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Please Do Not Touch: A Collection of Stories

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Do you like being in a strange place? If people like to experience a weird and wonderful world, then they should read a book that is called Please Do Not Touch, written by Judith Gorog. In this story, you can use a camera to observe the stories or go to the Gallery Pitu which is located in an ancient part of the town. In the Gallery Pitu, whatever you touch you could become part of the stories. A magician is lost in the world one night. There is a terrible house you could never imagine. An elder sister married a bear. A coffee pot which was like a human. There's a house you should never rent, and an old woman who was waiting at your window at nights. I like the book because it has different stories and I can see some of the meanings of them. In "Jemmy's Halloween," I feel miserable about the magician who disappeared one night and left all his stuff in the house. In "The Coffeepot," there was a writer who didn't know how to cook and she got a coffee pot from her colleagues. But then the terrible disaster happened. I feel very interesting that how the coffee pot made the writer so miserable. After each stories, you would see the consequences of what happened. Then you come back to the real life, and you would feel so amazed about some stories. People who want to have a strange and excited experiences, then they should read this book. It contains a lot of wonders and imagination. They would see how the artists described the stories in the pictures and the people lived in the weird world.

We thought that this book was ok because there were so many different stories and some of them were hard to understand. Another reason why we didn't like this book that much was that it didn't really follow. We thought this book was good because some of the stories were easy to understand and scary. One of the easiest to understand was The Other Side Of The Moon. This chapter was about a boy who went to moon lake. Each night a new boy would come into the room until there were three boys. Then they left together.

In my opinion, Judith Gorog hastily wrote a book to make some quick cash - it is a horrible, really terrible book! None of the stories are even vaguely frightening - she seems to have entirely run out of good ghost stories. Her book, "15 Baby-sitting Tales of Terror" had some 1st-rate stories in it, but this book is not even so bad it's amusing. It's just bad. I'm not usually negative about books, even if I don't like them, because I can usually come up with some reason, such as, "I didn't get it," "It wasn't my type," etc, but this book is really not a good read at all in my opinion. Don't waste your time.

This book is really interesting, it really makes you think. Different from any other ghost stories this collection provides wonderderful images. However if your not very bright you might not get the strange plots and setting. Overall this is a really great book.