The Appeal by John Grisham Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of The Appeal
Book Review: AWFUL ENDING
Summary: 2 Stars
IT WAS A TYPICAL GRISHAM BOOK ABOUT THE BEHIND THE SCENES OF LAWYERS, ELCTIONS, AND THE MONEY THAT IS THROWN OUT THERE. IT WAS ALL GOOD, BUT THE ENDING WAS AWFUL, IT WAS LIKE HE GOT TIRED OF WRITING AND DECIDED TO END IT. THE KID GETTING HURT, THE NEGLIGENCE BY THE DR/HOSPITAL WAS GOOD AND IT MADE YOU THINK THAT THE JUDGE WOULD "SEE THE LIGHT", BUT HE ENDS IT WITH A COUPLE OF PAGES AND THAT WAS IT.Book Review: Absolutely the worst Grisham novel
Summary: 1 Stars
I have always liked John Grisham's novel, and begrudgingly his writing has you turning the pages, in this case hoping for something positive to happen. However, it was so irritating I will never read another one of his books.Book Review: Almost Classic Grisham
Summary: 4 Stars
The author's latest novel offers a dark look into the heart American justice. This time around the story takes place after a major trial. The major issue that sparks controversy in this novel is whether private money should be used in electing judicial officials.
The story written around this is both believable and engrossing. It's not so much a legal thriller. It's more a thriller about the legal system. I found it both entertaining and enlightening. As they say, "Money talks".
Recommended for Grisham fans.
Book Review: Ambulance Chasers Are Not the Good Guys
Summary: 1 Stars
I found this book very annoying. I work with many people involved in the pesticide industry. The description of what they are like is not reality. The kind of behavior described in the book may have been relevant in the 1950's but the world has changed. Grisham quickly dismissed the EPA as irrelevant when in fact they would never allow this sort of behavior. His simplistic moralizing is nauseating. Not all conservatives, business owners, and religious folks are corrupt and/or stupid. Likewise, I would dare say that not all ambulance chasing lawyers are nearly as altruistic is Grisham suggests. The idea of doing away with electing supreme court judges may be a good one, but appointed judges get their jobs by being appointed by people who were elected, so I'm not sure that solves all the problems. I kept reading the book thinking that at some point the characters presented as caricatures would show some depth but I was seriously disappointed. I felt like I wasted a lot of hours reading this book.Book Review: An Appeal For Class Warfare
Summary: 2 Stars
While reading this book, I couldn't help but get the feeling that I'd read it before. Let's see; an idealistic, giving, pure and selfless plaintiff's attorney sacrifices everything on behalf of a downtrodden, mistreated, abused and helpless working class plaintiff who is being railroaded by an evil corporate attorney working on behalf of a money grubbing, despicable Wall Street financier aided by a corrupt judicial system slanted in favor of money and power. Where have I seen this plot before? Oh yeah, it's the same as 13 of the 16 Grisham books that I have on the shelf in my library.
While this is the typical cookie cutter Grisham legal thriller, it must be said that this novel is so over the top in its portrayal of conservatives and business that it is borderline dangerous. The strereotypes are offensive. In Grisham's world, there is only snow white, blinding in its purity, or coal black, stunning in its evil. There are no shades of gray, because how entertaining would that be?
Now, as Grisham points out and as many will echo, this is simply a novel consisting of fictitious characters. As such, it is even somewhat entertaining for the five hours it takes to read it. However, when Grisham makes the absurd statement that it is actually believable and based loosely on fact, he reveals his true motivation, an appeal for out and out class warfare.
Only in Grisham's world can business be pilloried for financial support of conservative candidates, while trial lawyers are held up as paragons of virtue for their attempt to buy the same seat on the court. Why? Because the trial lawyers are for the "little people". They don't care about money. In fact, they're willing to go bankrupt in their never ending search for truth, justice and the American way. Please.
In this book, every case before the court is so extreme in their facts, that no reasonable person could fail to feel outrage, so much the better when Grisham's troglodyte conservatives consistently rule in favor of negligent nursing homes, toxic dumpers, child killers and incompetent physicians. All to the benefit of scum in the board rooms and on Wall Street.
Workers of the world, unite! Grab your pitchforks and storm the manor house.