The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon - Stephen King

...and his flair for knowing the secrets of human frailty and the workings of the mind . King seems to understand our most private fears . From "bumps" in the dark to Childhood threats , that even as adults we can't quite shake off. He recognises them all, shapes them and uses them to reach his audience with superb effect. I have read and in the main enjoyed his work immensely . "The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon ." Is in my opinion exceptional. No hint ...
...you on a tour of the "survival instinct" . Through the eyes and mind of a nine year old girl. Her name , Trisha McFarland. Current as always, King opens his tale centered around a sad phenominon in this day and age , the effect of marital break-up on the family unit . He paints the "Mcfarlands" life , in emotinal detail. The absent father, the mother who inspite of "everything" embarkson being friend ,educator, provider and both parents to give her ...

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...for a toilet break in the woods manages to lose them altogether. "Good", she thinks. Unfortunately, as she tries to find her way back to the trail she ends up disorientated and deep in the woods. With no sign of the trail and only a stream to guide her Trisha starts to see horrific visions in the deep, disquiet of the woods. Are they part of her imagination or is the creature she imagines stalking her real? Good job she has her companion Baseball ...
...by Stephen King. King takes the old Brothers Grimm style fairytale of the child lost in the woods to a new level in this desperate tale of a young girls attempts at survival. As a horror novel King plays on our most primal fears, those of the dark and isolation to create a despairing tale of a girl helpless in the woods. Her stumbling journey through the woods is an altogether disturbing as King describe mosquitoes as "blood sucking parasites feeding ...

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...baseball player who closes for the Boston Red Sox, so in the U.K he is almost completely unknown. Unsurprisingly, Stephen King's novel is not based around a baseball season, but a young girls desperate struggle for survival. Trisha McFarland is off on a day-trip to the woods with her mother and brother. The two are arguing as usual due to the mother and father breaking up and having to move to a new area. Trisha has had enough and so leaves the ...
...as she tries to rejoin the trail, she manages to get lost in the woods. What follows is a tough battle for survival against a variety of nasty obstacles. As Trisha wonders further away from the perimeter of search and rescue parties, she has to survive in the wild on her own by scrounging for food and water, plus creating a suitable shelter at night. As time passes and hope of a rescue all but diminishes completely, Trisha's last remaining motivation ...

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I coveted this book from the day it came out, but only recently persuaded myself to buy it. I was in no way disapointed. The story is simple, and on reading the summary, it seemed it could drag on a bit - the story of a young girl lost in the woods. Far from this, the story became more and more compelling the further into it I got. The only character you are really involved with is Trisha, and this in itself shows how well the book is written. You ...

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...got to be one of the shortest books that Stephen King has ever written at a mere 292 pages, however he has not scrimped on the writing style and his sheer story telling ability. As with all Stephen King books that I have ever read, you get the feeling you are actually there and can almost visualise what is happening. The story revolves around a 9 year old girl called Trisha McFarland. Her parents had got divorced a year ago, and their mother had ...
...local woods, where she plans the route they will take along the Appalachian Trail. Whilst they walked Trisha's mother and brother Pete walked up ahead bickering all the while. Later on during their walk they come to a "Y" in the road and their mother decides they need to take the fork on the left. Shortly after taking this turning Trisha needs to go to the toilet, and keeps shouting to her mum and brother to let them know, but they don't hear her. ...

tazzy232 10.08.2002 · Read full review
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...a while ago; it’s not the “thickest” book I’ve ever read, little fewer than 300 pages. To say I thoroughly enjoyed this book would be a lie but it was entertaining enough to keep my interest to some degree. I had wondered before, after reading Hearts In Atlantis, whether Stephen King had lost his flair and run out of his really good ideas, and this book actually confirmed it for me. I may be wrong he may have a little something ...
...all but three of all the books he has ever written and enjoying all of them, some more than others, I found myself feeling cheated after reading the final chapter. I’m used to (9 times out of 10) being left feeling refreshed and wanting more after reading a book by Stephen King, and this book just didn’t cut it with me. The book explains the situation of 9-year-old Trisha who is the sister of Pete, daughter of Quilla and Larry McFarland. ...

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I bought The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon for 1 reason only - it's written by King. This book is no ordinary "run of the mill" horror by Kind, this book is written much in the fashion of Richard Bachman and is just as much a "heart in your mouth adventure" as it is a classic example of Survival Horror at it's very best. Without giving too much away this story follows a young girl (about 9 yrs old) who gets lost whilst hiking through the woods with ...
...from the rescue teams search area, death looks more and more inevitable and you really do feel for the main character through her seemingly endless struggle. Again, this book is written very much in the style of Bachman rather than King himself as it is less action packed and more a crisp description of a young girl hanging onto life by the skin of her teeth. A great book which I recommend any King or non-King fan out there to take a look at. ...

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...slow moving at times ans the story is relatively simple - little girl gets lost in the woods, will she survive? But there is something deeper within this book about the things we pin our hope upon, and how escaping reality can help you survive it. This little girl happens to have her walkman with her, and being a fan of the Rod Sox, likes to listen to the games. She even imagines that her favourite player Tom Gordon is walking with her. Also the ...

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...Its an emotional story of the struggle for survival for a 9 year old girl, Trisha, who becomes lost in the woods whilst on a walk with her family. Her struggle to cope with survival covers areas such as food, water and wildlife in great length and fights to tell the tale of her one saviour - Tom Gordon. Each chapter is titled by Baseball related numbers such as Pregame, Fifth Inning and Seventh Inning Stretch which is a little element that adds ...
...you interested and absorbed in the book. This one in particular does this because its not so much fiction but more something that could happen to you. At the end of the book is an Author's Postscript which explains the factual and fictional areas of the book. For example the woods in which Trisha gets lost in are real, in Northern New England yet the Tom Gordon he describes is real but does not hold the same facts that he does in the book it is ...

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...recommend to a friend! The general storyline of this book is a good one - a little girl lost in the woods and the battle she has inside her head from feeling afraid and losing hope. She does this by imagining that her soprting hero, Tom Gordon is with her. he storey takes the usual King psychological twists and turns and builds to a crescendo at the end. Here, though is where my problem lies. I dont feel that the ending did the rest of the story ...

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...authors, so reading this book, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon was like a homecoming for me. It reminded me why I first started reading this guy's books, and it was totally gripping from the first chapter. I think this book portrays all that everyone fears about being lost as a child, as it's written from the child's point of view (Trisha). However, instead of being childish, this book becomes darker and stranger with every turn of the page and you ...
...as if you're out in those woods with Trisha, just as scared, just as alone, and just as certain something is out there, watching and waiting.... Definitely a book to give you chills, particularly if you stay up late, when the house is dark and quiet to keep reading. ...

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...you’ve ever strayed away from the path when walking in the woods, and been absolutely terrified of getting lost then this is the story for you. Trisha McFarland is a young girl out walking with her mother and brother in the woods, who are constantly bickering with each other, so much so that they do not notice that Trisha has stepped off the path, and entered the unknown woods. When discovering that she has lost the path, she tries to take a shortcut ...
...gets deeper and deeper into the woods. As night draws near she begins to panic, not wanting to spend the night alone. She has little food, not much more to drink and her walkman which turns out to be very comforting. She encounters bugs galore, a wasps nest, swamps and dead animals, but nothing scares her as much as the unknown ‘thing’ that has been watching her from the beginning. Realities and hallucinations merge into one, but her hope never quavers, ...

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...stories, but it is gripping. The main character is a young girl, aged nine, who while out on a trip with her family gets lost in a huge forest. We follow her journey and the horrors she faces as she gets deeper and deeper into the forest, and more and more lost. There is something else in there with her, I wont tell you what but you don't find out until the very end. Once started it is impossible to put down, you have to know if she gets rescued, ...

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...I still remember it as the scariest book I have ever read. There are a couple of moments in The Girl who loved Tom Gordon, one of his more recent books, that remind me of IT. However the suspense he manages to build into IT haven’t been matched since. From the opening chapter with the dark cellar, and the clown in the sewer (still makes me shiver), the book is difficult to put down and continues to send chills down your spine. ...

warren 04.09.2000 · Read full review
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...to survive and escape from the woods, but if you're waiting for a dramatic ending you will be sorely disappointed. I don't think I'm giving too much away when I say she wanders around, sleeps, falls over, wanders around a bit more, and then finally (after a few days) finds her way out (after a very brief and generally trouble-free encounter with an 'entity'). One of those books where you're sure any minute now the author's going to get to the point ...

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