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Summary: The biggest waste of time and money
Review: This was by far the WORST MOST BORING book Grisham has ever done. Don't waste your time or money.
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Summary: Don't waste your money
Review: I was very disappointed in this book. This should have been a story in a magazine. Not even remotely interesting. Grisham needs to stick to lawyer stories.
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Summary: Pleasant, light read
Review: Definately worth your time if not your money. Grisham tells a story that even a young female with little interest in football could enjoy. The regrets, feelings of failure and a desire to be better that run through the book are things most people can relate to; we all want to please and be liked and be remembered. Bleachers is a pleasant trip into a former football hero's world and mind. You probably won't want it for your bookshelf but if you have an hour or two, pick it up from the library or used bookstore and give it a chance.
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Summary: djlamb
Review: I have read every Grisham novel and this is my new favorite. This book is for anyone who has ever scored a touchdown, hit a basket, or scored a goal in high school and then moved away. I relate with this book and it brought back so many memories that I found myself on those bleachers with Neely. I could feel Coach Rake yelling at me to try harder and to never give up. Books never make me cry but this one did. Strongly recommend for all those who look back on their high school years as "Glory days." It will make you rethink those days and be thankful for where you are in your life at this time.
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Summary: OK
Review: BLEACHERS By John Grisham was not very good. So short. It talks about 4 days of a man's life. I could write a book just like it. All I would have to do is go to a football game and write down every play. People just go to a book store and read it there it will take 45 min. AIN'T WORTH NO MONEY. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND FINAL VERDICT BY SHELDON SIEGEL!!!
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Summary: Boring, boring, boring--
Review: This book would never have been published without John Grisham's name on it. It is just not a novel. It is a conversation between a bunch of former high school football players who have come home waiting for their coach to die from cancer. They relive their high school football days and talk about what their lives have become and could have been. There is a scandal over why the coach had been fired some years earlier but he is still a town hero when he dies. It is basically a boring book and not worth the money. If you like to read play by play acccounts of football games you might find it mildly interesting but check it out of the library. Don't spend your money on it. Either John Grisham is losing his touch or he is just knocking out some useless junk to generate some income until he gets over his dry spell. Anymore books like this one and he will be losing his fans. After being skunked with Skipping Christmas and now Bleachers, I don't think we are going to fall for this a third time.
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Summary: Glory days?
Review: After some bad impressions of John Grisham's earlier "non-legal" books, I was going to pass on Bleachers. My wife read it, and gave it a middling good review, so I decided to read it, as well. Its short length helped -- after all, you can put up with anything for just a little while...As Neely showed up for the Coach's funeral watch, I was caught up in his bitterness, always just a little below the surface. I was carried along in the memories he tried to run from -- the glory days, the days of being a young hero in a town that worshipped their High School football team, the days of invincibility and local fame. Even those of us who weren't athletes often look back on the "golden days" with nostalgia and, like Neely, some twinges of regret for things that still may be unresolved, and in their lack of resolution, affect the tenor of our lives. Those twinges, and what we do with them, is part of what defines the person we are now. Those twinges, and the way their resolution or lack of resolution flows through Bleachers, is why you should read the book.
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Summary: Bleachers
Review: I have always been a fan of John Grisham, and have enjoyed many of his works. I bought Bleachers on audio because I thought I would enjoy hearing the author read his own work. I was very disappointed...I found his voice to be hum drum and rather boring. I found the book to be lacking in plot and not at all exciting as I had expected. This is definitely not one of his best works....I would not recommend it.
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Summary: Not one of his best
Review: I believe Grisham should stick to his lawyer stories- I always enjoy those, and feel I have learned something.
This book was almost painful to read- I kept waiting for something to happen, and it never did.
No one grew- no one learned, and it was over- before it even started.
If you MUST read it, wait for the paperback.
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Summary: feels like "A Championship Season" to read
Review: Interesting character, those small town Rake Stadium bleachers! And what a drawing card they are for the Friday night heros of yesteryear in this little town that loved Eddie Rake and the glory years he and the town boys gave. No doubt about it, John Grisham knows his small town football and its frenzied nature. And he has the old broadcast suspense down to a fine art. But the whole book smacks of the play and movie done before "Bleachers" and the individual tragedies of the former players play out here around the arrival of the latest returning hero, Neely Crenshaw. There is a poignancy in the meeting of long past friends and the reliving of horrors and joys centering around the shrine of a dying Eddie Rake. There is also the inevitable downfall and set of clay feet, of not just Rake, but Crenshaw, Sol, Jesse. The wake and the funeral are touching, but Neely's self-revelation as he delivers the third part of ex-players' eulogies of Rake is a bit trumped up and anticlimactic. Even his meeting with his "true love" and ex-girlfriend, the one he threw aside for ... Screamer, is a bit disconcerting. But I do find it all quite believable, ... Grisham does capture the truths of obsession over one main sport, an obsession that goes back in time to other sports, other heroes, other times and places. Well-written over all, just not my favorite cup of tea!
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