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Title: What happened to the old Stephen King!!!
Review: Never having been a fan of mass popular fiction, I restricted myself to reading Stephen King. The old Stephen King who produced masterpieces such as IT, Misery and Bag of Bones. Wading through The girl who Loved Tom Gordon was just that; a struggle to finish it. The novel read like something cooked over the weekend to meet a publisher's deadline. It was offensive to my intellect as a reader both in its naive portrayal of the issue of religion and also the crass treatment of a teenager's nine days in the wilderness. The novel is suitable for teenagers, not adults fooled enough by the other works of King to buy this particular book. I hope that Mr. King will seriously ponder his latest novel and attempt not to fall into the trap of commerical productions whereby you had to produce anything once a year irrespective of the quality.
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