John Grisham I am Disappoint
Okay, so I’ve been reading (quote, reading) John Grisham’s A Time to Kill. I started last August, I think, and now I’m currently on page 397. The book has 515 pages all in all. So, yeah, I’ve conquered almost the entire book, only a thin bundle of pages is unread, and still the oh-so-anticipated case of Carl Lee - the somewhat minor protagonist, but I’m really not sure anymore - has yet to begun. And I really don’t know why. They’re still picking the freaking jury! What the hell? Why does John Grisham have to dilly dally so much? It’s like he wrote everything - including the really annoying unimportant crap that I forget a few chapters later - just to make the book thick and intimidating. And, as I said a few entries back, I have yet to read anything slightly exciting - like what the back cover suggested - or interesting. Man, if not for the whole rape and racism thing, I would’ve drop the book like it had the plague and move on to a better book. The racism is leaving a really bitter taste in my mouth and the sexism is pissing me off. Damn you, Jake and the rest of Ford County.
I should also mention that Jake Brigance and Carl Lee Hailey are both douche bags. Srsly. I hate them both, which is saying something since rarely do I ever hate fictional characters - in books anyway - with a passion this strong. Rather than feeling sympathetic to Carl Lee, I want him dead. I srsly want him to get the death penalty. And I want Jake and his prissy little lawyer’s arse to be gassed too.
I guess my friend was right, you should read A Time to Kill when you have A Time to Kill. xDD See what I did there? Haha, I hate it. But I hate it even more to not finish a book. Especially a book that’s practically pushing you away, almost snobbing you with its arrogance. No, I will not back down to this challenge. I vowed to finish the book and finish it I shall. Though, nowadays, I really don’t have A Time to Kill (xDDDD) and my schedule is pretty tight. And by that, I mean I have other books to read that I actually want to read. Hunger Games, for one. Suzanne Collins, you are the awesomeness. So… I’ll just take a little break from the book that shall not be named for a while. It can wait. The trial is probably lasts for two or three by the way things are playing now. Geez, how long could do Jake’s team have to bitch about having a horrible draw and stuff like that anyway? It gets annoying after a few hundred pages.
John Grisham fans, I’m sorry if I offended you with this post. I don’t mean that John Grisham is a horrible writer, it’s just that he’s written better works than this disaster. Hell, A Time To Kill is probably an epic fail because it’s his first novel. It does take a person a few tries to actually get something right, eh?