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Sooley
by John Grisham
For a long while, this book drags along like most of Mr. Grisham’s later books; like he phoned it in to his editor while drinking Mai tais on the beach in the Caymans, periodically receiving reports of how much his bank balance has increased.
There is a South Sudan basketball team that goes to the US and one of them ends up with a college scholarship while his family is driven into a refugee camp in Uganda. Blah, blah, blah, you would think we care about all this, but Mr. Grisham ‘s characters are so paper thin that we don’t, not in the slightest.
Sooley becomes a sensation when by sheer hard work he drives himself into the highest ranks of college players. Various descriptions of basketball games are…meah…mediocre at best.
Then with 9/10 of the book over, Mr. Grisham drops a bomb (read the book) and you’re like, “really dude? This is what you do with your main character?” It’s almost like he got to, that point in the book and the editor called him on the beach and reminded him that his manuscript was due in 48 hours. What can Mr. Grisham do but finish the book ASAP!! But how? Think “Where the Red Fern Grows.”
An awful, depressing, formulaic, terrible book that I did not like at all.
There is a South Sudan basketball team that goes to the US and one of them ends up with a college scholarship while his family is driven into a refugee camp in Uganda. Blah, blah, blah, you would think we care about all this, but Mr. Grisham ‘s characters are so paper thin that we don’t, not in the slightest.
Sooley becomes a sensation when by sheer hard work he drives himself into the highest ranks of college players. Various descriptions of basketball games are…meah…mediocre at best.
Then with 9/10 of the book over, Mr. Grisham drops a bomb (read the book) and you’re like, “really dude? This is what you do with your main character?” It’s almost like he got to, that point in the book and the editor called him on the beach and reminded him that his manuscript was due in 48 hours. What can Mr. Grisham do but finish the book ASAP!! But how? Think “Where the Red Fern Grows.”
An awful, depressing, formulaic, terrible book that I did not like at all.