Gray Mountain

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John Grisham has a new hero and she s full of surprises The year is 2008 and Samantha Kofer s career at a huge Wall Street law firm is on the fast track until the recession hits and she gets downsized, furloughed, escorted out of the building Samantha, though, is one of the lucky associates She s offered an opportunity to work at a legal aid clinic for one year without pay, after which there would be a slim chance that she d get her old job back.In a matter of days Samantha moves from Manhattan to Brady, Virginia, population 2,200, in the heart of Appalachia, a part of the world she has only read about Mattie Wyatt, lifelong Brady resident and head of the town s legal aid clinic, is there to teach her how to help real people with real problems For the first time in her career, Samantha prepares a lawsuit, sees the inside of an actual courtroom, gets scolded by a judge, and receives threats from locals who aren t so thrilled to have a big city lawyer in town And she learns that Brady, like most small towns, harbors some big secrets.Her new job takes Samantha into the murky and dangerous world of coal mining, where laws are often broken, rules are ignored, regulations are flouted, communities are divided, and the land itself is under attack from Big Coal Violence is always just around the corner, and within weeks Samantha finds herself engulfed in litigation that turns deadly. Read Gray Mountain – kino-fada.fr I enjoyed writing this book very much in spite of knowing how it would end.Samantha Grisham s new heroine was a complete bore She was a fence sitter in every aspect of her personal life friendships, career, love and family Even if she were a young impetuous lawyer who grew and matured during the book, ...I think John Grisham forgot to write a story The entire book was simply a way to preach about the injustice of strip mining and poor old down home mountainfolk in Appalachia Interesting stuff Worthy of investigation Boring presentation The whole book felt sketchy nothing had a...This is by far the least enjoyable John Grisham book I ve read The book starts fine with heroine Samantha Kofer being furloughed in New York but when she relocates to Virginia to work for a legal aid clinic the story is at turns silly, boring and contrived, but definitely not exciting Samantha is a real lawyer for the first time and the problems she solves for her clients are certainly emotional, but the first half of the book f...This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers To view it, click here I started out with the Audible version of this book but the narrator was so awful that I had to stop Being a longtime Grisham fan, I was not ready to give up and blamed my dislike of the book solely on the horrible choice of the narrator I purchased the print version and I am sad to say that even though the narration was easily one of the top five worst I have ever encountered, the book was a total disappointment I kept hoping for improvement as the story progressed, but sadly it was not ther I started out with the Audible version of this book but the narrator was so awful that I had to stop Being a longtime Grisham fan, I was not ready to give up and blamed my dislike of the book solely on the horrible choice of the narrator I purchased the print version and I am sad to say that even though the narration was easily one of the top five worst I have ever encountered, the book was a total disappointment I kept hoping for improvement...Disappointingdidn t read like Grisham Characters, dialogue, plot, all were not up to even the worst Grisham novel Seemed like someone else wrote this, or he just phoned it in Hope the next one gets him back on track.I have to write a review of Gray Mountain to balance the ones on GoodReads which persuaded me to spend money on this book It s terrible In fact, I managed about a quarter of it and had to stop It s a long time since I ve given up on a book like that but The prose is amateurish, the characters barely make it to wooden the dialogue is embarrassing consistently implausible, with non sequiturs everywhere there are interminable passages of exposition w...This is one of Gresham s best I grew up in the area this book is about and saw what he is talking about first hand It is very accurate and though he does talk about some of the stereotypes of uneducated people in the area, he does not belabor the issue and he does show there are also educated people and that the general personality of the area is one of love and caring about each other He also shows how absentee owners are raping the land to get and sell coal for the biggest profits for them This is one of Gresham s best I grew up in the area this book is about and saw what he is talking about first hand It is very accurate and though he does talk about some of the stereotypes of uneducated people in the area, he does not belabor the issue and he does show there are also educated people and that the general personality of the area is one of love and ca...I am unable to finish this book I guess Grisham has decided to follow the lead of most best selling authors today and write a book that will ensure him high praise from the wacko left wing media He certainly didn t write the book to tell a good story that would pull in his readers and keep them hooked for 400 pages If you want to read boring page after boring page about the coal industry then this is the book for you I read because to enjoy a good story and escape for a little while There i I am unable to finish this book I guess Grisham has decided to follow the lead of most best sell...I don t know if I can come up with the words to describe how much I disliked this book While described by other characters as a brilliant lawyer, the lead character Samantha was a cowardly idiot Or at least all the dialog attributed to her made her seem like she should never have graduated from high school I think the premise of the story gave us the idea this would be similar to The Pelican Brief, but in reality it was just a jumble of unrealistic characters and evil employees of large c I don t know if I can come up with the words to describe how much I disliked this boo...

Gray Mountain
  • English
  • 05 May 2018
  • Hardcover
  • 368 pages
  • 038553714X
  • John Grisham
  • Gray Mountain