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Publisher's Summary
Number one New York Times best-selling author John Grisham's newest legal thriller takes you inside a law firm that's on shaky ground.
Mark, Todd, and Zola came to law school to change the world, to make it a better place. But now, as third-year students, these close friends realize they have been duped. They all borrowed heavily to attend a third-tier, for-profit law school so mediocre that its graduates rarely pass the bar exam, let alone get good jobs. And when they learn that their school is one of a chain owned by a shady New York hedge-fund operator who also happens to own a bank specializing in student loans, the three know they have been caught up in The Great Law School Scam.
But maybe there's a way out. Maybe there's a way to escape their crushing debt, expose the bank and the scam, and make a few bucks in the process. But to do so, they would first have to quit school. And leaving law school a few short months before graduation would be completely crazy, right? Well, yes and no...
Pull up a stool, grab a cold one, and get ready to spend some time at The Rooster Bar.
What the critics say
"With quiet certitude, narrator Ari Fliakos captures the mounting despair of three contemporary law students... Fliakos begins the story at a sedate pace but soon picks up speed to match the plot. He hits his stride as Mark, Todd, and Zola realize the bind they're in - and who might be to blame." (AudioFile)
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- Mary
- 2017-11-18
What a great reader!
Amazing performance of this book. Made it so enjoyable and really helped the character development.
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- RanO
- 2018-02-13
So so
Struggled to finish, just to far fetched to be believable, just was not for me
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- Anne-Marie
- 2018-01-18
SUSPENSEFUL!
Great story with many twits and turns; keeps you interested all the way along. When I reached the end I was sad the book was over - I will a lot more from this author!
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- M Ada Clark
- 2017-12-10
Good Story
loved it! Interesting enough to keep me listening. Exciting enough to want to hear more. Intriguing enough to get feel anxious for characters.
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- Mark
- 2017-12-02
Grisham is great as usual.
Nothing like a John Grisham book on a crisp fall day. Another great story told.
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- Tee
- 2018-10-07
Light entertainment
This is relatively light - suitable for the times when you just don’t want anything mind boggling. The plot is quite straightforward. Three final year students of a for-profit law school dropped out of school, and trawled the corridors of the court house and hospitals, offering their “legal” services. Their target was people charged for DUI, and tort cases. But their good luck soon ran out.
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- AT
- 2018-05-26
My first book of J Grisham. Went well in a car.
Storyline is unusual and keeps your attention until the very end. narration is done well. Also educational about the world if so called law and Justice system.
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- Tim Tompkins
- 2018-03-25
The Rooster Bar
Great story A real page turner. Highly recommended. All Grisham fans will enjoy this. Highly enjoyable.
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- Utilisateur anonyme
- 2018-02-26
a little weak for a Grisham novel
nothing special about this. a couple of interesting points about for profit law schools and a couple twists.
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- Dudereid
- 2018-02-21
A good read
Some good humour and a entertaining storyline keeps the reader involved. A book hard to put down.
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- Phil Johnson
- 2017-11-08
Can't believe this got great reviews
I think this book is a "bus book". In other words, it can be read on the train. When reading text, its possible to skim sections or speed read. Not so with an audio book, unless you like chipmunk voices. Got to chapter 14 of 44. Very slow and dull. Not very good writing. Very unimaginative writing. Gave up. Not a page turner in the audio form.
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- Utilisateur anonyme
- 2017-11-06
Think he was trying for a younger audience.
I usually love John Grisham books. This felt like a older mans opinion on how younger men think and act. Seemed forced and a little predictable. Ending wasn’t very satisfying.
37 of 39 people found this review helpful
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- Amazon Customer
- 2017-11-04
Story=Terrible
This book rambles for about 9.5 hours and then very quickly ties up loose ends and quits. As someone who has been binging Grisham's books back to back, the decrease in the quality of his work over his career is stunning.
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- Mel
- 2017-11-11
Sticking it to the Man
Grisham's skillful consistency is incredible, a writer so creative and talented that you can depend on almost anything he publishes holding you in its clutches in a cold sweat until its conclusion. Before I read this book, I would have omitted the *almost* from the previous sentence. The Rooster Bar is one of those that is interesting... enough. It didn't grab me by the throat, but it does have the Grisham touch of excellence in structure and development, if not in its plot line. The characters around whom the story revolves are difficult to like unless you are one of the thousands that are buried to your elbows in debt from law school tuition. (If so...you will LOVE this). And, even though the author explains the origin of his idea for this plot, it's hard to swallow. The escape plan seemed drafted by Rube Goldberg, each new idea creating a domino effect both impractical and improbable. It's a stretch of imagination born of desperation to even begin to relate to these law school drop outs breaking the law in order to stick it to the man. (Stuff dreams are made of.) The characters and the motivation driving this plot might be too esoteric.
I wonder if this level of civil disobedience would really get so far...and that is exactly the thought that kept interrupting Grisham's hold on me while I listened. I did, however, find the discussion about the cost of a law degree (and many other college degrees) shocking and disgusting, and had to spend time looking up the cost of all the possible professions my kids might choose. It was terrifying and has me clipping coupons and considering coming out of retirement. Grisham fans will still be fans, but for an initiation to this author, or for those only mildly entertained by previous works by this author I have to say...Cock-a-doodle-don't.
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- jim stengel
- 2017-11-05
The Rooster Bar Never Really Takes Off
Was left waiting for the rich plot narritave, so characteristic of Grisham's work.
Never did connect as the characters developed. For instance there was no feeling of urgency or tension as the law closes in.
As an avid reader of Grisham's work, the overall experience was not what I have come to expect.
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- timmie metz
- 2017-11-26
boring story I saw coming every step of the way.
it's hard to connect with characters that really completely make bad decisions throughout all aspects of their lives. I honestly didn't care what happened to any of them... and it doesn't seem like anyone in the book received Justice.
25 of 27 people found this review helpful
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- P. Giorgio
- 2017-11-19
So boring ... couldn't end soon enough
How could I have listened to 10+ hrs of a story in which NOTHING happened. The set up was too long and convoluted. The obstacles to the plans of the protagonists were minor and not worth the long explanations. The bravado of the boys and the common sense of the "girl" in the group is stereotypical and boring. 25% in and we still don't know what is at stake -- except the freedom of a bunch of boring crooks. While there are some interesting characterizations in the story, there is not one character to root for, to care about. The more ridiculous the caper became, the more each of the two key players became one stupid character. The end is not really an ending. It assumes that the two guys were smarter than every lawyer, judge, law enforcement agency and international security experts. But above all, it was boring. NOTHING HAPPENS. They do their deeds, they move along and they..... won't give the actual ending. But it's boring and I couldn't have cared less what the final act became.
I think the subject of the book -- on which the crime was formulated and executed -- is a worthy subject, due a deep examination in the news and in fiction. This could have been a real eye-opener. Instead, it read like a Carl Hiassen caper, but with no real punchy politics to bring it home. Becuase Grisham is revered and well-read, it may make some noise and bring attention to the problems facing young college graduates. Stupid, inispid, fantastical and boring. There is an afterword by the author assuring us this is fiction. Really, the problem is not made up. Maybe the characters are because they are so BORING.
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- hgpilot - MM
- 2017-11-09
Decent read / not his best
I'm not entirely sure Grisham wrote this book - after 27 books I've thoroughly enjoyed each and every one but this one was a bit of a letdown. I had 2 issues with this book - first, without giving away the plot (and fully understanding this is a work of fiction) he's rewarding illegal behavior and creating reader sympathy for characters who are breaking the law. I even found myself feeling sorry for them - then remembering their behavior was illegal. Second - the first 3/4 of the book had no real story - you were just following the main characters through everyday life without any sort of mystery or plot development.
I would totally read / buy anything John Grisham writes - I've loved too many of his books to let a single one let me down. In the end it was just OK - I expected more. And again, I'm not sure he even wrote this because it's just not like him.
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- Joan Elliott
- 2017-10-29
Very Good
Story kept you in suspense. The narration was well done Kudos to both author and narrator.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2017-10-27
snooze
I bought this to listen to on my cross country drive. I actually turned this book off several times, to get a. break from it. I preferred static on the radio at times and the long search of something to find on a channel.
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