Rating: 
Summary: AWFUL
Review: This book was a waste of time and money!There was no character development, the story was weak and predictable.
Rating: 
Summary: Another Great Character
Review: Stephen King is a master at creating great characters, and 9 year old Trisha is no exception as she tries to find her way back to civilization after becoming lost in the Maine woods. This book is a quick and easy read of a good story without any of the horror elements that are often present in King's stories.
Rating:
Summary: The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
Review: Patricia McFarland, (a nine year old girl whose parents are recently divorced), is taken on a walk through the woods with her constantly arguing mother and brother. while on the walk, trisha steps off the trail for a little bathroom break(and to get away from the whining of her brother). She soon finds that she can't remember which way she has gone. About an hour later, she realized she was definitely lost. Left without a compass, without a map, only a backpack with 1 sandwich, water, and some twinkies, this would have to be her survival food as long as she was lost. Close by, an animal is lurking and following Trisha's every move. Along the way, she is stung by wasps, forced to walk through a swamp, and can't find any more water. She is slowly getting sick and is losing hope when she knows that the search party won't even find her. What keeps her going though is listening to her favorite baseball player Tom Gordon on her walkman. She listens to him save the game and soon starts hallucinating that he is there with her. She doesn't know whether she'll survive or not, whether the animal will eat her or not, but she has to find someway to survive. But how?
Rating: 
Summary: ZZZZzzzzzzzzz
Review: I have heard from many people that The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon was one of Stephen King's best books. I strongly disagree. Like most King books, TGWLTG had a promising start, but it just dragged on and on and on. The villain in this story did not even affect me in the slightest. The reason I am giving it 2 stars instead of 1 is because I truly cared for Trish McFarland. This 9 year-old girl had a lot of spunk, I give her that. But in the end I was thoroughly disappointed.
Rating:
Summary: A good book.
Review: Others above me have said they are true King fans and then ripped the book to shreds. They said it was far-fetched. Hello? Vampires, killer 58' Plymouth Fury, End of the world, killer hotel, animals brought back to life, a gypsy curse, etc... So what is so far fetched about a little girl getting lost in the woods? I am a true King fan and I found the book enjoyable and very eerie in spots. You can't pin Stephen King down to one style of writing, If you're a true fan, you have to keep an open mind.
Rating:
Summary: Big dissappointment
Review: Compared to Bag of Bones and other Stephen King greats, this book let me down. The writting was good but the story did not seem to go anywhere. When I finished the book, I didn't feel that much happened since the second chapter. I love Mr. King's books and will continue to read them. However, I do not recommend that this be one of his books that you buy.
Rating: 
Summary: This Was A Blown Save!
Review: The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon wasn't a bad book, it just could have been a lot better. I find it a little implausible that a 9-year old would have been so industrious in the face of such horror and vast nothingness. Additionally, if there was something stalking her in the woods, why wouldn't it have moved in to feed right away? Credibility was what was lacking, that's my biggest complaint. As a Red Sox fan, I find it painfully ironic that both Tom Gordon and the author were befallen by injury not long after the release of the book. The Sox do dominate the hearts and minds of New Englanders and it was cool that King mentioned the team's broadcasters, commercials and players in the text. If you love Stephen King's work, this book will be a bit of a disappointment. If you just take it for what it is, it is not bad.
Rating: 
Summary: A delicate story
Review: "The Girl..." is a short story aboutbeing lost in the woods. The little 9-year old makes a series ofmistakes that force her to spend more than a week in the wilderness, thick Northern forest of Maine and New Hampshire. (...)
Rating:
Summary: An Object Lesson for Fiction Writers
Review: I teach fiction in Manhattan. My students are very sophisticated, and they will only reluctantly admit they read Stephen King (who absolutely influenced me--I read all his books up until the time I was in 9th Grade). That's too bad. This story is so well told, and King's sense of plot is so muscular that it chugs along even when parts of it don't quite make sense. (It seems unlikely to me, for example, that the novel's protagonist, Trisha, would make the connections and leaps that she does; would a 9-year-old realize, for example, that it was the water that made her sick?) The ending is a bit confusing, thematically. We didn't realize that Trisha identified so strongly with the absent father, so the exclusion of the mother in that final epiphany feels a bit off. But these are minor quibbles. The conflict and character development in this book are so strong that every novellist wannabe should check it out. They'll probably enjoy the trip, too.
Rating:
Summary: dread
Review: As Orson Scott Card once put it, there are three types of fear, and Stephen King knows which is the most powerful - Dread. This book keeps you reading (and sweating) simply because you don't know what the hell is out there. He won't let up on his poor character, and you truly care about what's going to happen to her, something which is typically missing from horror stories. I completely loved this book - one of his best, which is saying a lot.
|
