Advantages: Some good conversations and set pieces Disadvantages: Very slow pace, the plot feels disjointed
I have been reading quite a few John Grisham books lately, in an effort to more or less mop up the ones that I haven?t read. That?s certainly why I read The Summons, which was published in 2002 and is Grisham?s twelfth novel. One benefit of reading one off books by the same author back to back (at least for the purposes of reviews) is that it does allow you to directly compare quality. Unfortunately in this case it wasn?t such an advantage in my quest to enjoy the book that I?m reading, but I?ll get to all of that in good time.
The general plot of The Summons is very straightforward. The protagonist is Ray Atlee, a college law professor in his early forties. Ray?s father is a well known yet aging and very ill Judge who has managed to push his sons away from him through his harsh and unforgiving attitude to life, and his brother is ...
Advantages: Too many to list in this small space... Disadvantages: A little sluggish
The HTC Hero
I test and review a lot of mobile phones, but in a mobile phone market dominated by Apple, Blackberry, Samsung and Nokia, I can't help but have a soft spot for HTC; I think it is a British thing, a love for the underdog? But as much as I admire HTC, I can't help but worry that in trying to take on competitors like the iPhone their new HTC Hero is punching above its weight. So I turned it on to find out?
Appearance
When I was told that I was finally going to get my hands on HTC's latest handset, I thought I'd better do a bit of research? but when saw the publicity pictures I feared the worst? It looked a lot like its predecessor the T-Mobile G1, with that Jimmy Hill like chin. This was a bad start for me; I love the design of all of HTC's handsets, except one? the T-Mobile G1, so I wasn't expecting ...
Luc2oo9 27.08.2009 (11.09.2009)
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Advantages: Easy to read Disadvantages: Not up to usual standard
I avoided reading John Grisham's books like the plague as my daughter in law and my son kept insisting that I should read them. Knowing my son's taste in reading material from his late teens centred around gory, badly written war stories which seemed to involve a lot of blood and gore and visits to brothels I assumed that Grisham's books would be of the same ilk. I was very much mistaken.
I have now just finished reading my fourth Grisham novel, The Summons,
Had I read this first I don't think I would have bothered with the other three.
The story ,like the other novels I have read, features aspects of the American legal system and cleverly weaves a fairly intricate plot around them. However the plot failed to grip in quite the same way as those in the other books I had read with fewer twists and turns and an almost wholly ...
