The Rainmaker

Looks like I'm gaining on this reading list after all. I haven't found much to do otherwise, so I bet I'll continue and at least get through a few more.

The Rainmaker is a wonderfully-told tale of a young law student, written in the first person and in present tense throughout. Quite an amazing feat, I might add. It's a 600-page paperback; I doubt I could write its equivalent.

This kid, Rudy Baylor, takes us through his last semester of law school, passing the bar, suing an insurance company and winning a $50,200,000 verdict for his client. At the end, he gets the girl he wanted and ends up killing her husband. Sound interesting? It's all there.

On to The God Delusion...

Hannibal Rising

An absolutely great story. I read 56 pages last Thursday, and the rest of the story straight through Saturday morning. It is a very good insight into Hannibal Lecter and how he comes to his decisions to kill. He is certifiably, however, screwed up in the head.

On to The Rainmaker...

The Chamber

The Chamber was pretty good, I must admit. It was a long story, but it has to be because of how it ends. The story is about the kid's drama and everyone surrounding him. Grisham can be a good plot-twister at times, but this one was simply straightforward, but not expectedly. It wasn't a page-burner, either. It took me two months to get through it because it didn't hold me like the rest.

2007 Summer Reading List

My Summer 2007 Reading List is complete. I am excitedly looking forward to summer since I'm taking the season off from school, and want to get some reading done. For three months, this is not entirely impossible to complete:

"The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins
"The Ancestor's Tale" by Richard Dawkins
At least one Ann Coulter book
One book written by a former president
A book shared with Beth (probably from the banned books list)
"Hannibal Rising" by Thomas Harris,
And all my unread Grisham Novels, including:

• The Chamber
• The Summons
• The Last Juror
• The Rainmaker
• The Pelican Brief
• The Innocent Man

If I don't get tied up in anything else, I may finish this list. It's not a dull one at all.