Something else I thought about on this morning's walk...

I forgot to mention that I read a new book in the last 48 hours.  A John Grisham novel, and I'm a fan of his works.  But this one disappointed me.  "The Litigators" is about a lawyer in a big firm in Chicago who cracks up and leaves his firm to work with two "ham and eggers" at a firm called Finley and Figg.

I don't mind similar themes in novels by the same author, but this goes a bit too far in my estimation.  There are elements of a number of Grisham's prior novels in this book.  "The Street Lawyer" also had an Ivy League educated lawyer having a "crack-up" and taking on a new life that involves providing legal service to the downtrodden.  "The King of Torts" was about a lawyer who pretty much ruined himself chasing mass tort legislation, where there are literally billions to be made, and one of the two ham and eggers in this book nearly ruins himself doing the same.  There's a big, successful mass tort attorney in this, just like the one in "King" that also flies around in a private jet, and wouldn't set foot in a courtroom to try a case to save his life.  Just way too similar.

Big business is the villain, and serves up their competitors to lawyers in secret in several of these books.  Another common theme.

As I thought and thought, I realized that almost all of his books are more or less the same story, except "The Firm", "A Time to Kill", "The Client" and "The Chamber".  After that, it became all just more of what came before.

I want my money back.  I won't get it, but I want it.