After one of my friends told me how scary and good this book is, and how she couldn't sleep with it in her room because it freaked her out, I thought, "Great! I like scary books." Well, I don't see where she got the idea that it was so scary.The first 50 pages of this book are lifeless. I was completely bored. Then there was a five page thing describing an echo. It was like I was reading an extremely boring textbook for school.There were a few ok parts, and some of the Johnny Traunt stuff was kind of funny. I gave it 2 stars because of the use of different fonts and how they placed the words on the page for a cool effect.Oh, and whoever said you need a mirror to read some of the pages, they were just too dumb to realize that the "mirror-image" writing was actually just the same thing written on the page before, as in it had gone through the page, or whatever.Don't waste your time. Read Stephen King instead.