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Summary: A little bit slow and boring.
Review: Being a King fan, I was fairly disappointed in this book. Though he has the ability to capture what could go through a persons mind in a situation like this, I found this book a little slow without much happening. Just alot of walking around in the woods. So if you are looking for the bizarre and something with action that will capture your imagination, this is not it.
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Summary: A small, tense book
Review: Fans of Stephen King will not believe he wrote a book you can lift with one hand. Friends of the blow-'em-up endings of Needful Things and Insomnia (among others) may be disappointed that the fireworks is missing. But in this short, tense novel you will find all the slowly mounting fear, dread and terror that Stephen King writes so masterfully. And he does it slowly, carefully, and, as always, letting us fill in the blanks with the worst of our own nightmares. A little girl gets lost while on a hike in the woods with her mother and brother. She is lost spiritually and psychologically, too. Her parents have divorced and her brother is stuck in his own anger. King uses the clever device of the samness of the woods, the sameness of her attempt to find a way out as a counterpoint to her interior struggle with despair, the existence of God, her relationship to her angry parents. As her Walkman fades out she is left utterly alone. Well, except for the hallucinations (or is that scrabbling in the leaves real?) In this book, King shows that that terror can travel slowly, and that if the world ends with a whimper instead of a bang, it can still be terrifying.
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Summary: Disappointed King Fan...
Review: I'm a huge Stephen King fan, and this one let me down. As we've seen in many of his books he definitely has an interest in baseball... this one was awkward and sorry to say a bit malformed. Even in this short book all i could think is - thank goodness for Darwin - in his version the lead character would have eliminated herself from the gene pool!
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Summary: Stephen King Flopped with this book.
Review: I am an avid reader of any Stephen Kings books and expected much more from him then this book offered. It was very slow and had a very boring, repetative plot. The book is based on a little girl who gets lost and does the same thing day in and day out, over and over again. If you would like a excellent adventure..check out some of Bently Little's books.
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Summary: Even though Mr. King wrote it, not the best
Review: I admit being an avid King fan having read every book he ever published. I also admit that not every book he has published is a masterpiece, and Tom Gordon is sadly one of these. I will never say that Mr. King published this work as an offering to the gods of finance and the pleasing of his publishers; however, I think Tom Gordon could have been more fully prepared than it was. I enjoyed the hallucinatory images by the protangonist and really enjoyed the attempt of Mr. King to see into a young girl's mind in an extraordinary situation. There was something I thought was left out of the story, I can't tell you what it was because its just a feeling. The only other reason I give this novel an average rating is that for first-time King readers the level of abstractness can be confusing. I sometimes look at his work in the mind of a first time reader and abstractness is the first to come to mind. Overall this book is worth the read in that it has a satisfactory ending and gives you a sense of completion.
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Summary: The girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
Review: I liked the book because it was intresting sand the littel girl pand her mom and brotherwent for a walk in the woods. The littel gril was complaing about how grouchy her father was. Trish brother said he still loves his dad even know he can be a groiucy person. It was boggy out so mom ask her kids if they want bug spray on. The kids were talking and not really looking at all the neat stuff. They were walking on the appalachian trail. They ran in to a littel hut that had a water pump in it and said to remember to fill the jug for the next person because there was no water for a long ways. Trish wanted to stay tell a liitel kid came around so she could mak freinds. Trish thinks that she is invisible to every one so she thinks that she should have stayed home it would not have made any diffrents to her because nobody pay attention to her. Trish said that she had to go and nobody paid attention. So trish went right there well heer mom and brother and trish moms boyfrind kept on going not knowing. The bok is also good becuse it will keep you on your feet or on the edge of you seat because you will not know what is going to happen next and how the moms kisd are going to act about things that there nmom is going to do. Not knowing the littel girl got lost in the woods becuae her mother was not paying attention to what her littel gril had said to her and her mom keep on going and not stoping and waiting. Trish was trying to find her way out of the trail but could not she just keep on going and she keep her eyes on the direction of the main trail. Her mom fialy notice after a while that trish was not there by her side. Then they started looking for her and yelling her name. Trish herd the voice and walk in the direction that she herd it coing from. Then the woods became silent and she herd nothing Then she feltsomthing moving under her she looked down and saw a black snake. she scream in horror because she hats snake. I think that a lot of people could learn from this book if they read it. I think that it has lots of life lessons in it.
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Summary: Great!
Review: The book The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon By Stephen King is about a girl who goes on a hike with her divorced mom and brother. On that hike, the girl gets lost in the woods. With her courage and intuition, she sets foot detriment to get out. But ventures deeper into the woods. Only armed with her walkman and her pack, she is followed by a creature only known by the noises, mangled trees, and slaughtered animals in its path. Her only relief is to imagine that relief pitcher Tom Gordon is with her every step of the way. This is a fabulous book that I would recommend to anyone who likes Stephen King novels. This book is different from what Stephen King usually does. This book wasn't bloody like the other books. I liked this book because it was very suspenseful. I loved the action. It's a great book to read in the dark!
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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: Good Book
Review: This was a really good book. I would recamend it to anyone who like kinda scarey books. It has to do with a girl who gets lost in the wood and imagines that this Baceball palyer is with there.So read this book if you get a chance.
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Summary: If you've ever hiked in New Hampshire or Maine's backwoods..
Review: then you'll really enjoy "The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon". Stephen King, as usual, opens up your imagination...you can picture every move the girl is making as she gets herself lost deeper and deeper into the woods. Getting lost in the woods while hiking is a real danger, which gives this book it's edge.
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