Last week we had our monthly book club and the book choice
was The Litigators by John Grisham.
One of the reasons I love being in a book club is because
I’m exposed to books that I wouldn’t normally read. However, that also means
that I’m going to be introduced to some not so great books, like this month’s
pick. Now a lot of people like Grisham novels, unfortunately I’m not one of
them. I don’t know if it’s because I feel like they’re all the same or
what, but I’m not a fan.
So this book centers on the lives of three lawyers. Two partners of a small law firm who are ethically questionable and, in addition to taking crap cases, they love chasing ambulances .
Literally, the firm is located on a dangerous corner where accidents are
frequent and potential plaintiffs are plentiful. By chance David, a third
lawyer who has been slaving away for a big law firm, joins the small
firm after he suffers a mental breakdown at work. David is soon sucked into their schemes to get rich quick by suing Big Pharma and from there the reader
gets to watch the train wreck that these lawyers call practicing law.
There was nothing that could have saved this book for me so I’m just going to give the top three reasons why I didn’t enjoy it. First,
Grisham took the easy road and pin holed these characters into the typical
stereotype of a personal injury attorney. He described them as money grubbing
men who felt no shame in lying to clients and posing as doctors to sign up
plaintiffs lying bed ridden in hospital gurneys. I know personal injury
attorneys and Grisham’s description caused offense. Second, the story was too
predictable. Had the story been focused more on criminal law instead of torts I
probably wouldn’t have minded it as much but no, the story was on one of my
most hated subjects in law school ever, bloody torts. Lastly, being a lawyer I
deal with laws and lawyers all day (Although the lawyers I work with are pretty
awesome!) and the last thing I want to do is read about disenchanted and
unethical lawyers on my off time.
Bottom line if I were you I would skip this one.
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Top Ten Tuesday |
And onto more important things! The Broke and the Bookish
host a weekly meme: Top Ten Tuesday, and each week we’re given topic or theme to
list our top ten preferences. This week’s topic is:
Top Ten Books I Think Would Make Great Book Club Picks:
I love this topic and I’m glad that it’s my first “Top Ten”
category. So here are my Top Ten:










4 comments:
Shadow of the Wind is one of those books that make me want to hold people down and force it on them!
Haha you sound like me! I definitely agree, it's a book for book lovers and it should be read by everyone.
I didnt get In The Woods at ALL!!!!! by the end of it I kept asking myself, "why the hell was that book written?!"- In Cold Blood, scared the shit out of me- and I still havn't read Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, but I did watch the movie and thought it was WHOLLY rediculous... should I even chance the book? also, I have been to that house, its creepy...
I was so interested in "In the Woods" but then I was just left with nothing! Definitely read Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, the book, as usual, was so much better than the movie. I think I may have an extra copy of it if you want me to mail it to you. When Heather and I were in Savannah we went their too, the tour lady was so rude!
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