The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

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Summary: Different, but just as riveting!!!!
Review: When I picked it up, I first noticed how short it was. But once I got into it, that didn't matter. This was probably one of the best King books that I have read in a long time. And it being so different from the rest of King's books, is really what made it so gripping. Through King's plot developing, I was pulled into the story and felt evrything that Trisha felt. Her pain, her sorrow, her fear, and most importantly, her joy. I was so hooked, that I read this book in one day. If anyone out there is loking for a good, exciting read, please read "The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon."

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Summary: Interesting and Intelligent Look at Being Lost in the Woods!
Review: This book exemplifies King's ability to thoroughly develop and interact with his characters. By the end of the book, King had brought me to the point where I really cared about what became of Trisha. The story was not as exciting or imaginative as some of Stephen King's other tales, but the book was still very entertaining considering it was 90% monologue. I definitely recommend this book to anyone looking for a great character novella (also it is easy and entertaining reading for the beach or poolside).

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Summary: It is just a book about a little girl lost.
Review: I am an avid fan of Mr.King's but this was not one of his better books. It was just a book about a little girl lost in the woods. Come on Stephen, you can do much better.

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Summary: Hits a home run!
Review: King at his best, as a great story-teller. Are fans aware that they can get the personal, playfun side of King on STRANGER THAN FICTION! (the Wrockers- a bunch of singing authors!!!), the new CD?????

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Summary: It's certainly worth a try!
Review: I will admit first of all that I am not a King fanatic, though I do enjoy much of his work. Usually I am turned off by his gratuitous violence which is thankfully not present, and his profanity which is minimal in this book. This was a good story, though the beginning was uninteresting and the end awful. The middle got progressively better until I could feel my own pulse race and I began to truly get jumpy, but one can sense in the last four "chapters" the plot winding down. The last two are like King just got sick of it and decided to slop something off to make it appear like an ending. It was horribly contrived, formulaic, melodramatic and boring. But don't let the last few pages discourage you from reading it! Overall it is a pretty good book, short enough to read and finish just in your spare moments, and creepy in some places. I would really I guess give it three and a half stars. Try it, you might like it.

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Summary: WOW!!
Review: I could not put the book down, King has done it again. I felt like I was lost in the woods. Great story of personal survival and dealing with what nature has to offer. READ THE BOOK King fans you won't be sorry

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Summary: Banishing Darkness
Review: A totally absorbing novella that pays homage to Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes. Instead of a smile carved into a waxen bullet, we have a transistor radio and a determined pitcher. Brilliant!

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Summary: Extraordinary
Review: Good heaven's! I'm just to my last few pages of this book but oh boy I dont want to finish it it yet. I just love this one. Bags of bones wasn't so appealing to me. It was more drama than horror. For the last two years I just been reading fierce stephen king. He is the best storyteller ever. He makes you to want to keep waiting for the next one. His characters are outline in a way that's almost like real life your reading about. Stephen king your the best. Don't let any bad reviews from keeping you from making fans happy like me... Take care stephen.

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Summary: Only Stephan King could get away with this book.
Review: I'm obviously not alone in my feelings that the book was boring. It really did move too slow. There was no attention getter at the beginning, or the middle now that I think about it. Nothing really happened. The characters were poorly developed. The plot was linear, with no real subplots. A storyline dynamic better suited for a younger reader. If this book had been written by a less popular author it never would have made it to print.

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Summary: Not a typical S.King book.
Review: I thought the book was good, but not typical King style. It could have been more frightening, and it was drawn out a bit. But I did enjoy spending time with Patricia.