
08 March, 2010
This is a very interesting plot, but in the end...it is non-sensical. Totally anti-climactic. I am just glad that I only paid 50 cents at a book sale...that's about all it's worth.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Somewhat Entertaining, But Shallow
03 March, 2010
I've been a fan of John Grisham since The Firm, but this book was truly disappointing. I agree with some of the other reviewers that the end of the book left me feeling empty. Fortunately, I picked up the book second-hand at my local library bookstore, so there wasn't a huge investment on my part. Nonetheless, the time I spent reading the book, could have been spent on a much better book.
As I read Kyle's story, I kept hoping it would get better. However, there are some parts that were just plain unbelievable, to other areas that John took the reader, and didn't really take the time to explore or fully develop. Kyle's relationships with his law school girlfriend and then Dale later on seemed really shallow and undeveloped. I also saw that whole frat boys behaving badly angle to be a little grating on my nerves, especially since there was no genuine remorse, and the victim was painted out to be so bad that its almost as if Grisham doesn't want the reader to even like that person.
I could go on, but I would not recommend this book, even for die-hard Grisham fans. Skip it and move on to Ford County Stories, this book of vignettes was truly amazing and worth the read.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Decent, But Not Great
05 March, 2010
As an avid fan of John Grisham's previous work I was greatly looking forward to The Associate when it came available in paperback. I don't think it's his best thriller and the plot didn't have the pacing of a typical Grisham novel. Still I enjoyed it just for something to read. I think the plot regarding a college rape is topical after the Duke Lacrosse issue. The character Kyle was decent enough, but not my favorite Grisham protagonist either. All in all this was a novel I continued to read and finished, but it took several weeks - I.E. unlike other Grisham novels I could put it down. If you just need a casual read you can pick up on and off again or are like me and like Grisham enough to read all his books I'd suggest it. Otherwise "The Associate" is just O.K.
- Amazon Customer Review
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