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Nine-year-old Trisha McFarland strays from the path while she and her recently divorced mother and brother take a hike along a branch of the Appalachian Trail.

If you're a hiker or simply love to visit parks and enjoy nature (I am both), you've probably wondered at some point what it would be like to be lost in the woods (if you haven't already had that experience). Either way, when you read this book, you will feel like you have been lost in the wilderness with Trisha McFarland.My favorite quality of Stephen King's work is his ability to create an extremely detailed account of what his characters are seeing and feeling.

I've read this book at least four times over the years because it's easy to become absorbed in the process of getting lost with Trisha as she makes choice after choice that takes her farther and farther into isolated, wild territory. It's also inspiring because she is very resourceful in her desperate bid for survival. Love of her family and a baseball team plays a part in shoring up the strength of her mental state, thus the title relation. This story makes you think about what you would do if you were suddenly cut off from everything you know and love. Who is the first person you would miss? What else would you feel you could not do without?

You want to cheer for Trisha to get back to her life, which although imperfect as is everyone's, is perceptively dear to her. The story also starts to dip into the mystical, like looking into a fun house mirror, you wonder, along with the main character, if things really are what they appear to be or something else entirely, not of this world.I can say for certain this is my favorite Stephen King book and would fully recommend it to be enjoyed over and over again. I appreciate that there is not a lot of gore in it, which allows Stephen King's adeptness for creating rich verbal descriptions to stand alone without much of a shock factor.

As readers and movie goers, we all know and love Stephen King for his scary tales, but I think it's important to appreciate his descriptions of environment and feeling on their own. He makes reading more vibrant and palpable. That's what draws me back to some of his books again and again. This would be a good read on a vacation to the mountains or woods!

I'm going out on a limb here, no pun intended, but let's face it, sometimes we read to get lost and get away from the normal stress of life; well this book will help you get lost for a little while. Enjoy!Other books by Stephen King with similar attributes mentioned in this review are The Long Walk, From a Buick 8, and Rose Madder. I love Stephen King but I have to admit this one was a total waste of a story. There was absolutely no depth to it and I can't even explain what happened other than the fact a little girl gets lost in the woods and relies on her love of Red Sox pitcher Tom Gordon to help her through it. It'd make for a neat short story but a full-length novel just took me nowhere. Even the 'monster' in it was lackluster and barely made any difference to the overall story. Honestly, this felt like Stephen King completely missed a deadline and came up with this concept in five minutes, taking another few minutes to write it all up.

Don't waste your time. If you're a hiker or simply love to visit parks and enjoy nature (I am both), you've probably wondered at some point what it would be like to be lost in the woods (if you haven't already had that experience). Either way, when you read this book, you will feel like you have been lost in the wilderness with Trisha McFarland.My favorite quality of Stephen King's work is his ability to create an extremely detailed account of what his characters are seeing and feeling. I've read this book at least four times over the years because it's easy to become absorbed in the process of getting lost with Trisha as she makes choice after choice that takes her farther and farther into isolated, wild territory. It's also inspiring because she is very resourceful in her desperate bid for survival. Love of her family and a baseball team plays a part in shoring up the strength of her mental state, thus the title relation.

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This story makes you think about what you would do if you were suddenly cut off from everything you know and love. Who is the first person you would miss? What else would you feel you could not do without? You want to cheer for Trisha to get back to her life, which although imperfect as is everyone's, is perceptively dear to her. The story also starts to dip into the mystical, like looking into a fun house mirror, you wonder, along with the main character, if things really are what they appear to be or something else entirely, not of this world.I can say for certain this is my favorite Stephen King book and would fully recommend it to be enjoyed over and over again. I appreciate that there is not a lot of gore in it, which allows Stephen King's adeptness for creating rich verbal descriptions to stand alone without much of a shock factor. As readers and movie goers, we all know and love Stephen King for his scary tales, but I think it's important to appreciate his descriptions of environment and feeling on their own.

He makes reading more vibrant and palpable. That's what draws me back to some of his books again and again. This would be a good read on a vacation to the mountains or woods! I'm going out on a limb here, no pun intended, but let's face it, sometimes we read to get lost and get away from the normal stress of life; well this book will help you get lost for a little while. Enjoy!Other books by Stephen King with similar attributes mentioned in this review are The Long Walk, From a Buick 8, and Rose Madder.

The book The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King is a book based on nine year old Trisha McFarland and the struggles she faces when she finds herself lost in the woods, on what she thought was just another normal day taking a hike with her mother and brother. After straying off the path, Trisha was fighting for her own survival. Stephen focused the book fully on fear, along with all the emotions and obstacles that Trisha faces. This book is a horror fiction novel based out of the woods of the Appalachian Trail in Maine that winds toward New Hampshire in 1998.I personally thought that there were a few little parts throughout the book that were kind of slow, just Trisha walking through the woods, but yet I never lost interest in the book.

Other than that, I really enjoyed the book. I definitely felt a connection with Trisha in the book. I always was worried about what was going to happen to her and hoped that she would make it out of the woods.Trisha McFarland is the daughter of Quilla Anderson and Pete McFarland, who were just recently divorced.

Her brother, Pete, is having a hard time handling the situation and wished he could have stayed with his father. Pete and his mother continuously fight about everything, but mostly the divorce. Quilla decided that they needed to spend some family time together, so they started doing something together every Saturday that Trisha and Pete weren’t with their father.This weekends trip was a six-mile hike on the Appalachian Trail. As they were bickering on the hike, Trisha slowly lost sight of her mother and brother as she went looking for a place to go to the bathroom.

Trisha ends up by herself, lost, and not sure what to do. All she has with her is her backpack and the clothes that are on her back.Trisha used the walkman that was in her backpack to listen to the Red Sox games every night.

Trisha’s favorite player on the Red Sox was closing pitcher, Tom Gordon. Throughout her journey she used her imagination to visualize that Tom Gordon was there with her in the woods. Imagining that Tom was there with her helped Trisha make it through the day a lot easier. She talked to Tom everyday as she walked through the woods.Trisha was my favorite character in the book, not just because she was the main one, but because of how brave and strong she was the whole time while being lost in the woods by herself. As a nine year old girl and being lost by herself in the woods for almost ten days, I think that she held it together very well. She definitely had some knowledge about plants and berries, which played a huge part in her survival.

Without that previous knowledge, she could have easily not survived as long.Stephen King, also known as “The King of Terror”, is one of today’s most well-known and best-selling horror-thriller authors. King has a very unique style of writing that stands out to many readers. King writes in such a way that his readers are able to not just read the book, but they are able to visualize what was going on.The book was based in the year 1998, and it takes place in Western Maine on the Appalachian Trail.

The book is written in third-person point of view, but for most of the story it is written in such a way that it seems that Trisha is the narrator. At times though, King would jump to Quilla’s or Pete’s point of view, or just plainly give us some insight on what was going on outside of the woods.I think that The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon is definitely worth reading. I’m not a person who likes to read a lot, but yet I found myself not being able to put the book down at times. This is actually the first book I have read by King, but I absolutely enjoyed it and plan on reading more of his books. Stephen King just knows how to make you turn the page.

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon was a very quick read in comparison to his longer works. That said, the story moves fast and linearly, telling the tale of a very disoriented little girl. The story is equal parts compelling, as it is horrifying, making the simple elements of wilderness something to fear and respect.

In his other books, King spends countless pages vividly describing super natural terrors, suspending your beliefs for as long as you want to submit to them. This book really shows King's ability to scare you without the use of clowns, curses, corpses and other scare tactics the horror genre likes to toy with.

I recommend this book to anyone who likes the outdoors and our American pastime, baseball. Great Characters. Great Timeline and plot. No complaints here. There are a great number of ways people read. Some love short anthology books, other are more keen to go through novels and eat them whole.

Still some readers are more of on a genre basis, reading just horror, romance or what have you.I love reading. Perhaps one of the great past times that I never tire of is just sitting down and going for a really good read. To move from places you can only imagine and try to be in.

To actually live in the setting the author draws on with his words. When it comes to reading I would go forth by reading a novel or two after each other and them taking a break by reading some short story anthology. Kind of a way top draw a breather.My last Stephen King book was Bag of Bones and that story grabbed by the neck and kept me completely enthralled by every aspect of it. The whole thing. I stood and wondered how a man like King could actually scribe such a masterpiece.

He was more cast as a stereotypical horror writer, but what Bag of Bones had was something that not authors can emulate or draw from. That work was so much different from all his previous work that a person could have been fooled that the author was not really King himself.

That book was big and long and after reading it, I thought that I needed time off from big novels and, though he's my fave author, from King himself.Through it all, I was thinking, ok, Stephen, you did it once, but can you really do it again?? It was only after more than a year from my last King book that I finally knew the answer.The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon is a short book by all standards.

A fast reader could gulp it up in one setting and an average one could go with it for around a week. The book follows the same trend as Bag of Bones, with King relying more on his literary prowess more than his ability to scare powers. But does that mean, he doesn't have that in him. He just has it more in check and it's really in it. The whole idea of a girl being lost in the woods for God knows how long alone, and the reader experiencing what she has to go through is a feat all by itself. The notion of having a nine year old, alone, scared s just too incredulous to really fathom. Only King could have tackled such a thing and he does it superlatively.

King's descriptive abilities are so strong that you will feel that you're with Trisha, wherever she goes, feeling whatever she does and seeing what she is seeing. Her dreams become reality and even her delirious hallucinations make the fear crawl inside you.This book is a winner.

I won't go into what I think King was going for in the story, but I guarantee that you will be touched by it. By the determination of that plucky 9 year old girl who looks older than her age. I’m getting back to my roots – back in Junior High I took interest in reading through Stephen King, Isaac Asimov and Dean Koontz. Since graduating I have read little of their titles since, so am currently attacking King’s back catalogue – maybe to recapture my youth, but definitely reliving the fun I had when reading. ‘The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon’ was a great addition to my collection and a welcome distraction to many of the YA titles I’ve been reading of late.I really liked the play of perception and the POV of Trisha (Patricia) our protagonist, lending the interpretation of the story open to the reader to draw her or his own conclusions.Trisha has an indomitable spirit. I was really cheering for her and amazed at how she faced each challenge.Tom Gordon, the form of Trisha’s guardian angel, or inner strength was a great symbol to focus on.

Though some of the baseball jargon got a little tiresome for me because I loath baseball – it’s not really a big thing here in Australia – I appreciated it for what it was. A distraction and a coping mechanism to get Trisha from point A to point B.Our antagonist could fall under many forms – nature, fear fuelled imagination, her family; and I loved how it morphed from one to the other, never leaving you certain of anything.It took half the book to wind up and get interesting. I find every now and then Stephen Kings’s books do get a bit waffly in setting up the story and exploring the casts back stories. I know it is to get us to care about the characters and offer some perspective, but sometimes it feels a little long winded.‘The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon’ had the right amount of suspense and hair-raising creepiness. The second half of the novel was absolutely brilliant and I could not put it down.I enjoyed this a lot more than many other of Kings titles, because it was based on character development and an inner struggle rather than gory monsters and demons (though this could be argued). It was a psychological thriller instead of horror, and appealed to my survival instincts. I have found myself lost in the bush many times, having to trek a day or so to safety.

It was so vivid, and the descriptions of the landscape - mysterious and beautiful at the same time. Nature can be astoundingly picturesque and the face of death at the same time.A great read that induces chills and makes you want to pull your feet up off the floor, with the hint of the disgusting and the unknown.

Totally recommending this to all my friends who like a scare, but don’t want to feel like tossing up their dinner from gore. Your humble reviewer is a Stephen King and baseball fan of long standing. Somehow I had missed perusing The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon first published in 1999. It has been republished in a handsome edition. It is a fairly short novel about the fictional story of a nine year old girl whose name is Trisha McFarland.

She is on a six mile hike in the Maine -New Hampshire branch of the thousand mile long Appalachian Trail. She somehow is separated from her recently divorced mother and her older brother named Pete. What follows is almost three hundred pages of this young lady's brave fight for survival as she seeks to return to civilization and her family. Her inspiration is the real life relief pitcher for the Boston Red Sox whose name is Tom Gordon. Gordon often appears to her in dreams and hallucinations during her grisly odyssey beset by large gnats, mosquitos, midges and thousands of other of nasty insects too odious to mention!

She also is beset by frightening dreams of monsters and evil creatures who seek to do her to death. Her sole consolation is her Walkman enabling her to listen to Red Sox games and hear of the exploits of her favorite team and Tom Gordon. Gordon is famous for raising his hand to heaven following a successful save and thanking God for the victory he has achieved. The book is divided into chapters divided into 'innings' as if it were a baseball game. What happens to Trisha is an inspiring story of survival against cold, hunger, physical injury and raw fear.

This reviewer can imagine Jack London safely harbored in author's heaven relishing the skill of survival spun by Stephen King in this well plotted and beautifully written story. Kudos to King for this novel and for all of the pleasure he has given his legion of fans throughout his long and eventful career!:Play ball!

These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community.We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own.Written by David Miller, Lola MilazzoTrisha McFarlandTrisha McFarland is a 9-year-old girl and the protagonist of the story. She has lived through her parents’ divorce and it affected her in a large way, because she loved each of her parents in different way. She is clever, strong, she has an enormous willpower and sagacity.

After her parents’ divorce, she and her brother, Pete, stay with their mother and spend only their weekends with their father. Her mother and Pete are always quarreling, and the girl always tries to reconcile them. However, they usually don’t notice her. When Trisha gets lost, she shows her strength and willpower to survive. Not every little girl could spend several days alone in a forest, struggle with so strong hallucinations, to overcome a long distance, and even to resist a bear. Trisha has a deep love for baseball, especially for the Red Sox and the player Tom Gordon.

Pete McFarlandPete McFarland is Trisha’s elder brother. He is always reminding his mother that he would like to live with his father than with her and that he loves his father more than her. These words are usually the reason of their everyday quarreling.

Actually, this is not quite true. Pete just doesn’t have friends in the place where he lives currently. Pete has just got used to that school, the local activities, and people where his father lives. And taking into account his age, 13 years, his intemperance, his constant desire to do everything in defiance, he behaves in such as way. Quilla AndersenQuilla Andersen is Trisha’s and Pete’s mother.

After she has divorced with her husband and took their children to live with her, she makes all her efforts to make her children happy, to entertain them, and to bring them up in a right way. So, she always takes her children to different trips and to visit different places. During every their trip she is constantly arguing with Pete. Because she is always fighting with her son, she barely gives attention to Trisha. Quilla's daughter disappearing changes everything. She agrees to make peace with her ex-husband, Larry McFarland, understands the worth of her daughter, and agrees to stop the arguing with her son.

Larry McFarlandLarry McFarland is Trisha and Pete’s father. He drinks a lot and is not very responsible, but he is kind to his children and he truly loves them. He loves Tom Gordon, and instills a love for Tom Gordon and the Red Sox in Trisha. He gives his son everything he wants. When Trisha gets lost, Larry comes to his ex-wife and they remember the 'old times' of when they were a couple. At the end of the story, he shows true understanding of his daughter, when he understands her tiny sign about her cap. Tom GordonTom Gordon doesn’t actually act in the story, but he occupies a huge place in Trisha’s hallucinations.

He is a player on the baseball team “Red Sox” and Trisha loves him. He plays a role of some kind of support and backing of Trisha during her awful trip. He is a good player, and his victories are Trisha’s victories as well. Tom Gordon exists not only in the novel, but also is a real person as well. Update this section!You can help us out by revising, improving and updatingthis section.After you claim a section you’ll have 24 hours to send in a draft.

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