I just finished rereading
both The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon and Storm of
the Century by Stephen King
The Girl Who Loved Tom
Gordon and Storm: A
story about a little girls who gets lost in the forest and her scary (of course
Stephen King version) experiences over a week long. Unlike other King novel,
the main character is about all their is and the adventure was particularly
limited to the forest trek. But his writing is awesome enough to carry your
interest through the scary sounds and eyes of an unknown. Where does Tim
Gordon, closing pitcher on the Boston Redsox back in the day, fit in. Her radio
provided broadcasts of the dames that kept her going. She experiences the food
and water shortages, sickness, mental lapses, etc. until she runs into a man of
her dreams to rescue her and save her from the mysterious unknown in the forest.
This is a very satisfying, simple, short, easy to read novella. Well worth your
time.
Storm of the Century: I forgot about the structure of this book
and it took me a few pages to get in sync. It is not a novel written in story
mode. Had it been, this book would have be 3-4 times longer I'm sure. It is a
movie Script format, i.e., explain the scene you would see on the movie screen,
then give the dialogue of the people speaking. You get used to this and can
move quite rapidly through the book. You can also view the movie (3 episodes on
HULU at the moment). Basically, it takes place on an island off Maine
where inhabitants are few and have common bonds. A mysterious individual shows
up and kills an old woman rather nastily. Who is this, Andre? It won’t take you
long to assume he is a typical Stephen King entity with powers way beyond
normal. Murders continue even when he is locked up with his cane with wolf
head. But somehow the wolf head cane causes many more murders and weird happenings.
Excellently told, Stephen’s script was obviously adopted and a movie produced.
Go find out the details.
- Rich
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