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Summary: Somewhat of a let-down
Review: I was overjoyed to see that King had a new novel out. I really enjoyed his last, "Bag of Bones," which got back to his old "leave the lights on" style. But I was sorely disappointed in this book.It almost seemed as if he rushed through it. You never really 'connect' with Trish, the main character. And in most of his novels, you feel as if you intimately know all of the characters. I thought he did a much better job of getting into the mind of the father in "Pet Sematary" when he was digging his son up and redepositing him in the spoiled micmac burial ground. He didn't even come close with this one, as I thought he would. She slowly becomes delusional, just as Louis did, but there is a lot lacking in detail. The book is filled with uneventful and boring chapters. I do believe I was more terrified reading "Lost World" by Michael Crichton. The 'God of the Lost' is so poorly described, it is barely on par with the boogeyman, and, sadly, not nearly as scary. I believe this novel had the potential to be great, but I don't feel he was really into it. I will keep reading, but this one really felt like he "cheated."
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Summary: Superb, as usual.
Review: Nothing is more frightening than our own imagination. As an adult, the thought of being lost in the woods, in the dark is one that I don't want to comtemplate for long. As a mother, the thought of my child being in the same situation is worse. Stephen King reminds us all that we should never stop looking under our beds. Sometimes our imagination does bite!
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Summary: Wonderfully Written!
Review: I really loved this book. Trisha McFarland was a great character. I love King's books in which he releases a single character in peril and just leaves them alone to be with their thoughts. One wouldn't usually think of a simple story of a girl getting lost in the woods of being all that spectacular, but King's character is so real that it is in this case. One can only imagine the scare that anyone would get from being lost, let alone a 9 year old girl. I also really liked the baseball references in this book because...I love baseball. They made an already enjoyable read that much more enjoyable: especially at the beginning of the baseball season.
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Summary: Great Novel
Review: This book was a great read, I truly enjoyed it, definitely one of his best books.
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Summary: Brilliant,and totaly grasping novel
Review: This book was an outstanding peice of work.Although if your looking for the king of the past with all the blood and guts its not here. This does not mean he should hang it up it is an excellent book that keeps you on the edge of your seat from the first to last page.Anyone with an open mind can really feel the fear that Trisha does.If you figured out what the creature was before it was time so what for those of us who know the power of the bear could still feel frightened for her safety.This was a little out text for King but was still a fine reader this book will reach out to those who can't read his true horror novels theres nothing wrong with expanding his horizons keep up the great work i'll be waiting for the next one this summer.
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Summary: A good but predictable work by the all time greatest writer.
Review: King seems to be tackling, new (to him)waters recently with Bag of Bones and now The Girl who Loved Tom Gordon. While I'm starting to miss the old gory fun of King of old, I enjoy his new found writing style. I actually care about the girl. I wanted to see her survive. Now that's a strange twist.
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Summary: Great!!!
Review: Finally, after several so-so books, King made me a fan again. I've read all his books and his earlier works thrill me more than later ones. But this book brought me back into his fold and kept me engrossed.
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Summary: Is it time for Stephen King to "take a hike?"
Review: Another over-hyped disappointing read by S.K. The "being" stalking the girl in the woods could have been so much more chilling..remember Cujo? I think Trish needed some more harrowing adventures on her trek and more physical obstacles to overcome. The story plodded tiredly along, just like Trish.
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Summary: The Guy Who Used to Love Stephen King
Review: If you have expectations of reading Stephen King as you once loved him, forget this one. The old and middle writings of King were my cup of tea! Then he changed. I no longer have any desire to finish the Dark Tower series (apparently nor does he) and what his current writing has become no longer interests me. This book deals with a nine-year-old who gets lost in the woods. Yeah, and... And that's the point. There's not anything to it. Skip this one.
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Summary: Proof (if any were needed) that Stephen King can WRITE......
Review: Wow. I haven't been so impressed with a Stephen King novel in years - not since "Salem's Lot", and he wrote that back in the 70's. I'm impressed with this for far different reasons, of course. "Salem's Lot" was a pure horror novel - a small town in Maine is visited by a vampire. "Tom Gordon", by contrast, deals with a totally different kind of horror. No vampires, werewolves, or any of the other creatures King's dark imagination has come up with in his other novels. No, this horror is something that everyone can identify with in one form or another - the horror that occurs when a child turns up missing. King deals mostly with the child's point of view here - what happens to that child when she loses her way, to put it euphemistically. In this case, Trisha McFarland's imagination simply runs wild. She imagines good things - her conversations with Red Sox relief pitcher Tom Gordon, for example - and bad things - the "thing" that is following her throughout her journey. I won't spoil the resolution of that particular part of the story, except to say that it has a happy ending. And I actually cried when I got to the end of this book - something I never dreamed I'd do for a Stephen King novel. Oh, it's not perfect - but it's a damn sight better than a lot of what King has written over the last few years. And because of the kind of horror it deals with, it's also one of his most frightening books ever.
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