The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
- 256
- Pages
- about 4.5 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon” is Stephen King in miniature: a wilderness survival story whose horror is mostly psychological. At 256 pages it is a short novel, as moving as it is dark. That makes it an easy first King to try, and readers who come to it expecting little may be pleasantly surprised. The fear grows out of being lost in the wild, not out of spectacle.
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About the book
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon is a 1999 psychological horror novel by American writer Stephen King. In 2004, a pop-up book adaptation was released with design by Kees Moerbeek and illustration by Alan Dingman. A film adaptation to be produced by Chris Romero was announced in 2019.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 6.8 across 404 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 73% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Horror average of 7.5. That is how 7.0 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.1 | 33 | 8% |
| Hardcover | 6.8 | 371 | 92% |
Frequently asked
How long is The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon?
It has 256 pages — shorter than 83% of the ranked books in Horror.
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