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The Appeal
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Manufacturer: Delta
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780385342926
ISBN: 0385342926
Label: Delta
Manufacturer: Delta
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 496
Publication Date: 2008-11-18
Publisher: Delta
Release Date: 2008-11-18
Studio: Delta
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In a crowded courtroom in Mississippi, a jury returns a shocking verdict against a chemical company accused of dumping toxic waste into a small town’s water supply, causing the worst “cancer cluster” in history. The company appeals to the Mississippi Supreme Court, whose nine justices will one day either approve the verdict or reverse it.
Who are the nine? How will they vote? Can one be replaced before the case is ultimately decided?
The chemical company is owned by a Wall Street predator named Carl Trudeau, and Mr. Trudeau is convinced the Court is not friendly enough. With judicial elections looming, he decides to try to purchase himself a seat on the Court. The cost is a few million dollars, a drop in the bucket for a billionaire like Mr. Trudeau. Through an intricate web of conspiracy and deceit, his political operatives recruit a young, unsuspecting candidate. They finance him, manipulate him, market him, and mold him into a potential Supreme Court justice. Their Supreme Court justice.
The Appeal is a powerful, timely, and shocking story of political and legal intrigue, a story that will leave listeners unable to think about our electoral process or judicial system in quite the same way ever again.
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Summary: Appeal this book
Comment: I've read and own every book John has written, so I waited anxiously for his latest effort. It was a good read, that's typical, but I felt there were to many loose ends and unanswered questions that you're left with in the end. After he goes through all the trouble to get you familiar with all the characters I think it's only natural to wonder what happens to atleast some of them. I am not an author and couldn't in my wildest dreams do any better don't get me wrong.
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Summary: Enjoyable, but not sure about the ending....
Comment: I don't want to give anything away, but this novel follows many of Grisham's previous books....A great story, starts off well and then just ends....At first I hated the ending, but after a few days, realized maybe it just makes sense......
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Summary: the appeal
Comment: John Grisham writes stories that are a great read and then he will write one that is so ho-hum I wonder if he really wrote it or not . The Appeal is such a book. The plot holds no suspense, and the characters no character. I found that I didn't care what happened in the story or not. I flipped to the last 12 pages or so and finished the book. If you must read Grisham then do so but just don't look for that great read.
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Summary: cliches and cartoons
Comment: Grisham has managed an overt attempt at promoting a political agenda that is laden with cliches and cartoonish characters. In fact, the entire plot and outcome is implausible. Don't get me wrong; I do believe that politcal seats can be purchased (was that a spoiler?), but not in the manner that Grisham sets forth. The metanarrative is laden with yet another attempt at big-business-is-always-evil, and in doing so way too many desciptions are burdened with hyperbole and cliche. For example, Grisham would have us believe that conservative, Southern Christians are blind sheep who only vote according to cultural programming. The whole plot is in fact shackled with implausible occurances, some blatant, other not so. Those who oppose homosexuality are shown to be narrow minded Bible thumpers. Why was there never been a mass exodus of people leaving the county? Instead, they just seem to accept their cancerous fates. What happened when the hospital realized that Josh's scan results were mixed up (this would have happened relatively soon because one patient would have been misdiagnosed with a hemotoma, and this misdiagnosis would have soon been detected)? The aluminum bat that was featured could not have a deflective property which pushed the ball away with more energy than it hit with (Newtoniannly impossible). On and on.... At the end of the day, we are made to think about Tort reform and elected judicial offices, but we are also keenly aware of where Grisham stands, for this was the whole intent of his book as he readily admits in the Afterword. Alas.
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Summary: I want my money back, plus damages.
Comment: I cannot believe I wasted time reading this book. I didn't bother reading the reviews, its John Grisham so it has to be good! No, it turns out, it doesn't have to be good. One of the worst (and supid) endings ever. It was like he just got bored and didn't feel like writing a creative ending.
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