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 enlarge | Author: John Grisham
Publisher: Doubleday
Category: Book
List Price: $27.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  408 reviews
Sales Rank: 310
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 368
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.1 x 1.3
ISBN: 0385515049
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780385515047
ASIN: 0385515049
Publication Date: January 29, 2008
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Condition: Almost Like New. Book is in very good condition. DJ has light wear mainly along the edges. Nice Book
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 Grisham's worst book ever July 9, 2008
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
Ok, John Grisham's not Hemingway, never claimed to be.
But at least his books had interesting twists where the good guys either win or are redeemed in some way.
In this tale of trial lawyers taking on cancer-causing big chemical corporations, the bad guys win, and no one is redeemed.
Plus, the bad guys win on every level and get even richer.
It's a dark depressing book, and I'm sorry I picked it up.
 Good Read July 9, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I donot know why lot of people did not liked this book . This is an excellent read like any other john grisham books . we get to know other side of american politics and ending was also perfect. i guess thats what happens typically .
 The "Appeal is not appealing July 9, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I normally don't expect a happy ending, but the ending of this book made me want to throw up. How cynical can the author get. People in Mississippi are not that stupid. I live in California, but I am from down there. I would think it is more possible in CA. After all we elected the "Govenator". Not that much of an investment in time. If you can't read a Grisham book in 3 days...you need a remedial class. How can all the bad people win in this book?? It must be the setup for a sequel. I was thoroughly disappointed. You should not write a book where a whole state is portrayed as being completely and totally ignorant and stupid. It is not nice of you to exploit where you are from for sleazy profit, thinking the rest of the country thinks they are so much better than a place like Mississippi. Enjoy your wealth. Mr. Grisham, you are no better than Mr. Carl Trudeau. ReedThe Appeal (Limited Edition)
Shocking Ending July 9, 2008
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
I really enjoyed this book. Now if you are expecting a John Grisham action legal thriller this is not it. You will not find Tom Cruise running down the street. This is a true legal political book. I actually was fascinated with it. In my state, Supreme Court Justices are also elected. This book is about how a corporation can be sued because they cause damage to a family/town through their faulty product or from dumping sewage. Then when the corporation loses the case and are ordered to paid damages what happenes next. Well in this book they find a candidate that shares their views to run for the Supreme Court so the candidate can overturn the case on appeal. I found the actual election section of the book interesting...probably because we are going through this very thing in our state right now. Of course, Mr. Grisham wrote his characters as believable sympathic figures. You will actually feel sorry for the families of this town. You will feel for the trial lawyers that go bankrupt suing for what they believe in. The ending of this book will shock you because of what you are expecting to happen. I highly recommend this book if you are wanting a book to walk you through the legal process of liabilities and trial law or a book detailing how a corporation runs a campaign to get a figurehead elected to do what they want. Just don't expect an action book.
Is this Erin Brokovich being fictionalized with a bad ending? July 8, 2008
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
I have loved all of this author's works previously but even the outstanding Michael Beck reading this could not save it. It reads too much like a fictionalized account of Erin Brockovich and why bother with that when the original was so good? I kept waiting for something to happen that would make the Paytons more interesting or for that matter even the bad guys a little more interesting. The end just left me cold, I even played the last cd through 3 times hoping to hear something that I was missing but I don't think I was missing anything except maybe a real ending. I kept hoping that Fisk would maybe see the light and get a clue but I don't think even all of the money that John Grisham will be make off this book could buy him one, he didn't even get it when his little boy ended up paying for his obtuseness and his "handler's" sins. Could anyone actually go through college and law school, be a practicing attorney, have children and still be such a pollyanna?
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