{"id":362,"date":"2006-12-29T10:14:18","date_gmt":"2006-12-29T10:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/12\/29\/the-king-of-torts\/"},"modified":"2017-08-17T09:37:04","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T09:37:04","slug":"the-king-of-torts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/12\/29\/the-king-of-torts\/","title":{"rendered":"The King of Torts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image361\" alt=\"The King of Torts\" src=\"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/king_of_torts_sm.jpg\" class=\"alignright\"\/>I read <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"John Grisham\" title=\"John Grisham\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John%20Grisham\" rel=\"tag\">John Grisham<\/a>&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/King-Torts-John-Grisham\/dp\/0099416174\/\">The King of Torts<\/a>&#8221; a couple of weeks ago. It&#8217;s the first Grisham book that I&#8217;ve read for a while; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Partner-John-Grisham\/dp\/0099410311\/\">The Partner<\/a> being the last one.<br \/>\nWell, I really enjoyed it in an odd kind of way&#8230; the story just rolls along and seems to twist and turn, not plot twists, but more what the story is about. There are a number of places where I felt that the author has lost the plot and was breaking rules of coherent and acceptable writing practices; he seems to give you too much information up front. However, this seems not important to the actual story&#8230; which is ultimately a moral about greed.<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-images\/technorati_small.gif\" width=\"16\" height=\"15\" alt=\"Technorati\"\/><\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Books\" title=\"Books\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Books\" rel=\"tag\" >Books<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Reading\" title=\"Reading\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Reading\" rel=\"tag\" >Reading<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Greed\" title=\"Greed\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Greed\" rel=\"tag\" >Greed<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"John Grisham\" title=\"John Grisham\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/John%20Grisham\" rel=\"tag\" >John Grisham<\/a><br\/><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-images\/wiki_small.gif\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Wikipedia\"\/><\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"John Grisham\" title=\"John Grisham\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John%20Grisham\">John Grisham<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"The King of Torts\" title=\"The King of Torts\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The%20King%20of%20Torts\">The King of Torts<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"The Partner\" title=\"The Partner\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The%20Partner\">The Partner<\/a>\n<h3 class='related_post_title'>Related Posts:<\/h3><ul class='related_post'><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/11\/08\/dirty-harry-potter-harry-callahan-and-the-deathly-hallows\/\" title=\"Dirty Harry Potter \/ Harry Callahan and the Deathly Hallows.\">Dirty Harry Potter \/ Harry Callahan and the Deathly Hallows.<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/09\/14\/the-man-in-black-fled-across-the-desert-and-the-gunslinger-followed\/\" title=\"The man in black fled across the desert and the Gunslinger followed\">The man in black fled across the desert and the Gunslinger followed<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/02\/07\/his-dark-materials\/\" title=\"His Dark Materials\">His Dark Materials<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/11\/26\/gods-behaving-badly-tv\/\" title=\"Gods Behaving Badly&#8230; TV\">Gods Behaving Badly&#8230; TV<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/08\/03\/gods-behaving-badly-3\/\" title=\"Gods Behaving Badly\">Gods Behaving Badly<\/a><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read John Grisham&#8217;s &#8220;The King of Torts&#8221; a couple of weeks ago. It&#8217;s the first Grisham book that I&#8217;ve read for a while; The Partner being the last one. Well, I really enjoyed it in an odd kind of way&#8230; the story just rolls along and seems to twist and turn, not plot twists, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/12\/29\/the-king-of-torts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The King of Torts&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[14,8],"tags":[229,226],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-reading","tag-books","tag-reading"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pwn4r-5Q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6428,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}