Title: Worst of the genre
Product review: Successful fiction depends on a modicum of suspension of disbelief. Nothing in Runaway Jury rings true--it could never happen folks, even with a judge as bad as the presiding judge in Grisham's trial. Worse than that, the book has _no_ plot to speak of, and no likable characters--they are all crooks. Grisham's premise appears to be that two wrongs (greed and dishonesty on both sides) make a right--perhaps, sometimes. But, certainly, three wrongs (a badly written book)implodes in an incredible waste of time. I kept reading, hoping that something would happen. Nothing did, other than the cute and sticky moral at the end. Ugh----Interested in good books of this genre, try Turow, Barbara Parker, Robert Daley, Robert Tannenbaum, etc. Grisham comes up with snake-eyes too often for me (The Chamber was another bad polemic).
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