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Dec 11, 2007

Laurel rated it:

Okay, so I may have read this when I was twelve, but I tell you, it fucked my shit up! It's really really long and has violence and intrigue--if you're twelve and you start it in December, you might not finish it until mid-January. The best part was that it was the first book that made reference to location that I had actually been. IT took place in Maine, people, what could be creepier??
This is an underrated classic with possibly the best title of all time. Just say it. Tommyknockers More...

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Dec 27, 2011

Dan rated it:

Bobbie Anderson finds an object buried in the woods that happens to be the tip of an alien craft. After she tampers with it sufficiently, the whole town gradually begins changing into aliens.

A guy I used to work with kept urging me to read this one. He read half of it during a week long stint in the brig while in the navy, then rescued the book from destruction while he was throwing the ship's trash in the ocean a week later. Was it worth it? Hell yes. King novels don't usually More...

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Jan 08, 2012

Steve rated it:

Bobby had been out walking with her faithful dog one day in the woods behind her home in Haven, Maine, when she found (well, tripped over actually), a piece of shiny metal sticking out of the ground. Her dog doesn t like it, as he whimpers and cowers away, but she is intrigued and starts to dig, completely losing track of time as she does so. It s much, much bigger than she had at first thought, huge in fact. The work of excavating it consumes most of her time. When her best friend and occasio More...

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Dec 15, 2010

Richelle rated it:

It's a little sci-fi a little horror a little mystery all wrapped up in one big package! Stephen King is more of a writer of the sinister the possibility of treachery and maddness in each of us. A true sense of horror of that slight jolt of electricity that for a second makes you just want to drop the book really wasn't present here. But there sure were some cool ideas! The way people pay for new found abilities with the blood of the not-so innocent was a somewhat humorous twist in this book (al More...

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Jun 15, 2011

Robbie rated it:

At first it is slow and I almost gave up on reading it. However, right about the third chapter I couldn't put it down. I did not find it frieghtening but it was sometimes very intense. The story focuses on Roberta (Bobbie)Anderson who is a wild west writer of sorts in a town called Haven, Maine. She finds a metal spaceship in the woods behind her house and begins to try and unearth it. She feels it is communicating to her and telling her things. The book involves all sorts of chracters, pl More...

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Feb 22, 2011

Blaine rated it:

I have read quite a bit of Stephen in my youth. These books actually got me into reading and enjoying nights at home alone with a plate of cookies and milk and a good book. I finished this book in 3 days and it's a fairly thick read. I totally got into it. Every page was written very well and the plot and story were just intense. Booby Anderson is out jogging in the woods with her little dog and trips over a piece of metal jutting out of the dirt. She is totally intrigued by it and begins to dig More...

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Oct 31, 2010

Rhiannon rated it:

After a long and tortuous decision making process, the hubby finally settled on Tommyknockers as my Stephen King book for Giving me the Creeps. I was interested in Salems Lot but apparently that was going to be "too many vampires" when I was hoping to get to the strain as well.

He prefaced handing me the book with "the first 67 pages or so are really dry, but once you get past that it's good". Unfortunately it was more like the first 150-190 pages, sooo the e More...

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Jun 25, 2009

Samie rated it:

This is one of Stephen King's ealier books, and I like his earlier ones as a oppose to now. Now his books seem jump all over the place and I just don't care about those. But this one stayed focus for the most part. But it did have a few stupid things in it. Some really stupid things like Jesus talking through a guy out of a TV beofre he dies. I mean that's not nessary and pointless.The character was like a none named victem in a horror like who shows up for two seconds before he dies. I look at More...

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Dec 16, 2009

kathy rated it:

So here's the thing. I made the big mistake of reading this book about 15 years ago, when I was pregnant with my second child and in the midst of morning, noon and night sickness. I thought this was a great, scary book, but then something in it triggered my gag reflex and I had to put it down. Everytime I have attempted to get back to reading it, I'm brought back to the days of vomit and have to put it back down.

Maybe Stephen King is just that good. I'm going to try it again this sum

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Dec 01, 2008

Andrea rated it:

I read this in the middle of high school. It's the first book I remember reading that sucked me in so completely that I forgot where I was and what I was doing.

Where I was and what I was doing was: English class, sitting beside my friend Jessie and ignoring the lecture in order to read my book on my lap under my desk. I could hear the characters' voices in my head, see the [obligatory Stephen King monsters, the nature of which I won't divulge in case you haven't read it]; I wasn't e More...

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Jan 27, 2012

Laura rated it:

I remembered liking this book when I went through the obligatory Stephen King phase in middle school and high school. There were a few specific things that I remembered about it, but other than that, I was drawing a blank, so I decided to reread it as an adult.[return][return]THIS BOOK IS HORRIBLE. Anyone who has read King can tell you that he has a tendency to go on and on. . . but that's really all this book is--going on and on (and on and ON). However, it sucks you in with a few interestin More...

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Aug 14, 2010

Jason rated it:

This book got bad reviews, but I'm not sure why because I really enjoyed it. It might be because there's a flying saucer in it, and whenever anyone brings one of those into a tale, everyone groans. This is a mystery to me. The story is not about the flying saucer and the aliens (in fact, there aren't any aliens, except maybe some dead ones in the saucer itself, and you don't find that out for sure until the last few pages). It's about the effect the radiation from the ship has on the town ne More...

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Oct 24, 2009

Jason rated it:

This book is now at the bottom of a trash can. This will be the last Stephen King I try to read. Every time I forget how bad his writing is, I think I'll try another one. But it is always the same, this guy is the worst writer I've ever come across. His style is something that a ten-year-old might write after drinking twelve pepsi-colas in a row. Gibberish. He just goes on and on, blabbering like an idiot, without any redeeming value. The fact that he is read by millions doesn't mean much More...

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Dec 09, 2010

Jody rated it:

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Mar 22, 2011

Stephanie rated it:

Late last night and the night before, Tommyknockers, Tommyknockers, knocking at the door. I want to go out, don't know if I can,'Cause I'm so afraid of the Tommyknocker man.

Got to love Stephen King! First, I will admit parts of the book were drawn out and I found myself thinking, "come on, what's gonna happen??" But I was not disappointed overall. I have heard before that King writes based off of his own fears, I think this is true as he has such a way with words! The chara More...

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Dec 22, 2011

Minda rated it:

This review is by my husband, Mike, with me typing it out. If there are spoilers I apologize as he is not used to reviewing without giving away the plot.
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Mike: This book kept me in suspense. It held my attention. I really liked the flashbacks. It has a good story base. I especially liked how they made all the weird gadgets and *censored*. I think it is a must read book. I laughed a lot while listening to this audiobook.

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Jul 05, 2011

Lucy rated it:

I have recently started reaching for Stephen King. I didn't get into his work in high school, but now, I'm finding some weird comfort in it. There is madness and chaos and violence in his world, but there is a strong current of nobility. This book is mammoth and was a great vacation/travel book. Maine, woods, aliens, writers, drunks, bravery! One thing I found really interesting while reading this book is finding the allegories and metaphors for Stephen King's addiction (to cocaine, alcohol, mar More...

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Sep 09, 2011

Cherie rated it:

My ratings system is as follows. One star is GOOD. The book is entertaining, easy to read and you don't want to stop reading because something about the book is compelling you not to. Two stars is GREAT! This time the story is not only entertaining, but highly creative, unique, easy to read and hard to put down. Three stars is EXCELLENT. Here the book has all aspects of one and two stars, but now the book is thought and emotionally provoking. Four is AWESOME. This is the read that is not onl More...

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Feb 26, 2011

Larry rated it:

This book did not turn out to be what I was expecting. I was expecting more Invasion of the Body Snatchers, but King spun it off in a different direction (which I liked). The first 1/3 of the book did not "grip" me like King's books usually do. And while it did get a lot better, I never got "hooked" completely.

The most interesting aspect of this book is that it is clearly a product of its time. Written during the 1980s, the book is packed full of characters worrying More...

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Dec 31, 2011

Barry rated it:

I'm an unabashed fan of this book. Through and through. In fact, I'd say it's one of the best books of his that I've ever read. Yes, I'm dead serious.

The pace is deliciously slow, building tension in waves and layers, rather than spurts and fits. The cosmic terror is enjoyably vague, yet the nature and logic of its machinations contains some truly eerie implications. And the characters? Don't even get me started...but, since I have already, they're amazing. Not one owner of a na More...

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Nov 08, 2011

Laurie rated it:

Wow, did this take me forever to finish. Simply because of how much time I had invested in reading, I had to finish it. Finally, about 150-200 pages from the end the action picked up and reading didn't feel so much like a chore.

Apparently it took Uncle Stevie five years to write and five months for me to read. Boy howdy, this could have used some editing.

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Dec 22, 2010

Colin rated it:

All the King's men (and women) read his foray into sci-fi as King's comment upon his own struggle with substance abuse during the novel's 80s-era composition. But I think the fact that two writers in rural Maine dig up a space ship that subsequently destroys the ironically titled Haven a more apt metaphor for writing more generally: doesn't all good writing unearth, dig up, what's buried and repressed? Given UNDER THE DOME and THE STAND, it appears as if King is a master of group-panic, that i More...

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Dec 30, 2008

Jennifer rated it:

I love Stephen King, and I keep starting this book, being interested in how it starts, and then losing interest as the story continues.

I think I got further with my last attempt than ever before - but still couldn't get over halfway through.

It just never keeps my attention, so I keep putting it back down - this time I don't think I'll go back and try again.

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Feb 13, 2009

Rhain rated it:

Oddly, Stephen King gets better as you read more of his stuff, not because it's an acquired taste so much as because he's exceedingly self-referential. Not to the point where he's incomprehensible if you haven't read his other work, but in a more subtle way. Tommyknockers has a ton of little asides and details that call back to It, as the two towns that are their respective settings are next door to one another. Small things you'd never notice if you hadn't read both, but it's kind of fun to More...

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Sep 26, 2011

Carles rated it:

Es muy bueno. Es una novela a caballo entre el género de terror y la ciencia ficción.

Aunque el mismo Stephen King lo considera una obra menor dentro de su dilatada carrera, yo lo encontré muy bueno. La tensió va in crescendo conforme la historia avanza, son muy sobrecogedoras las paulatinas transfornaciones que afectan a la gente del pueblo de Haven, es inquientante la lucha de Jim Gardener por resistir la influencia de la nave y los cambios acontecidos en la propia Bobbi Anderson. Y More...

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Oct 08, 2011

Jason rated it:

This book is avoiding a single star merely because of the respect I have for the man and because he always manages to redeem himself with story. But this - out of the thirty or more books I've read by him - is by far the most repulsive instance in terms of its writing. I've never been so heartless in my reading of him. I religiously underlined phrases and sentences that made me cringe, were awkward, unnecessary, clunky. He is - in his own words - the quintessential putter-inner. He seems to love More...

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Feb 12, 2011

Dana rated it:

This, unfortunately, was possibly the only truly bad King book that I have read. It was strong in the begining and developed well as it progressed and then....nothing.

I think that this may have been one of those novels that King wrote and was going strong on and then was interrupted about 2/3 of the way through. Then, it sat stagnating, in some drawer or closet until one day, Mr. King had a deadline. The end of this novel did not match the rest of it in plot development or depth, the More...

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Dec 21, 2011

Bahia rated it:

I am a huge Stephen King fan and I've read a large number of his books. However, this was probably my least favorite of his books so far. Conceptually the book is incredibly creepy and intriguing, but I was put off by the fact that you stay with a character long enough to connect with them and then you move on to a different character. Often you don't come back to the character you connected with. The first character you meet, Bobbi, turns out to not really be the main character and this mad More...

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Dec 18, 2011

Kevin rated it:

I'm not a Stephen King aficionado, but I absolutely LOVED this book. While there is a part early on that weighs the story down a bit/drags (of the few King books I've read, this is pretty standard -- a tangent that King drives into while I'm thinking, "Just get on with the story!"), everything before and after that is absolutely gangbusters. I couldn't put it down. Using some interesting plot deviations/devices and focusing on multiple narratives, King has spun an absolutely fascina More...

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Sep 01, 2009

Stephen rated it:

I learned that Stephen King is more then a horror writer. He also includes a small amount of humor in his novels. He keeps the reader wondering what will happen next by occasionally giving away the fate of one of the characters shortly after they are introduced. He seems to also put his personal beliefs into his books as well. For example, Gard is paranoid over nuclear power plants. He sees them as a ticking time bomb and anyone who advocates them as either working for them or just plain stupid. More...

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