Review

A short review of a piece of art that I have engaged with.

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon – by Stephen King

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How strongly I recommend it: 8/10
‘The world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted. Trisha McFarland discovered this when she was nine years old. At ten o’clock on a morning in early June she was sitting in the back seat of her mother’s Dodge Caravan, wearing her blue Red Sox batting jersey (the one with 36 Gordon on the back) and playing with Mona, her doll. At ten thirty she was lost in the woods.’
I feel that this short quote explains the premise of this story better than I ever could.

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Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany

Babel-17 – by Samuel R. Delany

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How strongly I recommend it: 8/10
In a far-off future, humanity has spread out across the stars. Aliens and even ghosts are now commonplace and humanity itself, thanks to the popularity and proliferation of ‘cosmeti-surgery,’ has made itself unrecognisable. Galactic civilization is currently embroiled in what is referred to as ‘an invasion,’ a conflict that has apparently lasted a number of years.

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Inherent Vice – by Thomas Pynchon

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How strongly I recommend it: 10/10
It’s 1970. Gordita Beach, Los Angeles. Nixon is president, The Manson Family is on trial and Larry ‘Doc’ Sportello is a private detective who’s just had a visit from his ex-girlfriend, one Shasta Fey Hepworth, who asks him to investigate a possible plot to kidnap her boyfriend Mickey Wolfmann, a billionaire land developer.

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