Calling You

by Otsuichi

TOKYOPOP presents Calling You, a unique, beautifully written, and truly unpredictable collection of stories. A girl creates a cell phone in her imagination, from which she can communicate with... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1598168525
• ISBN13: 9781598168525
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: TokyoPop
• Length: 183 Pages
• Weight: 0.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.6" x 7.1"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12

Customer Reviews

If I had started here

This book was good on the three stories but I watched the movie Calling You. some of the plot elements like actually being deaf worked so much better for the story, and provided suspense. In all, a good book to read before you watch.

two-thirds amazing and one-third very good

this book is composed of three stories. if you are empathic and care about other people, or you like stories about human connection, you will like this book. the first story about a girl with a mobile phone in her imagination is endearing and sad. the second story about one boy and his friend who can move injuries from people to himself is beautiful and heartening. the third story about the continuation of spirit and the healing of a person from a train crash is interesting and pretty, but not as good as the two stories that previous to it. this book is beautiful and it has a few pictures in each story to give you an idea of what the characters look like and what the settings of the stories are. you should acquire this book however you are able.

Answer them already!!!

This is a great collection of short stories. They're all pretty heartbreaking though. The first one, which is the title of the novel, is about a girl who uses a cellphone in her mind to talk to other people. Pretty out there i know, but it's easily the best one of the three and it almost made me cry. It's kind of a love story. The second story is about two boys who are friends and discover that one of them has a very strange ability: he can absorb other people's injury's onto himself. They go around healing people, but it goes a little out of hand. This one has a really good message and it's also very heart stirring and is probably better than the first one but i prefer love stories so that's why the first one is still my fave. I did not like the last story. It's about a girl, who was at a hospital and turns into a flower who sings..... it just wasnt as good. However Otsuichi is an excellent author and i do love the magical elements that are in all of the stories. You will enjoy these stories, just keep a tissue box handy.