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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780451156600
ISBN number: 0451156609
Label: Signet
Manufacturer: Signet
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 752
Printing Date: October 31, 1988
Publishing house: Signet
Sale Popularity Level: 136596
Studio: Signet
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Bobbi Anderson and the other good folks of Haven, Maine, have sold their souls to reap the rewards of the most deadly evil this side of hell.
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Loved the character development. All the quirks, strengths and weakness were brought forth and felt. The little 'Tommyknocker' poem/song was haunting. I'd find myself whispering it in the morning shower or on a long drive. Memorable. A must for even non-King readers. More would spoil.
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The book starts out promisingly enough with a female novelist unearthing a spaceship buried on her land. But then Mr King dissolves into hectares of verbiage that don't advance the story one iota. You could take out whole chapters and no one would notice, because the plot doesn't advance an inch in that time. Add to that Mr King's customary infatuation with scatology and what you have is an utterly tedious piece of work.
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Stephen king wrote this book with great imagination self moving coke machines etc... I mean how many people can actually imagine dying by a soda machine and it makes sense only in a way he wrote the book a higher intelligence buried in a ground who specialize in making off the wall type stuff and cowinceadently that intelligence is passed on the more the ship in the ground is uncovered.
I thought the characters were well explained and had no trouble imaganing what they looked like. The one thing I did not like was the ending I thought it was vague and kinda short sorta like he was in a hurry to finish it and just threw toghther a ending just to finish this already long book.
I feel he should have shortened the middle which I felt was to long and he should have worked harder on the ending but thats just my opinion
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I think the polarization of reviews regarding "The Tommyknockers" stems from making the very easy mistake of thinking of the King as a only and constantly a horror writer. While I did enjoy his other more 'traditional' horror and fantasy tales, "Tommyknockers" was a nice little breath of fresh air, incorporating mostly sci-fi elements into the work. Not quite the ideal read if you're looking to be scared intelligent [I hasten to use the word 'stupid'], but as some other reviewers have said, for a [quite] entertaining, well written and thought provoking sci-fi a la Stephen King, you certainly can't go wrong here.
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My very first reading of this book, many years ago, was aborted. I simply hadn't the patience to wait for the slowly unfolding revelation of the inhabitants of the spacecraft and found myself scanning rather than reading large tracts of the tale.
So my second endeavor at the Tommyknockers was a revelation. For the very first time, I now appreciate what a truly magnificent writer Stephen King is. I realise now that my initial impatience was prompted by reluctance to engage with the depth of the characters portrayed and the complexity and richness of the human drama surrounding the central tenet of the story.
I think that at times, I have suffered from the dread disease of the 20th and 21st centuries - attention deficit combined with a lust for instant appeasement of my appetite for entertainment. This is no frame of mind with which to approach a literary work of this quality.
For me, The Tommyknockers is a fine piece of literature premised on a simple idea that is shattered and broken like crystal in King's mind, and then reconstructed as a tendrilous and subtle shadow-creature that creeps into the readers mind as the tale unfolds.
The work of a master.
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