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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.
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Gripping legal suspenser by the author of last year's hallucinatory The Firm--and an even stronger performance than that still-current bestseller. Grisham also strikes gold with public awareness of the furor over the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Thomas. Where The Firm clamped into the reader's greed for the perks of a supersuccessful young lawyer in an almost fantasy law firm, Grisham's second is a tale that baits its own hooks with the lures of All the President's Men. That much of what happens here happens regularly in suspense novels (sudden stranglings and murders) in no way lessens the novel's intensity and feeling of freshness--a freshness that springs in both novels from Grisham's focus on top law students, cloistered brains who find themselves raw beginners in the real world but afloat on cash. Here, second-year law student at Tulane Darby Shaw sets out to solve the seemingly motiveless simultaneous murders of two largely liberal Supreme Court judges who were killed two hours apart on the same night. A lone assassin or a conspiracy? Clearly someone wants the conservative Republican president, a grandfatherly nerd mainly interested in his golf game, to pack the already conservative Court. Darby reviews hundreds of the Court's upcoming cases and sees only one that fulfills the breadth of evil needed to account for such desperate measures as double murder: a multibillion-dollar oil venture in Louisiana that will kill off the state's beloved but endangered brown pelican. Darby's brief on this ``fictional'' case finds its way to the White House, the FBI, and the CIA. Then Darby's lover, her constitutional-law professor, to whom she has shown the brief, is blown up in a car-bomb explosion meant also to have killed Darby. The story's vitality springs from Grisham's relentless enlivening of Darby's fears as she flees about the country in a closing web of killers while trying to help Washington Post reporter Gray Grantham get the goods on the baddies in a newsbreak bigger than Watergate. Must entertainment for legal folk. Should outsell The Firm. (Literary Guild Dual Selection for May) -- Copyright ©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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This is the first Grisham book I have read and I am in the middle of it. I find the plot enjoyable, but the writing is stale, the charachters are poorly developed and the description, what little there is, leaves quite a bit to be desired. The story line is enjoyable and if this was writen by someone else with more skill for writiing, I would think it should be a wonderfull book. I like the aspect of espionage, but find the parts about the governmet layers boring. When the setting changes and Callahan enters the plot again, I don't mind reading. These chapters at least have a few semi-well developed characters and it is not a whole bunch of boring lawyer drible. In fact I rather like Callahan's character, but he plays a bit of a minor role in the plot so far. Well I won't bore you any more, you'll have to make your own call on this one, if you like a strong plot and don't mind bad writing, you would probably like this book
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Nachdem ich kurz hintereinander alle Grisham-Romane gelesen habe - glaube ich auch wie viele meiner Vorredner, dass es einer seiner schlechtesten Romane ist. Die Geschichte, um eine junge Studentin, die mit Ihrer Recherche den Mord an zwei Supreme Court Richtern aufdeckt und dabei in politische Fallstricke gerät ist an sich nicht schlecht und ich habe mich auch dabei ertappt, dass ich den für Grisham typischen Redefluss hineingezogen wurde - aber irgendetwas fehlt. Nach langem Überlegen bin ich zu dem Schluss gekommen, dass man bei Grisham jetzt eine gewisse Sättigung erreicht hat. Anders als andere Bestseller - Autoren, die sich immer wieder neue Orte bzw. grundsätzliche andere Geschichten erzählen (siehe Ken Follet, der nach langer Zeit sich wieder einmal seinem Ursprungsthema Spionage im zweiten Weltkrieg zugewandt hat) ist die Abfolge bei Grisham relativ gleich. Die Romane spielen immer im Süden der USA und immer ein juristisches Umfeld. Das diesmal eine politische Note mit integriert wurde spielt da eigentlich keine Rolle. Zwar fühl man sich in den Büchern von Grisham „wie zu Hause", aber nach einiger Zeit merkt man, dass die Erinnerung an die einzelnen Romane langsam zu verschwimmen beginnt. Es fehlen einem neue Anreize bzw. Überraschungseffekte. Da hilft es auch nicht mehr, dass Grisham einen sehr lockeren Sprachstil hat, der es einem das Lesen einfach gestaltet. Für jeden, der sich an der gesamten Grishamthematik noch nicht leidgelesen hat ist dieses Buch mit Sicherheit ein Gewinn, da man in gewohnter Qualität unterhalten wird.
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My husband cannot understand why I prefer to read a book before I see the movie because it's such fun to see what they leave in, what they take out, how they cast the characters, etc. But I didn't have the opportunity to do so with this book. It was the wonderful movie with Denzell Washington and Julia Roberts which sent me looking for Grisham's books. I've been reading them in the order in which he wrote them and have found them all wonderful. The Pelican Brief exhibits very well something I often find in Grisham's work - the expert unfolding of the story and of the details about the characters' lives. This book, in particular, has a complex plot and a secret long-held within the pages of the book (and as well in the movie) that keeps you spell-bound. I found both main characters to be interesting and I kept wanting to know more about how they thought and how they ticked as they tried to save their lives. Read the book first and then see the movie!
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If you are thinking about going to law school, this wouldn't be a bad novel to read to get a sense of what the profession is all about before you commit yourself to three expensive... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 25. April 2008 von Donald Mitchell
Pretty Good!
This is an alright book.It is no five star book but it is good.The plot is not that good but the way he sweeps you up in this girl and you just want to know what happens to her is... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 14. Juli 2000 von Chad Jackson
A page-turner!
After reading "The Firm," I thought that John Grisham could not possible outdo himself, that is until I read "The Pelican Brief. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 16. Juni 2000 von The Big L
just a talentless hack who got lucky
i'm sorry, but john just doesnt do it for me...his books are written primarily on a junior high level, his characters are boring and he seems to rehash the same stories over and... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 7. Juni 2000 von Erren Geraud Kelly
Quick Beach Read
I've read most of Grisham's novels, and have to say 'The Pelican Brief' is not one of his best. Actually, he's never been able to surpass his first novel 'A Time to Kill', for... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 31. Mai 2000 von Leah Jesse
Eventful, Convincing & Well Plan
An attractive woman (as usual), in this case a law student, come up with her own theory of the murder of two supreme court judges. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 23. Mai 2000 von Cakra Wala
Not As Good As Other Grisham Books
I like Grisham but this book did not have as much to offer as other Grisham books. It started off with a bang (literally) and I thought I was in for a great read, however, the... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 13. April 2000 von Pierre Renoir
Grisham does it again
This book was awesome! You will love it!
Am 30. März 2000 veröffentlicht
It's the BEST
I think that the people's reviews that I've read that say this book isn't good don't get into the book well enough. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 24. März 2000 von Secret Agent Girl
The Pelican Brief
This book is good because it combines wit and action. Grisham uses his lawyer language perfectly to make it seem real. He also shows it through Darby Shaw. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 16. März 2000 veröffentlicht
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