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Let me start by saying I’m a big fan of John Grisham. He caught me with “The Firm” and I’ve appreciated his novels and movie adaptions ever since. His stories have an authentic feel due to his background and he writes taut and compelling action. Let me continue by saying this was my least favorite Grisham book so far. It’s good subject matter which I appreciated. It covers the trap of high-end college degrees such as law schools, where lower-middle class kids build gigantic student loan debts at sub-par law schools only to find their chance of passing the bar and landing a decent paying gig at a law firm are very long odds. It also some what timely hits on the challenges that immigrates find themselves trapped in. It mostly follows a very successful formula that Grisham has often explored – unfairly treated underdogs overcoming great odds to topple evil men and corporations.
However, I struggled with this one. Two of the three underdogs, weren’t quite the underdogs I was used to, walking very shaky moral ground throughout the story. They also make very bad decisions. Grisham spends significant effort (the first hundred pages at least), building up the case for their decisions and desperate actions. Most of the rest of the novel, the protagonist spent their time digging themselves a deeper and deeper hole. While this builds plenty of tension, I struggled to fully root for them and felt more angst than enjoyment. I won’t spoil the ending, which Grisham does well to leave in the balance until the very end, but it was slightly satisfying. However, it wasn’t the same underdog story where I was able to cheer like a crazed Leichester City F.C. supporter in 2016, which I have done in many of his other books. I spent more time questioning their decisions and wondering if they should pay a price or not. Maybe that’s what Grisham wanted, to mix it up a bit, and make the reader more uncomfortable.
A lesser effort from a master storyteller, which explores some relatively important themes with strong tension, but fails to build the same rabid underdog enthusiasm, that his best previous works have delivered.
However, I struggled with this one. Two of the three underdogs, weren’t quite the underdogs I was used to, walking very shaky moral ground throughout the story. They also make very bad decisions. Grisham spends significant effort (the first hundred pages at least), building up the case for their decisions and desperate actions. Most of the rest of the novel, the protagonist spent their time digging themselves a deeper and deeper hole. While this builds plenty of tension, I struggled to fully root for them and felt more angst than enjoyment. I won’t spoil the ending, which Grisham does well to leave in the balance until the very end, but it was slightly satisfying. However, it wasn’t the same underdog story where I was able to cheer like a crazed Leichester City F.C. supporter in 2016, which I have done in many of his other books. I spent more time questioning their decisions and wondering if they should pay a price or not. Maybe that’s what Grisham wanted, to mix it up a bit, and make the reader more uncomfortable.
A lesser effort from a master storyteller, which explores some relatively important themes with strong tension, but fails to build the same rabid underdog enthusiasm, that his best previous works have delivered.
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Speaking of writing, it's been said that Capote wrote the first non-fiction novel with 'In Cold Blood'. To be honest, I had no idea that novels were overwhelmingly fiction. I only learned this a couple years ago.
In my bookbase, I distinguish ‘historical novels’ from ‘novelized history’. Both are novels in a sense, and both mix fiction and nonfiction. Today, strict borders don’t exist anymore. Idem for classifying theatre plays. Comedy? Drama?Reperiet qui quaesiverit
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I have been reading all the Lee Child Jack Reacher books. Also like to read anything John Grisham writes. These type of series have basically the same theme but I just enjoy them.50-50-90 Rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there is a 90% probability you'll get it wrong
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A woman loaned me the first Stephen
King book I read. Can't believe it took
me till I was 40 to discover one of the
best writers of our time. Some of his
stuff stays with you for years. Like
Salem's Lot and The Stand and the
Dark Tower Series.
King book I read. Can't believe it took
me till I was 40 to discover one of the
best writers of our time. Some of his
stuff stays with you for years. Like
Salem's Lot and The Stand and the
Dark Tower Series.
I read Carrie (for the first time) while we were up north for my Grandma's funeral in 1974. Think it was the year it came out in paperback. Not too many people remember where they were when they first read an author, but he's that good. So I guess it's 45 years he's been putting out good to great books, with the first dozen all great.
I'm wondering if you've read The Stand Uncut in those re-reads, or.you're sticking to the edited (original) version. Paid full price for the Uncut hardback so I'd have it in my library. Again, pretty unusual for me.
I probably read 2 a week. But I don't like having several going at the same time. I just always have one nearby.
If the House lost every hand, they wouldn't deal the game.
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I have been reading all the Lee Child Jack Reacher books. Also like to read anything John Grisham writes. These type of series have basically the same theme but I just enjoy them.
Both on my must-read list.
For living authors, everything and anything by these novelists is worth reading :
David Baldacci
Lee Child
Michael Collins
John Grisham
Greg Iles
Stephen King
JK Rowling
Trevanian (deceased)
John Varley
My big 3, for whom I own a copy of everything they ever wrote, but they have passed on.
John D MacDonald
Robert A Heinlein
Rex Stout
Long list of people whom I will read, but not always recommend. A few:
Patricia Cornwell
Scott Turow
Wilber Smith
John LeCarre
John Lescroart
James Patterson
Issac Asimov
JoJo Moyes
Nora Roberts
I tend to read authors more than genres. I don't read much horror, but I do read S King. I don't read romance, but I do read N Roberts. They could write the alphabet and I'd have to read them, they're that good.
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If the House lost every hand, they wouldn't deal the game.
EvenBobThanks for this post from:
If all I'm collecting is when people 'want' to work or when people are 'available' to work, it just makes more work for me to coordinate all of those volunteers.This is the same as a simple version of a resturant table reservation algorithm - but simpler since each respondent is an individual. Excel sign up sheets.
I've only ever read the uncut version.
'It's not enough to succeed, your friends must fail.' Gore Vidal
EvenBobThanks for this post from:
Both on my must-read list.
You'd absolutely love the Flasman series
by George McDonald Fraser. Best historical
fiction ever written. He writes about a
coward/hero in the early days of queen
Victoria's reign. His research is flawless,
you can read his books as actual history.
Just read the first one, I guarantee you'll
be hooked.
'It's not enough to succeed, your friends must fail.' Gore Vidal
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When I'm old and feeble, all I will want is a warm place by the fire and a good book, and I'll be happy. I read everything by:Lee Child - intoxicating storyteller
Guy Gavriel Kay (fantasy)
Brandon Sanderson (fantasy) -currently reading Oathbringer
Dan Simmons (SciFi)
Lee Smolin (Writes on physics)
Michael Pollan (Writes on Food)
Alan Furst (WW II spy novels)
I've read most of Stephen King. I've read a lot of Patricia Cornwall.
I've recently re-read The Last Lion trilogy (Life of Winston Churchill) by William Manchester
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In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
A Walk in the Hindu Kush by Eric Newby (1958, humorous account of exploration in Afghanistan)
Quantum Philosophy by a french physicist, Roland Omnes (very learned history of philosophy, logic, mathematics and quantum physics)
Civilization of the Middle Ages by Norman Cantor (took me several years but incredibly rewarding)
Snow on the Equator by H. W. Tilman (1937, mountaineering in Africa, rode across Africa on a bicycle)
All the Light We Cannot See (2015 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction) - stunning novel
BTW, I have read 2 of the Flashman series. Fun reading. I love British humor.
So many better men, a few of them friends, were dead. And a thousand thousand slimy things lived on, and so did I.
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A kindred spirit. Not counting my comics, I had about 3,000 pounds of books (not sure about book count, just weight). My girlfriend finally got me to sell or donate, mainly donate, about 1000 pounds of them. About 90% of mine are non-fiction.Here's two beauties you have to read:
1) The Death of Expertise by Tom Nichols.
2) The Self Illusion by Bruce Hood.
'You can't breathe dead hippo waking, sleeping, and eating, and at the same time keep your precarious grip on existence.'
EvenBob
I've only ever read the uncut version.
Speaking of that. The orig was 1100 pages
and the publisher wanted 400 pages cut.
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So King had to go thru paragraph byparagraph and pare it down. Had to take
him months of basically busywork.
'It's not enough to succeed, your friends must fail.' Gore Vidal
EvenBob
I've read most of Stephen King. .
I'm still ticked off at King for
how he ended the gunslinger
series. We waited years for
it and it's like he dashed it
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'It's not enough to succeed, your friends must fail.' Gore Vidal