I enjoy the shit out of this book even though I know it’s objectively not great, I think it’s just a lot of fun 😂

I read this book at about 200 pages at a time and loved it way more then I should of. I know its shit but the characters and the story just really worked for me

The reason I absolutely love this book is because it gave me major X Files vibes! 😂 Everybody seemed to hate it but it felt like the perfect Friday night read for me. 🙂 It is insane but it’s genuinely not too bad.

tommyknockers was so crazy that i couln´t help but like it! not a great read of literature, but a wild and fun ride:)

My first Stephen King book. I had no idea that it was one of the most criticized of his novels at the time. All I know is that I became hooked on King after that.

Despite what I hear about how Shitty this book is. I myself read it with quite pleasure. and Bobbi is one of of my favorite Stephen King Characters on the First Shelf of books, It was better than the Regulators (In my opinion)

A Netflix retelling might be an opportunity to gett his one edited? It's long, but I like the ideas in it and the other story tie ins.

I remember watching the mini-series at 13 when it came out and not enjoying it. For that reason I didn't read the book until I was around 20 and I remember really not enjoying that. That's about 24 years ago though and I feel like I've probably read MUCH worse Stephen King books in the years since (the man has written some of the most entertaining and least entertaining books I've ever read) so I might give it another try sometime. All I remember about it really is Alcoholic vs Aliens.

Question, should I read Desperation or The Regulators first?

What I want to know is how did Stephen King literally submit this to his publisher especially since he does not remember writing it (he also does not remember writing Cujo). Did he literally stagger through the doorway like a drunkard carrying a block of paper or a floppy disk? I'm genuinely curious.

I ploughed through this one and quite enjoyed it. But agreed, very long winded in parts, and got a bit silly when he introduced the killing coke vending machine! 😂

I loved this book. I read it twice. I was battling some serious demons at the time and could tell exactly where the author was coming from. Sad to hear he hates it so much. No shame in working it out. The movie was pretty embarrassing tho.

I put this one off until the latter half of my King book journey, but I found myself enjoying it much more than I thought I would. Kind of a wild ride. My main complaint, like you touched on, is that there wasn't a protagonist that I could get behind and root for. Gard.... meh. Also, your video was 9:19 minutes long..... coincidence? ..... :)

So I went in with really low expectations and actually really enjoyed it! Was put off a bit by the Nuclear Power Rant chapter though. Getting through the first 500 pages with an audiobook really helped I think! But I loved the last few chapters and the ending.

Also Ka is mentioned early on as internal monologue from gard. I thought that might be worth mentioning even though its just a 2 letter word its eternally kingy.

This is the first King book I’ve ever read. While it is certainly clunky in spots (which, as you mention, can last for very long stretches), I found it to be a refreshing, original take on the alien invasion storyline. And in 2022, when alien invasion is being considered as a real possibility while everybody is simultaneously losing their goddamn minds… it felt prescient

READ THE BOOK instead of watching the movie...

I’m reading King in order and was nervous to start this one due to its horrible reputation but I (maybe because of the reputation) ended up loving it! I mostly enjoyed the first part with Bobbi’s “becoming” and when Gard first sees her for the first time. Also when we go thru each townperson’s own experience with becoming, I thought it was a lot of fun. The last part was the weakest but I think thought it was alright. Yes, the book is bloated but I found it endlessly more entertaining than the slog that is The Talisman.

This was my first and only King work to date and I have to agree that it just drags on way too long. It would've worked better as a Lovecraft-style short story imo. I thought the point about King's animal characters meeting unfortunate fates was funny knowing the basic plots of Cujo and Pet Cemetery, kind of reminds me of Hirohiko Araki's treatment of dogs since the start of Jojo 35 years ago.

King says he was a complete and utter mess due to his substance abuse issues during the writing of this book. So how is this book a major letdown and Cujo was a really great book and was written around the same time. Maybe Cujo is just shorter and more of a bottle story compared to the Tommyknockers. Any ideas? Was his substance abuse at its peak during the writing of Tommyknockers?

OMG I'm reading it now! I'm literally watching your video to encourage me to get through it! It feels like it has so much filler but I love Pete the dog, and I like Bobbi Anderson! I don't know if it's me but Jim might be my least favorite Stephen King character so far unless he redeems himself lol

I loved how this book started out gards story with his addiction and everything before he went to haven. I liked his Character Arc so much and was really looking forward on how he was gonna devolpe and how his character would turn out, but it feels like King entirely dropped his Development, with him being just hammerd 60% of the book

during the ev hillman chapters, there's also a reference to a "fellow who lived up in Bangor" who wrote stories "full of make-believe monsters and a bunch of dirty words".

This is actually one of my favorite King books, this and Needful Things. It is a fun story, and if you just want to go along for the ride it is definitely worth it.

Yes!! Drop the history section and perhaps revise Gard’s alcohol fueled section before his arrival in Haven! As messed up as the rest of it is, that would make the book a more enjoyable read :)

Can I skip large sections of it and still say I read it?

I reread The Tommyknockers and revisited the 1993 miniseries and they’re both entertaining. James Wan is producing an adaptation of it and I’m hoping they make one hell of a worthwhile movie out of it. Split it into 3 movies. First I just want to see Life of Chuck, Breathing Method, Rat, Long Walk, and From a Buick 8

I DNF’d this one last year cause the copy i have has huge pages and i wasnt flipping pages as much as i maybe liked to have, it was also just really slow, especially at the beginning

I love this book. Guess i love cocaine too

Good review of The Tommu Knockers, I did try to attempt reading this book when it came out, but gave up because at the time I thought he was on some drug substamces. I might give it another go. The tv series was bad but watchable but goes to show Stephen King was such hot sort after writer , Hollywood would make a film or tv series from books - even it was one of his worse work.

The Tommyknockers needs an adaptation. When they do adapt it I’m hoping they keep it in the timeline of the book, I really don’t like it when they change the timelines to modern day.

I have never been able to quite bring myself to read this book but I might now because I am kind of curious. I saw the movie that they made of it though once when I was taking a trip up to main. We happened to find it in a video store and because it was based on the book by Stephen King, naturally, I had to rent it. Now I wish I could unwatch it. lol! I had know clue what was going on. It was terrible. I' have read many of Stephen King and it's almost hard to imagine he can write this shit but I did read on writing so I know how he felt about this book too. I might give it a read though because I do have a friend that actually liked this one. I'll comment more on it once I've read it.. Just stumbled across this video so I'll be sure to check out your others!

This book is a hot mess. Just slogged through it, the last half I did on a long distance drive (audiobook) and even with someone else reading it to me I still fucking hated it 🤮

It's the book that caused his intervention. .I mean if it's so insane to where his family says OK Stephen you need help..you know it's gonna be absolutely crazy

It’s a bad book but it’s still fun in a lot of places and it’s definitely to ponder Kings journey while making this

I like Gard. And love this book ♡

Just finished this one...phewww!!!! It was a crazy roller-coaster for me because it would have me hooked for 40 pages or so, and then it would just crash and burn (literally). There were a lot of really good scenes, but even more pages filled with nonsense. I think one of my favorite King villains of all time is the killer Coke machine, lol.

I loved it! Want to re-read it soon

Oh yeah, she dug a UFO out of the ground. Never mind that the first 50 pages of the novel was of her digging and digging. Then she took a break and made lunch and then ate it… a process that ate up more pages and then she dug some more, I bailed after that. Went straight to the last couple of chapters to see how it all ended. So glad that many others also thought this book was trash.

The concept of this one really captured my imagination so I probably give it more latitude than it absolutely deserves. The town history stuff was undeniably dog shit, tho.

The thing that bothers me most about this book, is that there is a really good story here, but the incessant cocaine babble is just too overwhelming. 2.5/5

Honestly, this is probably in my top 5 King books - and I read this only last year after reading most of King's other works. I left it on the "to-read" list until I was mostly through his bibliography because of the general consensus that this is 700 pages of waste-of-time . But the mess and unrestrained narrative is what makes it memorable, and there are some scenes that will be forever etched into my mind (Peter's fate, for example). Then, knowing King's situation around the time of writing gives it even more depth. Yep, Top 5 stuff.

"Late last night and the night before, Tommyknockers, Tommyknockers knocking at your door." Why do I remember this from this awful novel but little else?

😂GOOD TOMMYKNOCKERS REVIEW LOL!!!!

Yeah I have the hardcover. It's a great book. Bad movie.

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It's in the top three books he's written, if you disagree you know fuck all.

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