The Tommyknockers by Stephen King6/29/2023 I loved some of the things that happen in Haven because Bobbi starts to dig up the spaceship. This would have been written when King was drinking a lot and taking drugs and so I felt Gard was clearly based on King himself. Gard is drunken, useless arsehole but somehow likable and pitiable. The characters are all very well-written especially Bobby and Gard. Many of King’s best novels are set somewhere similar. The novel is set in Haven, a small fiction town in Maine. There are some things about The Tommyknockers that I love. I have mixed feelings about The Tommyknockers which I haven’t read for over ten years. That stumble was the root of the matter all the rest was nothing but history. Anderson literally stumbled over her destiny in the small town of Haven, Maine on June 21, 1988. It’s either all an accident … or all fate. In the end, you can boil everything down to something similar – or so Roberta Anderson thought much later on. But everything is about to change.įor want of a nail the kingdom was lost – that’s how the catechism goes when you boil it down. It all looks the same, the house, the furniture, Jim’s friend Bobbi, her beagle (though ageing), even the woods out at the back.īut it was in the woods that Bobbi stumbled over the odd, part-buried object and felt a peculiar tingle as she brushed the soft earth away.Įverything is familiar. But everything has changed.Ĭoming back to the little community is like walking into a nightmare for Jim Gardener, poet, drunk, potential suicide.
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