Grisham

What a paradox that one of our currently most financially successful authors is not a good writer! He has achieved our readership because he is a great storyteller. (There is a difference.) His books are made into movies and he has become rich. As is generally the case with me, the book of his that I like best is one that received little attention and no one seems to talk about. I did meet one advanced student from Boise State University whose favorite book by this author was the same as mine. I’m talking about the author John Grisham.

Apparently Grisham’s research of espionage wasn’t total, for at the end of The Broker, he admits he knows nothing about spying and asks readers not to write to tell him so. If he had not made that disclaimer, critics might have been kinder. But I have read much nonfiction and numerous novels involving spying as well as all of Grisham’s books, and my favorite of his published work is The Broker. I even have it on a CD (five of them, in fact) in the captivating voice of Dennis Boutsikaris, award-winning actor. I’d like to read that book again, but I gave it away. I suppose I’ll listen to the CDs again soon. It would be lovely if I could hear those five disks while I sleep, but I doubt I sleep that long any night. But The Broker is interesting enough to lose sleep over.

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