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Summary: I loved it!
Review: As profoundly insightful of human nature as The Triumph and the Glory, as riveting as The Green Mile, with the classic Stephen King style and pacing and who can possibly complain ? What a great book!
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Summary: Very Good - And it IS a classic King
Review: I thought this was very good. And it is distinctively a King novel. King has not always been about gore and scary. This is the man who gave us Different Seasons with stories such as The Body and Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption. One thing King does that no other author does quite as well is to detail out a character. King is a master of detail giving the reader every nuance of thought process and motivation in a character. I thought he wrote this so well. He wrote believably seeing through the eyes of a 10 year old little girl. As the reader, we become invested in her, her plight and wince and grieve and wonder if she will make it back to civilization. Well done. It is worth the read.
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Summary: An odd little story.
Review: This book at times feels like a novella stretched out to become a novel. It's definitely King, nobody else could've written it, yet at the same time it feels unlike his other work in a curious way. The scary parts of the book seem thrown in, well, because it's a Stephen King book. Not bad, but not quite good enough to recommend, either.
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Summary: IT'S STILL STEPHEN, EVEN IF IN A DIFFERENT WAY
Review: Keeping writing plain horror has probably bored mr. King, and "Bag of Bones" showed us that. It took a very lot of pages to reach the dark core of the story. With this great book, though, he manages to scare people right from page 10. What I loved most of this book was that for once monsters weren't as easy to see as they were in other books. They were hidden in the mind and the soul of that little girl, and we feared and cried with her while all those things happened to her (no spoliers, all right...). I found myself lost in those woods, in a real, dark, wonderful way. Just like only Stephen King can make me feel. This book is ideal for everyone who ever believed there was SOMETHING hidden in the dark, right there.
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Summary: 6 hours with Anne was pure bliss!!!!
Review: These tapes are expensive but would make a wonderful gift for someone who loves Anne Heche and for those people who can not get out for one reason or another. I am giving a copy to my brother who is undergoing back surgery. The story is filled with inspiration. As a teacher the only books I used to censure were Stephen King stories. He has done an about face and I would now recommend this book to teens. I am glad that Anne Heche had such good taste to do the voice for this story. BUY IT!!!!!
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Summary: An interesting book, but not enough "King" too it
Review: I found this book very compelling, but it wasn't like the King books I've read in the past. I did however like the approach he used in her hallucinations...and Tom Gordon. It had sort of a different meaning then some of King's past novels. Something to check out if your a King fan.
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Summary: Let KING LIVE people!
Review: King has been writing horror for what...30 years or more? He is writing what he wants and how he wants and is enjoying what he does. This book has a lot of problems with it in a purely mechanical sense...and it does seem a little rushed. HOWEVER, it is still entertaining and gripping and King's ability to write through the view of a 9 year old girl is astounding. So what does it matter that it's not pure horror in the vein of Pet Semetary or IT? If King was still trying to write stories like this at a time in his life when he didnt want to, do you think we would be getting good material from him? No, if he didn't enjoy writing it we wouldnt enjoy reading it. He'd be churning out derivative and boring trash which just added alot of gore and death. And besides, it's not like he is writing romance's or anything (although some people seem to think 'Bag of Bones' was romance - wake up!), these new breed of King novels are still dark and fantastic. Give the man a break - let him enjoy what he writes.
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Summary: WHERE'S THE CREAM FILLING?
Review: A good surface plot but nothing underneath. I kept thinking that with every page turn something new and exciting would happen but it was the same thing ... bugs, dark, rain etc... Definetly not one of King's best.
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Summary: A Stephen King failure!
Review: The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon is without doubt a failure. The 10 year old girls and boys who read it might find it enjoyable; however, in my opinion, it wasn't worth the paper it was written on. Give me a refund!!!
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Summary: Touching, a new style from King
Review: Only The Triumph and the Glory can compete with The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon for suspense, profound insights into human nature, great adventure, and emotionally powerful scenes. Stephen King has displayed great virtuosity with this one, it is a wonderful book. Mainstream Stephen King readers may not find what they expect in this one, but I think it is a great change of pace for one of the finest writers of our time.
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