 Hello everybody, E here. Welcome back to another Stephen King review. If you're confused and thinking, hasn't he already reviewed all these books? No, I haven't. Not here on the channel. All my reviews are up on Goodreads, but I never actually went back and reviewed the majority of his books from like, I think, Salem's Lot all the way to Sleeping Beauties. There was that huge gap, so I'm going through one book after another and catching up on my reviews. Today, we are talking about Tommy Knockers. This book, I have very, very mixed feelings about this book. Let me put this up. It's too much of a chunker to keep on my lap because I'm too chunky. The belly gets in the way. Anyways, so Tommy Knockers is about Bobby, who goes out into... Bobby is a woman who goes out into the woods with her dogs. She's on a walk. She trips over an object in the dirt, and she starts to dig it out and uncover an alien spacecraft. And then everybody in her small town, the small fictional town of Haven, which is used just as much as Derry and Castle Rock in the Stephen King universe, everybody in Haven starts acting very, very strangely. This book is absolutely fantastic for the first two thirds, and then it just goes completely off the rails. In fact, I think about the time I start disliking it is the time when we start going outside of Haven, and then I just don't care about any of that. And then, of course, you have vagina tentacles. Yes, this book has vagina tentacles. It should be a plus, but in the book it's just so absolutely bonkers, batshit crazy. And everything about that time is when it starts to go off the rails. The rumor is, and if anybody can confirm this, I've been looking for people to confirm this forever, but the rumor is that Stephen King went to rehab, and then because Tabitha found a trash can full of bloody napkin, not napkin, but tissue, because he had been stuffing him up his nose and writing because his cocaine habit was so bad, and she said it's either rehab or GTFO. So he goes to rehab, he comes back and he finishes this book, but he wrote the first two thirds, and then the other. I don't know. That's the rumor. With Stephen King rumors, it's very hard to tell which ones are true and which ones are false. We know he went to rehab. We know he had a cocaine and drinking problem. We know all these things, but we don't know if that really happened, if Tabby actually did that and gave him the ultimatum. But it seems you can tell, to me anyways, where the book shifts, where the book changes. Much of the same thing happens in Dreamcatcher, and of course he wrote Dreamcatcher while recovering from getting ran over by a van. There's certain scenes in here. I talk about how iconic Stephen King is. There's certain scenes in here that I think are iconic, even though I don't like the last third of the book. In this one, the scenes with all the magician stuff was fantastic. It's fascinating to read that section. The little boy making his brother disappear, and then not being able to find him. I thought that was very rad. All the people doing weird inventions that in no way shape or form should they work, and they do work. There's quite a bit of fascinating content when we're just in Haven, and it isn't until we get out of Haven that the book loses steam. The final part of the book, the denowment, if you would, I'm a big fan of that. But there's a whole chunk of this book where I just, I get so tired of reading it, and I just want to put it down to this day whenever I reread it. I've read it, I believe, five times. Listen to the audiobook once, so five total. So four reads and then one audiobook. Every time I get to it now, like the last two times I've read it, I have skipped over all of that stuff after you leave Haven, and I jump back in for the final sequences with a guard and all that stuff. There are plenty of people who absolutely love this book, and I respect that completely. Usually I am on the bandwagon for Stephen King's weird stuff. I mean, I'm a huge fan of the regulators, and that book is about damn near as weird as Stephen King gets. But in this one, it felt the tonal quality, the tonal shift is what bothers me. I feel the same way about Christine. I've already reviewed that one. My review's up on the channel. But there's a tonal shift, and I don't jive with the book after that tonal shift. But those are my thoughts on the tommy knockers. If you have read the tommy knockers, let me know whether or not you loved it, whether or not you hated it, whether or not you felt meh about it. But if you felt any of those ways, tell me down there in the doobly-do in detail why you felt like that so that we can have a discussion. But until next time, I have an E, you have an U, this has been another Stephen King book review. I'll talk to you guys later. Bye bye!