Amazon has a FREE copy of Shoeless Joe for Kindle right now. This is the book that Hollywood based the movie Field of Dreams
on.
The book has been reviewed by over a hundred people and has a 4 star rating from them. Here’s the way one reviewer describes it:
At first glance, the book is about baseball and Ray’s journey to fulfill the request of the voice, “If you build it, he will come.” But as Ray ventures across the country the reader begins to sense that, as in The Wizard of Oz, anything is possible, simply by believing. As the plot develops, Ray’s acceptance of the mystical, almost religious aspects of baseball, allows the reader to revisit dreams from his own past, too. Ray says, “Your secret dreams grow over the years like apple seeds sown in your belly…sprout through your skin, gentle and soft and wondrous, and they breathe and have a life on their own….”
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