S. King: Tomminokery. V 2-kh knigakh (Stiven King. Sobranie sochinenij (myagkaya oblozhka)) (Paperback, Russian language, 2004, AST)
Paperback, 412 pages
Russian language
Published Aug. 7, 2004 by AST.
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. ([source][1])
[1]: www.stephenking.com/library/novel/tommyknockers_the.html
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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. ([source][1])
[1]: www.stephenking.com/library/novel/tommyknockers_the.html
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Far more to chew on than Carrie or Pet Sematary—and not just because it has too many characters and asides that, hey, maybe should've been edited down or removed. It's strange and angry, goofy and horrific, like a Coke machine flying at your head at 80mph.
There's a good book somewhere in these ideas, but it's not this one. It's bad! Even King says so, and he's correct. Deeply and inexplicably misogynist. Edward Hermann did a good job of reading it though.
I for one like the slow build-up phase of this book. What I don't like, however, is the way King once again has to describe the monsters and therefore kill all carefully created atmosphere in the last 100 pages. Nice try, but it just doesn't work that way.
