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reddieswift · 3 months

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from the credits of the girl who loved tom gordon by stephen king:

ok. i know this has been discussed on here before but i literally only found out about it today so... anyone else going insane over richie tozier's kinda canonical post-derry music career?????!?! hello?!?!

#LIKE. YOU'RE KIDDING #i thought i knew about all of the IT references in other stephen king books. this is literally a book i've read. i am losing my mind #richie tozier #the girl who loved tom gordon #it 1986 #it 1990 #it 2017 #it 2019 #stephen king #my stuff

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kieraillustrations · 8 months

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One of my favourite books as a kid

#another updated cover #stephen king #the girl who loved tom gordon #book cover

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the---hermit · 10 months

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The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King

If you have been following my book reviews in the past few years you probably know that King's book are always a hit or miss for me. Well this was a big miss. I got this book at a thrift store a while back, and since it's pretty short and I am still trying to get my energies back after exam season I thought this was the perfect pick. I am glad I found an audiobook to go with it because at least I could multitask while reading this uneventful book. It's honestly pretty boring and not much happens. In a way it reminded me a bit of Pet Sematary in the sense that nothing happens and I hated my time with it even though it's set in the woods which I'd normally really like. This is the story of a girl who gets lost in the woods and then there's some supernatural elements that are actually pretty light because they take up very little of the story. It was really boring there's not much to say, this concept could have been an okay short story, but not much more, at least for my liking. I didn't find it scary at all and by the end where there's a bit of a supernatural element I was so uninterested I honestly didn't care. I am indeed glad this book was a thrift find for me because it wouldn't have been worth more than the two euros I spent on it. If I had to recommend it to someone it would probably be to people who have not read any horror and want to get a feeling of what it could be in a short book form, but again consider this is a painfully slow read. It's kinda disappointing this is the book that made me complete my 2023 reading goal to be honest.

#2023 book #book #books #bookblr #booklr #book rec #book recommendation #book review #bookish #reading #stephen king #the girl who loved tom gordon #book cover #the---hermit

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fvckroach · 1 year

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Anybody have some book recommendations? I’m mostly looking for horror stuff, the weirder the better and if it leaves me with existential dread I’ll kiss you on the mouth (if you want me to)

#john dies at the end #house of leaves #the magnus archives #the girl who loved tom gordon #just some of the vibes I’m looking for #book recommendations #if you know shows/movies or podcasts with the right vibes I’m also interested!

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a-ramblinrose · 7 months

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Hmmm is reading horror stories in bed a good idea? Probably not but here I am anyway rereading a favorite Stephen King!

Time to get lost in the woods...

#The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon #Stephen King #books #book photography #rereading #Rose's All Hallows Read #current reading #not out of void but out of chaos

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theslowmaxx · 8 months

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#art #illustration #artists on tumblr #fanart #artblr #cute #paper cutout #bear #horror #stephen king #the girl who loved tom gordon #book #quote #the world had teeth

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grownups-are-the-real-monsters · 10 months

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My 'updated' tracking of the Stephen King books/stories I've read so far:

1. IT x 6 or 7?

2. 11/22/63 x 2

3. Mr. Mercedes

4. The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

5. The Body

6. The Long Walk x 6

7. Rage

8. Shawshank Redemption

9. On Writing

10. The Green Mile

11. The Stand x 2

12. Duma Key x 2

13. The Shining × 2

14. Hearts in Atlantis

15. Thinner

16. Secret Window, Secret Garden

17. Elevation

18. The Dark Half

19. Christine

20. Fire-Starter

21. The Dead Zone

22. Apt Pupil

23. Needful Things

24. Doctor Sleep × 2

25. The Outsider

26. Dreamcatcher × 4

27. Cujo

28. Just After Sunset

29. Carrie

30. Blaze

31. The Institute x 2

32. Lisey's Story

33. Revival × 2

34. Eyes of The Dragon

35. The Talisman × 2

36. Skeleton Crew

37. Nightmares & Dreamscapes

38. TommyKnockers

39. The Gunslinger x 5

40. Drawing of The Three × 4

41. Wastelands x 4

42. Salem's Lot x 2

43. Everything's Eventual

44. Wizard & Glass × 4

45. Wolves of the Calla × 4

46. Song of Susannah × 4

47. Dark Tower × 4

48. Black House

49. Cell × 2

50. Full Dark, No Stars

51. Pet Sematary

52. Joyland × 2

53. Wind Through the Keyhole × 2

54. Rose Madder

55. Roadwork

56. Running Man

57. Misery

58. From a Buick 8

59. If It Bleeds

60. Later

61. Desperation

62. The Regulators

63. Bag Of Bones

64. Gwendy's Button Box

65. Gwendy's Magic Feather

66. Gwendy's Final Task

67. Night Shift

68. Fairy Tale

69. Insomnia

70. The Langoliers

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lowhorrors · 1 year

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My favorite King book. I read The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon once a year, usually in the beginning. The ending moves me every time and I am always recommending it to people.

Whenever I say someone has icewater in their veins, I am thinking about Trisha in the woods staring down the God of the Lost.

#my favorite king book #book quote #horror books #book recommendations #the girl who loved tom gordon

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your-humble-host · 2 years

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Everybody has a drive in stories but I particularly enjoy the ones in Stephen kings novel's.

So often we see characters going through the gutter (heh) time after time and they still get up. They stand up from broken knees and swamps of water. They claw their way through windows and sewers for hoped hope to see another day the hope to save everyone else from their fate. The hope a loved one will be safe.

That hope comes with sacrifices and so often do these characters die and we know they will die. It's the way their world works. And yet we still keep coming back. Wishing the drive and passion for ourselves. Vying for a bit of luck.

There's something so intimate about horror and the characters portrayed. These are the barest forms of humanity. Brought to the brink and left to drown. And yet they still find it in them to swim.

#doctor sleep #the shining #the girl who loved tom gordon #carrie #children of the corn #mr mercedes #it stephen king #stephen king #horror writing #humanity #the purest form of humanity is the drive to stand and say fuck you #the mist 2007 #pet cemetery #night shift

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shesamreads · 1 year

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I'm going back to reread The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon. I originally read this in high school and HATED it. After talking about it last week, I thiught I'd give it another go.

The audiobook is read by Anne Heche. Her voice works really well for Trisha.

#SheSamReads #The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon #Stephen King #horror #fiction

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lowdowndark · 2 years

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Some favorites. I've reread Mongrels by SGJ and Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant at least once a year since I first found them... Will never stop recommending them.

#horror books #horror recs #mongrels #into the drowning deep #the toll #this is not a horror movie #rules for vanishing #the hollow places #the girl who loved tom gordon

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bookishwyvern07 · 1 year

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First post on my new blog! I ended 2022 on a low, I read so much less than what I thought I was going end up getting through, I'm actually a little disappointed in myself.

I read 8 books last year that I'm going to be re-reading along with King's other works, not on the board is Cell and the collections Four Past Midnight and Night Shift.

Feel free to follow me on this journey through the master of horror's works!

#stephen king #book ranking #movie ranking #pet sematary #the shining #misery #cujo #the girl who loved tom gordon #bookblr #booker #bookdragon

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skyedestiny · 2 years

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Quoth the Author: Our Next Book

Hello, everyone! I know I haven’t been here very much lately. Well, in an effort to change that, I wanted to talk about a stream I’ve been running on Twitch lately, called Quoth The Author. I run it on Sundays at 5 PM EST, and it’s sort of a book club.

For the longest time, I’ve wanted to get back to reading books, but it was always so hard to find the time and motivation. In talking to some friends, I found out that we were in a very similar place in regards to that. And if there are some of us like this there are actually bound to be a lot of us.

In Quoth the Author, I let the audience know about a book we’ll be starting in advance so that you can procure your own copy, if you’d like. But it isn’t necessary as, during the stream, I will read a section of the story aloud. From there, the goal is to discuss, together, about what we’ve read.

If this interests you, please stop in, using the link above! And if you’d like to catch up on the progress of our current book (The Midnight Library by Matt Haig), you can check out my youtube channel, where all previous episodes are posted.

But that’s not exactly what this post is about. This post is about enlisting your help to pick the next book that we’ll cover! Below the cut, you’ll find the covers and blurbs of the five books we’re considering moving on to. Please check them out and let me know in the replies (or the poll on facebook or twitter, depending on where you guys are coming from) which sounds the most intriguing to you.

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King:

“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. Lost for days, wandering farther and farther astray, Trisha has only her portable radio for comfort. A huge fan of Tom Gordon, a Boston Red Sox relief pitcher, she listens to baseball games and fantasizes that her hero will save her. Nature isn't her only adversary, though - something dangerous may be tracking Trisha through the dark woods.”

Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones:

“Sophie has the great misfortune of being the eldest of three daughters, destined to fail miserably should she ever leave home to seek her fate. But when she unwittingly attracts the ire of the Witch of the Waste, Sophie finds herself under a horrid spell that transforms her into an old lady. Her only chance at breaking it lies in the ever-moving castle in the hills: the Wizard Howl's castle. To untangle the enchantment, Sophie must handle the heartless Howl, strike a bargain with a fire demon, and meet the Witch of the Waste head-on. Along the way, she discovers that there's far more to Howl—and herself—than first meets the eye.”

Lightning by Dean Koontz:

“A storm struck on the night Laura Shane was born, and there was a strangeness about the weather that people would remember for years. But even more mysterious was the blond-haired stranger who appeared out of nowhere – the man who saved Laura from a fatal delivery. Years later – another bolt of lightning – and the stranger returned, again to save Laura from tragedy. Was he the guardian angel he seemed? The devil in disguise? Or the master of a haunting destiny beyond time and space?”

Skyward by Brandon Sanderson:

“Defeated, crushed, and driven almost to extinction, the remnants of the human race are trapped on a planet that is constantly attacked by mysterious alien starfighters. Spensa, a teenage girl living among them, longs to be a pilot. When she discovers the wreckage of an ancient ship, she realizes this dream might be possible—assuming she can repair the ship, navigate flight school, and (perhaps most importantly) persuade the strange machine to help her. Because this ship, uniquely, appears to have a soul.”

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman:

“Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a perfectly normal boy. Well, he would be perfectly normal if he didn't live in a graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor the world of the dead.

There are dangers and adventures for Bod in the graveyard: the strange and terrible menace of the Sleer; a gravestone entrance to a desert that leads to the city of ghouls; friendship with a witch, and so much more.

But it is in the land of the living that real danger lurks, for it is there that the man Jack lives and he has already killed Bod's family.”

Please make your selections, friends! I’m excited to be heading off on another literary journey with you!