Gardy was essentially convicted the day he was arrested, and his trial is only a formality. The dumb and desperate cops trumped up the charges and fabricated the evidence. The prosecutor knows this but has no spine and is up for reelection next year. The judge is asleep. The jurors are basically nice, simple people, wide-eyed at the process and ever so anxious to believe the lies their proud authorities are producing on the witness stand.
-from Rogue Lawyer, 2016, by a very lazy version of John Grisham
I’m thinking of having a little contest. Who can find a paragraph crammed with the greatest number of offensive, lazy cliches? This is my submission. This is only the second half of the paragraph, but even if I had included the first two sentences, I still think you’d be hard-pressed to find another piece of writing where not a single word is wasted on any original thought.
Out of Babel Books 
Sounds like Gardy’s in trouble. : -)
Grisham very quickly moved into the-plot-doesn’t-interest-me territory. But I do like The Firm. Have you, by chance, read the sequel? Is it any good?
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So, I used to really enjoy Grisham’s older books. Probably a combination of he was less preachy back in the day and I was less sensitive to class-war plots. He also has a series for kids. I’ve read a few of those and liked them. He’s at his best when he focuses on tiny, small-town law firms and Southern culture. Both of which are completely foreign to me.
I had to look up the sequel to The Firm. It doesn’t look like I’ve read it. The top Amazon reviews are certainly not impressed with it.
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I don’t think this is a contest I want to even enter 😀
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Ha, really? I figured I could count on your for some good ones.
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It takes too much effort 🙂
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That’s fair. I probably would not have gone out of my way to look up this stinker.
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