John Grisham
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Re: John Grisham
I also saw the screenversion of "The Pelican Brief" with Juila Roberts and Denzel Washington (I am fond of both!) and was equally carried away by the plot.
I started The Firm but my work distracted me though Im sure I will go on. And I've got all his other books in store for me! They are carefully downloaded and waiting to be read Though maybe I will exclude Time to Kill, looks a bit too straightforward to me. And I do not know how his non-legal books are like at the moment.
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The Runaway Jury, the best ones are the ones I can still tell you the story of, I guess, but...
Who has read Playing for Pizza?
Ah, I was so inspired to make Italian food!!! I made a big Italian meal for my family with all the food in the book that sounded good,
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Playing for Pizza was probably the last John Grisham book I've read and I didn't like it at all. When I read it I thought "wow, Grisham is now just putting out anything to sell!". I think I thought he was just another author putting them out so fast that the quality was going downhill fast. If you can recommend anything worthwhile that he has written lately, maybe I'll be able to change my mind. The Firm was probably my favorite of his.lady_charlie wrote: Who has read Playing for Pizza?
Ah, I was so inspired to make Italian food!!! I made a big Italian meal for my family with all the food in the book that sounded good,
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Look for it, you'll find it.
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I've noticed this with some authors, though not specifically with Grisham. (Bet I will now though!) Robin Cook does the same, but I usually get drawn in enough to his stories to ignore it. It's an easy writing trap to fall into, and I struggle to avoid it myself.FNAWrite wrote:Maybe you folks who read a lot of grisham have noticed this - he seemed to me to reuse stock situations or sentences a lot.
Look for it, you'll find it.
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So I got inspired by this book to eat!
Has anyone read the Theodore Boone books? My daughter really likes Sherlock Holmes and PD James and Agatha Christie and the librarian told us to try Theodore Boone, so
I read one of those, too, it wasn't awful, but it wasn't Agatha Christie (or John Grisham, really, either)
it was a little bit like Encyclopedia Brown meets Doogie Howser
my daughter is thinking about reading an actual John Grisham book, because I told her I liked some of them.
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Well, and here is another thought...I usually figure most people have one really good book in them; often (if secretly) autobiographical, or a story they got from an event or a relative.
But I think John Grisham has crafted several good books, includind The Pelican Brief, I had forgotten the name of but I remember
liking it a lot.
Even people like Isabel Allende and Amy Tan, who manage to write more than one pretty good book, certainly have their masterpiece and it isn't hard to pick your fav.
John Grisham is probably starting to churn out the same old thing and I sometimes wonder if some of these people don't have someone else doing a lot of the work for them after so many books, but everyone on here seems to agree that he has three or four fairly equally interesting works, which is a lot for an author to be able to say, in my humble opinion.
Plus I figure I know what to expect, if I want a funny book, or a fluffy book, or a courtroom drama, I have people I can count on to give me that. And I admit, sometimes I pick a book to match my mood - or the mood I would like to be in!
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I think James Patterson falls into this category.lady_charlie wrote:.....John Grisham is probably starting to churn out the same old thing and I sometimes wonder if some of these people don't have someone else doing a lot of the work for them after so many books, but everyone on here seems to agree that he has three or four fairly equally interesting works, which is a lot for an author to be able to say, in my humble opinion.....
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