THE LADY AT THE DRIVE THRU liquor store handed me my beer, and a paperback book. She said "this is good". Apparently we had been talking about books. I took one look at it, noted that it was written by john grisham, threw it in the back seat, and ignored it for several weeks.
Then one day i got desperate for entertainment, so, as a last resort i dug out the paperback grisham book from beneath the back seat, wiped off the dust, and noticed the title "The Street Lawyer" What the hell, thought i, i got nothing better to do, nothing at all to do, so here goes...
page one motivated me to read page two, then page three, and the rest is history, as they say. since that fateful day at the liquor store i have become a thoroughly addicted reader of john grisham, having read about twelve or so of the forty or so he has written, looking forward to the other thirty like a crack addict waiting for the pipe to come back around.
I'm reading "A Time To Kill", and the first sentence in chapter fifteen has jake sitting in his office, drinking coffee. Grisham then spends a long paragraph talking about what is on jake's mind. Then, the next paragraph begins with the waitress/owner of the coffee shop walking up to jake, and asking him if he wants more coffee.
Evidenly, somewhere during tht long, introspective paragraph, the great john grisham forgot where jake was. he moved him instantaneously, like in a bad science fiction novel. i wonder whether later, recent editions of this book contain a correction. It would only take changing a single sentence, the first one of chapter fifteen, and grisham could do it in a flash. Surely he found out aut this funny situation, and laughed about it. I hope so.
we all make mistakes. Today's books all seem to contain a lot of typos too. Where have all the proof readers gone? Authors proofing own books as publishers cut costs, perchance?
I might file a lawsuit against john grisham for deliberate literary addiction, or something like that.
Malicious Addiction to Novels (M.A.N)
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