User Friendly: The Ghost Chronicles

Lawrence Gordon's first book is JUST the beginning of more to come. He describes everything so well that it is hard to put it down, keeping you in suspense the hole way through the book. My daughter and I just finished the 2nd book Haunted High, that is even better. At the end theres PROOF that a third is in the works. Start out with the first Ghost Chronicle then get "haunted high" YOU WON'T be disappointed. Great for anyone over 8 years old T

Seemingly without much fanfare, this "little" book raises a bundle of big questions about the spirit world and where and how it rubs against our own earthbound existence. Without abstractly using terms like "reincarnation," "limbo," "purgatory," "esp," "telekenesis," and a whole host of other terms, Mr. Gordon creates fictional conditions that seem very plausible indeed. This is a book for anyone who is willing to conjecture about the spirit world and what implications it might hold for us. The fifteen-year-old hero, Eddie Fields, is young but highly precocious, and any reader will find him and his situation appealing. This is a ghost story you'll want to read. Be prepared to transcend the ordinary.

As a kid, I used to read "Caspar the Friendly Ghost" comic books. Author Larry Gordon gives us Frank the friendly ghost in a tale of a teenage ghost who wants desparately to reestablish contact with the living. Any young computer literate reader will get a kick from the fact that Frank can finally talk to a real living person only through a computer. His friendship with Eddie, the teenager who owns the computer, leads the two of them to explore the world of the seen and the unseen.

This ghostly tale builds on elements of true local legends in the Florida Panhandle. Gordon gives the reader new cause to wonder about the mysterious lights and bumps in the night as he takes the reader from the Bayou to the Computer screen in the supernatural world. Obviously written by someone excited about the subject matter.

What a wonderful book! A great combination of the metaphysical world with a dash of Ghostbusters. The ending made the whole book turn around and left me wishing I had a ghost,too. Can't wait for Ghost Chronicle Vol II. (I've read news articles on this truly haunted house in the local paper and I had to have this book.)