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1. Raja Sekhara Rao Maddipatla said on Sunday March 09, 2008 02:59 PM:

   Please visit my blog
   ‘http://solovoice.blogspot.com’
   to read my views on the Appeal.

2. Rajiv said on Thursday June 26, 2008 09:45 AM:

   Read another good review of The Appeal at blogs.ilovekolkata.in. Find the article at: http://www.ilovekolkata.in/component/option,com_mojo/Itemid,715/p,112/

3. ravinarayanan said on Friday April 03, 2009 05:53 AM:

   Associate is relly a good book..
   even though it is on the same lines as the firm, one of his earlier works, it is equally enjoyable…

4. m cooke said on Monday August 17, 2009 01:30 PM:

   The Appeal by J Grisham.
   Entertaining read which keeps you hooked right to the end. So disappointing to read the outcome. Weak with no substance or imagination.

5. Doug Martin said on Tuesday November 30, 2010 10:50 PM:

   I have read Grisham a number of times and certainly his “The Innocent Man” ranks high on my list. But “The Appeal” left me cold on all levels… except for as a cook-book to buy an election.

   To start, Mr. Grisham seriously confuses what it means to be a “conservative” and a “liberal” in this book (conservatives grant authority to government conservatively… liberals – liberally). Conservative judges respect and follow the law as made by the legislature; liberal judges (and Washington State has far too many of them)… follow their feelings and abandon the law rendering policy from the bench. You can identify their “decisions” as they frequently start with “I feel…”. Conservative judges tend to start their decisions with “I find…”. I have seen both.

6. Doug Martin said on Tuesday November 30, 2010 10:53 PM:

   decisions with “I find…”. I have seen both.
   To me, this book was propaganda for eliminating judicial elections and leaving the selection to some august body (with their own supposedly pure agenda). Presumably this would be relegated to attorneys making the law the most elite vocation in the nation… a certain recipe for complete corruption if ever there was one.
   Consider this one data point. In Thurston County Washington, we elect judges every four years. In the last twenty years, we have had, on average, 6 superior court judges. This amounts to (20/4) * 6 = 30 possible challenges to incumbent judges. There have been two (2)! Only two attorneys have challenged an incumbent judge in the last 20 years. In the first one, 4 of the 5 remaining judges banded together to write a “letter of support and endorsement” for the challenged incumbent to the local newspaper. It took eight years for another challenger to surface! In contrast, every vacant position has had at least three and as many as five challengers.
   Consider this as well. I campaigned heavily against a court commissioner that was vying for a vacant seat. I hope my letters and challenges had something to do with his losing that election. Years later he ran successfully for another vacant position and I wound up in front if him on a civil matter through some rather unusual and interesting “events.” I asked him to recuse based on “the appearance of fairness.” He declined and I brought civil suit in US District Court to have him removed. That suit was thrown out… essentially without explanation (“Failure to state a case upon which relief can be granted.”)

7. shakerohio said on Tuesday January 18, 2011 07:49 PM:

   My comments are regarding Grisham’s latest book “The Confession”.
   This book disturbed me to no end. I could not finish it when I realized Donte was going to be executed. African Americans have been losing their men and boys unjustly for hundreds of years. For Grisham to rub their noses in this reality in the name of fiction is insensitive. The idea that he was trying to make a point about the unjust system was lost in my pain. I have read every book he’s written, but I’m afraid this is the last. I certainly hope so good comes from this. My consolation came after I turned off my audio book deciding not to finish the book, and my 26 year old son in Atlanta called me from the bursar’s office regarding is balance at grad school.

8. Anthony Baldwin said on Tuesday April 12, 2011 11:07 PM:

   The other day I came across Grisham’s delightful “Playing for Pizza” (2007), a quirky and nicely researched departure into the world of American football as played in Italy. Despite a certain amount of reductionist tourist cliché about pasta, baroque palaces and Fiat Puntos, disbelief is convincingly suspended and we finish the book rooting loudly for its quarterback protagonist, Rick Dockery. European readers might have a hard time decrypting gridiron tactics and terminology, but a good pace is maintained throughout. My only negative observation is about Grisham’s rather bizarre comment (p.233) that “Italy is a country where laws are flaunted and those who flaunt them are often glamorized.” Is this heavy irony, or does he mean “flouted” ? — Anthony Baldwin