FAITHFUL

Fourth Quarter Outside Reading Book Review

Faithful, by Stephen King and Stewart O’ Nan. Scribner publishing. 2004. Genre nonfiction.

Faithful,was written by two Red Sox fans (King and O’ Nan) after the team had their first World Series victory in eighty six years. The book starts off with the Red Sox in spring training acquiring new players which King and O’ Nan, who went to watch the spring training critiqued. As the book goes on they tell about almost all of the games the Red Sox are in and there is dialogue of King and O’ Nan talking to each other.Also it tells what the two authors did that day that included the Sox.

“Two Red Sox addicts - notable authors Stephen King & Stewart O'Nan - cover the thrills of being Red Sox fans in this memorable season. With Boston's boys of summer entering the season under still new ownership, a fresh wunderkind General Manger, a new field manager, the additions of Curt Schilling & Keith Foulke, the memory of the heartbreaking '03 finish, and their ongoing and epic rivalry with the New York Yankees....Faithful had a lot of ground to cover.”
- bostonspastime.com.

In this book King and O’ Nan start the season by showing the Sox as the underdogs, but the way they wrote the story made it seem like they knew that it would be a very dramatic end to the season. While telling about the season game by game King and O’ Nan include their own dialogue and events that happned in their own lives.

“Tomorrow wev’e got Monster Seats,front row, and I call the Sox customer service line to see if I can bring my fishing net for BP. The woman who answers doesn’t know. She asks around the office; the consensus is that security will probably not let us in, but there’s no set policy. I tell her I’ll try. Got to make them make the play, right?” This book had affected me because it had made me think about the Red Sox organization in another way. What I liked about the story is that it is about the Red Sox, my favorite sports team.