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Summary: Could have used some editing
Review: Stephen King is a writer I sometimes take for granted. I usually enjoy his books as the literary equivalent of a Hershey's Bar: tastes great but doesn't provide lasting nourishment. However, he is not without talent; for instance, IT is not only truly terrifying, but a powerful and moving book about the true nature of friendship. "The Tommyknockers," however, is not King at his best. It strikes me that it was released without any editing: the story jumps around relentlessly without any flow. The main characters essentially disappear for huge stretches of the novel (and at almost 750 pages, there are quite a lot of huge stretches). But the biggest problem is that the motivation of the Tommyknockers is not clear. Do they want to take over the world, Maine, or just a little hamlet? What promise do the technological advances hold? It's not a bad novel. Certainly it's entertaining and readable, but it's very sloppily executed. If you're trying to decide which of his many books to try for your first taste of Stephen King, I might suggest "IT" or "Misery" first.
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Summary: 750 pages and still nothing.
Review: First of all, if you are going to write a 750 page book about a space ship and in the course of that book mention the bodies of dead aliens, it would be nice if perhaps there were a little history about where the hell it came from. The only reason I kept turning the pages was to find out the history of this race, but King never even mentions it. He just kills everybody and then lets the little orphaned magician and his brother survive. They disappeared except for the beginning and the end of the book! Horrible book. Waste of your time to even read the first page. King must have been drunk.
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Summary: Terrific!!!!
Review: Stephen King keeps amazing me with every book. His writing style shows what he is all about. He can develop many characters and ideas on hundreds of pages until finally reaching the main point. The Tommyknockers is an outstandingly written book which even though doesn't arrive at the main point for a long time, keeps you reading. At times I couldn't put it down. I highly recommend it!
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Summary: Why was this book published?
Review: This book is about 550 pages long and for 500 of those pages I kept waiting for SOMETHING, ANYTHING, of interest to happen. Boy, was I disappointed. This book can be summed up in one line: Woman digs up flying saucer in backyard. Sounds promising, but this sentence describes all of the "action" in the entire book. Terrible.
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Summary: This book RULES.
Review: I have read this book many times and it gets better and better each time. Just can't read it and get the pages turned fast enough. It's twisted but you know in a good way.
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Summary: The best book yet written!
Review: King at his best, as far as I'm concerned. I've read this book at least ten times and I love every page of it. I urge everybody to READ IT. Do it now. Follow Bobby and Gard, and the town of Haven through odd changes, and frightning developments. And be prepared for something less than a happy ending
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Summary: King's expanding again
Review: The Tommyknockers is not your typical King book. This causes problems for some of his fans - they expect him to stay nice and quiet in the horror writer's pigeonhole, and he keeps bouncing about like an epileptic jumping bean. If you're considering purchasing this, then listen: The Tommyknockers is black satire, an inventive, cautionary science fiction tale of a world heading for nuclear winter. In the archtypical Maine town of Haven, Bobbi Anderson trips over a metal plate in her backyard, and starts digging to find a saucer, perhaps one hundred feet in diameter, entombed below. But as she uncovers more and more of the surface, the people in Haven begin to change. They're still as dumb and clumsy as the rest of us, but now the Havenites have been magically imbued with scientific knowledge beyond the real of man. And this, King finds, is a very unstable situation
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Summary: It was not the best of King's Work
Review: Try just borrowing the book instead of buying it!
It could be a wise decision!
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Summary: The best of Kings horror books.
Review: This is one of Stephen kings most twisted works. It has a fantastic,well-written enviorment and atmosphere, it combines a bit of horror with an amazing story and a very twisted and bizzare ending. You'll really find out what the word tommyknocker means. This is really beautiful book it's all together one great story and shows you how far Stephen King can stretch his mind.This one of his best books if not already the best.Judging from other books of his I've read, it is a book you must read
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Summary: Not as good as it can be
Review: The Tommyknockers is not a very good book. I regretably read through the whole thing, and have to say that it is not one of his best. When i was finished, i felt a space of emptiness. The ryme about the Tonnyknockers knocking at doors made absolutly no sense. The plot was weak, the chacters were not ones i liked to read about, and the climax and ending were just inadaquit. -Daniel C. Kilmarti
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