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anyone out there who are obsessed or enjoy books by John Grisham? If so, what are your favorite books by him and why.
I have only read two books by John Grisham, A Time to Kill and The Confession, and they were absolutely fantastic. I actually wrote a book review for The Confession as an assignment for my writing class last semester.
I'm a sucker for legal fiction.
Do all or most of his books take place in a racist setting? I ask because the two I read do. It's very interesting, especially since racism is an issue that's blended into the background today. That was one of the points I incorporated into the book review on The Confession, which was released last year I believe.
oh not at all. In fact, most of his books have nothing to do with race.
john grishema is awesome:
A time to kill is probably my favorite book of his. I just read the confession a few months back and I really enjoyed that too.
A time to kil. and i like all of his books.
I am a John Grisham fan, though I admit it has been years since I made time to read any of his books. My favorite, like many of my fellow Zoners, is A Time to Kill. It was a very thought-provoking and heartfelt tale. The defendant, Carl Lee, did what any father would have done when he killed the two men who raped and nearly murdered his young daughter. If he had been a white man in that town and the men had been black, I am sure he would have had a much easier journey than the one he had to endure. Mr. Grisham did a superb job building his story up to its climax. I borrowed the audiobook from my local library and the narrator, whose name I have regrettably forgotten, had the perfect voice and told the tale in such a way that I doubt anyone else could do it justice.
I really enjoyed The Brethren.
Summary:
Trumble is a minimum-security federal prison, a "camp," home to the usual assortment of relatively harmless criminals--drug dealers, bank robbers, swindlers, embezzlers, tax evaders, two Wall Street crooks, one doctor, at least five lawyers.
And three former judges who call themselves the Brethren: one from Texas, one from California, and one from Mississippi. They meet each day in the law library, their turf at Trumble, where they write briefs, handle cases for other inmates, practice law without a license, and sometimes dispense jailhouse justice. And they spend hours writing letters. They are fine-tuning a mail scam, and it's starting to really work. The money is pouring in.
Then their little scam goes awry. It ensnares the wrong victim, a powerful man on the outside, a man with dangerous friends, and the Brethren's days of quietly marking time are over.
i am a big john grisham fan. my other favorite book was the playing for pizza. yay. but i've enjoyed all his books.
Pelican Brief.
And what was that Tort Law book of his? King of Torts? Anyway that was really good, so was the Brethren, the Chamber, and the Street Lawyer.
What was that one about the guy representing satellite hacks who gets imprisoned, then sent to Europe for awhile? That was really interesting.
Of course, A time to Kill is my favorite. I read it all in one weekend because I couldn't put it down. That was back in my college days when I could actually donate an entire weekend to my own selfish desires though. lol
I like most of his other books too. The only one I really couldn't get into was The Litigators. I don't know why; I just didn't really like any of the characters and got bored with it.
Anyway, The Street Lawyer and The Client were two of my other favorites. Oh yeah, and didn't he write, Bleachers? That was a great book.
associate and litigators were weak from a plot perspective if you ask me. I just never found either of them remotely interesting. I did enjoy many of the previously mentioned books here especially the broker. Testament was also a very good read.