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John Grisham
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Pages: 512 (Paperback)
ISBN: 0099481766
Pub: Arrow Books Ltd
Pub date: 2008-11-20
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 11895
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OK review (0/0 people found this helpful)
Too much detail not enough story. Grisham takes a break from his usual endings, maybe attempting to give a moral lesson or show a bit of realism. Grisham style but not a Grisham classic legal thriller. As I have every book apart from Ford County I hope the next one has better than OK reviews.
What Grisham does best (0/0 people found this helpful)
I have read some of Mr. Grisham's 'nonlegal' based and non-fiction books and frankly they are not very good. However, I picked this up one morning and was glued to it all day, finishing just before nightfall (the dog got a cursory walk and no housework/self-employed work was done). The legal thriller is what he does best and I thought this was a very good example. The characters were great (hey, Clete Coley - what a role that would have been for Joe Don Baker in his prime!). OK, the ending will have been a disapppointment for bleeding heart liberals but let's be a bit realistic. I still enjoyed it and admired the characters of Wes and Mary Grace, and understood the thinking of Ron Fisk, placed in a desperate no-win situation. Addictive reading and highly recommended.
Recycling (0/1 people found this helpful)
I keep my books after reading them unless they belong to the library then they might take issue with that. I've got books going back 40 years but when I finished 'The Appeal' it went straight into the cruise ships library and now forgotten. I can't even remember the names of the characters, it is that bad and forgettable. I persevered to the end hoping that it just might redeem itself but as other reviewers have said, Grisham gets just as bored with it as the readers and abruptly ends it. The only believable characters are the penniless lawyers and their client, everybody else can't be taken seriously. Grisham here reminds me of Asimov who should have stayed retired after the 1940's who must have been short of a dolalr or two, turned his Foundation trilogy to a six book series, the last 3 were purely cashing in in his name and no longer had that spark of imagination to make for a great read. Here it's far from great and only suitable for recycling. Grisham should quit now as your reputation has already gone down with this rubbish.
A crime was committed for which no punishment has been served and that crime was against good reading.
what went wrong?? (0/1 people found this helpful)
Having read the few good reviews and the many bad ones of this novel I decided to give it a go and loaned it from my library. As a huge J G fan I wanted so much for all the negative press to be wrong,oh dear, how dissapointed I was.
The plot was interesting enough, dodgy company poisons a town and the underdog lawyers fight for justice for the little people and high level legal corruption, very J G. Unfortunatly it just dosnt deliver at all.
The story is overly padded out and tends to lose its way halfway through.
The characters are one dimensional and flat, even to the point that you couldnt care less what happens to them in the end.
This could be a good thing because the ending is so dire, no commuppance for the corrup company boss and the underdogs walk away with nothing.
So what went wrong with it?? it just seems rushed and somewhat bleak. Not one of J G best, glad i didnt buy it. lets hope the next one is back to form.
No Appeal (0/1 people found this helpful)
If John Grisham has written this book - and I sincerely hope it's a ghost writer - then he should be ashamed of himself. No narrative; characters you don't care about; slow pace that put me to sleep many a night; a tired old plot re-hashed from the bits left over from other books. It's a shame that such a great writer as Mr Grisham has fallen to this level. Please don't buy this book. Re-read some of his earlier ones instead.
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