The Tommyknockers

by Stephen King

Mass Market Paperback, 748 pages

English language

Published Aug. 7, 1993 by Signet.

ISBN:: 978-0-451-17842-8
OCLC Number:: 28701530

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, b buried for millennia, that Bobbi accidentally stumbled across. It wasn't that Bobbi and the other good people of Haven had sold their souls to reap the rewards of the most deadly evil this side of hell. It was more like a diabolical takeover...an invasion of body and soul - and mind.... (back cover)

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𝔏𝔲𝔠𝔞𝔰 reviewed The Tommyknockers by Stephen King

Bloated, but with more to consider than I'd expected

3 stars

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.

cass reviewed The Tommyknockers by Stephen King

terrible

1 star

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.

LemmiSchmoeker reviewed The Tommyknockers by Stephen King

Review of 'The Tommyknockers' on 'Storygraph'

2 stars

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.