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Summary: Teen's book!!
Review: "The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon" by Stephen King,is a great book and exspecially great for teenagers. It is an inspiring, exciting, and adventurous book. It is about a girl who gets lost in the woods and is trying to find her way home. She is frightened and the thing that is following her is making it even worse. She doesn't know what the thing is and neither will you if you don't read the book. She is only surviving on her love for Tom Gordon. This is an excellent book and I'm rating it a five star book.
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Summary: Good ol yarn. If you've ever been lost in the woods...
Review: ..then you know the kinds of things that can play tricks on your mind. Imagine you are a scared little girl, with only a bag lunch to eat, and no clue on how to get out. Thats the mind set you have to be in to begin to read this book. Many will tell you that this book is about spirituality, or finding yourself, or whatever. But this basically comes down to the mind games you play when you are in total solitude, and the with the absense of normal 20th century comforts, how vulunerable you indeed are. This book does show however, that despite that you may be mad at your loved ones, or feel like you hate the position you are in, it is still best to be amongst the ones you love, and in your current position, because that is better than the alternative, which is solitude and lonliness. Read this book, its a quick read, easy to understand, and it might make you appreciate your comforts, and even like the little annoyances that normally would drive you nuts.
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Summary: WELL TOLD SCARY TALE
Review: Besides King's two novella's, "Shawshank Redemption," and "Stand By Me," this was my first foray into Mr. King's frightening world. I purchased it because I knew it to be less horrifying than most. As a general rule I don't "do horror." However, I always wanted to read his work, his descriptions, his genre. Once. I discovered ONCE is quite enough for me. Though incredibly impressed by his expertise as an excellent story teller, this was as creepy as I could stand. I knew I was in for it when I read, "A stump of a branch thick as an amuputated forearm......" I would not envision that analogy.....Stephen King would.I am glad I read this. His vile descriptions and eerie story made me wince and shake.....what good horror is supposed to do. I now leave him to all those who love the macabre. The quality of his writing is supreme. Good writing.....wrong subjects! Stephen King belongs to his legions of ghastly, ghoulish fans. King is the king of the macabre......I am the queen of the scarity cats and "never the twain shall meet" again!
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Summary: Decent at best
Review: I am not an avid Stephen King reader, so I am not very familiar with his writing style. But, I am however extremely familiar with his movies and I would have to say that if this were made into a movie, it would be pretty juvenile. Most adults wouldn't sit through a two hour or hour and a half film about a child lost in the woods. But, that doesn't mean no one would. This novel/ short story was a nice read. It was slightly suspenseful in a mediocre sort of way. The ending was kind of happy if you like that sort of thing. But, I did thoroughly enjoy all of the characters. Especially Trisha's friend Pepsi (one of those people who like to call people by their last names) and little Trisha's father who calls God the "Subaudible", he was the true definition of a character. All in all, it was a fairly good read, just not your typical Stephen King.
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Summary: A fine addition to King's fine work.
Review: This is one of the most restrained and tasteful of King's books. This story is great for a few hours reading. It is short and one of King's most together plot lines. It's full of testament to his writing skills and a good break from his over the top works for his constant readers. This is not a brain buster. The simplicity and the perfection in which it plays out is masterful. Kid gets lost- and this is what goes on in her head, how she keeps it all together without letting the dark creepy forrest get the best of her. A few scenes away with the relatives and police... Kid gets into trouble and nobody knows how real the trouble is or if it happened at all. When something bad happens to her you may feel a slight knot in your stomach and when something nice happens to her you feel a little bit relieved yourself. It's all in good fun. A really perfect short read, great Sunday evening material. A great book.
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Summary: What lurks in the darkness of the forest?
Review: Trisha is out for a hike in the vast woods of Maine with her mom and brother when she finds herself lost and alone. What follows is a trek that covers more miles than this nine year old should have to face alone, with only a pittance of food and a walkman on which she is lulled to normality by listening to the exploits of her favorite baseball team and pitcher, Tom Gordon. What starts out as a little girl trying to cope with a difficult situation ends up being a horrifying expedition leading to hallucinations. Along the way she finds the bloody remains of mauled animal carcasses, and there is this ever-present feeling that she is being stalked. I admit it was a page-turner, I wanted to know what would happen next, but it was mild compared to some of King's books. I enjoyed how the author developed the main character's change in mentation; we slowly watch her get weaker. The more time that passed the more Trisha's thought process and fears became warped and out of proportion. This book is a short quick read you can probably finish in a day. ....
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Summary: not bad
Review: this is not a bad book, its good to see stephen king hasnt made it overly long. some of the characters are a little one dimensional,but it dosent effect it in a bad way. just dont expect anything brilliant.
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Summary: Little Girl Lost
Review: In this book, King once again shows his ability to write a convincing younger character. This tale of survival in the New England woods shows the King that gets right to the action; a short novel unlike so many of his recent bloated epics that could have used some judicious editing. Our heroine, Trisha McFarland, decides to leave the constant arguing of her divorced mother and unhappy older brother by taking a bathroom break while on a hike in the woods. She quickly gets turned around and ends up wandering farther than anyone can imagine. This is the essence of King's story. Her intelligence, love for her father, and her everlasting faith in Red Sox closer Tom Gordon are all she has to sustain her. Will it be enough? If King had just avoided his philosophical concepts of "the subaudible"(you'll see) and an unnecessary evil "presence" this book might have stood alongside "The Body" as one of King's better short works. As it is, it should captivate the King fan and perhaps is a good choice for those who say "Stephen King" with an air of disdain.
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Summary: tom...whoa
Review: I thought this book was pretty spiffy. It was the first book since I've started my binge of reading that I was actually captivated by it. I wasn't paying attention to page numbers or anything else going on in the world. And I used to love it when there was lots of dialoge especially when the author dished it out well...but this book barely had any and I couldn't have made it better. The only downside to it was the ending. Since the book was building up to be so good I thought the ending would be like "KABLAMO!" but it was just like "boom". yeah that's all
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Summary: Thrilling horror
Review: Trisha - to say it rightaway - is not a character that is in any way too realistic. She is nine years old, has an understanding of baseball that is normal in a forty-year-old, reflects on her situation that is getting worse and worse like a mature and adult person, knows about survival and her metabolism more than any kid of her age. This is one side of the medal. The other side is much more positive. The book is really nerveracking. You can understand that someone gets lost in a vast ocean of trees and animals and evil spirits as it happens to Trisha. It is possible that search parties do not find a single person in this maze, and it is possible to fight for your life in an ordeal like this - even if you are only nine years old. Nature is your friend - but then it is also your enemy, it can help you survive and it can kill you. Even as an adult you would have to fight. You have to fight a merciless environment, and you have to fight yourself and the ghosts that try to kill you, the ghosts you imagine and those that haunt the woods, bears or real ghosts - who cares? So don't forget "a compass and good maps" as the master says. It may be vital. A very good read, a genuine horror thriller.
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