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Summary: Ageless story told with brilliant illustration.
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This story, while often considered a work of juvenile fiction, is quite ageless. It gets at that spongy heart of fear-- where the prospect of being completely lost in a world that has "teeth" that it can bite you with anytime it wants to is more than probable. This pop-up book, like the story itself, is also ageless. A wonderfully condensed and brilliantly illustrated book with scores of secret tabs to pull and pop-ups to explore.
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Summary: not his best but worth the read
Review: Pure escapism not at the top of his list of a decent read.
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Summary: The Softer Side of Horror
Review: Set between Maine and New Hampshire, this frightening tale chronicles Trisha McFarland, and her journey into every parents, and childs, worst nightmare.
Forced to join her Mother and Brother on a grueling six mile hike, and tired of the constant fighting between them, Trisha wanders off the beaten path for only a moment. Soon she discovers though, that her moment away may cost her everything, for when she returns, she is left with nothing but a fork in the road. Armed only with a walkman, and her nine-year-old ingenuity, Trisha treks though the dense woods and swamps surrounding the Appalachian trail. While police search for a reputed killer, and fear the worst, Trisha wanders alone, stalked by a supernatural predator that is far too real.
King beautifully illustrates the fine line between reality and imagination in an exausted child's journey, and her fear and desperation nearly become our own. This book is as heartwarming as it is terrifying, and after reading it, I find myself coming home to hold my little ones extra tight.
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Summary: One of the best Thrillers that have ever been written!
Review: Stephen King writes diffrent kinds of stories; this is a really frightenig one. When I bought the book I thought it would be a classic Monster- Novel with beasts and stuff but it really isn't. First: it's a very short story for Stephen, that's what made me curious, second: everything about and around the girl in this story (the woods, the animals, the fear, the behaviour) is so real, that you're really frightened about her destiny. After reading two pages, you have feelings for that girl. Stephen King has a special kind of thrilling in this story; he doesn't bring in monsters, no, what he does is much heavier. When you almost think that the girl finally arrives in a town or finds a road she decides to not crossing the not very deep lake but to go around it, the wrong way, right into nothing (400 miles 'til Montreal and almost no town or anything human between them). Those moments make it worth to read the book. And on my opinion this is not just one of the best King novels, it's also one of the best thrillers that have ever been written. Thanks for reading my review.
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Summary: The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
Review: Stephen King's "The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon" is an attention-grabbing read that keeps you on your toes. The spine-chilling suspense keeps the pages turning. Trisha, the main character in the novel, is a nine year old girl who constantly drifts off into her own world where the consistent fighting between her brother Pete and her newly-divorced mother seems to disappear. One Saturday, while on an innocent walk with her family, Trisha drifts off and becomes separated from her mother and brother. What happens to her in the following days is enough to keep the suspense alive. A main issue in the story is that of Trisha feeling alone. Her father was an alcoholic and she has always felt so separated from everyone else in her family. Reading this made me think about what it would be like to be alone, and feel so isolated from everyone else. King uses a great amount of detail in describing events and occurances in the novel, and it makes the story behind all of the description, all the more interesting. This novel is excellent for readers who enjoy suspense and frightening excitement. I loved reading this book and I very highly recommend it.
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Summary: She was a lost girl who had no hope until she met Tom Gordon
Review: The book "The Girl who Loved Tom Gordon" written by Stephen King was the kind of book you couldnt put down! It was awesome. Its about a girl who goes hiking in the woods with her family and they constantly agrue and she had to use the bathroom really bad so she went in the woods without telling her mom or brother,and when she was done she was LOST! for several days and ran into some unusal things. This is the book that you wonder "whats going to happen next?". I would say for everyone to read this book,and this isnt the typical Stephen King book you would have in mind its from a whole different point of view.
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Summary: Terrific novel about loneliness, bravery, and baseball
Review: This a terrific Stephen King novel that, right from the start, is a little different from many of his other novels: it's a lot shorter. Here, King doesn't use endless narrative as he sometimes does. Instead, he writes a succinct, spooky story of Trish McFarland, a 9 year-old girl (who's tall for her age) who gets separated from her family in the New England woods. She is left to fend for her herself, and she finds solace in her beloved Boston Red Sox, and their relief pitcher, Tom Gordon. During her travails in the woods, she encounters hallucinations, the downside of drinking stream water, and what may or may not be a large bear. King is blessed with an incredible ability to place the reader in the minds of ALL of his characters, whether they are 9 or 99, by thinking like they do. Here, he creates a novel that isn't really horror, but a suspenseful one that crackles with imagination, baseball, and of only wanting to come home.
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Summary: Well-written.. but very UN-horrifying as a whole
Review: This book, from its cover design, its author's reputation and its blurb at the back, seems completely to suggest a tale of seething terror.
However, I find that it is more a tale of jungle survival couched as a horror story. The horror is really very much in the background, while the reader (and protagonist) are mostly absorbed in the nitty-gritties of finding food, fighting bugs and avoiding the rocks when falling into a river.
It is admittedly a very charming book, especially in the characterization of 9-year old Trisha McFarland and the depiction of her struggles, her ever-deepening exhaustion and that fine line between comedy and tragedy; between hope and the abyss.
Yes there is a good build-up of fear about the "special thing" that lurks in the forest; stalking Trisha; BUT I found myself actually laughing when the terror should have climaxed. Laughing. Sure, you might choose to interpret that I am twisted, but I think the climax was more than a little funny.
Wonderful entertainment in all, but not what I bargained for when I bought a purported horror novel!!!
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Summary: stephen kings"the little girl who loved tom gordon
Review: Trisha is a 9 year old girl while on a hike with her mother and brother somehow gets lost in the woods. Whole trying to find her way back to civilization Trisha encounters a countless number of strange and unordinary things, such as a dead deer who seems to have died in a very unusual way. Something seems to be stocking this young girl in the woods and being lost doesnt seem like here only problem. This by far was not one of Kings best works, it was far diffrent from his shocking, gorry writing style that most of his books have. The ending of the book was very dissapointing and there were a lot of loose ends that were never really tied up. All and all the basic story and plot wasnt bad, but the ending really ruined the book for me. I would still reccomend this book, but be warned the ending ruins it.
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Summary: Proof (if any were needed) that Stephen King can WRITE......
Review: Wow. I haven't been so impressed with a Stephen King novel in years - not since "Salem's Lot", and he wrote that back in the 70's. I'm impressed with this for far different reasons, of course. "Salem's Lot" was a pure horror novel - a small town in Maine is visited by a vampire. "Tom Gordon", by contrast, deals with a totally different kind of horror. No vampires, werewolves, or any of the other creatures King's dark imagination has come up with in his other novels. No, this horror is something that everyone can identify with in one form or another - the horror that occurs when a child turns up missing. King deals mostly with the child's point of view here - what happens to that child when she loses her way, to put it euphemistically. In this case, Trisha McFarland's imagination simply runs wild. She imagines good things - her conversations with Red Sox relief pitcher Tom Gordon, for example - and bad things - the "thing" that is following her throughout her journey. I won't spoil the resolution of that particular part of the story, except to say that it has a happy ending. And I actually cried when I got to the end of this book - something I never dreamed I'd do for a Stephen King novel. Oh, it's not perfect - but it's a damn sight better than a lot of what King has written over the last few years. And because of the kind of horror it deals with, it's also one of his most frightening books ever.
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