Welcome to Litsy!

I liked it more than I thought I would! But it‘s nowhere near my favorite by King. Started and finished strong, dragged throughout the middle. Loved the nods to his other books & characters, IT & Firestarter especially. King is THE MASTER at taking inanimate objects and making them killers. A Coke vending machine, an Electrolux vacuum cleaner, a lawn edger-these things were out for blood!

Next in my #readingStephenKing challenge: The Dark Half!

Ev Hillman from The Tommyknockers left Haven, Maine when the town started creeping him out. He went to Derry, Maine, where other things creeped him out. !!!!!!!!!

#iykyk #readingStephenKing

p. 201/747: There is a point in each of King‘s books where the slow, descriptive foundation has finally been set and I feel like I finally know the characters well. Then things really start to pick up for me. From that point on, I can‘t stand to put the book down. I‘m totally there now. Still not a huge sci-fi fan, but King has my attention and I wish I didn‘t have to stop reading to “adult” (aka work) for a little while.

#readingStephenKing

My current #readingStephenKing and I‘m not sure how excited I am about it. I don‘t particularly love sci-fi or aliens BUT I do trust the King!! I‘m on page 66/747, so I‘m still in King‘s usual very slow, getting-to-know-the-characters part. Short chapters make for great car reading.

I just started reading since i saw the book and have to buy it because you know i need a new book to read. I want to see if you guys want to talk about the book with me I on Chapter 2 I do need friends to talk about books.

Not my favorite but definitely not the worst one of his I have read...yet. The one thing that really saved it for me was all of the easter eggs to his other works. It is always fun stumbling across them and as I read more of his work I am finding more of them scattered throughout. The King Universe strikes again!!

Ok let's see how Stephen King tackles aliens 🤔👽. Basically going into this book blind but I have heard it isn't one of his better books so I don't really have high hopes.

I've been reading through the bestselling books in the US of each year, and this it for 1987. I understand it's one of King's less-liked books but I found it better than I expected. Yes, it's bloated, rambly, and repetitive but that's how I feel about most of King's books. Yes it's deeply cynical but that feels more honest to me than, say, the Lake-Wobegonnish nostalgia of "It." Still not a King fan, but this could have been a lot worse.

For want of a nail the kingdom was lost -- that's how the catechism goes when you boil it down.

#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl

This is not a well-loved entry in King's canon. Not by fans, and certainly not by King. Written at the peak of King's substance abusing days of excess, The Tommyknockers is tremendously overlong, and perhaps more cruel than it should be. Despite that, I've always loved it, in part for the depiction of an entire town's descent into madness, and in part for its unique take on an alien race and their methods of planetary takeover. 4/5

Words to live by.

This is a reminder I receive on a near daily basis, and while it certainly is instructive, I would prefer the reminder to occur with less frequency.

DNF-I tried, but I‘m just not interested. It is weird, the characters are okay. I‘m not a fan of Gard though. I got 75% through it and understood what I was reading in a semi-focused way, but struggled with even wanting to find out what happened. I decided to DNF and try something else.

I‘m not sure I‘m following this audiobook very well. However, I did do tie dye with my kids for #LitsyCrafters “Retro” 🥰💛

Not sure I completely understand what is going on in the tagged, or I‘m figuring it is aliens so I‘m blanking out to protect myself from a phobia. Either way… my kiddos and I did some tie dying for #LitsyCrafters “retro”. They had a lot of fun and get to wear their shirts tomorrow. @Catsandbooks

🎧 I liked this book much more than I thought I would. Mr King should bring on some more alien weirdness!! 😁 It was a little long but I enjoyed it!

It‘s set in an idyllic town in Maine called Haven. Bobbi, a writer comes across a buried spaceship and curiosity got the best of her.

So good!! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2

Been in such a slump because of this book.

I just couldn't get into it. I never connected with any of the characters, which is a first for a King novel I've read.

I think it's good going though because this is my 61st King book and I've only disliked this and Revival.

Two stars might seem harsh but compared to King's other works, I think The Tommyknockers is well below par.

Even Stephen King himself agrees that this book is trash so...

Some might consider this book longer than it needed to be to tell it's story, but I loved every page.

This guy can write9/10

Oh man, are there books that I started at the beginning of the year? Yeah... that and other questions answers during the End of Year Book Tag!
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https://youtu.be/qDC_ZF5VHaI

#endofyearbooktag #booktag #booktalk

Tommyknockers, Tommyknockers, knocking at your door. 👽 I really enjoyed this story that starts with Bobbi stumbling over an object buried in her woods. She enlists the help of her sometime lover, Gard, to dig it up. In true King fashion, the town of Haven is impacted by their discovery. We meet lots of interesting characters. Overall a great sci-fi story. #MountTBR

Do you listen to music while reading? Or prefer silence? I like music with no lyrics to read to.

#readingmusic

It‘s that time again, and for once I am not late!! #LosersClub Discussion starts NOW!

Open discussion is in the FOLLOWING POST marked as a SPOILER. Find the post for #TheTommyknockers & tap "show me" on the spoiler tag to join in the discussion. Join in whenever you can! Today. Tomorrow. Next month! The post will always be up so just tag any of us & we‘ll jump in to discuss with you. See you there!

It‘s pouring rain, time for a blanket and a book!

#rainydayreads #stephenking #thetommyknockers #rainydays

I'm so excited to get deeper into this one! My dog likes to be in my lap butt this book is so large I don't want to lay it across her back. 😁

#booksanddogs #stephenking #tommyknockers

Again, apologies for being late! This month‘s book is #TheTommyknockers! Grab your copy and check back around April 18th for open discussion!

#LosersClub #StephenKing #StephenKingInOrder #KingFromTheBeginning #ConstantReader #ReadAlong #BuddyRead #BookDiscussion #ghosthostpost

Stephen King's classic Scifi novel. The residents of Haven fall under the spell of a mysterious object in the woods, okay its aliens & they're screwed. The only one who can stop them is Gard, an alcoholic poet, with a metal plate in his head which makes him slower to be affected. This was just a good, creepy novel with nods to It & The Dead Zone.
#losersclub
#MemoirsAndMysteries #chronicillness
@BarbaraTheBibliophage

Last post for the night, I promise. Just a reminder that March‘s #losersclub read is #TheTommyknockers! Put your library holds in now, search your shelves, or buy a new copy, and check back on or about March 19th when we begin reading this one. Discussion will be in April. #LosersClub #StephenKing #StephenKingInOrder #KingFromTheBeginning #ConstantReader #ReadAlong #BuddyRead #BookDiscussion #ghosthostpost

#popularintheyearyouwereborn . Very fitting since I listened to some of my Stephen king book today (11/22/63). Here are some more popular in 1987. #auldlangreads #bestsellersin87

I‘ve learned that my ability to enjoy and focus on audiobooks depends entirely in the narrator. I just started listening to this narrated by Edward Herrmann. It feels like Richard Gilmore is telling me a story while dropping a bunch of F-bombs. This photo is from last night. I‘m about two hours in now. Listening to this in my car while reading Little Women at home.

📚: 48/52

Watching Stephen Kings tommyknockers while making chili and cornbread........
#teamslaughter #scarathon #scareymovie @Clwojick

One of the best King books out there. As with most of his books, it has a weird vibe. Rather reminiscent of his later Needful Things.

3 ⭐⭐⭐ Not my fave King but ok. Feels like it could have been cut in half. I also never got the feel for a true protagonist or someone to root for. Still entertaining though.

#audiopuzzling this afternoon listening to tagged book 😃

I don‘t have much of a preference. The almost single exception is King. I even went so far as to join the Stephen King Book Club in high school so I could replace my paperbacks with hardcovers! This is a random selection because everything is as scattered as my head at the moment but there are hardcovers for each of those mm copies kicking around somewhere in my mess of a house!

#HumpDayPost @DebbieGrillo @MinDea

1. System down at work today so I got to read for 7hrs and get paid for it! 😋

2. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

3. Don't knoew. Don't care. What? 😂

4. Tagged... It's my favorite Stephen King book. 💓 👽

5. @Hooked_on_books @readordierachel

#2019Book27
#SummerOfStephen
#KingAndI
#Book16

The biggest issue I had was there were too many characters who were unnecessary to the plot. I will say that what King did very well was create an absolutely terrifying atmosphere. The fact that you don't really know what is going on for most of the book makes it even more frightening. This not a horror book by any means, but it has the feel of one. That's really all I have to say that's positive. I don't recommend it. It's 2 out of 5 stars.

Graphite drawing of Stephen King, what do you think?
#athinsliceofanxiety #stephenking #author #masterofhorror #drawing

...when I was twenty-five I burned all the time. When I was thirty, I burned some of the time. But the oxygen in here must be getting thin, because now I only burn when I‘m drunk. I‘m scared to climb up on that horse[...]If history ever taught me anything, it taught me that horses like to bolt.

I don‘t mean that creative people are somehow finer, or more sensitive, and thus have finer, more sensitive nervous breakdowns...It‘s just that creative people have creative breakdowns.

#BlackCatChallenge #afraid
 @Clwojick

I first read this book at a reeeeally young age. Like...way to young to be reading it kind of age. I don't think I grasped all of it completely but I do know I went to bed, every single night I was reading it, very #afraid of the shadows in my room and all the things I couldn't see properly in the dark; And I loved that about it. I've been a fan of scary things and freaking myself out ever since. 😊

A King book I've not read yet, probably due to King himself saying "It's an awful book." ?

Released in 1987, which was during the time he was using cocaine during his writing; he rambled on too much resulting in this particular book being too long.

I'll get to it at some point. The story does sound interesting and my cuppa tea.

The fox bookmark given to me by my gf @meghan2714 too. ?

#stephenking

• Day 20 of #KingAtoZ with the letter T for “The Tommyknockers,” a Stephen King book I devoured on audio a few years ago. Really enjoyed it •

@GarthRanzz #KingAtoZ #challenges #Litsychallenges #LitsyLove #day20 #theLetterT #read #theKing #StephenKing #fiction #horror #horrormaster

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G is for Gard, who comes to town to visit his friend and finds some “weird shit” (to quote a former president).

A lot of people don‘t like The Tommyknockers. It‘s been years since I read it, but I remember liking it back in the day. I‘m sure I read it multiple times. I look forward to revisiting during my constantly stalled #chronologicalkingread.

#NuYear #Prayingtothealiens this is the only book I‘ve ever read with aliens. It is probably the worst book I‘ve ever read to the very end. It came highly recommended and I was convinced it would get better but a pile of shite! 💩