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Summary: Being a Red Sox fan helped...
Review: After being to a couple of Red Sox games this year, and seeing the flashing red banner talking about Tom Gordon being a character in Steven King's new book, I had to read it. I started it Saturday afternoon and was done Sunday night. I got to a point where I felt that I had to speed up reading it or else I was going to give in and read the last page. I don't know if that is a compliment or not! But, I did enjoy it and it certainly kept my interest. It was not up there with Misery, but it was certainly well written. Unfortunetly, I had just finished it when I heard on the news the tragic accident Steve was in. Thank goodness he survived and will recover! My thoughts are with him..
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Summary: One Character alone, or not? Classic King
Review: I love when King uses one character and creates a world out of it. This is classic King, and I can't get enough of it. Even though you are routing for the little girl, you are curious to see what else is out there.
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Summary: Great portrayal of a young baseball fan
Review: Kept me on the edge of my seat. I thought he developed the little girl's character very well...her remembered conversations with her friend sound like the stuff my neighbor and I talked about 15 years ago. I'm a baseball fan and last year's home run race got me through what could have been a really stressful fall...If I was lost in the woods I'll bet Mark McGuire would be leading me out!
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Summary: Enthralling, a new departure for a master.
Review: Stephen King is a master storyteller and proves it again with The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon. I found it as suspenseful as any of his greatest novels. If amazon will let me, I'd like to save time here and mention four other recent novels I greatly admired, THE GREEN MILE, by King, THE TRIUMPH AND THE GLORY, by Steven Edward Rustad, and LONDON, by Rutherfurd.
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Summary: horrible
Review: The worst book I've ever read in my life.I can't believe this book ever got published.Don't waste your time like I did.
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Summary: More realistic than fantastic, but still typically S. King
Review: Book ReviewThe Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon Stephen King Scribner 1230 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10020 Stephen King has the uncanny ability to get into the mind of anyone and anything that he writes about, be it car, dog, or nine year old Trisha McFarland who wanders away from her mother and brother and manages to get lost in the Maine woods. Her only link to civilization is a walkman radio where she can listen to the play by play account of her favorite pitcher, Boston Red Sox closer, Tom Gordon. Her faith in him, her dogged determination to get home, and her desire to stay alive, take you step by step through pine woods, marsh, and water falls. She rises to each occasion, overcoming mosquitoes, wasps, rocks, fever, and "the woods" to make you share minute by minute in her agonizing search for anyone human in the wilderness. As intended, Stephen King reaches into the depths of your soul and drags out the fears and emotions that you refuse to acknowledge as your own. This book, unlike most of his, is more realistic than fantastic, but is still typically and wonderfully Stephen King.
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Summary: Quick Read - One Tough 9 Year Old!
Review: Though this was unlike any Steven King I've read (Bag of Bones being my favorite), it was interesting. This young little girl shows the strength and stamina you seem to expect from a young child. Her undying love for the game of baseball and in particular, Boston Red Sox player Tom Gordon, is in itself the fuel she uses to keep going. The games her mind plays on her makes the long lost journey in the woods even more real. You want to take her in your arms and make it all go away and give her a good warm meal and a hug. He's right, I wouldn't want this to happen to my daughter or anyone else's for that matter. I think being alone in the woods and lost at night would probably be the scariest thing a child could imagine. Try reading it through a child's eyes. What a brave little girl!
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Summary: Unengaging
Review: This is a disappointment. Although the premise sounded quite good, the book isn't. It fails on the most basic point: You do not care very much about the little girl, she is utterly unengaging. She talks like an adult (and I don't refer to the four-letter-words she uses) - a beginner's fault for every writer: You don't just say that a character is nine years old - you also WRITE him/her as a nine year old. Furthermore, the incedents that happen to her aren't particulary interesting. The only joy in this short novel is King's writing style - which still shines in some places. Even though the book is quite short, I would exchange it with Mr. King's brickstones any day. Review by Oliver Naujoks, Marburg/Germany
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Summary: Exhilirating, suspenseful.
Review: The Girl who Loved Tom Gordon is a must-read for Stephen King fans. It was tantalizing and suspenseful. I liked other King books better. Namely, Insomnia and Gerald's Game. The first hundred pages of The Girl who Loved Tom Gordon were relatively uneventful. However,this was of minor importance because the entire book can be read in an afternoon. I designated this book with such a high rating based on the fact that it is an invention of the genius Stephen King.
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Summary: Especially For Fans Of Baseball
Review: This story stayed with me long after I finished reading it. The scenes portrayed by King were so real to me I could almost believe I'd been there. Of course it helps that I am an avid baseball fan and have watched and admired the players, especially the pitchers, of that game for many years. I know some of SK's fans will not enjoy this one because it lacks the far out horror of some of his books, but I have always thought that the scariest things come from within the brain and not walking around for everyone to see. A great story of strength and endurance.
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