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Loading... The Pelican Brief (1992)by John Grisham
None. This is the only John Grisham novel I've ever finished. (  ) JG_IntrovertedReader | Apr 3, 2013 |  Read it in my teens, loved it. Decided to read it again. Sometimes I just like a blockbuster novel!! On rereading it again, I found it enjoyable, and in places, exciting. I find I do like novels where the main characters are being chased, and have to look things up in libraries, etc...I loved the main female character, Darby, being chased through various cities, and her escaping death at every corner. It was a fun novel! And on around page 142 of the small paperback version, a major shock bombshell happens I wasn't expecting, and I'd already read the novel once before!! I liked this, but was very surprised at (SPOILER AHEAD!!!) the writer basically knocking himself off (the character was sooo John Grisham, but drunk). So well done for that!! I loved all the reporting and newspaper aspects in it, I love anything set in a newsroom. There's just something very exciting about a busy newsroom and how papers used to be made (this was written or published in 1992. Not so exciting now in digital times). There's even a bit of romance at the end, a happily (by month) ever after. You romantic, John Grisham you!! All in all a very fun read, action packed and never stops for a breather. I found the female lead, Darby, a bit lacking however....she was like Law Student Barbie. All long legs and no character, but every male fell over himself for her. Apparantly being good looking is all it takes to be a good character. Pinky22 | Mar 31, 2013 | The only Grisham novel I truly enjoyed. (  ) nycnorma | Mar 31, 2013 | I couldn't put down the book while I was reading. I finished reading the book very fast. An amazing thriller. ( ) Bennyjon | Feb 2, 2013 | Lawyer-bashing on pheromes. Power struggles and law firms. Author of: A Time to Kill, The Firm, and after this one, The Client. keylawk | Dec 28, 2012 | no reviews | add a review Is contained inThe Firm / The Pelican Brief by John Grisham The Pelican Brief / A Time to Kill by John Grisham The Pelican Brief • Comeback • The Flight of the Swan • Rules of Encounter by Editors of Reader's Digest The Pelican Brief / A Time to Kill / The Firm by John Grisham The Firm / A Time to Kill / The Pelican Brief / The Client by John Grisham The Chamber / The Client / The Pelican Brief / A Time to Kill by John Grisham The Chamber / Skipping Christmas / A Time to Kill / The Pelican Brief / The Firm by John Grisham A Time to Kill / Skipping Christmas / The Last Juror / The Pelican Brief / The Chamber / The Rainmaker / The Street Lawyer / The Firm by John Grisham A Time to Kill / The Firm / The Pelican Brief / The Client / The Chamber by John Grisham Collected John Grisham, Volume 1 by John Grisham The Client / The Firm / The Rainmaker / The Pelican Brief / The Runaway Jury / A Time to Kill / The Chamber by John Grisham The Innocent Man / The Pelican Brief / The Client by John Grisham The Pelican Brief / Bygones / Comeback / Watching in the Dark by John Grisham A Time to Kill / The Firm / The Pelican Brief / The Client / The Chamber / The Rainmaker / The Runaway Jury / The Partner / The Street Lawyer / The Testament by John Grisham Has the adaptationIs abridged in
Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0385339704, Paperback)John Grisham's head was full of movies when he wrote The Pelican Brief, which is such a brisk page-turner you could use it to dry your hair. He had Julia Roberts in mind for the heroine, Darby Shaw, a brilliant Tulane law student who comes up with an ingenious theory to explain the baffling assassinations of two Supreme Court justices in one day. They were shot and strangled by ace international terrorist Khamel, who loves the film Three Days of the Condor, but government gumshoes don't get what connects the deaths. Silly government guys! They died so the conservative president, who just wants to be left alone to play golf, will appoint new, conservative justices who will help out a case involving an industrialist who is the enemy of pelicans and other living things. It's all spelled out for them in Darby's brief. She likes to do legal feats to impress her boyfriend, her boyish law prof Thomas (who, like Grisham, prefers to shave at most once a week, and is cool, smart, and antiauthoritarian). The prof likes to paint her toes red, in homage to Susan Sarandon in Bull Durham. (Sarandon also starred in the film version of Grisham's The Client.)But when Thomas gets splattered by a car bomb meant for Darby, she escapes the hospital and hooks up with a Washington Post reporter, Gray Grantham, who sleuths like the guys in All the President's Men. Grisham wishes he hadn't written The Pelican Brief quite so quickly (his first novel, A Time to Kill, went through dozens of drafts), but Pelican's very breathlessness contributes to its dreamy, cinematic chase-o-rama atmosphere. (retrieved from Amazon Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:54:15 -0500) In suburban Georgetown a killer's Reeboks whisper on the front floor of a posh home... In a seedy D.C. porno house a patron is swiftly garroted to death... The next day America learns that two of its Supreme Court justices have been assassinated. And in New Orleans, a young law student prepares a legal brief... To Darby Shaw it was no more than a legal shot in the dark, a brilliant guess. To the Washington establishment it was political dynamite. Suddenly Darby is witness to a murder -- a murder intended for her. Going underground, she finds there is only one person she can trust -- an ambitious reporter after a newsbreak hotter than Watergate -- to help her piece together the deadly puzzle. Somewhere between the bayous of Louisiana and the White House's inner sanctums, a violent cover-up is being engineered. For somone has read Darby's brief. Someone who will stop at nothing to destroy the evidence of an unthinkable crime.… (more) |
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