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Summary: A Walk Through the Woods?
Review: This was an excellent book! I am not normally a big reader of Mr.King because I usually kinda get lost but when I started this book I could not put it down. He does such a good job in relaying her adventure and her feelings...I mean I felt I was going through everything right along with her. I have never felt like that. You have got to get it, it's excellent. When I was done with the book and ran up to my room to get another one of Stephen King's books. Now I'm reading Skeleton Crew. I love this one too! You just gotta get it!
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Summary: Dull dull dull
Review: Sorry King fans, usually I love King's books, but this one put me to sleep. Kid gets lost in the woods, hallucinates, now fall asleep. YAWN
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Summary: Not the usual fare from King
Review: I don't usually enjoy horror novels, so Steven King doesn't show up often on my reading list. The premise of "The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon," however intrigued me, as it is not King's usual fare. It is scary, but not because of monsters or murderers or such, but rather because of the sense you get of Trisha's helplessness as she is lost in the woods. Her predicament goes a bit too far to be believable, but her method of reasoning through the situations she encounters seems appropriate for a bright girl her age. The story also could have benefited from a stronger focus on the parents' fear at the loss of their child. Overall, though, it's certainly an entertaining and easy-to-read book.
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Summary: Not King's best
Review: I originally bought this book at Sam's when I saw a poster that said they had the new Stephen King book. I bought it and began reading it instantly. I loved the description that Mr. King used and was brought in by the tale of Trisha becoming lost in the woods. However, I was soon disapointed because of how very little action began to happen. There were many pages of flashbacks that didn't fit into the story that well. I became lost about two-thirds of the way through and lost interest due to the "supernatural" events. The ending was quite a disapointment as many of Mr. King's books are. Now, you are probably wondering why I gave this book 4 stars with all of these complaints. Well here are the good sides: A. It is a good story B. It is vividly descriptive C. It was written by Stephen King!
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Summary: Hardly Great
Review: This is a book that I picked up in the airport the other day and read on my flight. It's the first time that I've ever read King and I was thoroughly unimpressed. I would have to believe that this book does not reflect the talent that made him so famous.At no point during my reading did I feel any sense of suspense, fear or terror. The message of the book was great but I still have to give this a low rating because King's intent was to write a book that would give you the chills as well as tell a message, and in the end it didn't happen. This wasn't even a "fun" book to read (which is what I was looking for when I picked it up). When I finished the book I felt like King should have just kept this story to himself as a practice writing. It seems like he's reaching for a different style and hopefully this book will get him there - but I don't think it deserves to be sold to the public without some more work and effort. If I had written this book exactly the same, word for word, it would not have been published.
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Summary: Tom Gordon
Review: Trisha, a nine-year-old girl is lost in the woods during a hike with her mother and bickering older brother. Realizing finally that she is in danger, becoming more frightened and weak as the nights and days move in their cycle. Her hallucinatory conversations with the Boston Red Sox's relief pitcher Tom Gordon begin, helping her to fight off the panic she feels, as she understands she might not get out of the woods alive.
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Summary: This was a short story gone long.
Review: Stephen King got long winded with this short story and had to publish it as a book. Don't waste your time reading this boring story.
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Summary: Rory's Opinion
Review: Stephen King's book, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, is very good because it gave a good description of the woods, it created a sense of fear, and the ending was satisfying. Throughout the entire book the woods are described, and King tells how the girl, Trisha, felt. "Trisha was willing to leave sight of the brook if the clenches of trees and tangles of bushes near it got too thick, but she refused to leave the sound of it." King also created a deep sense of fear. "You won't even get inbarned because they're never going to find you. You'll die out here, just wander around in these woods until you die." The ending was satisfying. It was worked in perfectly and the girl survives. I like Stephen King. He has written many great books and this is just one of those that should be a classic.
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Summary: Inexcusable
Review: This book is so horrid I don't even know how to convey it. Like Gerald's Game, this book doesn't have enough of a plot to keep you interested. It is basically just this little girl wandering about the woods, and trying to survive. King is an enigma because in latter years he is trying to write diffently than his successful ventures! He needs to stick with what he began with-horror, suspense, etc. This story should be labeled young adult. I think teens might enjoy it. Maybe.
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Summary: Review for The girl who loved Tom Gordon
Review: The girl who loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King was interesting because it kept the reader glued to it. Situations that Trisha got in resulted in more bad things to endanger her health. A good example from the book is,"The rest of her face was as bad or even worst. Lumpy where she had been stung, merely swollen where mosquitoes in their hundreds had had at her while she was sleeping." It was eerie and almost real in some chapters. King did a great job making it sound life-like and scary. This is another great example,"But the black-clad arms rose...the claws that had left the marks on the trees, the claws that had torn off the deer's head and then ripped its body apart." But King also put in his writing; baseball talk. Tom Gordon was Trisha's favorite baseball player and she listened to his games on her walkman. She imagined that he was walking with her at all times and that he was protecting her throughout her time in the wilderness. Here is an example,"Well, the Red Sox have got their work cut out for them,"Troop remarked. "They're down seven to one in the bottom of the forth and Andy Pettitte is twirling a gem." This novel had a lot of special events in it that made the book hard to put down. I highly recomend this book to anyone that is a Stephen King fan.
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