The girl who loved Tom Gordon

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The book I have read is called ”The girl who loved Tom Gordon”. It is written by the author Stephen King.

Stephen Edwin King was born 1947 in Portland, Maine. He has got an older brother, David. Their parents, Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King, separated when Stephen was a little baby.
Stephen started to write in his university’s school newspaper and was an active student in politics. The first short story came out shortly after his graduation from the university.
After that day it just have been better for him. He has written 67 books. Many of these have been successfully filmproductions.

The book is about a girl called Trisha McFarland. She and her mother and brother was on the usual Sunday trip in the woods. But this would be a day she never forget. Her mother and brother had a little quarrel, and when Trisha went for a pee, they didn’t noticed her. So when she came back, they where gone!
The book is about when Trisha get lost in the woods, and how it is to live all alone in the darkness with no food and only bacterial springwater to drink and “the Thing” watching her..
I really felt how Trisha felt when I read the book. The frighteness she felt, the hunger, the loneliness, the thirst, the longing of civilisation, I really could feel her feelings.
The book didn’t show the time of when it take place. I think it is modern time, but not today time, because if it was, she probably would had a cellphone.

This book was very good. I couldn’t stop reading, I read it when ever I had time, on the subway, the bus, at breaks in school and at work. It really touched my feelings. I laughed when she laughed, I cried in the end (I´m not saying why if you’re going to read it.) and I felt afraid when she did.
It was really a good novel! Stephen King really has the right way to capture a reader. It was some words that I ...