Reviews - The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

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The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

Stephen King

3.57 AVERAGE

ahbeereads's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

ik0nik's review against another edition

5.0

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon is good, really good, but not in the way I was expecting. This is my first King novel and maybe I went into it with the wrong expectations, but I finished it with a full heart. What an amazing story. Quite possibly one of the most literal titles of any book, Trish was a character all of us, even the eldest of adults could learn a thing or two from.

I waffled between 4 and 5 stars on this one because the baseball game narrations were slowing the flow of the book for me but I was so captivated by the story I couldn’t put the book down. I’ll read more King but I’ll purposefully seek out something more traditional next time. If you’re a fan of the woods, of survival, or heck just looking for a good story this one is highly recommended. Not horror in any real sense but gripping all the same.

noonebuthappy's review against another edition

3.0

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Cool little story. If you know King, and you read the premise, you know what's going to happen. But, as always, the execution is almost flawless.

onecoolarmyguy's review against another edition

5.0

I thought this book was great! I did have to suspend my disbelief of a nine year old soon to be ten making it through all that but then again isn’t life just one big suspension of disbelief..

bdoran56's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous dark reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Not as good as other Stephen King books, but it is a shorter book.

dilpickle420's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 38%

“What she saw… was a minstrel-show mudgirl” followed by the character doing a Little Black Sambo impression which (even with the understanding that this is a dated piece of literature) is super cringey, especially when the white audiobook narrator also essentially does a minstrel character voice. Extra cringe.

On top of that I just was not feeling the vibe. Plus, the audiobook narrator took some liberties that were pretty annoying to me, as a person who reads and listens in tandem.

Far too many books in the world to waste my time on this one.

glglgl's review against another edition

4.0

Ein altes Märchenmotiv wurde hier neu aufgelegt: Die neunjährige (Pa)Trisha kommt vom Waldweg ab und nachdem sie zunächst nicht sehr beunruhigt ist, muss sie bald einsehen, dass sie sich verirrt hat und um ihr Leben kämpft. Trishas einzige Verbindung zur Außenwelt ist ihr kleiner Radioempfänger, insbesondere die Übertragungen von Baseball-Spielen geben ihr Hoffnung. Da der Autor Stephen King heißt, überrascht es nicht, dass sie neben Orientierungslosigkeit und Hunger noch Schlimmeres in den Wäldern erwartet. Es ist aber kein blutrünstiger Roman. Über weite Strecken passiert nicht viel Dramatisches, stattdessen verschlechtert sich langsam die Situation der Protagonistin. Das ganze ist souverän vom Autor umgesetzt, er beschreibt glaubwürdig die Gefühlswelt der Hauptperson und treibt die Geschichte einem spannenden Ende entgegen.