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“Kept me up late into the nights...scary!”
Stacey w wrote this review 2 days ago. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Top-notch King. ”
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“Mr. King is the undisputed master of horrors.”
Venables G wrote this review Tuesday, November 24 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“My very fist Stephen king book!!! Not my favorite, Well, at least not a top five for me, but still a good book that let me to know Stephen King and that was the most important thing about this book...”
Alejandro M wrote this review Sunday, November 15 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Good creepy fun!”
Lee B wrote this review Monday, November 9 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“fiction”
anita j wrote this review Monday, October 26 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Excellent read, I loved it.”
Sherlock Poems wrote this review Thursday, October 15 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“Very predictable and typical Stephen King, but I couldn't put it down.”
BK B wrote this review Monday, October 12 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“The Tommyknockers by Stephen King
Jean A wrote this review Wednesday, October 7 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
I read The Tommyknockers by Stephen King. The story takes place in the small town of Haven, Maine. Bobbi Anderson, a woman who mostly keeps to herself, discovers a metal object buried in her woods. She begins digging it up, and strange things start happening to her, and to the town. Her writer friend Jim Gardener shows up and begins helping her, yet he seems immune to the strange changes affecting the town. Soon the town becomes deadly to all outsiders, and the residents inside are coming up with fascinating but frightening inventions. As they continue to uncover the metal disk, Jim discovers terrifying secrets behind the changes in the town and its residents, and tries to think of a way to stop the force behind all this. After making one especially horrifying discovery, he actively starts trying to destroy the force that has destroyed Haven.
The two main characters are Bobbi and Jim. Bobbi is a tomboy who isn't married and lives by herself, after literally stumbling along the metal disk, she becomes the leader of the townspeople being affected by the changes, and everyone looks to her for guidance. Jim is an author, and a drunk. He arrives at Bobbi's house because of a feeling something is wrong. Throughout the story he struggles with his alcohol addiction that almost causes him to give up completely as he gradually sinks to a state where he's passed out almost all the time, but manages to overcome it enough to fight back. There are several minor characters in the story, ranging from the elderly Ev Hillman trying to save his grandson, to the vicious Anne Anderson, Bobbi's sister, who is intent on dragging Bobbi home, no matter what and is completely confident in herself. "Anne always got what she wanted; that made the world nice for her, and that as the was things should be." Other characters, too many to mention briefly, flow in and out of the story providing interesting points of view and insight into the chaos surrounding the once sleepy idyllic town of Haven and turning it into a cesspool.
Many believe this is one of King's worst books, and it was written at the height of his drug addiction supposedly. The book drags on in some points with almost endless descriptions of things that are not at all needed for the story, and at other parts is goes on to completely random events, such as a vending machine killing a man. Overall a interesting science fiction and horror novel despite the length. After reading you'll get a chill down ur spine at "Tommyknockers tommyknockers, knocking at the door." As usual for King, his characters are very well developed and have fascinating background stories, even the background characters most authors ignore. The theme to me is that curiousity not only killed the cat, but can nearly destroy the world as well and that we shouldn't mess with matters beyond our understanding. If you wish you learn the secret of Haven and it's residents, and to find out who or what the tommyknockers are read The Tommyknockers by Stephen King.
Genre: SciFi/Horror
Page Count: 747
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