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Playing for Pizza | 
 enlarge | Author: John Grisham
Creator: Christopher Evan Welch
Publisher: Random House Audiobooks
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Dimensions (in): 5.7 x 4.9 x 0.9
ISBN: 1846571413
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Publication Date: September 25, 2007
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 Don't Waste Your Money November 20, 2008
This is a very poor book and a big disappointment for any Grisham fan. It smacks of Grisham having to churn out something to meet a contract rather than the normal standard of his work. Try buying "The Innocent Man" by this author instead.
Playing for Pizza October 23, 2008
Very very disappointing. Not Grisham at all, has he died and his dog wrote this one?? Would have dumped it but it was all I had to read on a long journey so read to the fizzled-out end. I usually pass on paperbacks but binned this one to avoid boring anyone else.
Pity zero stars is not an option
Very disappointing September 22, 2008
Picked this up in the airport thinking it would be standard Grisham fare and perfect as a holiday read - nothing too intellectual but a well-strcutured story with a few plot twists and turns to keep you entertained till the end. It disappointed on every front, and I started to wonder what the point of it all was.
It wasn't a thriller in the usual Grisham style - the plot was predictable from the start and sort of petered out towards the end. It wasn't a sports book - the sporting scenes were pretty diffident and I never felt engaged in the sporting success of either the team or the main character (and I'm normally a sucker for cheesy sports books). It wasn't even well-researched - there were a number of factual inaccuracies about Italy and the sport that even a layman like me picked up. Grisham even admits in his author's notes to making some of the detail up.
The only thing I can think of is that the book was inspired by a trip to Italy annd was intended as some kind of homage or guide to the country and it's culture. If so, it failed miserably. Grisham portrays a 2-dimensional stereotype of Italy where all the locals are very passionate and emotional and love their food and drive around in small cars, and where the country is full of old churches, museums and galleries. Very insightful!
If you love American football and know absolutely nothing about Italy then you might get something out of this. If you are in any way expecting to be inspired, informed or gripped, then don't bother.
 Playing for Pizza September 22, 2008
I thought it was a lovely read and struggled to put it down. Grisham took the reader around Parma with the usual skill of any good American writer, evoking the tastes and spirit of Italy.
At times knowing all the plays in American Football was hard to follow but there would be nothing wrong in researching this for ourselves. Its called educating oneself.
Avoided over-sentimentality and another vear away from his usual legal thriller.
Disappointing September 15, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Grisham normally has the ability to make me wonder what will happen next. Unfortunately with this book I reached the last chapter not really caring. I don't know much about American Football so a lot of it was "rhubarb-rhubarb" to me - still he kept me holding on to see where it was all going. I think I started losing interest when he ditched the interesting Italian woman for the obvious American college student.
So what happened at the end? I really can't be bothered reading the last chapter...
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