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Summary: An attention graber for the non- readers
Review: I read this book in 6th grade. I picked it up and said, "I'll never be able to read this" i was wrong I read it in 2 days. I hated reading until I read that book. He's so descriptive and the words run so smoothley. I highley reccomend this book to people from ages 12- 50
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Summary: Good
Review: The girl who loved Tom Gordon is a story about a young girl named Trisha. She goes hiking with her Mom and her brother which argued a lot with each other about a lot of things then wanting to have a break and needing to answer a nature's call Trisha gets seperated from them but she can not find her way back. She's lost in the bush. I am a huge Stephen King fan but this one wasn't what I have expected. OK. At least 95% of the plot was regarding Trisha - it almost seemed that King forgot with whom did she go hiking!
I struggled but I still made it to the last page when Trisha is finally found.
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Summary: Sleepless nights ahead to finish this great book.
Review: I loved this book, it held my attention fully. I stayed
up late a few nights to finish it because I could not wait
to see how this little girl would finally make out in
finding her way back on the right trail. I would read it
again, every page.
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Summary: I was surprized...
Review: I'm not normally a fan of Stephen King - I'll admit it, I'm too wussy for the level of creepiness he can achieve. But a friend told me I had to read this one and in a weak moment I bought it. I was glad I did. It wasn't what I'm used to from other books like IT and Carrie but I loved the story. Our young Trisha gets lost in the woods during a family outing. During her time wandering in the woods, she is starving and tired and eventually starts to hallucinate but keeps going as she tries to find her way out of the woods.
It was a great book with good flow, I was never bored. My only 'negative' comment would be that it was not long enough.
Fan or not, pick this one up!
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Summary: A very very boring book
Review: I don't recommend it at all
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Summary: Never quite gels
Review: The young heroine of this story, a young girl lost in a very dank woods, is certainly admirable and strong and courageous, and we root for her. But the obstacles thrown in her path, while certainly dangerous, feel far too mundane to really get our blood racing. And King's fawning use of the Red Sox as a form of salvation and connection for the girl really doesn't work. Maybe if you're a fanatical Sox fan, but even then, I think the device is thin, at best. Once again, as King does from time to time, he takes a perfectly acceptable short-story (or maybe novella) and pads it to book length. He did this with CUJO, but that book had such momentum and drama behind it that we actually enjoyed the unnecessary detail, but it kept us in that world a while longer. But as with GERALD'S GAME or FROM A BUICK 8, TOM GORDON simply feels padded. And this makes it seem a bit tired and uninspired. It's rare to read a King book that feels rote and uninspired, and therefore I feel particularly harsh towards it. He's certainly got enough money without needing to release work that clearly didn't fully fire his imagination. Less is more, on several levels. The only positive to this book, I would say, is that if you have younger kids (like 12-15) and you want to introduce them to King without full immersion in his better, but bloodier and rawer, books, then TOM GORDON might be an okay way to start. But I'd go with EYE OF THE DRAGON, which he wrote with a younger audience in mind. THE GIRL WHO LOVED TOM GORDON, sadly, is one of the very few Stephen King books I can't recommend.
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Summary: Great Book!
Review: This book was awesome to read. I first borrowed it from my friends' dad, when my friends told me it was a good book. I read it while listening to this one song and eating my fav. candies and taking the sun on the balcony. When I was finished, I thought it was a great book!
I don't know what made it so great, maybe the fact that Trisha was only 9 years old and not an adult, which means she was very young to know anything about being lost, especially in the woods. I know my dad would have said it's a boring book, since he don't like Stephen King's books, but I don't think it was really boring, it was more like interesting because it had all the little details which gave you the feeling that you were in the woods with her and watch her journey.
It was also good in a way, because this would really happen for real, so it wasn't just fiction, but a story which would happen to anyone at all as young as Trisha and also older, so it basically told you not to go into the woods by yourself without a good map and compass! Can someone please tell me everything she ate in the woods? What are the names of the berries she ate and what other things she found for food? My book's in Finnish, so I'd like to know the names in English!!! THANKS!
EVERYONE READ THE BOOK! It's great!
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Summary: Makes you want to go hiking!
Review: Well I must say after my last book (1000 pages and void of any real content - Elizabeth George "Traitor to Memory" DONT BUY IT) this was just wonderful! Short, sweet, definitely to the point, and it keeps you interested! I loved the little girl's attitude throughout all the nasty little things happening to her. Definitely a good and quick read. It's worth your time!
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Summary: Good--
Review: Well, Stephen King has made yet another successful novel, this one shorter than most of his work, and personally his shorter novels seem to be better than the more lengthy ones. This book is, of course, very descriptive. You actually feel the itchy vexation of misquito bites, or the painful sting of a wasp. The only downfall of this is that it seems to be slightly repetitive, however, it also gives you a personal relationship with Trisha, and you begin to feel sorry for her, and the thought of her dying actually brings tears to your eyes. I highly suggest getting this book, or if not buy it, check it out at the library, for it is a diffinate Must Read!
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Summary: One of Stephen King's Best
Review: I read the book, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King. I enjoyed this book and its many twists and turns. This book has very vivid details which make you feel as if you are Trisha, lost in the woods with a creature you made up out of your own personal fears. Although the fears of Trisha McFarland may not be your own, you absorb her pain because of the way the author portrays her fears. One of my favorite details is,"She could hear the sough of the wind through the big old west-countrey pines, she could hear the sqwuak of a jay and the far-off hammering of a wood pecker digging his mid-morning snack out of a hollow tree, she could hear a couple of freshley arrived mosquitoes(they were buzzing around both ears now)but no humans."(p.g 28) Another breath taking moment in this book is, ""The world is a worse-case scenario and I'm afraid all you sense is true," said the buzzing wasp-voice. Its claws raked slowly down the side of its head, goring through its insect flesh and revealing the shining bone beneath.(p.g 145)
I think this books theme was very clear. Although this book can be seen in many different ways, about a girl lost in the woods, creatures in the woods, or a girls obsession with a base ball player; I believe that the theme of the book and the message the author was trying to get across was to never give up and to keep the important things in life close to you. He shows this by again and again putting Trisha through horrible situations, although because of her strong love and compassion for Tom Gordon her life time idol, she chose not to let go so she could one day meet him.
This is one of my favorite books I have ever read. It is breath taking and chill giving. I reccomend this book to every one. It is something that will keep you on the edge with suspense, but at the same time teach you the true meaning of hope.
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