[Utah Girl]

I think what is so fascinating about books is how it really is to each their own. Many people have dissed John Grisham on this thread, he is one of my favorite authors, I just love how he can portray characters so effortlessly. His non-law books are classics (The Painted House and Skipping Christmas.) He just needs to plot better and really work on his endings.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

On a completely different note, I just read Robert Caro's third installment of his Johnson biography, Master of the Senate, and am now about 1/3 of the way through Caro's first biography - the Power Broker on Robert Moses. I also read the Adams biography by McCullogh. Although both authors are probably card carrying liberals, I think they have taken political biography to an entirely new level of literacy, insight and vividness and recommend all of the above mentioned books.

(I guess we're mostly talking fiction here, but I couldn't resist anyway)

[Oystir]

The Painted House was first published in serial form in his magazine "Oxford American - the Southern Magazine of Good Writing" which just relaunched after being idle for almost a year. Strongly recommend the magazine.