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Summary: Not King's best
Review: I originally bought this book at Sam's when I saw a poster that said they had the new Stephen King book. I bought it and began reading it instantly. I loved the description that Mr. King used and was brought in by the tale of Trisha becoming lost in the woods. However, I was soon disapointed because of how very little action began to happen. There were many pages of flashbacks that didn't fit into the story that well. I became lost about two-thirds of the way through and lost interest due to the "supernatural" events. The ending was quite a disapointment as many of Mr. King's books are. Now, you are probably wondering why I gave this book 4 stars with all of these complaints. Well here are the good sides: A. It is a good story B. It is vividly descriptive C. It was written by Stephen King!
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Summary: Hardly Great
Review: This is a book that I picked up in the airport the other day and read on my flight. It's the first time that I've ever read King and I was thoroughly unimpressed. I would have to believe that this book does not reflect the talent that made him so famous.At no point during my reading did I feel any sense of suspense, fear or terror. The message of the book was great but I still have to give this a low rating because King's intent was to write a book that would give you the chills as well as tell a message, and in the end it didn't happen. This wasn't even a "fun" book to read (which is what I was looking for when I picked it up). When I finished the book I felt like King should have just kept this story to himself as a practice writing. It seems like he's reaching for a different style and hopefully this book will get him there - but I don't think it deserves to be sold to the public without some more work and effort. If I had written this book exactly the same, word for word, it would not have been published.
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Summary: Tom Gordon
Review: Trisha, a nine-year-old girl is lost in the woods during a hike with her mother and bickering older brother. Realizing finally that she is in danger, becoming more frightened and weak as the nights and days move in their cycle. Her hallucinatory conversations with the Boston Red Sox's relief pitcher Tom Gordon begin, helping her to fight off the panic she feels, as she understands she might not get out of the woods alive.
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Summary: This was a short story gone long.
Review: Stephen King got long winded with this short story and had to publish it as a book. Don't waste your time reading this boring story.
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Summary: Rory's Opinion
Review: Stephen King's book, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, is very good because it gave a good description of the woods, it created a sense of fear, and the ending was satisfying. Throughout the entire book the woods are described, and King tells how the girl, Trisha, felt. "Trisha was willing to leave sight of the brook if the clenches of trees and tangles of bushes near it got too thick, but she refused to leave the sound of it." King also created a deep sense of fear. "You won't even get inbarned because they're never going to find you. You'll die out here, just wander around in these woods until you die." The ending was satisfying. It was worked in perfectly and the girl survives. I like Stephen King. He has written many great books and this is just one of those that should be a classic.
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Summary: Inexcusable
Review: This book is so horrid I don't even know how to convey it. Like Gerald's Game, this book doesn't have enough of a plot to keep you interested. It is basically just this little girl wandering about the woods, and trying to survive. King is an enigma because in latter years he is trying to write diffently than his successful ventures! He needs to stick with what he began with-horror, suspense, etc. This story should be labeled young adult. I think teens might enjoy it. Maybe.
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Summary: Review for The girl who loved Tom Gordon
Review: The girl who loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King was interesting because it kept the reader glued to it. Situations that Trisha got in resulted in more bad things to endanger her health. A good example from the book is,"The rest of her face was as bad or even worst. Lumpy where she had been stung, merely swollen where mosquitoes in their hundreds had had at her while she was sleeping." It was eerie and almost real in some chapters. King did a great job making it sound life-like and scary. This is another great example,"But the black-clad arms rose...the claws that had left the marks on the trees, the claws that had torn off the deer's head and then ripped its body apart." But King also put in his writing; baseball talk. Tom Gordon was Trisha's favorite baseball player and she listened to his games on her walkman. She imagined that he was walking with her at all times and that he was protecting her throughout her time in the wilderness. Here is an example,"Well, the Red Sox have got their work cut out for them,"Troop remarked. "They're down seven to one in the bottom of the forth and Andy Pettitte is twirling a gem." This novel had a lot of special events in it that made the book hard to put down. I highly recomend this book to anyone that is a Stephen King fan.
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Summary: A Review Of This Book!
Review: The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon is a graet book to read.It was my first book ive read by the author Stephen King.There were many thrills and laughs in this book, and many scares included in this book.Like when she is taking a "crap" when she is lost in the woods and she falls in it. And there on all throught the storie when something bad happens she compares it to falling in her "crap".Or when she is walking up a hill and trips and falls down the hill and comes to a ledge and she rolls off it and falls down bashes on some rocks messes her all up.But what was interestin about it was that it decribed it all on the way down untill she stops rolling.Also she gets stung by wasps and bees all at the same time.This book to me was an all togeather an very thriling book.
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Summary: Tom Gordon?
Review: The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King is a book that isfrightening, perilous, and hits home. "The black-clad arms rosefalling away from the yellow-white claws...the claws that had left themarks on the trees, the claws that had torn off the head of the deer and ripped its body apart." That sentence is extermely frightening and full of suspense. Perils...hinder the girl's progress in finding her way out of the woods. It hits home because it is a perfect example of how a little girl could easily just vanish from her mother's side while walking down a seemingly harmless path. Frightening, perilous, and home hitting, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon is all in all a great book.
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Summary: Profoundly insightful
Review: I confess that I very rarely read Stephen King books these days. I don't know why I decided to read this book, but I am so grateful that I did! The characterization in this book was absolutely fantastic. Children have a great deal more knowledge and understanding than most parents and teachers ever realize, and I applaud Mr. King for reminding us! I'm amazed by people who don't make the connection between Trisha and themselves. Trisha is representative of each and every one of us, lost in our own woods, struggling with our own fears. King does an amazing job of illustrating how our once imagined fears become dangerously real as we weaken. There is so much more that I could say about this wonderful work. However, I fear that I have been long-winded, and should wrap this up. This book is truly a gift, for which I am eternally grateful.
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