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Summary: Don't Read This While Camping!
Review: Growing up I started camping at a young age and before I knew it I was wandering thru the woods with my younger brother, scared to death to go too far but wanting to know what was around the next bush and always being disappointed when my parents would discover what I was trying to do. Trisha at the young age of 9, gets lost accidentally and stumbles across a world in the deep woods that I always knew was there but never had the opportunity to discover. At times I felt she was entirely too smart for a 9 year old (knowing and remembering all the info about the berries and plants) and other times I felt that in the real world, she would have had a lot more close encounters with snakes, but overall it was neat book with a happy ending. Unusual for a King book but I'm not complaining.
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Summary: Another Great Novel by Stephen King
Review: I have read many mysteries and terror novels before, however, I feel that this book is more interesting than the others. It is about a nine-year-old girl called Trisha; her parents are divorced and now she now lives with her mother and her older brother, Peter. Trisha is deeply in love with a player named Tom Gordon; she always feels that he is with her. One weekend when her mother takes her and Peter out for picnic, somehow Trisha does not follow the trail with her mother and is lost in the woods. She was frightened and worried. However, she still believes that Tom Gordon is standing besides her and he is leading her to the right pathway. This book describes in depth all the horror and terror of being lost in the woods, and how alone a little girl would really feel in this situation. I like how the author conveys this girl¡¦s love for the player, even though she is lost in the woods, she has the feeling that he is still with her. Her strong feelings for Tom Gordon are realistic and the book shows how a nine-year-old girl really thinks. When she is lost in the woods, the author uses many ways to convey the fear of what might happen, and also allows the reader to experience what it feels like to be lost in the forest alone. When I was reading this book, I would sometimes think and ask myself
¡§If I were this girl, would I be as brave as her, or would I be terribly afraid?¡¨
It made me think about being alone and how I could cope. I enjoyed reading this book and enjoyed the fear of being in the woods.
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Summary: turned out to be an Ok book
Review: When I started reading this book I thought it was a joke. After all how can you write a 260 page novel out of story of the girl who talks to herself and nature? However it turned out an exiting book and even conversations with her other self seem not only normal, but even exicting. I guess it is important to speak to a smart person once in a while. This story starts, endures and ends in the forest. Basucally very enviromentally consience novel. A girl who gets lost tries to get out of the forest for days and eventually almost feels sorry there are trees still left standing.In the process of making this journey she battles her fears and stupid ideas her other self gives her. Her other self should get another novel to fully unveil itself. It is seem to have much more fun than a girl herself. She tells everything straight to your face without hiding the truth and even jokes with the girl. She even got herself in the swamp and made her to go throught the deadly place.
Overall I have to say the book turned a big suprise for me and turned into interesting and exiting even thought it had basically only one physical character.
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Summary: Mixed Feelings
Review: I have mixed feelings about this book. It's well written, and gets exciting towards the end, but Stephen King takes a long time to get there and being lost in the woods for over a week is inevitably rather repetitive. The plot is negligible.
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Summary: This Aint No Teddy Bear Picnic
Review: The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon is a nifty, and entirely plausible, little story about Trisha McFarland, a 9-year-old girl, who gets lost after wandering away from a hiking trail in the Maine woods. King does a remarkable job of getting his reader into the head of his heroine, making her every move seem believable. Though in getting lost Trisha makes a number of crucial errors, they all seem entirely logical when presented from her point of view. I never once found myself saying, "Oh please! Give me a break." Disorientation, hunger, fear, and genuine terror are all components of Trisha's adventures in the woods. She is confronted by perils both real and imagined, and overcomes them with amazing spirit and resourcefulness, not to mention the emotional support, albeit imagined, of her favorite profession baseball player. The latter may sound a little sappy but, trust me, it makes total sense in the book. The only question is whether she can overcome a peril that goes beyond her understanding of the natural world -- a peril that makes a full-grown Black Bear seem comfy and reassuring by comparison. As always King makes the pages fly by and leaves you wishing he had written more.
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Summary: A Wonderful novel from Stephen King
Review: I have read many mysteries and terror novels before, however, I feel that this book is more interesting than the others. It describes in depth all the horror and terror of being lost in the woods, and how alone a little girl would really feel in this situation. I like how the author conveys this girl¡¦s love for the player, even though she is lost in the woods, she has the feeling that he is still with her. Her strong feelings for Tom Gordon are realistic and the book shows how a nine-year-old girl really thinks. When she is lost in the woods, the author uses many ways to convey the fear of what might happen, and also allows the reader to experience what it feels like to be lost in the forest alone. When I was reading this book, I would sometimes think and ask myself
¡§If I were this girl, would I be as brave as her, or would I be terribly afraid?¡¨
It made me think about being alone and how I could cope. I enjoyed reading this book and enjoyed the fear of being in the woods.
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Summary: Lost and Confused
Review: The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon is a brave attempt by Stephen King to scare us, and yet touch us, with his harrowing portrayal of a little 9 year old girl who gets lost in the woods. Although he succeeds to some point (Trisha McFarland is a very compelling character) the novel falls short. We really never feel that Trisha is in any sense of danger, and that takes a little away from the suspense of the novel, and what King is trying to do. However, he is, after all, trying to tell a story, a routine one at that, but with a little bit of a twist. The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon isn't King's worst novel of which I have read (Misery) but it also isn't his best work and skill of writing. Disappointing, but I think we can forgive Mr. King.
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Summary: Awesome book!!!
Review: This book was excellent. It was the third book I've read by Mr. King and I was very impressed! Having been lost once in the woods (Eagle River Wisconsin school trip), it scared the h*** out of me, it brought me right back to that personal low point in my life. The thoughts that go through her head, except the Tom Gordon stuff of course are very real. You see everything as a potentially harmful animal in this situation (when it gets dark). I also loved the short "diary" of his son's baseball filled summer at the end. Brought back great memories (football instead for me, but same idea and atmosphere basically, any sports stories grab my attention). Not too long so anyone can finish this in a day, a great book to start with from his library!!
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Summary: Almost Realistic
Review: I consider this the worst book by King that I've read (please note that I haven't read many bad King books). It was way too short so there was no time to really develop a relationship with the character. I found myself not caring whether or not Trisha lives or dies. I gave it three stars because I think there is potential in the idea. The plot was interesting at first, but King has an inherent tendency to add little supernatural twists to his plots. This story would have been great if he had kept it completely real and possible. The survival techniques of little girls is a fascinating story by itself; King just threw the integrity of that concept away by adding the weird-creepy-following-monster into it.
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Summary: Great Book!!
Review: Stephen King's The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon is, I think, the first Stephen King book I've read. It takes place on the Appalachian Trail. Somehow, King gets into the mind of a small girl who accidentally gets lost in the woods when she goes off the trail to go potty. She keeps walking along the river and gets extremely far from the boundaries of the search party, which has been started for her. What keeps her going is her favorite baseball player, Tom Gordon; she keeps her radio close to listen to his games and wish he were there to help her. King keeps us as scared as the little girl when a creature begins to follow her, and leaves its traces of carnage. She finally begins to lose her mind and really believe Tom Gordon is there with her. You get scared for the little girl just by reading it. "Shadows were too black, and when a breeze stirred the trees, the shadows changed in a disquieting way. Something twitted in the woods, seemed to choke, twitted again, and was silent..."- it keeps you on edge the whole time you're reading it, hoping the girl comes out okay. You don't see too many books out there with this theme, though almost everyone has a "lost" experience as a child. I think this would be a great book from anyone of almost any age, from small children, who can relate to the girl, to teens, to adults.
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