Sunday, December 2, 2012

THE STREET LAWYER



Author: John Grisham
“What are you thinking”,she said softly.
Everything and nothing… thirty-two days earlier I had been married to someone else, living in  different apartment, working in a different firm, a complete stranger to the woman I was now holding. How could life change so drastically in a month?
I didn’t dare think of the future; the past was still happening.- Michael Brock
> I never expected smiling upon finishing this book.
Compelling. Has a great effect on me as a reader, law enthusiast, single guy, principled man. 
Nakakatuwa lang isipin na mabigat ang dating ng istorya pero hindi pala talaga. Simple, organisado, may puso, at totoo. Pinakita lahat yan ng isang dating ordinaryong abogado na nakapagbago.
Tunay nga’t kung minsan, ang mga prinsipyong pinanghahawakan natin sa paaralan ay ang siyang mga tinatapon na natin paglabas dito. Pagkatapos ay mapatutunayan nating hindi pala mali itong mga bagay na ‘to. Pundasyon sila sa ating inaaral at ikabubuhay.
Basahin ito (1) upang magkaroon pa ng mas malawak na pang-unawa (understanding/ compassion) sa mga kapatid nating kapus-palad, (2) para matuto tayo kung paano tumayo sa prinsipyo kapalit ng yaman, at (3) pahingahin ang puso. 

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