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Summary: A delicate story
Review: "The Girl..." is a short story aboutbeing lost in the woods. The little 9-year old makes a series ofmistakes that force her to spend more than a week in the wilderness, thick Northern forest of Maine and New Hampshire. (...)
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Summary: An Object Lesson for Fiction Writers
Review: I teach fiction in Manhattan. My students are very sophisticated, and they will only reluctantly admit they read Stephen King (who absolutely influenced me--I read all his books up until the time I was in 9th Grade). That's too bad. This story is so well told, and King's sense of plot is so muscular that it chugs along even when parts of it don't quite make sense. (It seems unlikely to me, for example, that the novel's protagonist, Trisha, would make the connections and leaps that she does; would a 9-year-old realize, for example, that it was the water that made her sick?) The ending is a bit confusing, thematically. We didn't realize that Trisha identified so strongly with the absent father, so the exclusion of the mother in that final epiphany feels a bit off. But these are minor quibbles. The conflict and character development in this book are so strong that every novellist wannabe should check it out. They'll probably enjoy the trip, too.
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Summary: dread
Review: As Orson Scott Card once put it, there are three types of fear, and Stephen King knows which is the most powerful - Dread. This book keeps you reading (and sweating) simply because you don't know what the hell is out there. He won't let up on his poor character, and you truly care about what's going to happen to her, something which is typically missing from horror stories. I completely loved this book - one of his best, which is saying a lot.
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Summary: It's tough to be a kid
Review: Just remember your childhood. Remember all of the things you had to struggle with just to make it from day to day. Remember your fear, so strong you could taste it. Now take those experiences and turn them into a parable. King has described all the things we face as kids in a lyrical story. Tom Gordon is the refuge we all sought when we were picked on at school, called on to read outloud, face our parents discord amd possible divorce. The courage and determination she shows in the face of such odds is the stuff we dreamed we could have done as kids.
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Summary: Dissapointed
Review: I have been a faithful Stephen King fan for as long as I can recall. This book was sadly a dissapointment to me. The writing was terrific of course, but the story didn't seem to have enough substance.
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Summary: One of Stephen King's BEST!
Review: The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon is unlike most of Stephen King's books. Usually, he likes to write the gory horror stories, while this is more spirital. This one of my favorite stories by him. It's about a 9-year-old girl who gets lost in the woods. The only thing that keeps her sanity is her walkman radio, which she has tuned into a baseball game. Her favorite player Tom Gordon, and the only thing that helps her fight against the dark woods everything that she dreams is out there... Very good. Very, very good book.
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Summary: The Girl Who Love The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
Review: I really enjoyed this novel because it was a short and quick paced story, and I found myself really connecting to Trish. She was well drawn and totally beleivable, and I would recommend that all King fans read it.
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Summary: DONT BELIEVE THE HYPE
Review: I just cant understand why so many people pretend to likethisnovel. Stephen King has written many good books and a few greatones. But he has also written plenty of bad ones. Bt he is human and sometimes just does not deliver. If this book had been written by Michael Nobody everyone would have a differnt opponion of this book. IT IS VERY BORING.There is nothing scarry about this book. And it is not very entertaining. Very little happens over the course of 260 pages. I can understand some people liking the book but it just is not very good. But I I give it an extra star out of sympathy. END
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Summary: Great ride
Review: While it is little slow at the start this novel takes off. A great thrill ride and a must read!
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Summary: My kind of 9 year old girl
Review: I read this short (for King) novel in one sitting. I was impressed with how well a 50 year old man could present the inner workings of a scared and lost 9 year old girl. I was about that age when I became lost on the summer desert of Central Arizona (a long ways from Western Maine) and I know how that sort of thing works. More than once I had to stop reading and remember just how it really was for a scared and brave little kid. King got it and then some, but I don't trust King. He's taken a turn that makes me cringe too many times for me to think I know the story before he's told it. By mid book I was there in the deep forest with Trisha and I couldn't quit til I knew her destiny. Worth the read and then some.
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