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The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King
5.0
My only problem with this book is I wish King wrote it under a pseudonym. I want more people to experience this little gem of a book, but getting people to read it is super-hard because they see a Stephen King book and assume it's going to be a super-dark horror book ;). Oh well.
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon is a great account of a girl who gets lost in the woods and has to survive and persevere. It doesn't overstay its welcome (it's not long, and King quits while he's ahead, so nothing in the book feels like filler content), and I love books that make max use of the setting and plot and doesn't feel the need to add much to them -- You go in expecting a story about a girl who gets lost in the woods, and you get precisely that.
King describes both the nature surrounding Trisha, and her actions and inner monologues, in great, believable detail, and the narrator sticks with her for almost the entire book -- only in a few very short breaks does it jump to her worried parents, or to rescue crews looking for her.
Granted, there is a "something" that the protagonist believes to be stalking her, but it takes a little role in the book, more of a vague kind of paranoia, and I almost wonder if King only added it because readers expected there to be something supernatural and scary since it is after all a Stephen King novel.
Overall, I recommend this book to everyone. Particularly if you're a hiking or wildlife enthusiast.
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon is a great account of a girl who gets lost in the woods and has to survive and persevere. It doesn't overstay its welcome (it's not long, and King quits while he's ahead, so nothing in the book feels like filler content), and I love books that make max use of the setting and plot and doesn't feel the need to add much to them -- You go in expecting a story about a girl who gets lost in the woods, and you get precisely that.
King describes both the nature surrounding Trisha, and her actions and inner monologues, in great, believable detail, and the narrator sticks with her for almost the entire book -- only in a few very short breaks does it jump to her worried parents, or to rescue crews looking for her.
Granted, there is a "something" that the protagonist believes to be stalking her, but it takes a little role in the book, more of a vague kind of paranoia, and I almost wonder if King only added it because readers expected there to be something supernatural and scary since it is after all a Stephen King novel.
Overall, I recommend this book to everyone. Particularly if you're a hiking or wildlife enthusiast.