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Summary: One of King's best yet!
Review: I love Stephen King, I've read probably all of his books at least 2 times. When I got this book for my birthday, I read the inside flaps of the book and thought I wouldn't like it. I expected a supernatural story with vampires and ghosts and other stuff like that (but, hey, doesn't all Stephen King fans expect that).I started reading the book. It is about a 9 year old girl named Trisha, who lives with her brother and mom, her parents are divorced. Her brother is constantly arguing with her mom because he wants to live with their dad. Trisha's mom is always taking Trisha and her brother on family outings, despite Trisha's brother's complaints. This is where it begins. They're hiking in the woods in Maine, and Trisha decides to go pee. Her mom and her brother are fighting so she walks off without telling one of them. She goes off and then gets lost trying to find her way back. I was stuck in the book thinking about what would happen to Trisha. I felt sorry for her and was hoping for her to get out of the woods, but I won't tell you if she does, you have to read that and find that out yourself. Stephen King does an excellent job of writing a real life terror story. It made me think about various endings during the time I read it and when I was finished, I finished it in about 1:30 hours. I recommend that you buy this book and read it.
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Summary: Horror in a new perspective
Review: "The Girl who Loved Tom Gordon" is an excellent novel. Stephen King has done a great job with this one. It isn't the typical horror story, rather, it is... Unnerving. It gave me an uneasy feeling as I read it. This story is about a girl who gets lost in the woods during a hike because she had to pee. Her constantly arguing mom and brother didn't take notice of her momentary leave. When she is finished, she begins walking but never finds the path. Now her only connection to the outside world is her walkman, which she uses to listen to baseball games where Tom Gordon is up. She is forced to survive the horrors of the woods - deadly snakes, swarms of stinging wasps, thousands of biting misquitoes, thick murky bogs, and many other dangers. The story was worded to strike horror the the reader's heart. The story's ending will leave you thinking for days. This book is MOVING, and it was very enjoyable to read. I may even read it again some day. The effect is a grand one.
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Summary: Amazing
Review: I loved this book. It is not one of King's back-breaking, eye-strainig 800+ page book. It is a breath of fresh air. It follows the lines of a classic horror movie where you're not sure if the mosnter is real or not. It is saturated in lovely symbolism and addresses issues like religion and self realization. You actually begin to love the main character. As a warning, this is not your typical overly-words, pedantic King. This gets straight to the point and is a very fast read, but worth reading more than once. One of my favorite books, ever!
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Summary: Story is good, but still has many problems.
Review: I must admit that I enjoyed this book, but I was only able to do so because I suspended my belief in reality and accepted King's premise. The little girl is lost early in the book, and from there I read each page wanting to find out if and when and how she would be rescued. The rescue at the end would be the big payoff. The girl Trisha spent several weeks in the woods, getting bitten to death by bugs, slowly going crazy, starving and sick, but somehow she keeps moving. Her favorite baseball player is Tom Gordon, and she listens to his games on her Walkman and talks to him to try and keep her sanity. All of this works well, and the end is a satisfying payoff to the girl lost in the woods story. But was this good for a Stephen King effort? Sure it was, but it wasn't worthy of a novel. Even at large print and 220 pages, this short novel seemed to drag in places and to also be repititive. This would have been better a short story part of a larger collection. I think King could have done better than producing this afterthought of a novel. Other recent novels are probably 4 times longer than this one.
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Summary: She was a lost girl who had no hope until she met Tom Gordon
Review: The book "The Girl who Loved Tom Gordon" written by Stephen King was the kind of book you couldnt put down! It was awesome. Its about a girl who goes hiking in the woods with her family and they constantly agrue and she had to use the bathroom really bad so she went in the woods without telling her mom or brother,and when she was done she was LOST! for several days and ran into some unusal things. This is the book that you wonder "whats going to happen next?". I would say for everyone to read this book,and this isnt the typical Stephen King book you would have in mind its from a whole different point of view.
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Summary: Sparse plot.
Review: I read Stephen King because Stephen King spins a wonderful yarn. I don't think that this novel represents what the majority of Stephen King fans (like me!) expect when they buy one of his books. Perhaps I would have enjoyed it more if it had been a short story instead of a novella. The material (plot) is too thin for the number of pages it fills....and the target audience seems to be smaller than that of the usual Stephen King novel.
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Summary: The best stephen king book i've ever read
Review: I read this book about 4 years ago. I was spending two years in a state owned work farm for juveniles, as you can imagine I had alot of free time on my hands in those days so i read a whoooooolllleeee lot of books. Almost ever stephen king book, almost every john grisham book, tom clancy, then the beat generation, Then the classics.....etc. This is the only book by stephen king or any other author that has completely captivated me. The way the book is written is just unbeliveable. Following the girl through the woods and building so much suspense. What is the creature? Page by page you realize that there is something out there that is hunting her like a man. The book hardly leaves the girl in the woods which is the real story. It was like I was stranded out there with her every step of the way. I'll admit I was let down by the ending, but it didn' spoil the whole experience.
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Summary: Trama
Review: I chose to read The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Steven King. It is about a little girl who gets lost in the middle of the woods and can't stop thinking of how many people die in the woods because of starvation, thirst and even disgusting creatures that lurk in the dark. (I really liked this book because it kept me reading and wanting to keep reading. I am not much of a reader myself, but this book captivated me in a way that most books wouldn't have. The main character was a city girl who went by the name of Trisha. During the novel she shows that she has a very wandering mind.) I would recommend this book to anyone who likes suspense, drama, and a little sense of reality. A person with a good imagination and multiple personalities would also, I believe find this a very indulging novel. This is a short book, which makes it very easy to read for speed-readers. There are a lot of plot changes throughout the novel, which adds to the reader's suspense. I would most definitely recommend this book to all readers in general.
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Summary: the Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon Review
Review: The book, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon takes place mainly in the Appalachian mountains. Its about a 9 year old girl who wanderrs off a trail while on a hiking trip with her mother and brother. It takes you on the journey that she had while she was lost in the woods. She had to live without things we couldnt imagine being without. Starvation, creatures in the woods, and loneliness are just to name a few. The reason that Tom Gordon, a professional baseball player for the Red Sox, is on the title is because he was basically her companion throughout her journey. although he was just a hallucination, he is what kept her going. i thought this book was alright. it just never really got me totally interested in the story. A lot of the beginning was a little boring because it just talked about her walking around in the woods. what was interesting to me is that a 9 year old girl could know so much about the forest and be able to survive as long as she did. i would only reccomend this book to someone who has time on their hands to read a book.
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Summary: Strong Start, Lazy Ending
Review: I picked this book up only when I found myself with nothing else to read, and up until the middle to end, I was completely enthralled. I am not an avid Stephen King reader, but do enjoy a lot of his work, so perhaps my opinion of this one would be far different from that of a person who reads all of his novels. The basis for this book is fear itself and how it can so easily consume us, and in that aspect, it was very well done, considering it is written from the perspective of an adolescent girl. His talent for character really shows through here. He is very good at evoking a sense of panic in the reader by so delicately informing that Trisha, our young heroine, is going deeper and deeper into the wooded abyss of the forest. This book is very good, and very strong, up until the ultimate "showdown" between Trisha and the evil _______(I don't want to ruin it.) It makes a complete turn and becomes downright silly very quickly. I admit, die-hard fans of Stephen King may disagree, but I was so disappointed. Such a letdown.
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