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Your choices range from self-help books to celebrity biographies, from John Grisham thrillers to the works of Dickens and Shakespeare, most narrated by well-known actors (Sam Waterston, Whoopi Goldberg, Glenda Jackson, Michael York) and compressed into easy-listening chunks of three or four hours -- "because," as one audio publisher's blurb puts it, "books are long and life is short...
...million. Though sales of a typical book on tape still represent only a fraction of the hardcover sales (usually 10% or less), the numbers are climbing. The Bridges of Madison County, read by author Robert James Waller, sold 163,000 audio copies. Some 250,000 tapes of John Grisham's latest novel, The Chamber, have been shipped to bookstores thus far. And Rush Limbaugh has sold 300,000 tapes of The Way Things Ought to Be -- not bad for a $17 version of his daily radio show...
...Client," also set in the South, just didn't take the movie-going audience by storm like its predecessor "The Firm." We'll have to see if Grisham's next film, "The Chamber" proves to be any better...
Director Joel Schumacher has made the most successful movie yet of a John Grisham novel. Its acting is the best, its paranoia and its plotting are fairly plausible and, despite its obligations to thriller conventions, it says something pretty truthful about what it's like to be young and neglected these days. Finally, in Brad Renfro the filmmakers have a real find -- a tough, appealing kid whose instinct is not to beg for sympathy but to let it accrue to him naturally...
...Grisham's attempt to distance his novel from The Firm's slick legal plot actually compromises the novel's success, Schumacher's pious adherence to the dramatic material of the novel--the Sway melodrama--significantly reduces "The Client"'s suspense potential. By the time Jones first appears (almost 15 minutes into the film as U.S. District Attorney Roy Foltrigg), we are beginning to wonder whether the "explosive secret" that Mark has learned is really important or whether the local authorities simply find the kid a good person to harass. With Jones on the screen as the ambitious and disgustingly smooth...