Procure The Litigators Executed By John Grisham Distributed As Softcover

won this book as a First Reads giveaway, In high school, I loved John Grisham but havent returned to him since reading sitelinkThe King of Torts as a college sophomore.
I couldnt tell if my tastes had matured or his quality had diminished but I was not impressed at all and hes fallen off my radar since then.
In fact, I didnt realize he was back to writing legal fiction, The Litigators started out rather promising it lacked the intensity of earlier Grishams but it was also surprisingly hilarious.
I enjoyed most of this book until about chapterofsomething when the magic wore off, The rest of the book has none of the charm it starts with and one can almost hear the crackling on the line reading the last few chapters as Grisham phones it in.
At least one other reviewer suggested a ghost writer was at work and I can see where they got that opinion from, because its an abrupt, almostdegrees turn in tone.
Its like someone decided this book could only bepages long and there was a major “oh shit” moment at page.


His female characters suck, but I seem to remember them generally existing in three forms fat and matronly, hot and bitchy or the generally unremarkable youngish woman known as “wifey”.
I probably shouldnt complain too much about the female stereotypes as his legal books are generally more about the story than the characters.
The male major characters in The Litigators are also rather wooden, and the plot, although entertaining in points, is not a gripping page turner like hiss thrillers , making it hard to dismiss the crappy characters.


The Litigators started out promising but the end of it was so disappointing, Im only giving itstars.
This is a fine book to grab in the airport concourse well, its mass market paperback edition will be during a day of travel but not really a book Id recommend carving out a cozy afternoon to read.

Grisham Special And a Funny Lawyer Joke,

Q: What's the difference between a lawyer and a rooster
A: When a rooster wakes up in the morning, its primal urge is to cluck defiance.

Prior to reading this book a few years back, I'd grown disillusioned with Grisham's books, the recent ones like The Brethren, a book as agonizing as absurd.
I thought perhaps he'd worn out, bored out or his ideas petered out,

For his first halfdozen years, he stropped his writing skills on the legal profession, slugging Big Business and sellout lawyers with a succession of suspenseful, at least plausible, blockbusters exploring legal issues just then hitting press.
Much like a sustained thrum, and once a year, out came another NYTbestseller in which Grisham delivered another upper left hook.
And yet, he apparently lost the fire somewhere along the way, and "mailed in" some formulaic evanescent stories with stiff, largely unlikeable and forgettable characters, and unrealistic plots see The Brethren as Exhibit.


In any case, I was skeptical in getting this one, to find Grisham back to his specialty: an unliterary, suspenseful and enjoyable yarn spiced with humor and affable, truetolife characters, which also hits a pressing social issue foreign manufacturers and domestic importers of toys with excessive lead levels as well as ambulancechasing, classaction lawyers.


I recommend this for all Grisham fans, A legal thriller published published,

Astar David amp Goliath read,

Whilst I have to say that I did enjoy this rendition of the legal giant vs the legal minnow there was always the feeling that Ive read it before.
I hadnt but I have read the same scenario before from the pen of John Grisham,

On this occasion its the evil multi national pharma corporations that are under the microscope,
I have no problem with that, greed and the desire for power is alive and well just as much in that sector of the business world as in most other sectors.

The problem is that to be at the top, and stay there, in this game can often endangering lives.


So, when this small legal firm of ambulance chasers get a chance to be a part of a class action against one of the major pharma players, where the pay day is spoken of in millions, temptation wins out.
It seem that greed and the desire for power is also alive and well in the legal world,

The main problem for the ambulance chasers is, they are useless, The tank they now find themselves swimming in is full of predators, from both sides of the divide,

Little did they realise when this rags to riches story started just how good life was before the lure of money got them.


No professional body comes out looking good here, Its like the old adage says, the shits the same its just the depth that changes,

So, all in all an enjoyable, if familiar, read, This was just a story, . . about lawyers not particulary good lawyers doing lawyer stuff. Sometimes they make good choices, but more often than not they make bad choices and bad things happen to them.
In the end there is some resolution and you say "oh, that's nice", Easy to read and enjoyable, but not particulary complex or mind blowing, Wowwww what a masterpiece throughly enjoyed this one kept getting better and better and felt so realistic as if you were actually there, very interesting drugs plot which killedpeople I love books by John Grisham! Like most of his books, this is fastpaced with lots of twists and turns and a surprise ending

I highly recommend.
Poor showing for JG. . I disliked it and I believe that JG did not write this, . some student or apprentice did, There is a touch of the real JG in the main courtroom scene, but it is thin and too short.
I can't believe this is him, that's all I can say, I had the Audible version not the text, Here is my "Audible. com review"

Please let me rant: Until the big courtroom scene, I do not believe the words of this book were written by JG.
I believe it was either a student's effort at mimicry or a formulaic software program where names and scenes were tossed and spit out as a story.
The story was weak and no anticipation was built into it, When David first happens into Finley amp Figg, there was so much complaint about his former boss, I expected the boss to be found dead and David accused.
That would have been a much better story, This mess was like a big soup pot wherein alcoholism, sexism, ageism, fatism, and stupidism were all put together to create a reason to have a trial.
The trial, as expected, was an exercise in futility, but it served the purpose of trotting out beautiful, intelligent women for big corporate read: bad guys to ogle and demean.


The saving grace, in the lastminutes ofhours was another fiasco, While it is all very sweet to hope for the kind of CEO we learn of at the end, it is unlikely and the results were too swift and also unlikely the corporation "caved" under so little pressure.


As for the reader: He sounded like Christopher Walken, anyway, I do not know if an author gets to prep the reader or even review the

reading but this guy mispronounced words specifically Chicago words.
He pronounced LaSalle Street as Lasall, and the town of Des Plaines as deplanes, While that's not a huge deal, it contributed to my dislike for the book, The fact that it was in Chicago was a little disconcerting, since I love the Mississippi novels so much, but as I live here, it's fun to listen for landmarks and references.
Those that were accurately named not renamed as fictional were obviously gleaned from some reference book and had not the ring of any authenticity.
That may all be the fault of the reader's lack of preparation, but it mattered in the listening,

Strange and inexplicable: There is a dog in the office who gets fed, but never taken OUT There was no scene that I can recall that mentioned AC Ambulance Chaser getting out to do his business.
A small thing, I know, but goes to making me think JG didn't touch this text,

When David is at the BIG TRIAL, he has reams of information about a variety of other products manufactured by the defendant.
We heard nothing about David's research, Where did it come from When did he do this While he was walking his infant on the hourly shifts he shared with his wife Come on!

The tying up of loose ends was fast and stupid.
Finley and Figg were losers to massive degrees, but their savior, David comes in with a safety for all, When he walked in, he had money saved from his old job and he spread it around freely, Why He didn't believe in those two yokels, not in the firm, not in the big case, We knew he was spontaneous and crazy when we met him, but this behavior is not sensible from within the context of the book.
At the end, the savior comes through again, and the two hapless idiots get to skate on in their stupid lives.
David is so "good" that his one dubious move, which could have caused him some bad press and bad luck, also evaporated.


The bar scenes at Abner's were the only times the book felt "real, " They were so good that I thought I was reading a Lescroat/Dismas Hardy book,

Overall, I am shocked by the poor quality of the story, the writing and the reader, I am glad it was offered at below regular price, so I didn't use an Audible credit for it, Still, at, it was expensive,

If JG really wrote this, I must extrapolate the following:
, He is subliminally poking fun at: poor people, fat people, drunks and "hot" women,

. He may overtly poke big corporate greediness and unscrupulous manufacturers, but his real targets seem to be the poor and uneducated.
It took David corrosionresistant Zinc to swoop down on the law firm, the poor immigrants, and the big bad capitalists, and David was not even well versed on the law and its machinations.


. I do not have the text to refer to but at one point toward the end the author refers to a drive for one of the lawyers as a small Asian woman of dubious ethnicity.
While the word "dubious" is appropriately used, it has a negative connotation, as if the uncertainty of her ethnicity is dubious not that the specific ethnicity was dubious.
Call it nitpicking, but there are several of these plays on words that make question author's true feelings about some people.
He maligned the clients of Finley amp Figg for taking the bait on Krayoxx making them seem stupid, obeselazy and oh, stupid.
They got their comeuppance in the Krayoxx trial, But the Burmese clients, with their gentle and selfeffacing ways, well, they do better, They had the benevolent CEO,

. It was a silly book, It had elements of Carl Hiaasen and elements of toprate Grisham, It had some Jonathan Kellerman but not enough and it had some Dismas Hardy, David's capacity for saving the firm and its deserving clients had a dose of Jack Reacher of the intellectual variety that is, his efforts were superhuman, a tad ridiculous and somewhat unsupported by reality.


So, why take so much time writing this Shrug, . I expected more and got less, I am complaining. I am complaining about what I perceive is a laziness a carelessness by wellloved authors, Maybe they are contracted to put out work on a timetable, This one felt like an obligation rather than an enjoyable undertaking by one of my favorite authors, I regret that I have to wait for the next one to come out, I will wait for the reviews to hit before I invest money or anticipation in acquiring it,

Thank you for reading,

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