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Summary: The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
Review: OK. I admit it. When I read for work it's usually boring e-mails or some kind of memo or technical document, so I love the escapism of Stephen King. Yet I think he's at his scariest when he writes about something that it's easy to imagine could occur because it doesn't have a huge dose of the supernatural or paranormal (Gerald's Game is an excellent example). That's why I liked this book. Plus, I used to live in Maine and hike in New Hampshire and his descriptions unerringly recreate the atmosphere. Add to that having a kid the age of the protagonist in the book, and it seems close to home.The ending was a little predictable, but at least it gets away from the trend in many books these days of the bad guy squashing the good guy and walking away unscathed (try Hannibal). King's best books are ultimately about redemption more than retribution (try his alter ego Bachman for that). I also like Desperation and The Stand.
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Summary: king repeats himself with this novel.
Review: Stephen King is a writer who has ripened with age. He no longer writes horror stories, but humanity stories. We saw glimpses of it in his earlier work, but as he has gotten older, so have his novels. He wrote a book about a decade ago titled "Gerald's Game". That book, about a woman who is strapped to a bed for four days without rescue, is almost the same novel as "Gordon". A woman is alone with her thoughts,a woman needs a figure to get out of the mess( in this case tom gordon, in "gerald's game" her long time friend), each women is stalked by a mythical, terrifying god-like figure, and each goes deep into the main characters mind to find resolution to what ailement they might have( trisha's mom and brother's fighting,in Gerald's Game her sexual abuse). In "Gerald's Game" it's like somebody dared KING to write a novel about a woman tied to a bed; in "Gordon" it's like somebody dared the authour to write a novel about a girl trapped in the woods. If you read both novels they are incredibly similar. With that having been said, the book isn't entirely bad. There are parts that are very good, but a climax where a walkman is thrown at a bear that has been stalking a girl through a swamp....please! Gordon I must say is nothing more than a wast of an afternoon. A deep love for baseball is the best part about this book, but even that is not enough to redeem it.
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Summary: Fast-paced
Review: I am a huge Stephen King fan and have read as many of his books as I can get my hands on. This story was one I couldn't put down , it's the only one I have read from begining to end without putting it down. I couldn't wait to see if this little girl would overcome the odds facing her on her "journey" through the forest. It's not quite a horror book, but as many true fans would know of Stephen King's books it doesn't have to involve supernatural things to be great.
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Summary: Oops!
Review: It is a good book but certainly not "hot horror" as categorized above.Unfortunately, I fear there will be people who choose not to read this book as a result of its headline here.As avid King readers know, some of his books simply do not fit the stereotype that exists in many minds. This is one of those books.
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Summary: I'm glad she made it out, because I didn't.
Review: The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon was good, but not great. I was looking for more and didn't get it. In any Stephen King novel, there is a bit of the supernatural that drives the book forward. I didn't get it here, so I was let down. However, it was still a good book and recommended for those looking for a safe read.
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Summary: Good read for the pool, but not much substance
Review: This was definitely not King's greatest work. As a mother of an almost-9-year-old, I found King's description of Trisha's thoughts too far off base. Additionally, I didn't buy that a 9-year-old would do the things King has her doing. Nevertheless, I was intrigued with finding out how it ended.
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Summary: The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
Review: I am far from being a Stephen King fan, but I must say that he is a masterful writer in this work. The girl is lost in the woods after a truly beleivable sequence of events where she got separated from her mother and other members of her party. King places you side-by-side with this girl, wise in the ways of the woods, in many respects. You walk with her. You sense her mounting apprehension. You come to rely on hearing how Tom Gordon is doing. The reader must marvel at her tenacity and staying power. King takes you right up to the end, arm-in-arm with the girl.
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Summary: Good!
Review: I am a big fan of Stephen King movies, but I haven't read much of his novels. This is only the second novel by him that I have read. I found it a very simple and very exciting novel. It's about a girl who gets lost in a forest, but she realizes she is not alone. It's very excellent and it will take you only a day to read it.
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Summary: Very disappointed
Review: As a rule I love Stephen King...but not this time. This book started out slow but I kept reading hoping the plot would pick up but it never happened. If anyone besides Stephen King would have written this I would have given up and not bothered to finish it. If I didn't know better I would think someone else had written this one!
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Summary: Better to read it than to listen to it!
Review: The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon is certainly not one of Stephen King's best works, but based on what he has done over the past decade it looks like he is on the comeback trail. I think it's safe to say that this is more of a young adult novel than traditional King horror-fiction, so that is how I am basing my review. It is certainly a satisfying chiller to the graduates of the Goosebumps books, and provides a decent introduction into the world that Stephen King can create. Most of the traditional King elements are present, and the ones that are left out are a very welcome deletion. King still posesses great ability in making the reader feel as if they are actually part of the setting. Also present is his amazing way of bringing the characters of his stories to life, and he flaunts that power to the maximum in this story, giving life to inanimate objects with stunning clarity. Of course King's traditional flop ending is included, but it nose-dives more graciously than in his previous works. It is one of King's most unusual trademarks, and I wonder if he just lacks the ability to end a story in a way that doesn't make the reader want to skip ahead to the epiplogue. What is missing in Girl, thankfully, is every trace of King's recent delves into perversion that seemed a mainstay only a few years ago (i.e. The Library Policeman, The Regulators, etc.). Overall this is a very good story that can attract suspense fans as well as horror fans. I am reviewing the audiobook version of this story, however, and that portion of it was simply torture. I don't know who liked Anne Heche's voice enough to give her this reading, but it might has well have been Fran Drescher for all I could stand. At some points I honestly feared that my ears would start bleeding. Heche's screams for "help" were so loud and so frequent that I felt totally embarrassed, thinking that everyone within a block from me could hear it through my headphones and wonder what the hell that noise was. It certainly took away from my enjoyment of the story, but I have the decency enough to base my rating on King's work and not Heche's. Ugh. Recommended read, but stay away from the audiobook (unless you listen to it through a pillow).
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