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Summary: Great
Review: King IS getting better as he gets older. He truly is a great writer. The wasp-priest was creepy as hell! I think this story is all the more scary if you've ever been lost in the woods. I know from experience that it can be a terrifying ordeal. It really is a great book.
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Summary: A truly amazing novel ....
Review: A home run from SK! Although only 221 pages long, it held me completely captivated, and at the end, I didn't just cry - I wept! from what I won't say, not wanting to spoil it for anyone. On the first page (hell, on the back of the dust jacket) Trisha and her mother and brother pull into a parking lot, about to go hiking in the Appalachians. Immediately - since I live in San Francisco - I pictured the parking lot in Muir Woods, starting point for a hike through the redwoods. This wouldn't do! I knew that if I started down that path (har, har) I would never be able to shake the image of a story set in California, with the Pacific just over the next bend, so had to put the book down and close my eyes until I could envision the scene as SK described it - not on the West Coast but on the East Coast. I finally had an image firmly in mind, and I was off! The story was captivating, the characters real. I didn't want to eat, didn't want to sleep, even ending up taping 'Peter Jenning's The Century' for later watching, and stayed up past my bedtime, but it was well worth it. This story is so brilliant on so many levels, and yet from the reviews I've read in major publications (the SF Chronicle comes to mind) most people will not pick it up, dismissing it instead as just another monster story from that hack, Stephen King. I pity them - they are missing out on a rare treat: a totally engrossing and deeply satisfying reading experience. Thank you, Mr. King for letting me spend a few wonderful hours with you.
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Summary: Short, but oh-so-sweet
Review: I loved this book. It didn't take long to read and I devoured every word. At first the book appears deceptively simple--a spunky little girl lost in the woods, but King uses this twisted nature tome to explore the very nature of God. I would have bawled like a kid after reading the last scene if I hadn't been on my way to a dinner date and hadn't wanted to mess up my make-up.
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Summary: unusual king...
Review: As masterful "bag of bones" was, the girl who loved tom gordon falls very much flat. As much as I hate to give bad reviews it seems to me, as this book has been hanging around in sk's drawer and met a tight deadline...as a non baseball fan I did not particular understand the "baseball talk" or was very interested in it. The bad entity in the forests was immediately identified as a bear. What a surprise! The whole story starts promising with family twists and so one and then suddenly we find ourselves in an enviroment which is not so scary.. As a big SK fan I was not very disappointed rather than surprised. So Fans go for it, read it in an hour and put it in your collection. Lets wait for another one... bt
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Summary: If you long for the King of old, Don't
Review: Long time fans, think twice. I have read every work of fiction published by Stephen King/Richard Bachman except for Dark Tower III and Insomnia. This is the first time I felt the material would have been better left unpublished. If refunds were available for dissatisfaction, I would apply. I did read it straight through in one sitting, but that is more attributable to its length than avid interest.
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Summary: A great read!!!!
Review: An excellent story written by the master story teller. With Stephen King's stories the reader is transported to the world of the characters and this book was no different. I wanted to make the book last, but I couldn't help myself. Reading this book made me feel like a person stranded in a literary desert being given a drink of water.
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Summary: King's New Direction? No slobbering creatures in this one.
Review: A good read, in the same vein as "Bag of Bones". It looks like King may be heading away from the formula that has served him well in the past. Readers who expect King's usual bag of tricks (ghosts, omnipotent shape-shifters, possessed automobiles, etc) will not like this book. If, however, you can appreciate a compelling story with real-life implications (God, I used to play in the woods when I was a kid), then you'll like this one. The main character, Trisha, seems a tad mature for a 9-year-old, but you can look past it and enjoy the exploration of the human survival instinct when faced with seemingly insurmountable odds. The Tom Gordon plot device was not used quite the way I was expecting (which is why I gave 4, not 5, stars) but it works. Sort of. One last thing: what about international readers who do not understand baseball? How can they expect to appreciate the story when they don't know the game?
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Summary: Entertaining, but not his best
Review: I found this book to be a "snack." It had a good premise, and I hated to put it down, but it didn't have the meat of his other books. Another female survivor story, Gerald's Game, had more tension and scary parts. King has done better in the past, and will do better in the future, but I don't rate this one as one of his best. The obligatory monster was lukewarm and rather silly. Other villians, such as Flagg, It, and the necrophiliac in Gerald's Game, were better fleshed out. I'll keep it on my shelf but I won't be rereading it anytime soon. With King's talent, he doesn't have to write a book just to have one in the bookstore, and I'm a little disappointed in this effort.
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Summary: Excellent book couldn't put it away
Review: This book right from the first page had me hooked.Once again the king of horror had me wondering what next.I have read all but Bag Of Bones and for a fairly short book this has got to be one of his best yet.The reality of the girls fears and inner strength is awsum!!! you have to keep reading to find out her fate. Note to Stephen King keep up the great work i can't wait for the next book exspecially the next Dark Tower book.
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Summary: Manager should've yanked King from this game
Review: Thin plotting makes THE GIRL WHO LOVED TOM GORDON minimalist Stephen King, reasonably decent entertainment for a night but without the kind of imagination this writer normally displays. Coming off the far superior BAG OF BONES, it is a very slight effort indeed and, as it is actually only novella-length, it might have been wiser to save this story for the King anthology coming out later this year. The five-star raves for this rather ordinary book are typical of undiscriminating King readers; to suggest this book is as good as THE STAND or THE DARK TOWER series or even MISERY is simply ludicrous.
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