The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

My internet connection has been out for a while, and my brother discovered that one of our neighbors is using our wireless signal and stealing our bandwidth. We're both pretty ticked off, but we don't know who's doing it yet. But enough about that... it's time for another review.

~ Book Review ~

"The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon" By: Stephen King
This was the first - and the best - King book that I've read so far. It's definitely one of his lesser-known novels, and I just happened to see it when I was in an antique store a few years ago. It was pretty cheap, so I bought it on a whim. Within the first few pages, I became deeply immersed in the story. Maybe a part of me kind of related to "the girl", but for whatever reason, I couldn't put it down. I finished reading it in two days, which was a bit of a challenge, as I was at a family reunion/birthday party. It's both difficult, and a little rude, to sit in a corner and read during a party, but somehow I managed it. : )
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Trisha McFarland's parents are newly divorced, and in an effort to keep the family together, her mother and brother and herself take a walk in the woods, on a portion of the Appalachian Trail near their home (near the Maine/New Hampshire/Canada border). At one point, they come to a fork in the road, and Trisha, needing to pee, goes down one path to take care of business. Her mother and brother go down the other path. When she is through, she decides to cut through the woods rather than retrace her steps, after all who could get lost here?.
Although she is only 9, Trisha has a very adult grasp on her situation, and the story concentrates on all of the things that run through her mind while lost. All of the fears both rational and not, plague her mind as she follows a stream in the hope of finding a way out. At night she listens to Baseball games on her Sony Walkman in the hope of listening to a Red Sox game, as she is a big fan of Tom Gordon, a relief pitcher for the Red Sox. Maybe she's alone in the woods, then again, maybe she's not. Maybe there's someone - or something- among the trees... watching her. And only time will tell if Trisha escapes.

I give this book 5 out of 5 stars. *****
Amazon.com Average Customer Review: 3 and a half stars out of 5 based on 812 reviews.



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