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Summary: It's a good book but needs a little something.
Review: I'm enjoying The Girl who loved Tom Gordon for it's setting. I love the New Hampshire forest and can appreciate King's description of the landscape. Yet I also have to say, it's a little slow. I'm 150 pages into it and Tom Gordon has only been mentioned a few times. I bought the book because it combined the outdoors and the subject of baseball. But the latter hasn't appeared as much as I'd hoped. Like I said before, i'ts a good book but not since The Green Mile has King been truly impressive. I have yet to read Bag O'Bones but I will soon. Hopefully something of the likes of The Green Mile will be put on paper sometime in the near future. I am a relatively new fan of Kings and hope to be for a while now. Let's hope he doesn't let me down.
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Summary: Not his best...
Review: I was so excited that there was a new King book out after the horrible "Storm of the Century" , but after I read this one, I was asking myself if we were ever going to read anything as good as his older stuff again. I found it boring, the main character was okay, but I found it hard to believe that a nine yr. old girl would say some of the things that she did. All in all, when I was finished reading it, I thought what Trisha thought at the end, "That's it? That's all there Is????" Very disappointing.(Especially for $16.00)
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Summary: Not one of King's best
Review: I am a King fanatic and this book just didn't set off any bells and whistles for me. It was very short and I don't feel it went into enough detail (I never thought I would say that about King!). You are given almost no ideas about the "special thing" until the very end, which makes it very hard to be afraid of. It's a good enough read if you need a King fix, but not his best work by far.
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Summary: Magnificent!
Review: Is it me or does King just keep getting better?! I loved this book and poor little Trisha McFarland. I fought myself reacting to her out loud. Another amazing book by the incredible Mr. King.
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Summary: excellent fast paced adventure - a page turner
Review: This is King's desrciptive writing at its best. His ability to reflect the workings,imagination and problems of young adult minds has been one of the great hallmarks of his writing. This is a very simple story - well told. The real suspense for King fans is the memory of what happened in Cujo.
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Summary: An Excellent, Tight Read
Review: Let me start off first by saying that those who may be expecting King's usual fare may be puzzled when they pick up this book. That's not to say that it's bad, on the contrary, I feel that it is one of King's more enjoyable novels. When it comes to sheer, edge-of-your-seat, can't-put-the-book-down appeal, the novel's short length avtually works in its' favor. The action moves along at a very swift pace, and the nove's suspense never relents. Each scene is vital to tbe plot and filled with tension. Some of King's works tend to be weighted down by an immense amount of material, and this novel not only differentiates itself from his other books, it is a welcome adition to the King stable.
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Summary: King's worst
Review: Here's the entire story: A girl gets lost in the woods. After reading this and Bag of Bones, king is on his way out.
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Summary: Well done, lacks scariness
Review: I found the book "The Girl who loved Tom Gordon" excellent and very catching, however, it lacks something King has had trouble regaining in his last few novels; yes, I'm sure all you King fanatics know this, scariness. "Bag of Bones" was very boring and surreal, "Storm of the Century" was rather uneventful, and now "The Girl who Loved Tom Gordon" takes the takes the torch as the latest King horror novel without the horror. If you are truly afraid of being banished in the lonely depths of the Massachusetts forests, buy this book; you will likely find it catching. However, if you're my kind, this book is not the kind you'd flush your $10 for. Anthony skelly@mvn.net
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Summary: A wonderful craftsmanship of courage, love and faith.
Review: I have been reading Stephen King novels since the ninth grade, and in the past 12 years have read everything available on the market. This book amazed me. While I am still struggling through "Bag of Bones", I flew through this story in about three hours. Trisha is the most touching and well-developed character from SK since Ralph Roberts of Insomnia. While I do question the morality of selling a larger print 220 page novella as a seventeen buck hardback, the story itself is a brilliant craftsmanship of courage, love and faith. It will hold you until the last page is turned and have you pointing to the sky thanking God that the world has been blessed with the most extraordinary story teller ever to but pen to paper (or type on a WANG). This is a great read and a wonderful story. King has done it again.
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Summary: A really fast read! Couldn't put it down!
Review: Once again, King sends us on a journey into one of our greatest nightmares...lost in the woods!
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