Comments on: Book Review: Playing for Pizza, by John Grisham

By: Ariah

Ariah — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 12:41:40 +0000

Indie and Dave:
As long as you guys can assure me there is no ‘good guy kills bad guy all live happily ever after’ I’m totally going to get that book.

Susan,
Thanks for encouraging me I’m not alone ;)

By: Susan

Susan — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 03:53:10 +0000

I had the same reaction to The Hobbit the first time I read it (in seventh grade)- but I have since developed a deep and abiding love for almost all Tolkien literature. I’ve even read The Silmarillion twice. Having said all of that- you are definitely not alone in your critique of Tolkien’s literary style. He is incredibly random, meandering and meticulously attentive to detail (he is weaving together his very own history of an imaginary world, after all). Anyway, I like his books a lot- but I am also an incredibly hopeless nerd!

By: dave

dave — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 19:47:52 +0000

I have always had a strange appreciation for Grisham. It is in part because he has a tendency to attack the corporate law world, which is kinda’ run to read.

I read every book I could get my hands on in high school, but then stopped reading fiction. I think that I thought I was too cool for it. I was wrong.

But I recently read The Innocent Man, which is Grisham’s first non-fiction book, and it is great. It looks at how an innocent man was railroaded by the police and DA in a murder case. Brilliant book, important story.

By: indie

indie — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 18:52:20 +0000

You’re a peasant! I don’t even like fantasy, but I like Tolkien. The worst thing about The Hobbit is that it starts out incredibly slow.

Have you read Grisham’s The Innocent Man?