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Summary: awesome book
Review: it's a great book. very stephen king. certainly worth a read. there's a few very, very scary parts. i'm writing this review to point out a huge hole in the plot- midway through there's a small part where someone calls and reports that they've abducted the girl, when in fact she's simply lost out in the forest. why? it seems like something stephen king meant to follow up on, and just forgot about. weird, and pointless. otherwise, it's an awesome book.
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Summary: Vivid, compelling, you won't want to put this down
Review: I'm a huge King fan, read most of his works, and this one is up there with his best. What makes King such a great writer is he brings the characters alive so well that you feel like you know them. This story is very well paced, beautifully written, and has some great baseball insight. However, I was surprised to see King misspelled Jason Varitek's last name, but whatever, I loved this book.
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Summary: Plot developments?
Review: This is one of the "new" King's novels involving a little girl lost in the woods and pursued by a beast. That is it, a 9 year old who is moderately resourceful, yet still a city girl at heart, wandering through Maine wilderness. Despite the lacking plot, I had fun with this novel, though not as much fun as King's other quick one day reads such as The Dead Zone, Cujo, or Salem's Lot. The monster is disappointing, though I didn't expect much. I enjoyed this novel, though, and in my opinion that is all that matters.4/5 for fun, though unchanging, walk through the woods.
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Summary: no sci-fi, no gore -- but more terrifying
Review: A 9-year-old girl, Trisha, becomes separated from her brother and mother who are too deep in an argument on this "family fun day" (despite their alcoholic dad's absence) to notice till it's too late. Trisha is then on a terrifying odyssey to find her way back out of the woods and to safety without a map, and with someone --- or something -- watching her. All she has for comfort is a dying transistor radio to tell her the results of the baseball game, featuring her favorite player Tom Gordon. Who doesn't fear getting lost in the woods -- and who doesn't fear for a young innocent girl whose life is falling apart? These harrowing conventions keep the plot in place and running smoothly until the end. I could feel Trisha's fatigue, hunger and frustration as she tries to make her way back home, even if it IS to a typical argumentative family in the end.
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Summary: Stephen King, revisited
Review: I've been an avid reader of Stephen King's works for quite some time, reading everything of his I could get my hands on. I stopped about 4 years ago, however, when it seemed that everything he wrote sounded alike. I bought "The Girl Who.." on a whim; it was on clearance at a book store, and when I read it, I fell into it. There was no stopping until I finished it. I could almost hear the buzzing of the mosquitoes. I recommend this book to absolutely anyone. I think this was a very exploratory novel for King and he did a wonderful job of incorporating a simple lost-in-the-woods tale with a spiritual revolution for one young girl and many readers, I'm sure. No, there is no gore, it won't haunt you at night, but it is worth reading, every word. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll wish for more, so you'll read it again.
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Summary: class period 2
Review: The title of my book is "The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon"; a novel by Stephen King. It takes place over a time period of a week and a half.
A nine year old girl Trisha Mcfarland, along with her mother and brother were going to hike the appalachin mountain trail. while walking along the trail her mother and brother were arguing and Trisha realized she had to go to the bathroom really bad. She was trying to tell her mom but her mom was busy yelling at her brother. Trisha decided just to walk off the trail and go by herself. She didnt want anyone to see her so she walked in further. After she was done going to the bathroom, she started to walk back and she realized she was lost.
Trisha yelled for her mother but no one came. She hadn't realized she had gone so deep into the woods. She kept walking, trying not to be scared. She started running, still yelling for her mom but still no answer. Mosquitoes started forming around her head and biting her. She started following a stream hoping it would bring her to people, but it didnt. It just brought her deeper in the woods. When this stream ends she ends up finding a new one and starts to follow it. When she drinks from it she gets sick. She throws up and has diarrhea. The only thing Trisha had with her was her walkman. On it, hse would listen to the Boston Red Sox, her favorite baseball team. Her favorite pitcher on the team was Tom Gordon. Listening to the games helped Trisha stay calm, because during her entire time in the woods she always thought someone was watching her.
My opinion on this book is it ws very good. I cant believe how many bad and scary things can happen to one person in such a short period of time. When Stephen King writes books he uses a lot of detail so you feel like you're acually there.
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Summary: Lackluster writing for Stephen King.
Review: While this is not a bad book, it is most certainly not in keeping with what most would expect from a Stephen King book. It is lacking in horror, suspense and drama. Truly not what a true King buff would read were it not for having his name on it. It was disappointing to say the least.
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Summary: Have You Ever Been Lost?
Review: I have. It was only for a few hours, in a dark forest, burned by a recent fire. The terror was immeasurable against anything I've ever felt in my life. I thought I would never find my way back to humans. It was only for a few hours, though. And I was in my early 20s. Imagine the fear of a child. Imagine it. This story made my heart pound with fear. It will make yours do the same.
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Summary: Boring effort by the master of suspense.
Review: Don't read "The Girl who loved Tom Gordon" if you are looking for Stephen King's stories of horror and gore. This is the story of a girl called Trisha McFarland that gets lost in the woods while in a hiking trip with her mother and brother and then tries to find her way home.
Although the back cover says that "she becomes lost in a wilderness maze full of peril and terror" that is not true.
The reader is the one that gets lost in a maze of monotony and boredom that could have used some of the thrills and chills that you usually find in other King's books.
The book lacks suspense and the "all-too-real enemy" is not nearly half as terryfing as other King's creations.
While the writing style of King is great, as usual, the plot of this book is really monotomous because he spends too many pages detailing Trisha's wanderings thru the forest.
King could have involved the enemy more in the plot and spend more pages describing the hard moments that her family was going thru instead of telling us so much about her misfortunes in the Appalachian Trail.
King also could have detailed the efforts of the search party to introduce more adventure and thrills to the book.
Overall I think this book is more suited to introduce teenagers to King's books than for King's fans craving the classic suspenseful terror stories of gore and blood.
Not worth the money for those of us used to his classic stories.
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Summary: Get this book!!!
Review: I only have one thing to say: Nine-year-old Trisha McFarland may be the greatest heroine in all literature.
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