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...Tommyknockers, tommyknockers, knocking at the door.
Something was happening in Bobbi Anderson's idyllic small town of Haven, Maine. Something that gave every man, woman, and child in town powers far beyond ordinary mortals. Something that turned the town into a death trap for all outsiders. Something that came from a metal object, buried for millennia, that Bobbi stumbled across.
It wasn't that Bobbi and the other good folks of Haven had sold their souls to reap the rewards of the most deadly evil this side of hell. It was more like a diabolical takeover...and invasion of body and soulâ??and mind.
jseger9000: King references Brain Wave in The Tommyknockers and with good reasons. Both books deal (in part) with people whose intelligence is suddenly and unexpectedly increased dramatically.
USA, Maine, Haven, 1989 Indeholder "Book 1. The Ship in the Earth", " 1. Anderson stumbles", " 2. Anderson digs", " 3. Peter sees the light", " 4. The dig, continued", " 5. Gardener takes a fall", " 6. Gardener on the rocks", " 7. Gardener arrives", " 8. Modifications", " 9. Anderson spins a tale", " 10. Gardener decides", "Book 2. Tales of Haven", " 1. The town", " 2. 'Becka Paulson", " 3. Hilly Brown", " 4. Bent and Jingles", " 5. Ruth McCausland", " 6. Ruth McCausland concluded", " 7. Beach Jernigan and Dick Allison", " 8. Ev Hillman", " 9. The funeral", " 10. A book of days - the town concluded", "Book 3. The Tommyknockers", " 1. Sissy", " 2. Gardener takes a walk", " 3. The hatch", " 4. The shed", " 5. The scoop", " 6. Inside the ship", " 7. The scoop, continued", " 8. Gard and Bobbi", " 9. The scoop, concluded", " 10. Tommyknockers, knocking at the door", "Epilogue"
En historie om fristelser. Et gammel rumskib med mærkelige kræfter bliver gravet frem og den lille by, Haven i Maine bliver gradvist omdannet til noget andet. Det er virkelig "A saucer full of secrets" der dukker frem. Forfatterinden Bobby Anderson, der egentlig hedder Roberta, har en gammel beagle, Peter og en dag på en hundeluftetur falder hun bogstaveligt over kanten af et rumskib, der tilsyneladende ligger begravet på hendes grund. Lidt beregninger viser at det mindst er 90 meter i diameter. Hun begynder at grave det fri. Hendes gamle hund får det bedre og ser ud til ligefrem at blive yngre.
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Glimrende science-fiction og glimrende King på en gang. Der er mange fælles elementer i forhold til Needful Things. In "On Writing" kan man læse at King var inde i et massivt misbrug, mens han skrev den og han kalder den "awful", men jeg kan faktisk godt lide den. ( )
The first third of ''The Tommyknockers'' is wonderful. With his usual eerie effortlessness, Mr. King attaches us to Bobbi and Gard, taunting us with menace neither they nor we can define. When evil starts gobbling Haven with a vengeance, swollen prose and comic-book grue spurt out one authentic gem (a little boy's magic show) and instill in us a creeping terror of good country folks. The last third of the novel is Armageddon, as is usual with Mr. King.
Late last night and the night before, Tommyknockers, Tommyknockers, knocking at the door. I want to go out, don't know if I can, 'cause I'm so afraid of the Tommyknocker man.
—TRADITIONAL
Well we picked up Harry Truman, floating down from Independence, We said, "What about the war?" He said, "Good riddance!" We said, "What about the bomb? Are you sorry that you did it?" He said, "Pass me that bottle and mind your own bidness."
—THE RAINMAKERS, "Downstream"
The terrorist got bombed! The President got hit! Security was tight! The Secret Service got lit! And everybody's drunk, Everybody's wasted, Everybody's stoned, And there's nothin gonna change it, Cause everybody's drunk, Everybody's wasted, Everybody's drinkin on the job.
—THE RAINMAKERS, "Drinkin' on the Job"
Then he ran all the way to town, screamin "It came out of the sky!"
—CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL, "It Came Out of the Sky"
...Tommyknockers, tommyknockers, knocking at the door.
Something was happening in Bobbi Anderson's idyllic small town of Haven, Maine. Something that gave every man, woman, and child in town powers far beyond ordinary mortals. Something that turned the town into a death trap for all outsiders. Something that came from a metal object, buried for millennia, that Bobbi stumbled across.
It wasn't that Bobbi and the other good folks of Haven had sold their souls to reap the rewards of the most deadly evil this side of hell. It was more like a diabolical takeover...and invasion of body and soulâ??and mind.
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Indeholder "Book 1. The Ship in the Earth", " 1. Anderson stumbles", " 2. Anderson digs", " 3. Peter sees the light", " 4. The dig, continued", " 5. Gardener takes a fall", " 6. Gardener on the rocks", " 7. Gardener arrives", " 8. Modifications", " 9. Anderson spins a tale", " 10. Gardener decides", "Book 2. Tales of Haven", " 1. The town", " 2. 'Becka Paulson", " 3. Hilly Brown", " 4. Bent and Jingles", " 5. Ruth McCausland", " 6. Ruth McCausland concluded", " 7. Beach Jernigan and Dick Allison", " 8. Ev Hillman", " 9. The funeral", " 10. A book of days - the town concluded", "Book 3. The Tommyknockers", " 1. Sissy", " 2. Gardener takes a walk", " 3. The hatch", " 4. The shed", " 5. The scoop", " 6. Inside the ship", " 7. The scoop, continued", " 8. Gard and Bobbi", " 9. The scoop, concluded", " 10. Tommyknockers, knocking at the door", "Epilogue"
En historie om fristelser. Et gammel rumskib med mærkelige kræfter bliver gravet frem og den lille by, Haven i Maine bliver gradvist omdannet til noget andet. Det er virkelig "A saucer full of secrets" der dukker frem.
Forfatterinden Bobby Anderson, der egentlig hedder Roberta, har en gammel beagle, Peter og en dag på en hundeluftetur falder hun bogstaveligt over kanten af et rumskib, der tilsyneladende ligger begravet på hendes grund. Lidt beregninger viser at det mindst er 90 meter i diameter. Hun begynder at grave det fri. Hendes gamle hund får det bedre og ser ud til ligefrem at blive yngre.
???
Glimrende science-fiction og glimrende King på en gang. Der er mange fælles elementer i forhold til Needful Things. In "On Writing" kan man læse at King var inde i et massivt misbrug, mens han skrev den og han kalder den "awful", men jeg kan faktisk godt lide den. (