Not Your Average Joe
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Image via Wikipedia --> Author Joe Hill at a book signing."] [/caption] I have now written this review three separate times. I started with an anecdote about how I came to possess 20th Century Ghosts and Heart-Shaped Box , but I think that what I really want to tell you about is the author himself. To be brief, I kept running into references about Joe Hill and what a master storyteller he was, but had neglected to add anything of his to my collection. While in Maine, Chris picked me up 20th Century Ghosts , and afterwards a copy of Heart-Shaped Box arrived in my mailbox. 20th Century Ghosts is like no other book I've ever read in my entire life. Reading it can be likened to an out of body experience. From the very first page I got the strangest sensation. I kept imagining myself sitting in a dark theater, just Hill and I, only he isn't there at first. He miraculously show