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The Tommyknockers by Stephen King

November 10, 2025 by narfna 2 Comments

According to many Constant Readers, this is Uncle Stevie’s worst book, but I don’t agree! It is extremely flawed, but I also found it very readable (it probably helped that Edward Herrmann narrates the audiobook, and he is a wonderful audiobook narrator). This is sci-fi horror. A woman named Bobbie, a writer of western novels, finds a buried object in the ground and becomes obsessed with unearthing it. Doing so changes her and the town she lives in forever, and in really really creepy ways. […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Featured, Horror, Science Fiction Tagged With: #Science Fiction, audiobooks, cbr17bingo, edward herrmann, horror, narfna, sci-fi, sci-fi horror, sff, speculative, Stephen King, the tommyknockers

narfna's CBR17 Review No:34 · Genres: Audiobooks, Featured, Horror, Science Fiction · Tags: #Science Fiction, audiobooks, cbr17bingo, edward herrmann, horror, narfna, sci-fi, sci-fi horror, sff, speculative, Stephen King, the tommyknockers ·
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