The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

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Summary: Didn't really care what happened at the end
Review: I bought this book because my realtor's name is Tom Gordon and I was selling my house. I like a lot of Stephen King's work, but this one just didn't keep me interested. I did finish the book, so it wasn't awful, but I didn't care about the main character at the end. I could tell there was plenty of research done, and some of it was interesting, but my overall take is that somebody can have my copy. Unfortunately, the realtor wouldn't take the book off my hands!

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Summary: King's Power of 'Belief'.
Review: Once again Stephen King has brilliantly illustrated his belief in 'Belief'. As Trisha created the stillness, the walkman in her hand wasn't a walkman, it was a baseball, and she was in the bottom of the ninth, a close situation. It was her imagination, her total and complete belief in herself and Tom Gordon's God that caused the God of the Lost to back away, afraid. Trisha had won. Just like Jack Sawyer beat the guards at Agincourt with a guitar pick and Bill Denbrough and his gang beat the clown with ball bearings and Alan Pangborn defeated the devil with his son's magic kit. King has shown me time and again the power of belief, the power to infuse something ordinary with your own will, your own love, and make it a deadly weapon for the evil in the world. I found the novel inspiring and as hard to put down as The Shining. I believe this book the closest King has been to King for a while. A must for all TRUE FANS. Even if you don't like the Red Sox.

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Summary: Disappointing
Review: This one reads as if someone put a stopwatch on King & said, "You have 24 hours to write a story. Setting: girl lost in the woods. Ready, GO!" 24 hours later, this is what we get. Hard to believe there are so many errors in a piece this short. It is still an engaging read -- Steve can spin a yarn. The other thing that kept me going was the knowledge, gained from reading King for almost 20 years now, that he has been known to kill off the kid and end the story tragically (see Cujo). That knowledge left the outcome uncertain, right up to the end. But this is a disappointing work, considering that King had gotten back to producing at least a few worthwhile pieces (Green Mile, Desperation, Storm of the Century) in the past few years after years of complete crap (Insomnia, Delores Claiborne, Gerald's Game).

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Summary: I was surprised this turned out to be a page-turner.
Review: This story was very well written; so much so, that my eyes are tired from reading almost all of it in one sitting. After reading awhile, I identified so much with the little girl, that it was almost like me trying to find my way out of the woods. It was very suspensful, exciting, and of course, it became so important that this gutsy little girl make it. The analogy at the end brought a tear to my eye and I was not disappointed in this book in any way. Thanks S.K.

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Summary: He's Baacckk!
Review: After reading Bag of Bones, I thought I'd never buy another S.King book. I am half way through The Girl Who Lvd T.Gordon and it has me anxiously waiting to read what will happen next. The book really holds your interest. I find myself saying out loud saying hang in there Trisha just hang in there everything is going to be OK. For those skeptics that thought King was losing his touch well he's not! I don't think I'll every go hiking again.

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Summary: predictable plot
Review: I can't believe that readers were "touched" by Trisha McFarland....how could you care when it was SO obvious that she would make it out of the woods?This story( please note: I say story, not novel!) would have been more suspenseful had the child molester in fact been in the woods...hiding from him would have seemed more plausible than being stalked for days by a bear! As to the ending, how about Trisha's parents arranging to have the real Tom Gordon come to meet her @ the hospital? Her disappearance had been publicized, so it would not have been unrealistic for a major leaguer to respond after hearing of her devotion. Now that would have been a big finish to an otherwise lame book!P.S. Believe it or not, I am a Stephen King fan!

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Summary: Stephen King knows kids and scary things.
Review: He did it again ! Stephen King knows kids and what scares most people. This time the moster is in our minds until we're half waythrough the book. Then the tension builds, while we wonder when the first confrontation will happen. The end is both suprising and exhilerating.

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Summary: Everything the Name King Promises
Review: Now, listen up, all you negative reviewers. True, this was not like King's other books, but Carrie and Salem's Lot were almost universes apart! So what if it's different? It's still enjoyable. King has captured the feeling of being stalked by a wild animal perfectly in this book! No matter who you are, if the image of 1,000 dead and mutilated deer hanging in the trees didn't at least make you uneasy, you're lying. This book was everything the name promises, and while the villan didn't turn out to be what I expected or hoped, the narrative and imagry was, as always, flawless. Keep it up and bravo, Mr. King. We LOYAL fans are still behind you!

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Summary: BOOOO!!!!!
Review: hmmm....how does one say this?? this book is not very good. there was a time when this good man we all know as stephen king could put life into the dead. he took dracula and made him into a town. he brought the devil back to life in an antique store. this is the same man who reinvigorated telekenisis at a high-school prom. but those days may be over now. if this novel is any indication of a new direction, a new form, a new genre, a new anything that may be permanent, than society may have to kiss those heydays of interest a sweet goodbye. this book is as boring as most any ancient classic and without the major literary merit. i'm sorry mr. king, but if u intend to go down as one of america's greatest writers than something must be done, for to go out like this would be far from great.

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Summary: Different than King's usual stuff but good.
Review: The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon was a moving tale, one of those books which have touched me deeply. Of all the books I've read in the last few months, only The Triumph and the Glory touched me as profoundly as King's latest. I highly recommend it, in fact I highly recommed both books!