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Summary: Great Book!
Review: This book was awesome to read. I first borrowed it from my friends' dad, when my friends told me it was a good book. I read it while listening to this one song and eating my fav. candies and taking the sun on the balcony. When I was finished, I thought it was a great book!
I don't know what made it so great, maybe the fact that Trisha was only 9 years old and not an adult, which means she was very young to know anything about being lost, especially in the woods. I know my dad would have said it's a boring book, since he don't like Stephen King's books, but I don't think it was really boring, it was more like interesting because it had all the little details which gave you the feeling that you were in the woods with her and watch her journey.
It was also good in a way, because this would really happen for real, so it wasn't just fiction, but a story which would happen to anyone at all as young as Trisha and also older, so it basically told you not to go into the woods by yourself without a good map and compass! Can someone please tell me everything she ate in the woods? What are the names of the berries she ate and what other things she found for food? My book's in Finnish, so I'd like to know the names in English!!! THANKS!
EVERYONE READ THE BOOK! It's great!
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Summary: Makes you want to go hiking!
Review: Well I must say after my last book (1000 pages and void of any real content - Elizabeth George "Traitor to Memory" DONT BUY IT) this was just wonderful! Short, sweet, definitely to the point, and it keeps you interested! I loved the little girl's attitude throughout all the nasty little things happening to her. Definitely a good and quick read. It's worth your time!
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Summary: Good--
Review: Well, Stephen King has made yet another successful novel, this one shorter than most of his work, and personally his shorter novels seem to be better than the more lengthy ones. This book is, of course, very descriptive. You actually feel the itchy vexation of misquito bites, or the painful sting of a wasp. The only downfall of this is that it seems to be slightly repetitive, however, it also gives you a personal relationship with Trisha, and you begin to feel sorry for her, and the thought of her dying actually brings tears to your eyes. I highly suggest getting this book, or if not buy it, check it out at the library, for it is a diffinate Must Read!
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Summary: One of Stephen King's Best
Review: I read the book, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King. I enjoyed this book and its many twists and turns. This book has very vivid details which make you feel as if you are Trisha, lost in the woods with a creature you made up out of your own personal fears. Although the fears of Trisha McFarland may not be your own, you absorb her pain because of the way the author portrays her fears. One of my favorite details is,"She could hear the sough of the wind through the big old west-countrey pines, she could hear the sqwuak of a jay and the far-off hammering of a wood pecker digging his mid-morning snack out of a hollow tree, she could hear a couple of freshley arrived mosquitoes(they were buzzing around both ears now)but no humans."(p.g 28) Another breath taking moment in this book is, ""The world is a worse-case scenario and I'm afraid all you sense is true," said the buzzing wasp-voice. Its claws raked slowly down the side of its head, goring through its insect flesh and revealing the shining bone beneath.(p.g 145)
I think this books theme was very clear. Although this book can be seen in many different ways, about a girl lost in the woods, creatures in the woods, or a girls obsession with a base ball player; I believe that the theme of the book and the message the author was trying to get across was to never give up and to keep the important things in life close to you. He shows this by again and again putting Trisha through horrible situations, although because of her strong love and compassion for Tom Gordon her life time idol, she chose not to let go so she could one day meet him.
This is one of my favorite books I have ever read. It is breath taking and chill giving. I reccomend this book to every one. It is something that will keep you on the edge with suspense, but at the same time teach you the true meaning of hope.
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Summary: Better than...
Review: I found that The Girl That Loved Tom Gordon was very similar plot-wise to Gerald's Game. I do think that TGTLTG was a much better telling of the story though. Even though the plot is pretty straight-forward and predictable it kept me wanting to continue reading. The ending was kind of abrupt, I was hoping for "Extra Innings" :) All in all a suprisingly good effort for a re-hashed plot. In contrast I think I gave Gerald's Game one star.
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Summary: Worst Stephen King I have read
Review: If I hadn't gotten this one in an airport, and then was a captive audience, I would never have finished it. I suppose if you were a big baseball fan, it would help your enjoyment of this book a lot. The end leaves you wondering, in fact years after reading it, I still wonder sometimes.
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Summary: Pretty lukewarm stuff from The Master
Review: It's not that "The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon" is a bad book, it's just that it's not up to the standards of what this humble reviewer expects from Stephen King. When a headstrong nine-year-old, Trisha McFarland, wanders away from her constantly bickering mother and brother while on a nature walk along the Appalachian Trail in Maine, she finds herself faced with one of childhood's greatest fears - that of being lost in the wilderness. As Trisha attempts to reunite with her family, she actually ends up moving farther and farther away from them. As day turns into night, she finally begins to realize that she will not quickly find her missing family and now instead, must be concerned with survival. The rest of the book, of course, deals with this "struggle" and gives King an opportunity to delve into the mind of a "not-so-average" nine-year-old. Trisha relies on her hero, Boston Red Sox closer, Tom Gordon, for inspiration as she fends for herself in the woods. One of her biggest concerns is whether or not the batteries in her Walkman will hold out long enough for her to continue to turn in to the nightly Sox game before she is rescued. She is as resilient as most of King's strong female leads and wise beyond her years. Along the way, King introduces the "boogey-man" of this story which is a mysterious and unseen entity that leaves deep, deep slash marks in trees and various forest animals along the way. This entity never quite exhibits the true terror that most of King's creepy characters demonstrate. As the book lumbers along to it's expected climax, the reader will have an opportunity to enjoy King's style of prose. The book is wonderfully written (as are all of King's works) with the usually memorable phrases and word pictures. Don't let this review deter you from reading this book, just don't go into it with the typical expectations that one might have if they are a frequent reader of King's work.
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Summary: Great! Not too scary but good.
Review: I thought The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon was very good. I would recommend this book to anybody who was in the mood for a short, kinda creepy book.
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Summary: Heche shines!
Review: This is a good Stephen King novel. It's relatively short, and has some of the mystical element that King is so well known for. What works in the plot is how you follow the trail of this girl from getting off the trail, to what could be the end of the line. However, what made this most memorable was the stellar performance turned in by Anne Heche. She not only did the narration; she brought this girl to life, and more importantly, brought this girl's fears to life. I still think of "Tough Tootsie" when I think of this book, and I loved listening to the "play-by-play" of the Red Sox, since I've listened to Joe and Jerry quite often over the years. A good reading can make a good book outstanding. This is truly a book you should listen to, whether or not you read it.
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Summary: the girl who loved tom gordon
Review: this book is about a little girl who was walking on a trail and wandered off into the woods.she got lost and she did some pretty impossible stuff to survive out in the wilderness.stephen king said that this book was supposed to be scary and it is more into the fantasy section.it would go under scary books,but when people read it they might think that the book is scary.I think if you put yourself in her posistion it would be scary.i did not fall asleep reading it.
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