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Don’t need to be a Stephen king fan to enjoy this short story. Just a baseball fan, the included second short story isn’t very compelling though anyways I enjoyed this book an would recommend it to baseball fans
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I was really excited when I saw a baseball book by Stephen King. I was really let down when I realized how much foul language was in this short book. The story was good, but the cursing was just too much of a distraction for me.
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Blockade Billy and Morality were released in 2010 as sort of a Novella / Short Story hardback book set. Both stories are classic Stephen King and tell two different tales. Blockade Billy tells the story of a rookie baseball catcher for the New Jersey Titans in the heyday of baseball. He comes out of nowhere and is virtually unstoppable but his team soon discovers he brought with him a dark past and terrible secret. Morality tells the story of an aging minister who makes a proposition to his caretaker to solve her money problems, if she will perform a dark errand for him. These stories are classic King because like most of his short stories, these lack the character and story development we've come to expect from his full length novels. Blockade Billy isn't a bad story even though it was reportedly written in fifteen minutes. The setup is pretty good but the ending is abrubt. Like most of the Master's short stories, I wanted to read more. Morality, on the other hand, I did not care for. It's hard to like a story when you can't identify with the characters and in this case are actually annoyed by them. The Blockade Billy set is best suited for hardcore fans of Stephen King, like myself, who have read everything he has written and basically collect the books. This set only numbers a little over one hundred pages and really isn't meant for the casual King reader. However, for three to four dollars for the basic book it's a decent deal. This certainly isn't King's best work but it's a quick read and worth the money.Read full review
Best book I ever read about baseball and the players! And I Don't like sports! Great twist at the end!
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Beautiful little hard covered book. This ones a keeper! Very clean and in excellent condition. Very Happy with this one!
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