The Tommyknockers - Stephen King

I enjoyed this book/film very much, as i didn't know what would happen next. You are kept sitting on the edge of your seat. It is not for kids though only adults as it maay be too scary for them. The acting and special effects were brillant in this film. So if you haven't seen it give it ago and watch it. And you can't put the book down either once you start reading. The film is set in Haven, which is in Maine.It was a beautiful spring day. Bobbi Anderson, and her dog Peter, are taking a walk in the woods near her house. She falls over something and finds it to be some kind of metal, and for some reason she feels compelled to dig it up. ...

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 occasionally lover, a drunk poet named Gard, returns to Haven, he finds Bobby thin as a rake, and acting very strangely. What's more, her dogs eyes glow with an alien green light. Soon the ...

Yet another mammoth horror novel from King, this dark tale depicts a small town's fatal encounter with creatures from outer space. Events start with Roberta Anderson, a writer of Old West novels, unearthing a flying saucer on her remote wooded property. Five hundred pages later alcoholic poet Jim Gardener, Roberts's former English teacher, finds himself aboard the flying saucer in outer space. In the interval the creatures (Tommyknockers) destroy the citizenry of Haven, Maine. While this is not one of King's more original novels, it does have plenty of blood and guts, macabre humor, and a well-wrought realization of the New ...