A very funny, creative and well-written book

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	• Lawyer Boy: A Case Study on Growing Up Rick Lax St. Martin's Press, 2008 - 288 pages average customer review:based on 14 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

A very funny, creative and well-written book

I read this book and reviewed it on my own blog (which I won't even plug here because I'm not shilling for that, either), and as I said there I think this is a very good and genuinely funny book. I probably should give it 5 stars, but I am giving it 4 only because I mostly reserve 5-star ratings for books by people like Faulkner or Jesus. But this is really good. You won't be disappointed.

Since for some reason seven people have tagged the one negative review as "helpful," I do want to respond to that one. I, at least, am not a family member or "Friend of Rick" or corporate shill. I don't know what that's all about. I am an attorney and writer who is irritatingly good at spotting typos, and I have read the whole book and if there are any, there aren't many. So don't be "lead astray," as that reviewer (ironically) wrote. The book is well done.

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A very entertaining book

I enjoyed the book and read it in one sitting because it is entertaining. It's a bit like getting to read the diary of a fellow law school applicant or classmate. You're itching to know how he studied, what scores he got, who he talked to, what he was like, everything. Just to see if you can one up the person or see if you have to step up your game. Definitely a book to read to get into the mood and be motivated. I'm not even a law student but can relate to the whole situation.

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david sedaris goes to law school

Saying that a book is like "David Sedaris meets such and such" has become a shorthand way of saying a book is funny. I'm not saying that this book is funny...though it is...I'm specifically saying that this book is what would happen if Sedaris went to law school. Now I'm a Sedaris fan, so I mean this as a good thing. However, I know that lots of people are not Sedaris fans, so if you don't like taht guy, you probably won't like Lax either. But if you do, you will. As simple as that.

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Refreshing!

I've read quite a few of the first year law school books out there, and this was by far my favorite one. It was written by an actual human being, and it was FUNNY! It showed that law school is difficult & had a lot to offer about the 1L experience without sounding down on it, or being too depressing. His blog is great as well.

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After college, Rick Lax moved back into his parents? house. The closest thing he had to a job was eating his parents? food, sitting on his parents? couch, and watching The Price is Right. An amateur magician, he spent the rest of his time practicing card tricks and rope tricks. And though he could tie four different slipknots, the necktie posed some difficulties.

Rick?s father, a successful Michigan attorney, told Rick it was time to move out and enter the real world. Rick certainly wasn?t going to get a job, so he went to law school instead.

This is the story of Rick?s journey from childhood to lawyerhood.

In Lawyer Boy, Rick uses the skills he developed as a magician to succeed in class, and learns how to become a lawyer without becoming his father. His journey through law school was exhausting, exciting, and infuriating, and, the way he tells it, so funny it?s criminal.

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