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The Tommyknockers
The Tommyknockers
Author: Stephen King
Something was happening in Bobbi Anderson's idyllic small town of Haven, Maine. Something that gave every man, woman, and child in town powers far beyond ordinary mortals. Something that turned the town into a death trap for all outsiders. Something that came from a metal object, buried for millennia, that Bobbie accidentally stumbled across. It...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780451156600
ISBN-10: 0451156609
Publication Date: 10/31/1988
Pages: 747
Rating:
  • Currently 3.7/5 Stars.
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3.7 stars, based on 444 ratings
Publisher: Signet Book
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio CD
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Helpful Score: 4
Eerie and riveting. I had to stop reading a few times and surround myself with people because it was so creepy.
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Helpful Score: 3
A highly detailed and descriptive book. The mini-series on t.v. several years ago did do the book justice. But it's a must read for King fans and for all those interested in otherworldly matters. Scary but thought-provoking too.
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Helpful Score: 3
An older King novel...good..but drags a few times...not my favorite King novel. Long story... 747 pages...maybe that was my problem with it...too much for me to take in as I read it over time.
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Helpful Score: 2
What's creepier than Maine? Stephan King writing about it! I'm sure everyone has seen the movie - hands down, the book is better.
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Helpful Score: 2
A riveting trale of extraordinary powers loose in a very ordinary town in Maine
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Tommyknockers is about a U.F.O. found buried in the woods of maine by an author named Bobbi. She starts digging at it, and keeps digging...and digging. Her friend Gard show's up, he's a poet, on his last dime, mile, and so forth. Together they continue to work to unearth the object they have found in the ground...
Soon things start changing in Haven, the town nearby...people begin inventing things that require batteries...a little boy named Hilly disappears...and suddenly Gard realizes he really is all alone in the world...or at least in Haven...
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Steven King does it again with this spine-chilling novel. The definition of a tommyknocker is " ghosts which haunt deserted mines or caves, or b. tunneling ogres.
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This took me about a month to get through. Not because it's boring but because it made me kind of afraid to go to sleep. Just a wee bit creepy. Ok, maybe it's a lot creepy. It was great besides the fact that it gave me nightmares. The beginning drags just a little bit but once you get through the first and second chapters it starts to pick up.
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Complex, full of intrigue and incredibly satisfying, Tommyknockers is one of Stephen King's best efforts. I've read this book over and over, and each time I find something new to love about it. If you're looking for a book that you can really sink into and lose yourself in, pick up a Stephen King book - the longer the book, the better it is. He does his best work when he writes and writes and writes...
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I really enjoyed this book up to the half way point. Then it just became TOO long and TOO dragged out. Don't get me wrong, I love long books, and I respect authors who are willing to commit so much to one story. I just felt the end was detail by detail that I didn't really need to know or care about. One thing I love about Stephen King is his character and backstory development. He really makes the reader care about the characters and get a feel for the story. So even though there was about 300 pages I felt dragged on, I wanted to finish because I really wanted to know what happened at the end. This was just an average King book for me.
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Not King's best work, but interesting nonetheless.
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This is a scary book.
Simply, it's about aliens taking over a small Maine town...mentally.
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Writer Bobbi Anderson becomes obsessed with digging up something she's found buried in the woods near her home. With the help of her friend, Jim Gardener, she uncovers an alien spaceship. Though exposure to the Tommyknockers who piloted the alien craft has detrimental effects on residents' health, the people of Haven develop a talent for creating innovative devices under its increasingly malignant influence.
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Something Was Happening In Bobbi Andersons Idyllic Small Town of Haven, Maine. Something that gave every man, woman, and child in town powers far beyond ordinary mortals. Something that turned the town into a death trap for all outsiders. Something that came from a metal object, buried for millenia, that Bobbi accidentally stumbled across. It wasn\'t that Bobbi and the other good people of Haven had sold there souls to reap the rewards of the most deadly evil this side of hell. It was more like a diabolical takeover...an invasion of the body and the soul---and the mind...
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Complete and utter drivel. Just because King wrote it, doesn't mean its gonna be good.
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THIS IS A REAL PAGE
TURNER.
MY HUSBAND LOVED IT.
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I like reading kings books but this one was just a little too far out there for my taste...I will read more but probably not right away I think I need a mini-vacation from king for awhile..


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