drizzly (The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon - Stephen King)

Member Name: captaincaveman

Product:	The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon - Stephen King
Date:	02/08/00 (17 review reads)
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Advantages: quick read

Disadvantages: weak ending

I stopped reading books for pleasure after going to university. After several years I felt I was missing out and decided to pick up a light book to get myself back into the swing of things.

Enter Stephen Kings - The Girl who loved Tom Gordon.

A fairly thin book with big writing, a good start I thought.
I managed to read it in about a week while basking in the sun between chapters. :)

I have to say that I was disappointed, I was expecting and wanted more and it failed to deliver. I still enjoyed reading it otherwise I wouldn't have bothered finishing it, but something was missing.

The general character building at the start was good, the middle was enjoyable, and to be fair there was a slight tension build up happening ready for the ending, but it didn't. The end came and finished very quickly the final confrontation with the bear was over too quickly.

I wasn't expecting a master piece because I knew the size of the book wouldn't be able to deliver. That said I still think it could have been better

It won't get a place on my bookshelf, although its worth reading on the merit of a short story.

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