The Appeal
by:
John Grisham (author)
John Grisham's first legal thriller since The Client of 2006 grabs your attention like a shark attack. At first, the setup sounds familiar: A Mississippi jury delivers a massive civil judgment against a chemical company accused of gross toxic dumping. But the billionaire owner will not simply pay...
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John Grisham's first legal thriller since The Client of 2006 grabs your attention like a shark attack. At first, the setup sounds familiar: A Mississippi jury delivers a massive civil judgment against a chemical company accused of gross toxic dumping. But the billionaire owner will not simply pay the huge fine and go quietly; he not only appeals the decision to the state Supreme Court, he connives to ensure his victory. His devious plan threatens to put a sinister twist on the concept of "one man, one vote." Arresting fiction.
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Format: Textbook
ISBN:
9780385515047 (0385515049)
ASIN: 9780385515047
Publish date: 29-01-2008
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Edition language: English
The first time I attempted this, my first Grisham novel, I did something I almost never do - gave up halfway through. It was just too depressing for my then state of mind (I peeked, and discovered that the bad guys won). I picked it up again the other day and finished it, and while I still found it ...
John Grisham sometimes falls into the trap of having bad characters be too bad, and good characters be too good. The characters in The Appeal were rather flat. Well, hell, they were flat. No character development whatsoever.However, Mr. Grisham also knows his shit when it comes to legal stuff. I...
First I thought, is this the same Grisham, where are my courtrooms, I thought about that for a while and soon enough I got sucked into this book. Not that much about lawyers but more about justice and the political game, and Grisham knows how to tell a story.The book starts in a little town, where m...
John Grisham has improved a lot since the last book of his that I read, which, granted, was probably The Pelican Brief. There are still an abundance of characters, but this time I didn't have trouble keeping track of them. There were fewer superfluous scenes or random one off scenes from a character...
I gave up reading Grisham a long time ago as I would rather see his movies than to spend time to read through the book. I couldn't get into his last non-fiction book, but this one I couldn't put down! It's definitely a scary portrayal of the political workings of the court and legal system. Definite...
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