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Summary: It's tough to be a kid
Review: Just remember your childhood. Remember all of the things you had to struggle with just to make it from day to day. Remember your fear, so strong you could taste it. Now take those experiences and turn them into a parable. King has described all the things we face as kids in a lyrical story. Tom Gordon is the refuge we all sought when we were picked on at school, called on to read outloud, face our parents discord amd possible divorce. The courage and determination she shows in the face of such odds is the stuff we dreamed we could have done as kids.
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Summary: Dissapointed
Review: I have been a faithful Stephen King fan for as long as I can recall. This book was sadly a dissapointment to me. The writing was terrific of course, but the story didn't seem to have enough substance.
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Summary: One of Stephen King's BEST!
Review: The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon is unlike most of Stephen King's books. Usually, he likes to write the gory horror stories, while this is more spirital. This one of my favorite stories by him. It's about a 9-year-old girl who gets lost in the woods. The only thing that keeps her sanity is her walkman radio, which she has tuned into a baseball game. Her favorite player Tom Gordon, and the only thing that helps her fight against the dark woods everything that she dreams is out there... Very good. Very, very good book.
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Summary: The Girl Who Love The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
Review: I really enjoyed this novel because it was a short and quick paced story, and I found myself really connecting to Trish. She was well drawn and totally beleivable, and I would recommend that all King fans read it.
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Summary: DONT BELIEVE THE HYPE
Review: I just cant understand why so many people pretend to likethisnovel. Stephen King has written many good books and a few greatones. But he has also written plenty of bad ones. Bt he is human and sometimes just does not deliver. If this book had been written by Michael Nobody everyone would have a differnt opponion of this book. IT IS VERY BORING.There is nothing scarry about this book. And it is not very entertaining. Very little happens over the course of 260 pages. I can understand some people liking the book but it just is not very good. But I I give it an extra star out of sympathy. END
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Summary: Great ride
Review: While it is little slow at the start this novel takes off. A great thrill ride and a must read!
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Summary: My kind of 9 year old girl
Review: I read this short (for King) novel in one sitting. I was impressed with how well a 50 year old man could present the inner workings of a scared and lost 9 year old girl. I was about that age when I became lost on the summer desert of Central Arizona (a long ways from Western Maine) and I know how that sort of thing works. More than once I had to stop reading and remember just how it really was for a scared and brave little kid. King got it and then some, but I don't trust King. He's taken a turn that makes me cringe too many times for me to think I know the story before he's told it. By mid book I was there in the deep forest with Trisha and I couldn't quit til I knew her destiny. Worth the read and then some.
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Summary: An unsettling but well written book
Review: King stirikes again in his horrorifying new novel The Girl who loved Tom Gordon. This book gets you lost in the woods with a young and sometimes hallucinating little girl. It has the dark feel of a CLive Barker novel. King emphasizes the girls dieing and just when you think the terrors over King leads you on another wrong turn. The Girl who loved Tom Gordon is a book that really makes you realize what being lost in the woods really means. A terrorific book!
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Summary: The idea was better than the actuality
Review: I thought the idea of this book was intriguing as (like another reviewer mentioned) I think King's main strength is getting inside his characters' heads and showing us their thoughts. I thought that writing on a simpler theme might bring out the best of his writing but somehow it never quite comes off. As several others have also commented, Trisha is far too precocious for a nine year old girl. For example, at one point, early in the novel she remarks that her mother and brother's quarrelling is like a 'sick kind of love making'. Come on - what nine year old would make a comparison like that! I just found it hard to identify with Trisha and her perils and somehow I don't think King could either. I can see why people who haven't read any other King stuff might think it was a great book, it really isn't bad in itself but compared with earlier stuff like Cujo or the Long Walk it is a bit of a disappointment - but not a massive disppointment, as I don't think (apart from The Green Mile) that Steve King has written a really good book since the late eighties.
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Summary: Well I liked it anyway
Review: It took me one night to read this- even if the plot did seem to 'drag' King has a way of making you (well some people) need to know the outcome. His clever use of language as a tool of suspense was a major drawcard. Even though I am Australian and have know idea (and don't really care) about baseball, it didnt matter to me- I still found it an effective little novel. I dont think anyone else other than King could get way with the dodgy 'monster' or 'God of the Lost' or whatever it was. It was a scary being until the end when it revealed itself. Still, I kept on reading because King has this knack of making you want to find out what happens. I can see where some people might find it lame- its not everyones idea of a good scare, but I really did enjoy it for the simple fact that King has that effect on me- even in some of his really lacklustre novels (Regulators, Thinner)he still has a way of leading you to the end of the story.
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