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A review by brittbat
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King
4.0
While some King books are plot books, this one is a character book through and through, and I’ve always thought that King excels with character… especially when writing scrappy little kids who like to try out new cuss words.
I am not sporty, and I think that the baseball element is what made me put off reading this for so long, but you don’t have to know anything about baseball for this book to work.
There are some moments when King gets slightly mystical, which I think is what some people would call “out there.” I, however, love this stuff. I love when a character starts having a transcendental experience and it feels like the fabric of the story has ripped to let you glimpse something bigger and older and scarier underneath. It elicits a very nostalgic kind of fear in me, the original childhood fear of dark gaps in the world and what’s inside them.
Good stuff.
I am not sporty, and I think that the baseball element is what made me put off reading this for so long, but you don’t have to know anything about baseball for this book to work.
There are some moments when King gets slightly mystical, which I think is what some people would call “out there.” I, however, love this stuff. I love when a character starts having a transcendental experience and it feels like the fabric of the story has ripped to let you glimpse something bigger and older and scarier underneath. It elicits a very nostalgic kind of fear in me, the original childhood fear of dark gaps in the world and what’s inside them.
Good stuff.