The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

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Summary: It was a sort of slow book
Review: I thought this book was kind of slow half the book you can just predict. I love how Stephen King said the end..... "Game over." . I think it was good overal. I have to say "Bag of bones" was a much better book. But one of the many good things of the book was how he described things, I could almost feel myself being bittin by all those mosquitos bitting my eyes. This was a good book to read and worth to read again. But dont take it from me a little 13yr old... Read it yourself :)

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Summary: Gripping, Emotional, Wonderful
Review: This was a great read. The reader feels he/she is in the forest too. Mystical yet real. This is a book that should be read.

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Summary: Another easy read from King
Review: As an avid reader of King I feel this book was an amalgam of his talents as a involving story teller and as a suspensefull writer. I enjoyed this book because it was so much like somthing that you would read in the headlines...Little girl lost. What King does however is describe the whole story and the undeniable force of survival that exists in all of us. great read.

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Summary: Short and sweet,wonderfully detailed. KING RULES!
Review: King amazes me with his ability to write from the point of veiw of a woman(Geralds Game, Rose Madder etc.) This book comes straight from a 9 year old girls mind! If you want to be young, scared, and lost in the woods with Stephen King, read it. It is not a gripping horror, yet it manages to put you right there with young Trisha. Dealing with the breakup of her family, she finds herself facing deeper life issues as she survives days in the woods imagining her favorite ball player is with her, giving her strength. I dare not tell more, I read it in one evening. This book is full of truths and revelations!

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Summary: Stephen, you missed on this one
Review: This book missed the mark by a "green" mile. It was not up to the author's usual standards. It wasn't boring, but it was predictable. It was obvious the big, bad monster was going to turn out to be a bear. I want the old Stephen King back, the one who writes 900+ pages and puts kids in peril. Now that is storytelling. Not this trash.

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Summary: A little beauty
Review: This little beauty stands by itself as yet another incredible example of how King can take an ordinary situation and turn it into a cracking good read. I was initially suspicious of the length of the book, but was delighted to relish again in Kings great ability to write about a character so different in space and time to himself and still come up with something that feels completely genuine. One can genuinely identify with Trish Mcfarland and its always a constant source of amazement that king can seemlessly express the thoughts feelings and emotions of his characters-even a 12 year old girl.Kings characters are believable and interesting.Best read all at once on a cold afternoon on the sofa..

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Summary: King needs to chill
Review: Stephen King has always been my favorite author; he's always had a clever, if not repetitive, story to tell. Perhaps he's working too hard, though. His latest, "The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon" is typically King-esque; suspense, other-worldy elements, and of course, a kid in the story. However, the first one hundred pages drag slowly and terribly. Most of the book is a narrative, and very nature-oriented. One would think there would be more action, more brushes with death, no matter how unrealistic (that's never stopped King before), but here we find King (and his character Trisha) going in circles. By the end of this short novel, it is a rather enjoyable read, but not what one expects King to pull off with such a subject at hand. Steve, slow down. Take more time developing your books. But, of course, I'll always read whatever he chooses to write.

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Summary: Didn't really care what happened at the end
Review: I bought this book because my realtor's name is Tom Gordon and I was selling my house. I like a lot of Stephen King's work, but this one just didn't keep me interested. I did finish the book, so it wasn't awful, but I didn't care about the main character at the end. I could tell there was plenty of research done, and some of it was interesting, but my overall take is that somebody can have my copy. Unfortunately, the realtor wouldn't take the book off my hands!

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Summary: King's Power of 'Belief'.
Review: Once again Stephen King has brilliantly illustrated his belief in 'Belief'. As Trisha created the stillness, the walkman in her hand wasn't a walkman, it was a baseball, and she was in the bottom of the ninth, a close situation. It was her imagination, her total and complete belief in herself and Tom Gordon's God that caused the God of the Lost to back away, afraid. Trisha had won. Just like Jack Sawyer beat the guards at Agincourt with a guitar pick and Bill Denbrough and his gang beat the clown with ball bearings and Alan Pangborn defeated the devil with his son's magic kit. King has shown me time and again the power of belief, the power to infuse something ordinary with your own will, your own love, and make it a deadly weapon for the evil in the world. I found the novel inspiring and as hard to put down as The Shining. I believe this book the closest King has been to King for a while. A must for all TRUE FANS. Even if you don't like the Red Sox.

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Summary: Disappointing
Review: This one reads as if someone put a stopwatch on King & said, "You have 24 hours to write a story. Setting: girl lost in the woods. Ready, GO!" 24 hours later, this is what we get. Hard to believe there are so many errors in a piece this short. It is still an engaging read -- Steve can spin a yarn. The other thing that kept me going was the knowledge, gained from reading King for almost 20 years now, that he has been known to kill off the kid and end the story tragically (see Cujo). That knowledge left the outcome uncertain, right up to the end. But this is a disappointing work, considering that King had gotten back to producing at least a few worthwhile pieces (Green Mile, Desperation, Storm of the Century) in the past few years after years of complete crap (Insomnia, Delores Claiborne, Gerald's Game).