The pop culture referances feel forces and displaced, like king tries to be relatable but falls flat. The girl feels not real. The story is bad. And a lot of his misogany is in the wording. It is so boring. I do not care about baseball and king can not sell it to people that are not fans of baseball already. For whom is this book? There is no tention. no emotional Investment. I just want it to end. It is clearly a men writing about a character he absolutely has no inside of. It is not a story you can fall in it is a book you always absolutely aware of being a story writen by a old men who trys do be hip, cringe.