Word: grisham
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...praying that Hopkins sees the light soon. I read the book this summer and giggled the whole way through. It's all one big bomb of a joke. See, Thomas Harris is a clever guy. He has no designs on being a literary superstar--a John Grisham, a Jackie Collins, a Stephen King--who churns out crap every year to please his publishers and loyal audience. Harris, for all we know, is sick to death of these characters that have pigeon-holed...
That's the narrative setup for Assassins, the sixth and latest installment in the startlingly popular Left Behind series by co-authors Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, two men who are doing for Christian fiction what John Grisham did for courtroom thrillers. Within three weeks of its publication, the apocalyptic action thriller was No. 2 on the New York Times best-seller list--a list that generally doesn't even count sales by the nation's Christian bookstores. So wildly anticipated was Assassins among LaHaye and Jenkins' faithful fans that at midnight on the morning of its release...
Back in the day, I used to be quite the reader. It was a never-ending cycle of John Grisham novels and baseball books in high school. And I was enjoying the canon from my English class. Before that, in elementary school, I was the proud holder of a bajillion reading awards...
...looking for things that are a little more quirky," she says. "There aren't necessarily 1,000 copies of the new John Grisham book in the store, but there are hundreds of books you can't find anywhere else...
...looking for things that are a little more quirky," she says. "There aren't necessarily 1,000 copies of the new John Grisham book in the store, but there are hundreds of books you can't find anywhere else...