Gripping stuff (The Tommyknockers - Stephen King)

Member Name: reyaazm

Product:	The Tommyknockers - Stephen King
Date:	22/08/00 (13 review reads)
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Advantages: good read

Disadvantages: none

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 England countryside. No doubt King's legions of fans will demand it

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