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The Other Side: The True Story of the Boy Who Sees Ghosts

5 star:		(26)
4 star:		(4)
3 star:		(4)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(25)

 

 

This is a ridiculous "true story" about a kid supposedly haunted by ghosts. Amateurishly written, poorly plotted, and not even good as a trashy, third-rate Exorcist rip-off. Maybe ghosts exist and maybe they don't (I doubt it), but this is a load of B.S. pretending to be an inspirational true tale. Too bad Denice Jones doesn't respect her reader's intelligence.

I started to read this book with great enthusiasm, as I have always wanted to be someone who "wants to believe"; however, as I plowed through the slightly hysterical, rather simplistic paragraphs, I found myself becoming more and more disgruntled, until outright skepticism finally took over. Why hasn't this story been given full-hour coverage on TLC, Unsolved Mysteries, The Discovery Channel, etc.? Why haven't Dr. Dave and Dr. Sharon from ... been over to take pictures? My brother lives in Manchester, CT; he's never heard anything about this. This would have been great fiction, however, had the writing been better. Sorry!

The story is something created to sell books. Completely fictional. It reminds me of the Blair Witch Project.

This story was hard to gulp. The drama seemed to out do the facts. Good read if you enjoy fiction, if your looking for a true story avoid this one. The author does write like a child.

I bought this book, read it and really hated it. I then bought three others which I gave as gifts. I don 't believe in ghosts and demons but a family member has had experience with her child, my niece. I gave this book to her, and one to each set of grandparents. I must inform you, as I don't feel my insight is valid being to me this book was so far fetch. The three insignts turned to 7 and each person who read this book agreed with me. There is just no way this family went through this claiming a true story. If and I repeat if it said fiction it would be exceptable. I found this book a very big disappointment, a waste of money and time. People claim this happens, weather you believe or your just reading about this ; there are much better readings. (...)I wouldn't recomend this book to anybody.

After having read a couple books by Ed and Lorraine Warren, I was searching for someone's story who wasn't lying and trying to make a buck (even one of the Warren's ghostwriters wrote an expose on how he lied his "butt" off while writing one of their books).

So I started this book initially thinking that however badly written, these people had a true story to tell about experiencing demons. WRONG.

After having to skip pages of boring details of how entities in Ms. Jones' home were throwing her mother-in-law around, torturing her kids and after the 1000th episode her and her husband were still hesitant to contact anyone for help, I managed to make it to the end of the book.

Here is where just mundane details became "Yeah, give me a break" type details. For instance. A large black car goes around mowing down several friends and family members and then at the end of the book, appears at her son's friend's grave and tries to mow the author and her son down. Then some sort of heavenly light explosion occurs and the car veering toward them at 1000 miles an hour explodes into the universe... O.k....

Also at the end of the book she holds a seance for her son. At the seance she sort of casually mentions she encounters the ghost of her grandfather AND her son's dead friend (another victim of the demon car) and she has an extremeley lengthy conversation with both of them. They tell her her son is like a conduit for Satan and God.got the impression that the whole fate of the universe rests on this battle within her son.I

One more thing. After having all these demon cars and angels and things flying around the house, beds floating around,on and on, there is like not one single piece of evidence in existance that shows any of this.

If you swallow all of this, I have a bridge to sell you in Brooklyn.

Lastly I would like to say I believe in the afterlife, but people like this make it really hard to keep the faith....

I felt this story was true, some was made up for the story. I don't think the author could of written this as fiction without living it. The problem was the author's writing. Drifted, terrible grammar, alot of typo errors, these all lost my interest.

This entire book is humor to what people do go through. The authors style really needs to be examined and the entire story is fictional. The ending, you want to skip the book and not even get there it is a disgrace.

I am an avid reader of spiritual reading; New Age, Occult and read anything I can lay my hands on of the supernatural. This book was a disgrace to even be in these categories. Fiction written by a dreamer. There was nothing in this book proved to be a true story and the entire book was extremely boring. The plot was simple and dreamed up.

This was the most ridiculous, made up piece of garbage I have ever read. Poorly written and plotted. (...) the author has no respect for her readers. You want to pass on this book or you will regret it!