I have just finished reading "Shoeless Joe" by W.P. Kinsella. This is the book that the movie Field of Dreams is based off of. While I don't want to be the guy who says, "The book is way better than the movie." I do have to give the book credit on a few things. Instead of Horace Mann as the writer Ray Kinsella teams up with, it's the famous J.D. Salinger. The book also included more characters that the movie did not, which is not surprising. Books have more time to create and wrap up storylines than movies do. One of the pleasant surprised from the book was how much of it made it into the movie. There were even entire sections of dialogue that I recognized from the movie. All in all, I strongly recommend this book to baseball lovers and those who enjoyed the movie. You won't be disappointed. I am the kind of reader that believes books and movies that tell the same story need to exist separate from each other and should be enjoyed individually. Give "Shoeless Joe" a read and ask yourself, "Is this heaven?" The answer of course is, "No. It's Iowa."
