The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

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Summary: I wanted this book to be special...but was left wanting
Review: I simply felt the story had alot of potential but never got off the ground. There was a number of moments when I thought "ok, here we go, it's "King Time"", and the moment went away. The drive of the writing was something of a Stephen King who seemed uninterested in embelishing or even finishing the story at his usual level of excellence.

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Summary: King's on a hot streak
Review: Stephen king has been on a hot streak lately. His past 4-5 books have all been very different from his old, darker style. His newer novels have all been much more creative in tyle, and this one is no different. This is a wonderful story, the suspense keeps up well and the various spiritual touches were nice. Also I thought the symbolism in the chapter titles[by baseball innings, e.g. the first chapter was first inning and was intro, and the Bottom of the ninth was the exciting final showdown, etc.] was great. all in all one of king's best works, along with the Green Mile and Gerald's Game.

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Summary: Blair Witch Project, anyone???
Review: I was a third of the way through this book and mentioned to my roommate that I wondered if the people who had made the Blair Witch Project had read the book. I love King's older stuff and I loved this book, too. He proves that you don't have to have goblin's and deamons jumping out and drinking human blood every other page in order to ratchet up the reader's fear. Patricia's desperation and degeneration as the days of her trek continue were very believeable and very frightening. The one thing I didn't particulary like was the "God of the Lost". It felt as though he just through this supernatural element in as a bone to all those people he knew were going to be whining because it wasn't another "Salem's Lot". All in all a good book and a scary read.

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Summary: Good writing, but where's the story?
Review: I thought the writing itself was very, very good. But although the little girl seems to be a cute kid ...... where's the rest of the story? In the end, there just wasn't any point to the whole experience - and certainly no reason to read it.

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Summary: What can I say about this book?
Review: I expected this story to be better than what it acutually was. Though it was good, I just thought that the plot was way too simple. A girl lost in some dark woods . . . that's it. And, as for the title, he could've had a better one. Something like, The Girl Lost in the Woods or The Girl and the Woods. But overall, I'd say, it was a fine book.

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Summary: Tom Gordon couldn't get to third base.
Review: Tom Gordon. Who? I'm not a baseball fan. That aside, I always enjoy Stephen King's descriptions of people and things. He has a special, sometimes disgusting, knack for describing things that we can understand, but rarely have the ability to adequately put in writing. This book includes wonderful King descriptions; however, I think the story itself falls far short of fascinating. I expected the book to have some climactic moments, it didn't. Scary? No. Looking for a surprise ending? There isn't one. Maybe you must like baseball to appreciate this book? I finished this book and immediately felt compelled to look for the missing pieces. Oh well, I won't give up on Stephen King yet though...Bag of Bones, here I come!

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Summary: How can a Stephen King book be this BORING?
Review: My least favorite Stephen King Novel. I kept waiting for something to happen. Anything!

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Summary: Is this Stephen King?
Review: If you have read the other books by King, then you don't find his ability to create a 'cosy, creepy' athmosphere in this book. Also there are no characters he has elaborated (not even the girl). Disappointing.

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Summary: What a hoot!! (All puns intended).
Review: This was quite a ride ~ enjoyable from start to finish, and I am not even a baseball fan. It read like poetry. The images were rich and extremely detailed and well developed. I felt as though I were right there with the heroine in the forest and in her head. Great imagery and who hasn't wondered about the boundaries of reality? Bravo and many thanks to Mr. King.

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Summary: Who says he has to be scary to be good?
Review: Awesome, as always, couldn't put it down, as always. He doesn't have to be scary to succeed at being the alltime best author of our generation