The John Grisham novel, Playing for Pizza, is a great book for sports fans who like a little comedy. The book is the only book that I’ve ever wanted to sit down and keep reading. I’m not a book worm myself, but I wish Grisham made a sequel to this book. Playing for Pizza is a book that is very realistic and certain events have probably happened in reality. Rick Dockery, the main character, shows his arrogance in the first of the book. Beware: don’t put the book down after reading the first couple of chapters in gets better. I wanted to stop reading the book because Rick was so selfish and cocky through the beginning that is completely turned me off. But as time went he started to mature and his attitude changed tremendously. 

          This book is defiantly recommended to anybody who loves the game of football. John Grishman did an excellent job on creating a plot that showed the maturing and changing of Rick Dockery. If you can stand a slang term occasionally, it’s a wonderful and entertaining story to read.

           If I had the option of changing any element of the book, I wouldn’t change anything. Although I wanted to figuratively punch Rick Dockery at some moments , I wouldn’t change him because it wouldn’t be so enjoyable to read about him changing from a pompous quarterback to a humble guy in Italy who just happens to play football. John Grisham defiantly knew what he was doing when he wrote this book.