Have to admit parts of Da Vinci were fun. I liked the puzzel and I adored the villian. My parents enjoyed the novel more than I did, partly because they'd been to the places he visited in it, and they knew the Catholic doctrine.
I gave up on Grisham a while back. The last Grisham that I read and really enjoyed was The Runaway Jury - the movie is better by the way, partly because it starred John Cusak, and had a marvelous scene with Dustin Hoffman and Gene Hackman. Actually most of the films are better, with the exception of The Firm - the book had a much more satisfying ending.
For a while I was a huge fan of legal thrillers - mostly because I knew the lingo and knew what they were doing and caught the inside jokes (which you wouldn't get if you haven't been to law school). Then I got burned out on the genre. Can't read them at all now. Of the Grishams...the few that I remember, I liked The Client - great movie, Time to Kill (horrid movie), and the Insurance one that I can't remember the name of but I identified with - because I'd worked in legal aid. Scott Turow - the author of The Paper Chase - is the better writer, but far less prolific, partly because he is still practicing law. Haven't read as many of his. They get a bit redundant after a while. Grisham created the genre more or less, then once he burned through it, started writing novels like Nicholas Sparks (which I also find unreadable.). Heck most of the books are the bestseller lists don't work for me...even the Oprah ones.
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Date: 2008-08-11 10:54 pm (UTC)Have to admit parts of Da Vinci were fun. I liked the puzzel and I adored the villian. My parents enjoyed the novel more than I did, partly because they'd been to the places he visited in it, and they knew the Catholic doctrine.
I gave up on Grisham a while back. The last Grisham that I read and really enjoyed was The Runaway Jury - the movie is better by the way, partly because it starred John Cusak, and had a marvelous scene with Dustin Hoffman and Gene Hackman. Actually most of the films are better, with the exception of The Firm - the book had a much more satisfying ending.
For a while I was a huge fan of legal thrillers - mostly because I knew the lingo and knew what they were doing and caught the inside jokes (which you wouldn't get if you haven't been to law school). Then I got burned out on the genre. Can't read them at all now. Of the Grishams...the few that I remember, I liked The Client - great movie, Time to Kill (horrid movie), and the Insurance one that I can't remember the name of but I identified with - because I'd worked in legal aid. Scott Turow - the author of The Paper Chase - is the better writer, but far less prolific, partly because he is still practicing law. Haven't read as many of his. They get a bit redundant after a while. Grisham created the genre more or less, then once he burned through it, started writing novels like Nicholas Sparks (which I also find unreadable.).
Heck most of the books are the bestseller lists don't work for me...even the Oprah ones.