Stephen King ,The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

I've been very surprised to see so many reviews that actually like this novel. I think it has to be one of his worst ones, maybe because to me it wasn't scary at all. One thing I will admit is you do feel sorry for Trish in the book. She is about the only character you can sympathize with, as her family is truly atrocious. I won't spoil the end but I was expecting something with a more supernatural angle which I think would have made sitting through the whole book more rewarding in the end.

Stephen King ,The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon - This, as far as I know, is only available on import in Borders. It was a healthy £16.99, about the average you'd pay for one of his hardbacks if you're a collector, and believe me, this is a collector's item. The paper work is ingenious, from the removable faces of the creepy shrouded things to the beautiful, moving shooting stars, this whole thing screams ingenuity.

As I said, being finnickety, the illustration could have been better in some places. It's not necessarily that it was so bad, more that it's not the kind of illustration you would expect for a Stephen King book. Story-wise, I haven't actually read the story because it is abridged in this pop-up version, and I have so many books on my reading pile that I haven't got round to reading the original story. As far as I know, it's about a girl who is obsessed with her favourite baseball player, Tom Gordon, stop me if I'm wrong (I know nothing about baseball and I'm not American), she gets lost in the woods and starts having what may or may not be crazy delusions.

To be fair, I did just buy this for collector reasons, but it is a work of art.