A Painted House - John Grisham

A Painted House - John Grisham: Just a Cotton Picken Year (1231 words)
by marandina - written on 15.08.05 (Very useful, 894 readings)
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Yes, I admit I used to love “The Waltons”. Yessiree…I’ve laughed and cried, smiled and sighed and the adventures of John Boy Walton and his extended family living in those beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. I did stop short of watching “Little House On The Prairie” mind…honest. I guess it’s that homely Mark Twain kind of feeling that may have drawn me to my first attempt at reading a John Grisham book recently. “A Painted House” is the story of a farming community in 1950s Arkansas. Apparently inspired by his own childhood, John Grisham recounts a tale of life on a cotton farm down in the deep South of the USA in 1952. Luke Chandler is the only child ...

3-2 and I scored a hat trick! (954 words)
by KingHerrod - written on 26.02.02 (Very useful, 354 readings)
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John Grisham. Do you know if anybody had asked me whether I liked John Grisham, in a professional sense, obviously, I do not know him in a personal sense, so it would have to be the professional sense, yes whether I liked John Grisham, I would have said no. But then I looked at my mountain of books and realised that I had read every one of his novels. Why? I asked myself and the reason is he is easy to read, the writing flows and you need to use very few brain cells to understand his books and enjoy them. Sometimes that is nice, after all reading is about enjoying, it is a form of entertainment as well as a form of intellectual vigour. Having said all that, ...

A Painted House - John Grisham: Cotton on to this (907 words)
by x_elff_x - written on 18.05.01 (Very useful, 708 readings)
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Can you keep a secret? You can? What if it wasn't just one secret but a whole series of them? And what if some of them were bigger than others? And what if you were only seven years old? Well, if you are sure, I'll let you in on a little one... this book is really, really good and it's all about secrets. One secret not enough for you, huh? Well I'll tell you another one of mine, but only if you keep it to yourself. There are few things more rewarding than sitting down to a book of which I fairly low expectations, only to be pleasantly surprised by the depth and breadth of enjoyment which it contains. I am much more familiar with the opposite ...