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The Firm But With Ladies

Please Join Us by Catherine McKenzie

May 15, 2023 by Melina Leave a Comment

I was kind of young when The Firm came out with Tom Cruise as the main character but I vaguely remember a secret organization of high powered men pulling strings and using their influence to get what they wanted and uses blackmail as a tactic when members aren’t behaving in the ways they should. Please Join Us has pretty much the exact same plot. When our main character Nicole finds out that she hasn’t had enough billable hours and that her firm seems to be moving […]

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The Firm by John Grisham

June 8, 2019 by Manimama Leave a Comment

This book did not age well. The Firm was published in 1991. It is a fast-paced legal thriller that was made into a 1993 movie starring Tom Cruise. If John Grisham was not writing the entire book based on the mental picture of Tom Cruise playing the main character, Mitchell McDeere, I will eat my shoe. The entire book is written as distinct scenes for some men to jaw at each other in manly ways and then a quick cut to another scene. Mitchell […]

He was headed for Wall Street and had been sidetracked by the money. Only the money.

The Firm by John Grisham

April 23, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

I don’t know if this was true for you, but my childhood home was absolutely dominated by John Grisham. It sort of went through my home like the flu with probably my oldest sister bringing home a copy of The Firm or maybe A Time to Kill…one of those two, but eventually others. Everyone, including my mom and brother (both big readers) and my dad (not a big reader), passing the books around. My brother was not allowed to read A Time to Kill because […]

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