This was probably the best book that I have read by John Grisham. It was fast paced and light hearted but it was also just. Okay. It was an okay story that was at times funny and just right for Christmas time. Other than that I have to say - the movie, Christmas with the Kranks, is much better. This isn't because the movie is completely different from the book either, in fact the movie actually stays so true to the source material that I recognized certain quotes. Does the movie rearrange, add, and delete certain parts? Of course it does. But mostly what the movie does better is make the characters in the book likeable. Because in the book Luther is not likeable at all and many of the side characters I didn't care about. Maybe it didn't help that I was imagining the actors in the movie while reading and finding the book characters lacking compared to Dan Akroyd and Tim Allen... But I doubt it. So suffice it to say, even though I liked this book much more than any of this author's books - me and John Grisham are still not friends.