2nd Quarter Outside Reading Book Review

Faithful By Stewart O'Nan and Stephen King. Stewart O'Nan, Stephen King, 2004. Genre: Diary.

What this book is about is two diehard Red Sox fans and their experiences with America's most beloved baseball team the Boston Red Sox. also about the historic 2004 season they played when the broke "the curse." most people know that "the curse" is when the Red Sox couldnt win the world series. this went on for 86 years. this curse started in 1918 when the Red Sox traded Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees (the red sox's biggest rival) just because of their greedy owner. in this book there are two man characters (Stewart O'Nan and Stephan Kinga) both of which are huge Red Sox fans. they go to all the Red Sox games and kept the faith even through all that has happend with the Red Sox comming so close to winning and then just not finishing it. but they believed that 2004 would finally be the year they would win it!

"Early in 2004, two writers and Red Sox fans, Stewart O'Nan and Stephan King, decided to chronicle the upcomming season, one of the most hotly anticipated in baseball history."

Faithful is written as a diary between the two writters and they include everything that is going on during the season. they include pre season coverage and games they went to (spring training) which includes them meeting the players and deciding to themselves which players are they best and who they should keep and not keep. this is not like many other stephan king books because he writes many horror books. but this is a lot like the movie fever pitch. which includes diehard red sox fans with season tickets who scout and go to all the games and who witnessed the amazing 2004 season.

"whats better tha the Sox winning? the Sox winning and the Yanks losing. last night the Mariners rocked Jon Liber. so we're two games up. and we cant forget the O's, just a half a game behind them." (104).

i liked this book alot. it recaped the 2004 season which i followed intensely and gave details about the season that i was not aware of. fopr example the stats at the back of the book were very interesting to see. also i liked this book because i am a big Red Sox fan and i hate the New York Yankees and this book extremly favored my opinion towards this. what i liked most about this book is how it was written and the detail. it was wrtten as i diary so you get feed back for each of the writters so you can see how they feel about it and the detail made it exciting and made you want to keep on reading it.