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Summary: Don't be mislead because it's not a thick book!
Review: I will admit that with the thickness, or lack there of, of this book... even as an avid King reader... I was truly hesitant to pick it up. I am sorry I waited for those few months!
Trisha, the heroin, showed remarkable bravery when she gets lost in the woods... all she wanted to do was teach a little lesson to her Mother and brother. Armed with her imagination ( sometimes the worst weapon and defense of all) and her walkman, Trisha kept trying to find a way out, only to get in deeper and deeper.
This is one of the very few times that I actually hoped for the bad things NOT to happen...I wanted nothing but sunshine and butterflies for Trisha (trust me, I can't explain it either, lol)
but nevertheless I was very satisfied at ALL the occurances, details, and depth of this book...
I can say only one thing more... don't shy away because it's not a thick book... you'll be very pleased with your purchase!
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Summary: great... primal
Review: Ahhh, such primal fears, such real madness... such a sweet girl and such a sweet story.This is the best kind of writing there is. Not once during this book did I think "nice try, steve" or "that image ALMOST worked..." He's just perfect. Great, great book. And quick too. Highly recommended.
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Summary: A pure, unadulterated debacle.
Review: THE GIRL WHO LOVED TOM GORDON not only isn't on par with King's other novels, but, in my opinion, is one of the [worst] books ever written... The story is about a small girl who -when accidentally separated from her mother and brother on a nature hike- becomes lost in a Maine forest wilderness for several days, and the perils (or imagined) that she encounters during this time. 99% of the book covers her adventures in the forest while she is lost, and believe me, the story is even FAR, FAR more boring and uninteresting than you may think, considering how simple the plot is. Basically, all this book does is describe this girl's day to day experiences in the forest such as: eating poisoned berries and vomiting them up, listening to Tom Gordon pitch for the Red Sox via her walkman-radio, flee from an imaginary creature, vomit some more, etc. etc. The story drags on and on and on and on and it never becomes either interesting or suspenseful during any stage of it. Other than sparse profanity here and there (uttered by the little girl -who talks to herself and apparently learned to swear from a classmate) this is totally a rated G little kid's book, and it's the most insipid kid's book you will ever read in your entire life, by far. Reading this book, one will be hard-pressed to believe that it is Stephen King material; it's untalented, extremely boring, and nearly completely devoid of suspense...Don't make the same mistake I did. Reading THIS...will be the biggest 4 or 5 hour waste of time in your entire life.
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Summary: Blown save
Review: This slim volume is really a "novella" (which, I believe, is Spanish for "short story at full-length novel price") and its brevity acts as a sort of defacto editor which reigns the author in to some extent and makes for a more straightforward tale than one might expect -- especially given the outlandish, everything-including-the-kitchen-sink nature ("Hearts in Atlantis","Dreamcatcher") of King's other recent work. But the ending disappoints, like a slider that gets a bit too much of the plate and all you can do is watch helplessly as the ball leaves the yard....
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Summary: Don't Read This While Camping!
Review: Growing up I started camping at a young age and before I knew it I was wandering thru the woods with my younger brother, scared to death to go too far but wanting to know what was around the next bush and always being disappointed when my parents would discover what I was trying to do. Trisha at the young age of 9, gets lost accidentally and stumbles across a world in the deep woods that I always knew was there but never had the opportunity to discover. At times I felt she was entirely too smart for a 9 year old (knowing and remembering all the info about the berries and plants) and other times I felt that in the real world, she would have had a lot more close encounters with snakes, but overall it was neat book with a happy ending. Unusual for a King book but I'm not complaining.
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Summary: Another Great Novel by Stephen King
Review: I have read many mysteries and terror novels before, however, I feel that this book is more interesting than the others. It is about a nine-year-old girl called Trisha; her parents are divorced and now she now lives with her mother and her older brother, Peter. Trisha is deeply in love with a player named Tom Gordon; she always feels that he is with her. One weekend when her mother takes her and Peter out for picnic, somehow Trisha does not follow the trail with her mother and is lost in the woods. She was frightened and worried. However, she still believes that Tom Gordon is standing besides her and he is leading her to the right pathway. This book describes in depth all the horror and terror of being lost in the woods, and how alone a little girl would really feel in this situation. I like how the author conveys this girl¡¦s love for the player, even though she is lost in the woods, she has the feeling that he is still with her. Her strong feelings for Tom Gordon are realistic and the book shows how a nine-year-old girl really thinks. When she is lost in the woods, the author uses many ways to convey the fear of what might happen, and also allows the reader to experience what it feels like to be lost in the forest alone. When I was reading this book, I would sometimes think and ask myself
¡§If I were this girl, would I be as brave as her, or would I be terribly afraid?¡¨
It made me think about being alone and how I could cope. I enjoyed reading this book and enjoyed the fear of being in the woods.
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Summary: turned out to be an Ok book
Review: When I started reading this book I thought it was a joke. After all how can you write a 260 page novel out of story of the girl who talks to herself and nature? However it turned out an exiting book and even conversations with her other self seem not only normal, but even exicting. I guess it is important to speak to a smart person once in a while. This story starts, endures and ends in the forest. Basucally very enviromentally consience novel. A girl who gets lost tries to get out of the forest for days and eventually almost feels sorry there are trees still left standing.In the process of making this journey she battles her fears and stupid ideas her other self gives her. Her other self should get another novel to fully unveil itself. It is seem to have much more fun than a girl herself. She tells everything straight to your face without hiding the truth and even jokes with the girl. She even got herself in the swamp and made her to go throught the deadly place.
Overall I have to say the book turned a big suprise for me and turned into interesting and exiting even thought it had basically only one physical character.
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Summary: Mixed Feelings
Review: I have mixed feelings about this book. It's well written, and gets exciting towards the end, but Stephen King takes a long time to get there and being lost in the woods for over a week is inevitably rather repetitive. The plot is negligible.
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Summary: This Aint No Teddy Bear Picnic
Review: The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon is a nifty, and entirely plausible, little story about Trisha McFarland, a 9-year-old girl, who gets lost after wandering away from a hiking trail in the Maine woods. King does a remarkable job of getting his reader into the head of his heroine, making her every move seem believable. Though in getting lost Trisha makes a number of crucial errors, they all seem entirely logical when presented from her point of view. I never once found myself saying, "Oh please! Give me a break." Disorientation, hunger, fear, and genuine terror are all components of Trisha's adventures in the woods. She is confronted by perils both real and imagined, and overcomes them with amazing spirit and resourcefulness, not to mention the emotional support, albeit imagined, of her favorite profession baseball player. The latter may sound a little sappy but, trust me, it makes total sense in the book. The only question is whether she can overcome a peril that goes beyond her understanding of the natural world -- a peril that makes a full-grown Black Bear seem comfy and reassuring by comparison. As always King makes the pages fly by and leaves you wishing he had written more.
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Summary: A Wonderful novel from Stephen King
Review: I have read many mysteries and terror novels before, however, I feel that this book is more interesting than the others. It describes in depth all the horror and terror of being lost in the woods, and how alone a little girl would really feel in this situation. I like how the author conveys this girl¡¦s love for the player, even though she is lost in the woods, she has the feeling that he is still with her. Her strong feelings for Tom Gordon are realistic and the book shows how a nine-year-old girl really thinks. When she is lost in the woods, the author uses many ways to convey the fear of what might happen, and also allows the reader to experience what it feels like to be lost in the forest alone. When I was reading this book, I would sometimes think and ask myself
¡§If I were this girl, would I be as brave as her, or would I be terribly afraid?¡¨
It made me think about being alone and how I could cope. I enjoyed reading this book and enjoyed the fear of being in the woods.
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