Insurance companies, just as evil today as when this was written. Fast paced, likeable characters, characters you love to hate. Really enjoyed this one.

-فيلم سينمائي يخطف الأنفاس ورواية متكاملة
مصطلح صانع الامطار في عالم المحاماه يعني المحامي الذي يكسب أموالاً كثيرة للشركة
- رودي محامي شاب حديث السن قليل الخبرة مفلس وحيد يقف في المحكمة أمام عتاولة القانون ليدافع عن نصيب شاب مات بالسرطان لإن شركة التأمين رفضت دفع ثمن بوليصة التأمين
-تجذبك الرواية إلي عالم الورقيات القذر وتلاعب المحاميين بالأدلة ، مع عجبني في الرواية أن النهاية منطقية ، فالدنيا ليست عادلة ، نعم كسب رودي القضية لكن شركة التأمين أعلنت إفلاسها لتتهرب من الدفع

Grisham creates a great protagonist here.

This was my first book by John Grisham bought by my dad. I was still in high school and I devoured it during the sem break.

Spesso sento la necessità di letture rilassanti. Ma sì, mi son detto, proviamo questo Grisham. Mal me ne incolse.
Prolisso, strascicato, si dilunga nel chiaro intento di raggiungere le 500 e passa pagine dell'edizione in brossura.
Caro Grisham, non è la prima volta che mi propini simili brodosità. Provvedo al lancio arrivato più o meno a pagina 100, e la mia storia con te finisce qui forever.
Non me ne vogliano i milioni di lettori che lo apprezzano.

Leave it to John Grisham to turn a story that pivots on the technical language of an insurance policy into a riveting court room drama! One of his best.

I would've liked A more fleshed resolution to Miss Bertie's problems however.

I haven't read a Grisham book since The Runaway Jury in 1997. This book made me want to go back and read his other works to see what I might have missed.

It’s me …. da rainmaker

This is probably my favorite John Grisham books, though I do love most of his lawyer novels. The main character Rudy Baylor is a brilliant creation, intelligent yet so naïeve. I enjoyed the side characters (especially Miss Birdie and Bruiser) and stories tremendously; they add a level of depth missing in many courtroom-based fiction novels. Highly recommend this one, especially to those who haven't yet read much John Grisham. And yes, the book is much better than the movie (even though it was also quite well done and stayed fairly true to the novel).

I really liked this book overall, it had a great beginning, great intermediate and excellent courtroom action however I found the ending to be a bit of a let down. I understand where the author was going with it, however I found it didn't really fit the tone of the book for a character whose been fighting hard and overcome some pretty significant adversity to take the course he did.

Three stories for the price of one!

Methinks that John Grisham has a mellower side to his writing than we've seen thus far.

Certainly THE RAINMAKER, rather than being the legal thriller that one might have expected on the basis of his previous novels, is more of a gentle bittersweet general fiction novel comprised of three concurrent sub-plots that take place primarily in a legal setting.

In the first story, (of course, all three are intertwined to a certain extent and bump into one another, although each of the three would serve as a fine short story or novella on its own), Rudy Baylor graduates from law school with the hopeful vision of a young man destined for a rising career in a mainstream firm well known in the field of corporate law. When an unexpected takeover leaves him jobless and facing personal bankruptcy, he is forced by unexpected circumstances into the arms of his first client. A pleansant but very lonely (and surprisingly wealthy) elderly lady offers him rental accommodation at a price he couldn't possibly refuse in exchange for a review of her will.

In the second (and central) plot of the novel, Baylor unexpectedly becomes the attorney of record in a major lawsuit alleging fraud against a mega-rich insurance company that pads its profits by routinely rejecting legitimate insurance claims comfortable in the proven belief that only a small statistical percentage of those claims denied will actually be taken to court. His client is a 22 year old man, dying of leukemia. He can't afford the cost of a bone marrow transplant because his claim under the insurance policy he bought many years earlier has been rejected. The stakes are huge with a $10 million judgment hanging in the balance.

In the third and final story, and certainly the most poignant of the three, Baylor meets a young woman in the hospital who has been severely beaten by her husband. As his relationship progresses from legal representative to something much deeper and much more important, Baylor begins to question his future, his objectivity and even his commitment to the entire field of law.

THE RAINMAKER is entertaining, well written fiction that certainly speaks to Grisham's ability as a well-rounded writer who can create believable stories, populated by a strong cast of warm characters with complexity and depth, that are far richer than pure suspense.

Highly recommended.

Paul Weiss

Rudy Baylor is a graduating law student whose main (maybe only) reason he became a lawyer is because his dad hates them. As part of his training he goes to a senior home to help with legal issues. There is a lot of courtroom drama that can bog me down a bit at times, but it was still interesting as the main case was of a family whose son was dying of leukemia. I like that it’s told in Rudy’s first person POV (my favorite POV’s). I like “getting inside the head” of killers or (in this case) a lawyer and his thoughts of what happened and how brilliantly one is able to get to the nitty gritty of a case. I was surprised how quick of a read this one was for me, probably in part because it was so engaging.

جميلة ومختلفة عن الأعداد السابقة في السلسلة..
فكت لي الريدنج بلوك الحمد لله
بس كنت مستنية نهاية سعيدة حتى لو مش واقعية :)