Episode Seventy Nine-The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

Stephen Kingcast

Constant Reader

Books, Arts:books, Arts, Tv & Film

4.7 • 680 Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2015

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

In this week's episode, I take a look at the little book that could about the little girl that could, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon. In a few hundred pages, King crafts a harrowing tale of nine year old girl who demonstrates more bravery than any character in any of his works.

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0:00.0	Hands
0:02.0	Touching hands
0:06.0	Reaching out
0:10.0	Touching me
0:13.0	Touching you
0:16.0	Sweet
0:20.0	Caroline Good times Hello, sweet Caroline, your times never seemed so good.
0:29.6	Hello everyone and welcome to the Stephen King cast, one man's musings on the works of Stephen King.
0:34.6	Each week, I'll review one entry in the bibliography of Stephen King
0:38.8	in the chronological order of publication.
0:41.9	And this week is the little book that could,
0:44.2	about a little girl that could.
0:46.0	A quick little story that plunges an 11-year-old girl
0:48.9	into a world stripped of all comfort
0:51.4	into not necessarily a supernatural landscape, but the even more frightening
0:56.3	landscape of the natural world.
0:58.7	And the few hundred pages that we spend with the titular character, we see just how scary
1:03.8	our real world can be, and more importantly, how brave we can be when we refuse to let
1:09.1	the fear overtake us. Today I'll'll be reviewing 1999s, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon.
1:16.6	Now this is a quick, fun little rom-through-the-woods of a novel.
1:20.6	If it was released today, I guarantee you that it would be billed as Stephen King's young adult novel.
1:26.6	It's short enough and it focuses on a young as Stephen King's young adult novel. It's short enough
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