Only read the first short story, having been familiar with the other two books for a while. It was nice and melancholic, very well written.
I'll admit it. As much as I'm a huge fan of Stephen King AND the game baseball, I have never read his first collaboration with Stewart O'Nan, Faithful . . . and likely never will. It looks like an interesting read, but the Blue Jays fan inside me just will not allow me to indulge nearly 500 pages of...
BAAAAASSSSEEEEBBBAAAALLLLLL!!!! *shakes fist* I like baseball. Well, I like watching it. Not really reading about it, so the fact that King loves writing about it is... Well, I forgive him. He's King. But thankfully, this story was less about the baseball than it was about the guy watching baseball....
I really enjoy the way King writes. I could read about gardening if he wrote it. And enjoy it. I also love baseball, so I was predisposed to like this book much more than I did.This story had an interesting idea that just didn't deliver for me. Sort of like when the rain hits in the 5th inning and ...