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Title: Predictable Holiday/Hollywood Drivel
Review: If you're looking for a predictable schmaltzy holiday tale with a "It's a Wonderful Life" ending -- then this is for you. However if you want more from a book than a movie-of-the-week story that telegraphs the ending from about p. 10, then I'd suggest skipping "Skipping Christmas". After "A Painted House" I had high hopes for Grisham's new direction in his fiction. This, however, is a sad back-slide -- one wonders if it even would have been published if it didn't have such a "bankable" name on the cover. This read more like a movie script than a novel -- and unfortunately, I can see Hollywood probably casting it already.
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