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3.32 AVERAGE
3.32 AVERAGE
Another good book by John Grisham. Nothing really new and different here but that's okay. Reading a Grisham book is as comfortable and enjoyable as a pair of comfy slippers on a cold day.
My complaint about the book is the ending. It just ended with no real conclusion. How did things work out for the clients? I need an ending!!
My complaint about the book is the ending. It just ended with no real conclusion. How did things work out for the clients? I need an ending!!
I would like to have given it a slightly lower rating, but I did actually finish it, so that says something. I kept waiting for it to get better. There were a couple of little plot twists I wasn't quite expecting, but generally it never picked up the way I was hoping it would. For the positive, this is one of the few Grisham books I've read with a female protagonist. It's just unfortunate it didn't come together in a more interesting way.
Did Grisham farm this one out? He must have hired an amateur ghostwriter because this novel is unbelievably clunky, preachy, and dull. What happened?
It was pretty good... until the ending... the ending sucked.
Grisham has a rare talent for making unlikable characters (spoiled yuppie lawyers) somehow moderately sympathetic. This book held my interest while I was reading it but the ending was a let down. In fact, I’m not sure “ending” is an accurate description. It’s as if the author just ran out of steam and decided to stop. Major plot lines were left unresolved. I learned a lot about Appalachia and coal mining from the book and that’s what made it worth while.
3,3 ; Interessant om American civil law te begrijpen, maar er zijn betere thrillers om te lezen.
I don't know why it got fewer ratings but I love the growth of Samantha Kofer's character, from someone who looks away from ligitation to someone who embraces it because she wants to earn it.
mysterious
fast-paced
Gray Mountain was entertaining enough, but not up to par. It had some of my favorite elements (fighting the coal companies! Appalachia! a female protagonist!) but parts seemed condescending and repetitive.
I used to read Grisham novels the second they came out. I loved them. I would see the announcement of one coming up and count the days. Playing for Pizza. Not since, have I looked forward to one of his so I’ve missed quite a few. This one was just sitting on the shelf at the library as I was walking out. I don’t even know why I picked it up, but I’m glad I did.
This was not a great book. I’ll be the first to admit that. I loved this book for personal reasons and I don’t apologize for it because if we don’t love books for personal reasons a lot less books would be popular! I grew up in West Virginia in coal mining country. This book is based in Virginia, but coal mining is coal mining. Grisham used this book as a platform to reveal the travesty of strip mining and I grew up with deep mining, but again, mining is mining. Each has equal consequences to the people doing the mining and the people that live in the areas where the mining is happening. I’d be the first to admit that strip mining is more devastating to the land, but both ruin men.
I listened to the audio and it was like listening to someone describe the mountains where I spent my childhood. We see these mountains through the eyes of a New York lawyer so they are described in exquisite detail and my heart pined for home. It pined until the description got to the spoiled water, orange sinks and tubs and constant coughing and hacking of the miners and eventually their families.
If you have no interest or personal connection to coal mining this is probably not the book for you. Grisham’s story telling skills feel as if they have degenerated into a form letter format. Big City lawyer helps little guy and finds purpose in the law. Blah blah blah... But for me, this particular form letter was a winner.
This was not a great book. I’ll be the first to admit that. I loved this book for personal reasons and I don’t apologize for it because if we don’t love books for personal reasons a lot less books would be popular! I grew up in West Virginia in coal mining country. This book is based in Virginia, but coal mining is coal mining. Grisham used this book as a platform to reveal the travesty of strip mining and I grew up with deep mining, but again, mining is mining. Each has equal consequences to the people doing the mining and the people that live in the areas where the mining is happening. I’d be the first to admit that strip mining is more devastating to the land, but both ruin men.
I listened to the audio and it was like listening to someone describe the mountains where I spent my childhood. We see these mountains through the eyes of a New York lawyer so they are described in exquisite detail and my heart pined for home. It pined until the description got to the spoiled water, orange sinks and tubs and constant coughing and hacking of the miners and eventually their families.
If you have no interest or personal connection to coal mining this is probably not the book for you. Grisham’s story telling skills feel as if they have degenerated into a form letter format. Big City lawyer helps little guy and finds purpose in the law. Blah blah blah... But for me, this particular form letter was a winner.