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Summary: PAINful
Review: I prefer blood, gore, unfair death, and yes, vampires, spirits, werewolves, Low Men, and Bald Doctors with long Scissors that hate human beings, but this book is still a fair read. For one reason: it was short. If it had been any longer, I would have become bored with it. Maybe Stephen purposely made it short for constant readers like me who expect HORROR and FANTASY.It's about a 9 year old girl named Trisha, who is pitifully neglected by her mother, Miss McFarland, who was too busy arguing with Trisha's brother one day when Miss McFarland decided to take both her children on a walk through some park. "Mom, I need to go peeeeeee!" Trisha whines, but mom has better things to focus on, doesn't she? So, Trisha steps off-road to relieve herself, while her mom and brother walk on, and this is where everything falls apart. (...). A story with a moral, in my opinion, which is unusual for King. I titled this review, 'painful' because when I was sitting in the school Gym waiting for the fitness class to be over about two years ago, reading it, all I felt crawling my skin, was not chills, but BUGS! Blood SUCKING VARMINT! King did a great job bringing this story to life. I was swatting myself as if a school of mosquitoes had landed on an open wound that wasn't mine, but Trisha's. King makes the woods sound like an entity, slowly tearing away what was once a little girl named Trish. I'll never forget this one part when Thrish awoke one morning to find herself in the middle of a circle that had been drawn around her body in the dirt while she had slept yet another night in the woods, as if someTHING owned her, and it was going to take it's sweet time with her, and not kill her in any hurry. But that's as far Stephen goes to make this novel a horror story. You never see the beast--you only hear it in Trisha’s innermost fears. But It DOES exist! Something good to read once. Buy it.
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Summary: A new and pleasing side of Stephen King.
Review: The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon is an almost completely psychological horror story. Stephen King takes you deep inside the mind of an eleven year old girl who has become desperately lost in the appalacian mountains. You will experience her hunger, pain, and thirst. You become witness to the importance she (and all of us humans) place on the familiar in a strange place. Gripping fear sets in slowly with an awareness that something is out there in the woods with you. When I read the reviews of this book it was interesting to note the difference between those who loved it and those who hated it. The interesting part was that there seemed to be no middle ground. I also note that most of the "haters" seemed to be readers who normally like Stephen King's work. It is sad and predictable that this should be the case. While it is true that this novel doesn't include any of the gore which Stephen King has become known for (which is what I suspect dislikers of this book felt was missing), it is a great story, told incredibly well. A novel with true craft, by a true craftsman. That being said, I did have one small gripe with this book. In my opinion, some of the insights of the eleven year old girl were just a little too mature for a child of that age. I found this to be just a bit distracting. Normally, this wouldn't bother me too much - but I was a little annoyed at being distracted from an otherwise truly all engrossing story.
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Summary: A Frighting Tale Of The Evil The Stalks The Woods.
Review: In my opinion to be one of Kings best. Scary and fast. You won't be disipointed. If you don't like the monstrous King novels this is a great one to start with and make your way up. Yes, there is baseball but the story is mostly about a young girl lost in the woods with a horrific evil following her and leaving clawed trees and dead animals in her path.
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Summary: Terrible!
Review: Just awful. This book is pretty short for King, but it manages to pack a whole lot of nothing within. It's too short to really develop a feel and sympathy for the characters, yet too long to make a comfortable read, mainly because the bulk of the story takes place in a forest with not much else going on but the paranoid ramblings of a girl who likes baseball. Check it out from the library if you must, but be forwarned.
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Summary: This book is just bad!!
Review: I like Stephen King. But this book was a waste of my time and money. I wanted to stop reading mid-way because it was so predicable what was going to happen at the end. So many endless pages about the forest/wood. It just dragged, on and on. I have to rate this at 1 star, because I have no other choice. But is should be a -5 stars.
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Summary: Simple, But Quite Entertaining
Review: The Girl Who loved Tom Gordon is not Stephen King's best work. Its not complicated and involved as The Stand, or as bone chilling as The Shining. But It works. The woods are a scary place, and I used to be terrified of them as a kid. The idea of a little heroine with a possibly haunted walkman is a simple formula, not too big on horror, but big on courage and faith; which is another formula used in most of King's books. Trisha joins Dolores Claiborne or Jesse from Gerald's Game in Stephen's heroine against evil club. The baseball stuff was boring, since im not a sports fan, but it did have its purpose, and the ending could have been a little more scarier, because we were expecting a big climax. But it didnt, and it is an enjoyable book nevertheless. Not laying it on too thick, horror tactics this time around were replaced with old fashioned suspense and anxeity, and thats not so bad. A good quick read, worth giving a try.
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Summary: Representative of Recent King Dropoff
Review: I used to be a HUGE King fan. However, his recent stuff simply pales in comparison to his earlier works, and this book is a prime example. Little girl lost is NOT what King does best, and using that as his premise doomed the book from the beginning. King is at his best when he does sprawling semi-supernatural, semi-horror thrillers like IT and the Stand(two of the best horror works ever written). He is not at his best with short puff pieces. Just like Tommie himself is breaking down as a reliever, Steve is, unfortunately, breaking down as an author.
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Summary: Change
Review: I believe that Steven King went out in a entirely differnt limb on the book 'The Girl Who loved Tom Gordon'. It is beyond his normal supernatural thrillers. Even though it deals with an issue that has been replayed many times...the story of someone lost in the woods and their quest to find rescue, it is still filled with action and suspense which makes you want to continue. The only piece involved in the book which botherd me throughout the novel was his characterization of Trisha (the main character). She is supposed to be a 9 year old girl. Although the knolege she has in the situations she is presented with do not account for a nine year old. That is in no way a reason not to read the book. It just is a part that I found oddly made and if she had been older than possibly the book would have been more realistic. He also seems to try to make it like a non-fiction book mixed with one supernatural "thing" that occures throught the book, which doesnt really go together but it at least throws in some extra intrest to the reader. I would recommend this book since it isnt that long especailly for a King novel and it is well written even if its a story that has a predictable ending.
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Summary: The shrub that loved tom gordan more
Review: OK
lets get started, and one, and two, and one, and two, and reach, and three, and four, and three, and four, and done.
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lets get started, this movie is quite macabre, and it smells as though a creature of mass proportions hath eateth it with bacon grease. I liked the scene about the McDonalds hamburger that was planning to take over the underwater palace of Fruitopia :)
The descriptions of nectorine juice and cocoanut milk were almost as tasty as the anchovie/glub pizza i had for dinner! I quote a friend when i say, "Take my splean, take my guts, take my liver, and take my heart, just dont take my glazed ham."
You know, glazed ham goes swell with smoked turkey, and especialy smaller versions of the australian dingo drumsticks. Along with large quantities of bile, the mammoth grunt attacks are over used and overwhelm the common grub. Though many species of grub live in Wyoming there is a certain species that sucks blood. It is called the centinino monkey blood sucking virus, and is identified by it large tick infested ear drums. Thank you for your vital organs, they were delicious and i wish i had more time to spend with them, but i dont so, may the oil derrick be with you!!!
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Summary: Little girl lost tale almost lost me.
Review: Make no mistake about it, The Girl that Loved Tom Gordon is a nail biter of a story. I just thought that King stumbled a bit in trying having to have the story both ways, having the threat be both natural and supernatural. Granted this is a "Stephen King" story, so gross outs and ghouls are to be expected and welcomed. I just felt that the book was a tad too sketchy in its use of the ghoul and that the scares would have been made more hair raising if a lighter touch had been used. I was however quite amused that this novel's original hardback release coincided with the early theatrical playdates for The Blair Witch Project, another lost in the woods tale with a concept not too dissimilar from King's.
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